The Weeknd Might Be The Best Human Being Whose Music We Play
And no, we didn’t write this just so we could totally use a big word like philanthropist the right way. Anyway, The Weeknd is a big-time philanthropist. He’s given over…

The Weeknd attends Harper’s BAZAAR Celebration of “ICONS By Carine Roitfeld.”
(Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Harper's BAZAAR)And no, we didn't write this just so we could totally use a big word like philanthropist the right way.
Anyway, The Weeknd is a big-time philanthropist. He's given over $2 million to various causes just this summer. Most recently, he donated $300,000 to relief for the victims of that massive explosion in Lebanon. (Do you want to help them too? Click here for info.)
That's just part of the huge pile of cash he's given to everything from Black Lives Matter to Coronavirus relief to legal relief organizations.
We play a ton of his music on Star 107-9 because you ask us to. (You know about our Like/Dislike thing...right?) We feel even better about that now.








