The Weeknd
Tenor · R&B · Pop · Synth-Pop · Canada · prominent since 2011
What is The Weeknd’s vocal range?
The Weeknd's vocal range is commonly cited as G2 to B5 — about 3.3 octaves, or 40 semitones, and is usually classified as tenor. Full voice is cited up to around A#4 (Bb4); everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Light tenor with a floating falsetto and heavy melisma; keeps chest weight off the top. That cited span is wider than 81% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Blinding Lights
Reading the numbers
- 13 semitones — 33% of the whole span — sit above the cited full-voice ceiling, so much of this range is head voice, falsetto or whistle rather than chest.
- The ceiling clears the conventional tenor top of C5 by 11 semitones.
- The span runs 8 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
- One of only 7 Synth-Pop voices in this library.
- The closest range in the library belongs to Aaron Neville (G2–A#5), within 1 semitone at both ends.
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also bottoming out on G2
46 other voices here are cited to the same floor.
Also topping out on B5
8 other voices here reach the same ceiling.