Autograph Partners with Billboard to Release The Weeknd’s NFT Collection

Tom Brady’s NFT platform Autograph has introduced a partnership with Billboard to launch its first NFT assortment that includes standard musician, The Weeknd. The gathering will have fun the singer’s single “Blinding Lights” changing into the primary track on Billboard’s Biggest Songs of All Time Scorching 100 Chart! Moreover, the one has one other outstanding achievement to its title. It is usually the all-time primary track with 90 weeks on the Scorching 100 Chart!

The partnership comes as no shock as The Weeknd had joined Autograph’s board of administrators late final month. “I used to be keen to hitch [Autograph] in launching a brand new vertical within the music house that explores what the metaverse might be,” the singer had said then. 

First, bodily buying and selling playing cards 

To have fun The Weeknd’s historic achievement, Billboard, in partnership with The Infinite, has launched a bodily buying and selling playing cards assortment. Priced at $100, the gathering options 5 bodily playing cards with 5 totally different designs. Buying and selling card veteran, Karvin Cheung (who additionally owns The Infinite) designed all of the playing cards.

The entire set features a non-numbered card, a card foil numbered out of 500, and a card foil numbered out of 10. An autograph card signed by hand and numbered out of 10 is one other spotlight of the gathering. There may be additionally a one among one hand-signed autograph card within the set! Every pack comes with a random buying and selling card from the set, together with an info card that particulars the chart knowledge. 

“I’m thrilled to have the chance to collaborate with Billboard to focus on The Weeknd’s milestone, which is able to undoubtedly play a job in defining the way forward for music,” Cheung stated in a press launch.

The playing cards can be found for buy on shop.theweeknd.com.

Billboard x Autograph: The Weeknd NFT assortment

Together with the bodily buying and selling playing cards, Billboard will quickly launch restricted version NFTs of The Weeknd on Autograph. Nevertheless, Neither Billboard nor Autograph has revealed a lot details about the upcoming NFT drop. Billboard is more likely to launch extra info within the coming weeks. 

“This collaboration highlights a momentous achievement and a really particular second in time for one of the crucial influential artists at present,” stated Julian Holguin, President of Billboard. “The digital buying and selling playing cards and NFTs launched in partnership with Autograph will actually seize the thrill that ‘Blinding Lights’ conjures up and permit followers to personal a defining second in music historical past.”

If you wish to know extra concerning the assortment, keep watch over Autograph and Billboard!

Autograph focuses on bringing collectively a few of the world’s most iconic figures in sports activities, leisure, and tradition. Whereas it initially targeted utterly on sports activities, it will definitely entered the leisure house. It’s now foraying into the music business with The Weeknd’s NFT assortment. The platform already boasts NFTs from a variety of celebrities together with sports activities icons Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Wayne Gretzky, and Tiger Woods.