- Blinding Lights is a song by Canadian singer The Weeknd, released on November 29, 2019, as the second single from his fourth album After Hours, following Heartless released two days earlier.
- The Weeknd wrote and produced the song with his producers Max Martin and Oscar Holter, with Belly and Jason Quenneville receiving additional writing credits for the track.
- Blinding Lights reached number one on the charts in 34 countries, including Canada and the United States, where it became The Weeknd's fifth number one single on the Canadian Hot 100 and Billboard Hot 100 for seven and four weeks respectively.
- It also became his first number one single in Germany, where it stayed at the top for ten weeks, in the UK for eight weeks and in Australia for eleven weeks.
- It is his most popular single in the world to date and currently holds the record for the most weeks spent in the top 5 and top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
- The song has three official remixes: one by the electronic music group Chromatics, one by the dance group Major Lazer and one with Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía.
- After a five-month hiatus on social media, the singer returned to Instagram on November 20, 2019, and posted six days later on November 26, 2019,. He had previously announced a project called Chapter VI in June 2019.
- To promote its EQC model, Mercedes-Benz is airing a TV commercial with The Weeknd, which first aired on German television on November 24, 2019. It shows The Weeknd driving the Mercedes-Benz EQC SUV and asking the system to play his new song, a sample of Blinding Lights is then played,.
