The Weeknd engagement report
@theweeknd - 18M followers on X
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 28K interactions against 18M followers, an engagement rate of 0.154%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 1.1M times each, and 2.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.67 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 156K interactions, about 5.6x its own typical post.
Measured over 13 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 31, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
The Weeknd's engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 82% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.154%, The Weeknd sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.08% to 0.432%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.002% |
| 25th percentile | 0.012% |
| 50th percentile | 0.08% |
| 75th percentile | 0.432% |
| 90th percentile | 2.10% |
| 99th percentile | 161.0% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 50K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 50K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 53K |
| 04:00 UTC | -6% | 43K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 42K |
| 06:00 UTC | -4% | 48K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 52K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 60K |
| 09:00 UTC | -3% | 69K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 72K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 78K |
| 12:00 UTC | -2% | 86K |
| 13:00 UTC | -2% | 94K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 97K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 97K |
| 17:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 18:00 UTC | -1% | 84K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 79K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 74K |
| 21:00 UTC | -1% | 66K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 57K |
| 23:00 UTC | -2% | 51K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +4% | 230K |
| Monday | 0% | 286K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 276K |
| Wednesday | -1% | 251K |
| Thursday | -1% | 244K |
| Friday | -3% | 252K |
| Saturday | +3% | 227K |
Best tweets
- Jul 28, 20265.6x their median
https://t.co/MayrMPfEH0
- Jul 18, 20265.1x their median
Beautiful dinner gift from the young legend Gege Akutami. https://t.co/fvlICRPOwz
- Jun 8, 20264.7x their median
Can finally post this 🥹 A while back I got to visit Atlus and play P4 revival and got an early peek at P6 : https://t.co/nmGyOeZ4Um https://t.co/hFaWZQxSvA
- Jun 6, 20263.5x their median
Mr. Takeshi Kitano https://t.co/1XK9rsGRq5
- Jun 18, 20263.0x their median
Out of Time is one of my favorite songs that I’ve ever written. It would not exist without the magic of Tomoko Aran. https://t.co/tZGigHSL36
- Jun 3, 20263.0x their median
Susumu Hirasawa 🪄 https://t.co/EKcuQpPE28
- Jul 29, 20263.0x their median
So heartbreaking to hear the news. An inspiration to so many, including myself. I will continue to honor your name and your music. Rest easy Kavinsky 🇫🇷❤️ https://t.co/ts84bigDCV
- Aug 23, 20262.9x their median
Heavenly Tour Gifts from a Friend Thank you Mr. Soejima https://t.co/wdDJzactfP
- Aug 25, 20261.8x their median
by Yoshitaka Amano : https://t.co/JATDI1juw3 https://t.co/lmA25VBdJY
- Jun 22, 20261.5x their median
https://t.co/WCOnSm1WBh
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 28K interactions against 18M followers, an engagement rate of 0.154%. Measured over 13 original posts, its engagement rate beats 90% of 3,774 tracked accounts of a similar size. Comparing inside a size band matters here: engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly just re-measure the follower count. Posts are seen about 1.1M times each, and 2.54% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 6.06% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.67 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 40% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 13 posts sampled, 85% carry an image or video and 23% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 156K interactions, about 5.6x its own typical post.
- What is The Weeknd's engagement rate on X?
- The Weeknd (@theweeknd) has an engagement rate of 0.154%, based on the median interactions across 13 original posts from the last 30 days against 18,139,665 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.154%, The Weeknd sits above the 50th percentile of the 36,378 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @theweeknd have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 90% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (3,774 accounts), which puts it in the top quarter for its size group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @theweeknd post?
- Most posts go out around 13:00 UTC, and Sunday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.67 posts per day across the measured window.