I Feel It Coming

In this song, The Weeknd feels this connection with a girl who’s been traumatized by a bad relationship. He’s reassuring her that she can trust him and that she can relax, feel comfortable with him, with reference to sex too.
When Zane Lowe asked The Weeknd about the collaboration with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk and how the song came about, he said: “So I came in, we went to Paris. I came into the session and Thomas and Guy-Manuel had already started a track, which was ‘I Feel It Coming,’ which was just the music. And it was one of the tracks that they were playing for me and I was freestyling over it, trying to find a vibe with it. You know, Guy-Manuel and Thomas were kind of directing me on how to make it because they want it to sound as authentic as possible.”
It was quite an experience for The Weeknd to write the song with Daft Punk, in an interview the Wall Street Journal he said: “Their studio is like a spaceship; there’s a lot of gear, but the way they make music, the way they explain it, is very cinematic. It’s like they’re reading a page out of a novel: ‘We want to make sure that at the end, it feels like the sun’s coming up, and maybe there’s a car chase.’ They can get technical, but it was interesting how they visualise making music.”

Release Date: November 24, 2016,

Songwriter/s: Abel Tesfaye – Thomas Bangalter – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Cristo – Martin McKinney – Henry Walter – Eric Chedeville

Label: XO – Republic

Chart Rankings: In the US, the song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 3 on the Mainstream Top 40. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it Double Platinum for sales over 2 million copies. In the UK, it peaked at number 9 on the Official Charts Company and was certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales over 600,000 copies. The song topped the charts in Mexico and France. It reached the top 10 charts in several countries around the world including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Lebanon, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. ‘I Feel it Coming’ was certified Diamond in France, Triple Platinum in Australia, double Platinum in Italy and Sweden, and Platinum in Denmark, New Zealand and Norway.

Artist’s age on Release Date: The French duo Daft Punk was active for 23 years and Adel Makkonen Tesfaye aka The Weeknd was 16 years old when this song was released.

Cover Versions: J.Fla – Glenn Lumanta – Travis Garland – DSharp – Citizen Four – Scary Pockets – SarahClose 1 – Chrissy – Sigala – Ross Campbell (Guitar cover) – Rajiv Dhall – other amateur artists covered this song on Youtube.