A deluxe version ofThe Highlights was released on February 9, 2024, featuring a reworked tracklist and more songs from the Weeknd's aforementioned projects, his studio albumDawn FM (2022), thesoundtrack to his television seriesThe Idol (2023), and his promotional single "King of the Fall" (2014).[11]
The album's cover continues the usage of the red suit that the Weeknd donned throughout the promotional material for his fourth studio albumAfter Hours (2020).[12] The particular suit worn in the cover art is the same one that he wore for theSuper Bowl LV halftime show and in the music video for the song "Save Your Tears", which served as the fourth single from the aforementioned album.[13]
Andy Kellman ofAllMusic praised the collection, stating, "The Highlights is a well-selected point of entry. That it rarely dips into album cuts and doesn't include all of the major singles speaks to the depth of the catalog."[14]
The Highlights debuted at number two on the USBillboard 200 with 89,000album-equivalent units, including 10,000 pure album sales. It is the Weeknd's highest charting compilation album, and marks the biggest first week debut for a greatest hits set sinceBlake Shelton'sFully Loaded: God's Country (2019), which peaked at number two on the chart dated December 28, 2019.[15] The compilation album has managed to spend more than 130 weeks on the chart.[16]The Highlights was the twenty-first best-selling album of 2021 according toHits, stating the album has moved a total of 1,004,000album-equivalent units by the end of 2021, including 74,000 pure album sales, 226,000 song sales, 1,1 billion audio-on-demand streams, and 160 million video-on-demand streams.[17] In the next year,The Highlights was the sixth best-selling album of the year, moved a total of 1,600,000album-equivalent units by the end of 2022, including 51,000 pure album sales, 205,000 song sales, 2 billion audio-on-demand streams, and 198 million video-on-demand streams.[18] Though it didn't top theUK Albums Chart,The Highlights was also the biggest selling album of 2023 in the UK, with sales of over 391,000.[19]
^abReeves, Mosi (November 28, 2016)."Review: The Weeknd's 'Starboy'".Rolling Stone. RetrievedOctober 20, 2019.Kiss Land may have sounded like Trilogy redux, but at least it offered a thrilling reprise of Eighties underground darkwave
^"Czech Albums – Top 100".ČNS IFPI.Note: On the chart page, select06.Týden 2021 on the field besides the words "CZ – ALBUMS – TOP 100" to retrieve the correct chart. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
^"Slovak Albums – Top 100".ČNS IFPI. RetrievedApril 8, 2022.Note: On the chart page, select SK - Albums - Top 100 under the left field and "202106" on the field besides the word "Zobrazit", and then click over the word to retrieve the correct chart data.
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