The Weeknd has released "Hong Kong (feat. 王菲季候風)" across streaming platforms in East and Southeast Asia, a single built on the original music and Cantonese vocal tracks of Faye Wong's 1993 hit "Monsoon (季候風)." He first played it live on October 24, opening a four-night run at Kai Tak Stadium.
The timing places the song inside a tour that has become the highest-grossing ever by a male solo artist, past $1 billion in gross revenue and more than 7.5 million tickets since 2022. The Asia leg grew from 11 shows to 17 before the After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour closes with two nights in Kuala Lumpur on November 4 and 5. Hong Kong sits near the end of that arc, and the song arrives as a tribute to the city, timed to the tour's close.
The artwork ties the release to a specific visual lineage: an archival photograph of Hong Kong from the private collection of Christopher Doyle, the cinematographer who shot Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express, the film that paired Faye Wong with Tony Leung. The Weeknd's admiration for Cantopop and Wong Kar-wai's cinema has been stated plainly, and here it takes material form: a Wong vocal from 1993, a Doyle image, a city named in the title.
The response to the live debut was immediate. An Instagram clip of the performance drew more than 18 million views, and "Monsoon" returned to the charts: No. 1 on QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music rising charts, No. 3 on Apple Music China, Top 10 on Spotify Hong Kong, a 15-place jump to No. 3 on Shazam China's daily rankings, and No. 1 on the Douyin Entertainment Chart. A thirty-three-year-old Cantopop record moving again because a Toronto singer played it in a stadium is the detail that lingers.
This is the third Asia-specific gesture in the run. He opened the tour with an unreleased song sampling Evangelion, then presented "Tokyo" with Yoko Takahashi in Japan, and Creepy Nuts are opening the Asia dates. Each borrows from a different local canon. What separates "Hong Kong" is that Faye Wong's voice stays in the mix, not as a sample to be chopped but as the song's spine. Listen for how little The Weeknd does around it.
