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"'''The Hills'''" is a song by the Canadian singer-songwriter [[the Weeknd]]. It was released on May 27, 2015, as the second [[single (music)|single]] from his second studio album, ''[[Beauty Behind the Madness]]'' (2015). The song was written by the Weeknd alongside producers Emmanuel "Mano" Nickerson and [[Illangelo]], with [[Belly (rapper)|Belly]] receiving additional writing credits.
In the United States, "The Hills" reached number one on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' [[Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100]], [[List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2015|replacing]] his own "[[Can't Feel My Face]]", and topped the chart for a total of six weeks. On June 28, 2019, the song received a diamond certification from the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA) for selling more than ten million copies in the United States, becoming his first diamond-certified record.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Weeknd's 'The Hills' Certified Diamond: Exclusive |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/8517989/the-weeknd-the-hills-diamond |magazine=Billboard |access-date=April 21, 2020}}</ref>
Elsewhere, "The Hills" reached number one in his native Canada, and charted in multiple territories, including the top ten in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Ireland. "The Hills" has two official remixes, both released on October 10, 2015, one with the rapper [[Eminem]], and another with the rapper [[Nicki Minaj]].
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The Weeknd premiered a demo at a [[South by Southwest]] party in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeknd Goes Track-by-Track (Almost) on 'After Hours' |date=April 8, 2020 |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/the-weeknd-after-hours-track-by-track-1234574136/ |access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
The song is written in the key of [[C minor]] in [[Time signature|common time]] with a [[tempo]] of 113 [[beats per minute]]. The vocals in the song span from C3 to E{{Flat}}5.<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Hills|url = http://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0155263|website = www.musicnotes.com|date = September 15, 2015|access-date = January 14, 2016}}</ref>▼
==Music and recording==
In an interview with [[Paul Tingen]], [[Illangelo]] stated that the song was their way of going back to the style of the Weeknd's first mixtapes with "a pop arrangement and chords in a faster tempo". revealed the process behind the recording of "The Hills". Written, recorded, produced, and mixed in the Weeknd's home studio in Toronto, Ontario, the initial demo for the song was created by producer Emmanuel "Mano" Nickerson. Nickerson sent the demo to the Weeknd, which Illangelo began work on. Shortly after, the Weeknd had an idea for the song's top line. Illangelo wanted the vocals to be "very spacey and [[lo-fi]]", taking out a lot of low end, and wanting everything to come together at the song's chorus. The bridge and the outro were the last sections of the song to be written.<ref>{{cite web|last=Tingen|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Tingen|title=Inside Track: The Weeknd|url=http://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/inside-track-weeknd |access-date=November 24, 2016 |website=[[Sound on Sound]]}}</ref>
▲The song's sheet music, published by [[Sony/ATV]] Music Publishing at Musicnotes, shows that the song is written in the key of [[C minor]] in [[Time signature|common time]] with a [[tempo]] of 113 [[beats per minute]]. The vocals in the song span from C3 to E{{Flat}}5.<ref>{{Cite web|title
==Critical reception==
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''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked "The Hills" at number 11 on its "50 best songs of 2015" list: "The Weeknd's second Number One smash of 2015 is much more like the guy we knew from his old mixtapes: Horror-movie shrieks and stormy electronics punctuate his seductive moans about a nihilistic affair, and somehow it's all catchy as hell."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-best-songs-of-2015-144910/|title=50 Best Songs of 2015|date=December 3, 2015|publisher=Billboard.com}}</ref> ''Billboard'' ranked "The Hills" at number 10 on its year-end list for 2015: "Number one hits aren't supposed to be this sonically adventurous and dark, but The Weeknd can do no wrong in 2015. There's barely a pop hook to speak of here—just a beguiling, harrowing soundscape that's impossible to forget".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2015/6806155/billboard-25-best-songs-critics-picks|title=Billboard 25 Best Songs of 2015: Critics' Picks|date=December 17, 2015|publisher=Billboard.com}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named "The Hills" the sixth-best song of 2015: "The music video for the year’s darkest No. 1 single finds 25-year-old Abel Tesfaye a.k.a. the Weeknd pulling himself out of a smoking car wreck. It’s a fitting visual, as listening to his twisted brand of R&B can feel like rubbernecking when he brags about dysfunctional relationships and being on so many drugs that getting high feels like decaf. Yet the song’s throbbing bass and Tesfaye’s horror-movie vocal delivery make the song, like some accidents, hard to turn away from."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://time.com/4132832/top-10-best-songs-2/|title=Best Songs of 2015|date=December 3, 2015 |publisher=Time|access-date=January 14, 2016}}</ref> ''[[Stereogum]]'' ranked it at number 11 on its "The 50 Best Pop Songs Of 2015" list: "With "Earned It" and "Can't Feel My Face," Abel Tesfaye climbed the charts by moving his sound toward the center. What's crazy is that after he got his foot in the door, "The Hills" became an even bigger hit without compromising his illicit, art-damaged aesthetic in the slightest."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1848717/the-50-best-pop-songs-of-2015/lists/|title=The 50 Best Pop Songs Of 2015|date=December 17, 2015 |publisher=[[Stereogum]]}}</ref> ''[[news.com.au]]'' named it as the 24th best song of 2015: "This made No. 1 in America. Let’s just let that sink in. [[Donald Trump]] is trying to make them even more conservative and this ultra-dark song filled with way more than just swear words tops the charts."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/who-had-the-best-single-of-2015-and-who-put-out-an-absolute-shocker-heres-our-countdown/news-story/448d78587e766f95b697c2fb005f82ff|title=Who had the best single of 2015? And who put out an absolute shocker? Here's our countdown|publisher=[[news.com.au]]}}</ref> The ''[[Village Voice]]'' ranked "The Hills" at number 22 on their annual year-end critic's poll.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://furia.com/pjs/table_song_2015_total.html|title=Pazz & Jop Statistics|publisher=The Village Voice|access-date=January 13, 2016}}</ref>
On August 29, 2024, nearly 10 years after release, [[The Guardian]] ranked "The Hills" as Tesfaye's best song to date.<ref>{{cite news |title=Darkness, drama and Daft Punk: the Weeknd's best songs – ranked! |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/29/the-weeknd-best-songs-ranked |access-date=September 1, 2024 |last1=Petridis |first1=Alexis }}</ref>
==Plagiarism allegation==
On December 9, 2015, Cutting Edge Music filed a lawsuit against Tesfaye, the producers of the track, and the labels who released the song, for allegedly using the [[bassline]] from the score of the film ''[[The Machine (2013 film)|The Machine]]''. The complaint also alleges that a producer who worked on the piece, Emmanuel “Mano” Nickerson, sent a message to the score's composer on [[Twitter]] stating that he had sampled the composer's work and that it might appear on the next Weeknd album. <ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeknd Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Over "The Hills" |website = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date = December 9, 2015|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/weeknd-hit-copyright-lawsuit-hills-847364#:~:text=A%20film%20financier%20based%20in,obscure%20film%20titled%2C%20The%20Machine. |access-date=November 7, 2020}}</ref> As of July 2022, the case remains unsettled.
==Commercial performance==
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In the UK, "The Hills" entered the [[UK Singles Chart]] at 51, for the week ending June 6, 2015. For the week ending September 10, 2015, it climbed from 35 to 29. For five more weeks, the song reached 23, before skyrocketing to number 5 the week later. On the week ending October 29, 2015, it reached number 3 on its 20th week, being held off by [[Perfect (One Direction song)|Perfect]] by One Direction (at number 2) and [[Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)]] by [[KDA (DJ)|KDA]] (at number 1). The song spent 7 weeks altogether in the top 10 and 12 in the top 20 and was number 25 on the end of year chart.
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On October 10, 2015, two remixes of the song were released online. One featured American rapper [[Eminem]] and the other featured Trinidadian-American rapper [[Nicki Minaj]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/listen-to-both-eminem-and-nicki-minajs-remixes-of-the-weeknds-the-hills-news.18117.html | title=Listen To Both Eminem & Nicki Minaj's Remixes Of The Weeknd's "The Hills" | work=hotnewhiphop | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> The remix by Minaj was performed on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' along with the Weeknd. The Eminem remix was a personal request from Tesfaye,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeknd Says Eminem Crashed Jay Z on 'Renegade,' Talks "The Hills" Remix (Nov 24, 2016) |website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0b6RGdLqTM |access-date=November 13, 2020}}</ref> and a virtual music video was released for it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhjdtQDcOo | title=The Weeknd - The Hills remix feat. Eminem ( A Virtual Reality Experience) - YouTube| website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> American rapper [[Lil Wayne]] remixed the song for his mixtape ''[[No Ceilings 2]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lil-waynes-no-ceilings-2-tracklist-revealed-news.18859.html | title=Lil Wayne's "No Ceilings 2" Tracklist Revealed | work=hotnewhiphop | date=November 26, 2015 | access-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref>▼
===Synopsis===
On August 9, 2016, a remix was released by the Belgian DJ duo, [[Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike]], as one of the free downloads of their "Summer of Madness" tracks.<ref name="Summer of Madness">{{Cite web|url=http://www.summerofmadness.com/dvlmtracks/dwnltheweeknd.php?id=1275678935787375|title="SUMMER OF MADNESS" by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike}}</ref> Another remix was released on Tesfaye's YouTube channel by [[RL Grime]].▼
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Another [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhjdtQDcOo music video] was filmed for the [[Eminem]] remix in collaboration with [[GoPro]] and United Realities.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rambarran|first=Shara|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/virtual-music-9781501336379/|title=Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2021|isbn=9781501336379|location=Bloomsbury}}</ref> It is a 360-degree [[virtual reality]] video in which the Weeknd is seen leaving a venue and heading to his limo (taking him to the afterparty featured in an [[Apple Music]] commercial, with [[John Travolta]]<ref>{{cite
▲The music video for "The Hills" was directed by [[Grant Singer]]. It was uploaded to [[YouTube]] on May 27, 2015. As of April 1, 2022, the video has been viewed over 2 billion times. The video begins showing a wrecked [[Lincoln Town Car#First generation (1981–1989)|Lincoln Town Car]] that has flipped over, and the reason it flipped is unknown. The Weeknd is seen crawling out of the car before helping two women to get out. As the song progresses, the Weeknd is seen walking by himself down South June Street in Los Angeles,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeknd – The Hills Filming Location |date=April 24, 2017 |url=https://globalfilmlocations.net/2017/04/24/the-weeknd-the-hills-filming-location/ |access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref> and at the beginning of the second chorus, the wrecked Town Car explodes behind him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://globalfilmlocations.net/2017/04/24/the-weeknd-the-hills-filming-location/|title=The Weeknd – The Hills Filming Location|first=Global Film|last=Locations|date=April 24, 2017|website=globalfilmlocations.net}}</ref> He occasionally is pushed repeatedly by one of the women from the car. At the end of the song, he enters an abandoned mansion, and goes upstairs to a room illuminated with red light. A man holding an [[Apple (symbolism)|apple]] sits waiting for him, next to two other women, and the video cuts to black.
==Live performances==
▲The man from inside the mansion is [[The Mau-Mau's|Rick Wilder]], who also appears in both the "Can't Feel My Face" and "Tell Your Friends" music videos.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ducker|first1=Eric|title=How This Glam Rock OG Became the Weeknd's Video Muse|url=http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/917-how-this-glam-rock-og-became-the-weeknds-video-muse/|website=Pitchfork|date=October 7, 2015|access-date=May 30, 2016}}</ref>
"The Hills" was performed live for the first time during the Weeknd's set, on April 11, 2015, at the [[Coachella (festival)|Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2015/05/27/the-weeknd-hills-music-video/|title=The Weeknd lives through a car crash in new The Hills video|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|first=Ariana|last=Bacle|date=May 27, 2015|access-date=February 12, 2024}}</ref>
==Other versions==
▲Another [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhjdtQDcOo music video] was filmed for the [[Eminem]] remix in collaboration with [[GoPro]] and United Realities.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rambarran|first=Shara|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/virtual-music-9781501336379/|title=Virtual Music: Sound, Music, and Image in the Digital Era|publisher=Bloomsbury|year=2021|isbn=9781501336379|location=Bloomsbury}}</ref> It is a 360-degree [[virtual reality]] video in which the Weeknd is seen leaving a venue and heading to his limo (taking him to the afterparty featured in an [[Apple Music]] commercial, with [[John Travolta]] as his driver).<ref>{{cite web |title=WATCH JOHN TRAVOLTA PLAY THE WEEKND'S DRIVER IN NEW APPLE MUSIC AD |website=[[Fuse (TV channel)|Fuse]] |url=https://www.fuse.tv/videos/2015/08/john-travolta-the-weeknd-apple-music-ad |access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Apple Music - TV Ad 1 - Afterparty with "The Weeknd" |website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC5_zYFEWvY |access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Apple Music - TV Ad 2 - Afterparty with "The Weeknd" |website = [[YouTube]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVQMNCSjGZA |access-date=May 27, 2020}}</ref> As the viewer changes the angles, it is shown that comets are raining down and the raining debris causing fiery explosions around the area. The car that's flipped over in the original music video is also in view. As he approaches his limousine, a fiery explosion consumes him.
▲On October 10, 2015, two remixes of the song were released online. One featured American rapper [[Eminem]] and the other featured Trinidadian-American rapper [[Nicki Minaj]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/listen-to-both-eminem-and-nicki-minajs-remixes-of-the-weeknds-the-hills-news.18117.html | title=Listen To Both Eminem & Nicki Minaj's Remixes Of The Weeknd's "The Hills" | work=hotnewhiphop | access-date=October 10, 2015}}</ref> The remix by Minaj was performed on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' along with the Weeknd. The Eminem remix was a personal request from Tesfaye,<ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeknd Says Eminem Crashed Jay Z on 'Renegade,' Talks "The Hills" Remix (Nov 24, 2016) |website = [[YouTube]]| date=November 25, 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0b6RGdLqTM |access-date=November 13, 2020}}</ref> and a virtual music video was released for it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fhjdtQDcOo | title=The Weeknd - The Hills remix feat. Eminem ( A Virtual Reality Experience) - YouTube| website=[[YouTube]]| date=October 20, 2015}}</ref> American rapper [[Lil Wayne]] remixed the song for his mixtape ''[[No Ceilings 2]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/lil-waynes-no-ceilings-2-tracklist-revealed-news.18859.html | title=Lil Wayne's "No Ceilings 2" Tracklist Revealed | work=hotnewhiphop | date=November 26, 2015 | access-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref>
▲On August 9, 2016, a remix was released by the Belgian DJ duo, [[Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike]], as one of the free downloads of their "Summer of Madness" tracks.<ref name="Summer of Madness">{{Cite web|url=http://www.summerofmadness.com/dvlmtracks/dwnltheweeknd.php?id=1275678935787375|title="SUMMER OF MADNESS" by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike}}</ref> Another remix was released on Tesfaye's YouTube channel by [[RL Grime]].
==Popular culture==
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*[[Yves Saint Laurent (brand)|Yves Saint Laurent's]] featured the song in a commercial to advertise Black Opium perfume, featuring [[Zoe Kravitz]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Black Opium advert girl and song explained - 2020 Yves Saint Laurent commercial is a hit! |date=February 12, 2020 |url=https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/02/12/black-opium-advert-girl-model-song-name-yves-saint-laurent/ |access-date=April 8, 2020}}</ref>
*The song is available in ''[[Rock Band 4]]'' as [[List of downloadable songs for the Rock Band series|downloadable content]].
*The song is featured in the 2017 online video game [[Fortnite]] as a playable song in its "Fortnite Festival" mode, which the Weeknd had also headlined.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shanfeld |first=Ethan |date=December 9, 2023
==Track listing==
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==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=single|award=Platinum|number=12|relyear=2015|certyear=2024
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Belgium|type=single|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Gold|certyear=2016|relyear=2015|access-date=March 20, 2016}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Brazil|type=single|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Diamond|number=3|certyear=2024|relyear=2015|access-date=April 4, 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|award=Diamond|type=single|title=The Hills|artist=The Weeknd|relyear=2015|certyear=2022|access-date=November 10, 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|type=single|certyear=2020|relyear=2015|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Platinum|number=2|id=8869|access-date=January 9, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|type=single|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Gold|number=3|certyear=2019|relyear=2015|access-date=July 25, 2019}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|certyear=
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Mexico|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|type=single|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2015|certyear=2017|access-date=October 6, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2015|certyear=2015|id=4176|access-date=November 27, 2015}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Poland|type=single|award=Platinum|number=4|certyear=2021|certmonth=8|relyear=2015|access-date=August 11, 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Portugal|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Platinum|number=3|type=single|relyear=2015|certyear=2022|id=file_2023-01-30-17-47-02.pdf|access-date=February 7, 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|type=single|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Sweden|certyear=2016|relyear=2015|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Platinum|number=3|type=single|certweek=10|position=99|access-date=November 8, 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|award=Platinum|number=4|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|relyear=2015|certyear=2023|id=13391-4005-1}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Greece|artist=The Weeknd|title=The Hills|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2015|certyear=2023|certweek=13|id=20230406181152|access-date=April 15, 2023}}
{{Certification Table Bottom|noshipments=true|streaming=true|streamsonly=true}}
==See also==
*[[List of highest-certified singles in Australia]]
==References==
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