Best The Weeknd albums

9 ELO points separate House of Balloons from After Hours at the top of The Weeknd albums ranking, after 1237 duels.

House of Balloons holds the top position with 1374 ELO points after 107 duels, but After Hours trails closely at 1365 points despite a higher win rate of 64% over 101 duels. Starboy completes the podium at 1351 points, establishing a wider 27-point gap with My Dear Melancholy, in fourth place. This separation marks the sharpest divide in the upper tier of the ranking, suggesting fans place the first three albums in a category of their own. Beauty Behind The Madness rounds out the top five at 1321 points with a 58% win rate across 89 duels. At the bottom, The Weeknd in Japan sits at 968 ELO points with a 26% win rate across 68 duels, indicating the community views it as a lesser entry in the catalog alongside My Everything at 994 points.

This ranking draws from 1237 duels involving 24 players who evaluated 18 albums from The Weeknd's discography. The data reflects preferences recorded as of 12 October 2026. Head to VAINKEURZ to cast your own votes and shift the standings, or explore other music rankings shaped entirely by the crowd.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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