The Weeknd releases music video for Faye Wong duet 'Hong Kong'

The Weeknd released a music video Thursday for "Hong Kong," his single with Cantopop singer Faye Wong, which his team says achieved record debuts on two Chinese streaming services.

Evan Larsen directed the video, filmed in Mong Kok and Hong Kong Island. Rolling Stone said model Ming Xi plays a star-crossed love interest for The Weeknd.

The single marked his first new music of 2026. His camp said it had the biggest first-day debut for a non-Mandarin song on NetEase Cloud Music in the past five years, based on streams, likes, saves, comments and shares. His team said "Hong Kong" also had the biggest debut ever by a Western male artist on QQ Music.

Near the song's opening, The Weeknd sings, "I would burn the world to keep you warm/ But my life won’t let me stay."

He returns to the relationship later in the song, singing, "A thing that never started already comes to an end."

The video begins as dawn rises over Hong Kong's harbor. About a minute in, The Weeknd sits alone in a bar, smoking a cigarette and wearing sunglasses, while Ming Xi travels through a tunnel at night in a red sports car.

Night falls, and The Weeknd enters a karaoke bar to sing. Pitchfork wrote that the karaoke scenes were filmed on a set that may or may not be anywhere near Hong Kong.

The final scene leaves The Weeknd alone with a drink on a high-rise balcony. In another lyric, he sings, "So if you ever change your mind, I’m waiting in Hong Kong."

Before the video's release, The Weeknd debuted "Hong Kong" live on Oct. 24 at Kai Tak Stadium, where it played on a big screen during the first of his four shows there.

The stadium run formed part of his After Hours Til Dawn tour, which concluded Nov. 5 at TM National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to Billboard. The tour covered 176 shows in 67 cities across 30 countries on five continents.

It sold more than nine million tickets and grossed more than $1.3 billion.

Since releasing Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Weeknd has also debuted "Rio," featuring Anitta, and a song sampling the theme from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. The Weeknd, whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, has won four Grammy awards and acted in The Idol.

Pitchfork reported that a full release of "Hong Kong" on Western streaming services has not yet been announced.