Save Your Tears

"Save Your Tears" is a song by Canadian singer the Weeknd from his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). The Weeknd wrote and produced the song with Max Martin and Oscar Holter with Belly and DaHeala receiving additional writing credits. The record was met with universal acclaim with praise for The Weeknd's vocals. Globally "Save Your Tears" peaked at number one in 18 countries while going top 10 in 33 others. The song was released as the album's fourth and final single on August 9, 2020 in Europe and November 24, 2020 in the US. A remix of the track by Oneohtrix Point Never was officially released alongside the deluxe edition of its parent album on March 23, 2020. "Save Your Tears" was the best-selling global single of 2021, earning 2.15 billion subscription stream equivalents globally according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). It was also the fifth best-selling global single of 2022 with 1.32 billion subscription stream equivalents. Initially, the original solo version of "Save Your Tears" peaked at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 before its second remix, which is a collaboration with American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande, propelled the song to number one on the Billboard Hot 100; it marked both artists' sixth number-one single on the chart. This also made After Hours the first album since Drake's Scorpion in 2018 to have three singles from the same album to reach number one. "Save Your Tears" spent two weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. Background and promotion On July 12, 2019, a snippet of the track appeared online, leading many to believe that it was set to appear on After Hours. On March 17, 2020, the music-identifying app Shazam revealed that the record would be the eleventh song on the Weeknd's fourth studio album. Later that day, the Weeknd confirmed the piece's presence as the album's track list was released.