Peak
1
Weeks
48
Score
10,808
Chart Year
2015
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 1.8 billion times. The video begins showing a wrecked 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,[27] and at the beginning of the second chorus, the wrecked car explodes behind him.[28] 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 sits waiting for him, next to two other women, and the video cuts to black. The man from inside the mansion is Rick Wilder, who also appears in both the "Can't Feel My Face" and "Tell Your Friends" music videos.[29] Another music video was filmed for the Eminem remix in collaboration with GoPro and United Realities.[30] 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).[31][32][33] 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.
Originally debuted by The Weeknd during a live performance at SXSW on March 19, 2015 under the title "Mood Music," the song was finally released on May 27, 2015 with a new title: "The Hills." The spooky-sounding song finds The Weeknd singing of a secret relationship, possibly with a celebrity. The singer is all to aware that now because he is famous, the hills have eyes – i.e., everyone is watching him. The Weeknd rose to fame quite rapidly in 2015, and in this song he takes the voice of a celebrity who is driven by self-destructive hedonism and has no qualms about it. The song paints of picture of what could happen if he becomes a victim of his success. The song was produced by Million $ Mano, who was once Kanye West's tour DJ, and The Weeknd's long-term collaborator, DJ Carlo "Illangelo" Montagnese. The ominous video was directed by Grant Singer (Sky Ferreria's "I Blame Myself" "Night Time, My Time"). The clip sees The Weeknd wake up after a car crash before emerging, bleeding, from an upside down door. Eventually, he stumbles down the street to an abandoned mansion. The song is partly about the culture shock The Weeknd experienced after moving from Toronto to Los Angeles to make Beauty Behind The Madness. "I was working on this album in a world I'm not used to," he told Rolling Stone. "You're sober. Then one day you want to have fun, and that darkness comes back - and the darkness feels good." He added with a shake of his head. "It's crazy. People relate to that stuff." The song title and lyrics nod to Wes Craven's 1977 horror film The Hills Have Eyes. Two remixes were released on October 10, 2015. One, featuring Eminem, has the rapper delivering rhymes from the viewpoint of Slim Shady concerning a relationship in which there is sex with no commitment. The second finds Nicki Minaj spitting a raunchy verse. The Weeknd and Nicki Minaj teamed up on the October 10, 2015 episode of Saturday Night Live to perform their remixed version of the song. The dark, apocalyptic 360-degree Nabil-directed video for the song's Eminem remix transports viewers down to the city streets, as we see The Weeknd emerge from a venue into a war-like situation. The singer decides to walk back to the doors, but gets hit with a fireball and is set ablaze. Viewers can explore The Weekend's world with special virtual reality goggles to enable them see the visual from different angles. Other artists that have shot 360º clips using the same GoPro virtual reality technology include Bjork ("Stonemilker") and Foals ("Mountain At My Gates.") The droning bass line may have been lifted from the score of a 2013 independent film called The Machine. It's a rather obscure film, but a producer named Emmanuel Nickerson (who goes by Million Dollar Mano) apparently saw it; Tom Raybould, who wrote music for the film, received a Direct Message on Twitter from Nickerson that said: "I sampled your music might make it 2 the weeknd next album. Huge fan of what u did 4 the machine movie!" A lawsuit was filed on December 9, 2015, alleging copyright infringement. The section that was lifted can be heard on the soundtrack of the film in a track called "Revolution." The Weeknd included "The Hills" in his 2021 Super Bowl LV halftime performance, which took place under unusual circumstances due to the coronavirus pandemic. With a limited number of fans admitted to the stadium, he was able to use the stands to start the show before taking to the field.
Yeah Yeah Yeah Your man on the road, he doin' promo You said, "Keep our business on the low-low" I'm just tryna get you out the friendzone 'Cause you look even better than the photos I can't find your house, send me the info Drivin' through the gated residential Found out I was comin', sent your friends home Keep on tryna hide it but your friends know I only call you when it's half past five The only time that I'll be by your side I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah I only call you when it's half past five The only time I'd ever call you mine I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe I'ma let you know, we keep it simple Tryna keep it up don't seem so simple I just fucked two bitches 'fore I saw you And you gon' have to do it at my tempo Always tryna send me off to rehab Drugs started feelin' like it's decaf I'm just tryna live life for the moment And all these motherfuckers want a relapse I only call you when it's half past five The only time that I'll be by your side I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah I only call you when it's half past five The only time I'd ever call you mine I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe Hills have eyes, the hills have eyes Who are you to judge? Who are you to judge? Hide your lies, girl, hide your lies Only you to trust, only you I only call you when it's half past five The only time that I'll be by your side I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, yeah I only call you when it's half past five The only time I'd ever call you mine I only love it when you touch me, not feel me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me When I'm fucked up, that's the real me, babe Ewedihalehu Yene konjo, ewedihalehu Yene fikir, fikir, fikir, fikir Yene fikir, fikir, fikir, fikir Ewedihalehu Yene konjo, ewedihalehu
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jun 13, 2015 | 20 | 106 |
| 2 | Jun 20, 2015 | 21 | 105 |
| 3 | Jun 27, 2015 | 23 | 103 |
| 4 | Jul 4, 2015 | 22 | 104 |
| 5 | Jul 11, 2015 | 23 | 103 |
| 6 | Jul 18, 2015 | 19 | 107 |
| 7 | Jul 25, 2015 | 12 | 114 |
| 8 | Aug 1, 2015 | 10 | 116 |
| 9 | Aug 8, 2015 | 11 | 115 |
| 10 | Aug 15, 2015 | 11 | 115 |
| 11 | Aug 22, 2015 | 11 | 115 |
| 12 | Aug 29, 2015 | 5 | 121 |
| 13 | Sep 5, 2015 | 5 | 121 |
| 14 | Sep 12, 2015 | 4 | 122 |
| 15 | Sep 19, 2015 | 3 | 123 |
| 16 | Sep 26, 2015 | 2 | 124 |
| 17 | Oct 3, 2015 | 1 | 125 |
| 18 | Oct 10, 2015 | 1 | 125 |
| 19 | Oct 17, 2015 | 1 | 125 |
| 20 | Oct 24, 2015 | 1 | 125 |