In its third week at number one, " The Hills" reached number two, becoming the first act since The Black Eyed Peas to attain the top two positions on the Hot 100 as a lead artist. It spent three non-consecutive weeks in three separate runs at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the sixth song to achieve this feat, and the first song to do so since Bruno Mars 's " Grenade" in 2011. After three weeks at number two, "Can't Feel My Face" ascended to number one on the Hot 100, replacing OMI 's " Cheerleader" and becoming the Weeknd's first number-one single on that chart. In its third week on the chart, the song reached number six on the Hot 100, making it his third top 10 hit, and his second solo top 10 hit. It produced first-week digital sales of 93,000 units and garnered 4.2 million US streams and 38 million airplay audiences. "Can't Feel My Face" debuted at number 24 on the US Billboard Hot 100, making a Hot Shot Debut on the chart it was the Weeknd's third Hot Shot Debut in a year after his previous singles "The Hills" and " Earned It". Village Voice named "Can't Feel My Face" the third-best single released in 2015 on their annual year-end critics' poll, Pazz & Jop. There are enough hooks in this one single for a dozen chart-toppers, but Abel Tesfaye packed them all into three-and-a-half minutes of sheer ecstasy-and, naturally, topped the Hot 100 for the first time. The Weeknd's irresistible, Michael Jackson-esque "Can't Feel My Face" is so perfectly crafted that it's impossible to imagine a world or alternative reality in which this song isn't number one. Billboard also picked "Can't Feel My Face" as the best song of 2015 on its year-end critics' picks: Rolling Stone ranked "Can't Feel My Face" at number one on its year-end list to find the 50 best songs of 2015. Complex wrote: "The song has a classic pop feel to it, with The Weeknd channeling a bit of Michael Jackson while crooning over the bouncy, and energetic production from Max Martin." Pitchfork 's reviewer Renato Pagnani placed it in the Best New Track category and made the same comparison: "Perhaps recognizing just how dead-on Tesfaye's Michael Jackson impersonation was on his cover of " Dirty Diana", the producers anchor the track with a bassline that could have come from an alternate-dimension " Thriller" produced by New Age composer Vangelis instead of Quincy Jones. Ĭonsequence of Sound compared the sound of the song to Michael Jackson. In June 2015, Jason Lipshutz of Billboard named it one of the "10 Best Songs of 2015 (So Far)".
Critical reception īrennan Carley of Spin called it "pop perfection", "a thoroughly definitive, all-in jam" and predicted the song would "reach ' Uptown Funk' levels of airplay and ubiquity." Time 's Esther Zuckerman deemed the song a "New Favorite Contender for Song of the Summer" and wrote that the chorus was "infectious". Musically, Alice Vincent of The Daily Telegraph characterised as "a synth-laden, upbeat pop song", while Andy Kellman of AllMusic described it as "a sleek slice of retro-modern disco-funk". Multiple sources have interpreted the song to be about cocaine, including a reference by the Weeknd himself in " Reminder": "I just won a new award for a kids show, Talking 'bout a face numbing off a bag of blow". The song is composed in the key of A minor and has a tempo of 108 beats per minute. It was officially released on June 8, 2015, following a performance by the Weeknd at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on the same day. "Can't Feel My Face" leaked in late May 2015. The single has also peaked at number one in Mexico, New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, and was a top 10 single in other territories, such as Australia, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom. The song experienced commercial success, peaking at number one on both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. It was also nominated for two Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.
Ĭritics lauded "Can't Feel My Face", comparing the sound of the song to the works of Michael Jackson Rolling Stone ranked it as the best song of 2015.
It was written by Max Martin, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha and the Weeknd, and produced by Max Martin and Payami. The song was released on June 8, 2015, as the third single from the album. " Can't Feel My Face" is a song performed by Canadian singer the Weeknd from his second studio album Beauty Behind the Madness (2015).