Ariana Grande-Butera born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. An influential figure in contemporary popular music, often regarded as a pop icon, she is noted for her four-octave vocal range and whistle register that has garnered critical acclaim. Grande has received numerous accolades throughout her career, including two Grammy Awards, one Brit Award, one Bambi Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, nine MTV Video Music Awards, 35 Guinness World Records, among others.
Ariana Grande Facts
- Born Ariana Grande-Butter
- June 26, 1993 (Part 30)
- Boca Raton, Florida, USA
- Occupations:SingersonGravityTractorAss
- Years active 2008–present
- Spouse Dalton Gomez
Ariana Grande Early life
Grande continued to explore pop and R&B in her second and third studio albums, My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016). My Everything experimented with EDM and achieved global success with its singles “Problem”, “Break Free” and “Bang Bang”, while Dangerous Woman became her first of four consecutive number-one albums in the UK. Personal struggles influenced her trap-infused fourth and fifth studio albums, Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019), both of which were critical and commercial successes. Sweetener won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and Thank U, Next broke the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album and was nominated for Album of the Year. The singles “Thank U, Next”, “7 Rings”, and “Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” made Grande the first solo artist to hold the top three spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously and the first woman to succeed herself at the top of the UK Singles Chart. Her 2020 collaborations “Stuck with U” with Justin Bieber and “Rain on Me” with Lady Gaga helped her break the record for most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, the latter winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Grande expanded on the trap genre with her sixth studio album, Positions (2020), which both the album and its title track debuted at number one in the UK and the US. Her collaborations with The Weeknd on the remixes of “Save Your Tears” and “Die for You” garnered her sixth and seventh US number-one singles, respectively.
Grande is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, having sold over 90 million records globally and 100 million certified units (album and songs) in the US alone, while all her studio albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA. She has broken a variety of records on the Billboard charts with her albums, songs and as an artist. Having amassed 98 billion streams thus far, Grande is one of the most streamed artists of all time, the most streamed female artist ever as of 2021, and the most streamed female artist of 2010s on Spotify and Apple Music. As of 2020 and 2022, She is also the most subscribed female solo artist and most followed female artist on YouTube and Spotify, while fourteen of Grande’s songs and eight of her music videos reached one billion streams and views on Spotify and Vevo, respectively. She is the female artist with the most one billion songs on the former platform. Grande has been included on Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2016 and 2019) and the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2019–2020), while latter has reported Grande as the highest-earning female musician of 2020. She was named Woman of the Year (2018), the greatest pop star of 2019, and the most successful female artist to debut in the 2010s by Billboard. Rolling Stone ranked her amongst the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time (2023).
Grande pivoted back to acting appearing in the 2021 ensemble satire Don’t Look Up. She was also cast as Glinda in the film adaptation of Wicked, which began filming in 2022. Besides music and film, Grande has worked with many charitable organizations and advocates for animal rights, mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality. She has ventured into the cosmetics, fragrances and fashion industries; her fragrance line, which was released in 2015, exceeded $1 billion in sales through 2022. Grande also has a large social media following, became the most followed woman on Instagram in 2019 and is with over 380 million followers, the sixth-most-followed person, as of 2023.
Ariana Grande Career
By age 13, Grande became serious about pursuing a music career, although she still concentrated on theater.[19] When she first arrived in Los Angeles, California to meet with her managers, she expressed a desire to record an R&B album: “I was like, ‘I want to make an R&B album,’ They were like ‘Um, that’s a helluva goal! Who is going to buy a 14-year-old’s R&B album?!'” In 2008, Grande was cast as cheerleader Charlotte in the Broadway musical 13. When she joined the musical, Grande left North Broward Preparatory School, but continued to be enrolled; the school sent her materials to study with tutors. She also sang various times at the New York City jazz club Birdland.
Grande at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
Grande was cast in the Nickelodeon television show Victorious along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009.In the sitcom, set at a performing arts high school, she played the “adorably dimwitted” Cat Valentine.She had to dye her hair red every other week for the role, which severely damaged her hair.The show premiered in March 2010 to the second-largest audience for a live-action series in Nickelodeon, with 5.7 million viewers.The role helped propel Grande to teen idol status, but she was more interested in a music career, saying that acting is “fun, but music has always been first and foremost with me.” Her character was compared to “Brittany Murphy’s performance as the hapless Tai in Clueless” and described as being “very impressionable and easily swayed” but “generally sweet”.
Ariana Grande After the first season of Victorious wrapped, Grande wanted to focus on her music career and began working on her debut album in August 2010To strengthen her vocal range, she began working with vocal coach Eric Vetro. The second season premiered in April 2011 to 6.2 million viewers, becoming the show’s highest-rated episode.In May 2011, Grande appeared in Greyson Chance’s video for the song “Unfriend You” from his album Hold On ’til the Night (2011), portraying his ex-girlfriend. She made her first musical appearance on the track “Give It Up” from the Victorious soundtrack in August 2011. While filming Victorious, Grande made several recordings of herself singing covers of songs by Adele, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, and uploaded them to YouTube A friend of Monte Lipman, chief executive officer (CEO) of Republic Records, came across one of the videos. Impressed by her vocals, he sent the links to Lipman, who signed her to a recording contract. Grande voiced the title role in the English dub of the Spanish-language animated film Snowflake, the White Gorilla in November 2011. From 2011 to 2013, she voiced the fairy Princess Diaspro in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club.
In December 2011, Grande released her first single, “Put Your Hearts Up”, which was recorded for a potential teen-oriented pop album that was never issued. She later disowned the track for its bubblegum pop sound, saying she had no interest in recording music of that genre. The song was later certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). On a second soundtrack, Victorious 2.0, released on June 5, 2012, as an extended play, she supplied vocals as part of the show’s cast for the song “5 Fingaz to the Face”. The third and final soundtrack, Victorious 3.0, was released on November 6, 2012, which featured a duet by Grande and Victoria Justice titled “L.A. Boyz”, with an accompanying music video being released shortly after. In December 2012, Grande collaborated on the single version of “Popular Song”, a duet with British singer and songwriter Mika.
Ariana Grande After four seasons, Victorious was not renewed, with the finale airing in February 2013. Grande starred as Snow White in the pantomime-style musical theatre production A Snow White Christmas with Charlene Tilton and Neil Patrick Harris at the Pasadena Playhouse. She played Amanda Benson in Swindle, a 2013 Nickelodeon film adaptation of the children’s book of the same name.Meanwhile, Nickelodeon created Sam & Cat, an iCarly and Victorious spin-off starring Jennette McCurdy and Grande. Grande and McCurdy reprised their roles as Cat Valentine and Sam Puckett on the buddy sitcom, which paired the characters as roommates who form an after-school babysitting business. The pilot aired on June 8, 2013, and the network immediately picked up the show.The next month, Nickelodeon doubled Sam & Cat’s original 20-episode order for season one, making it a 40-episode season. Despite its success in the ratings, the series was canceled after 35 episodes The final episode aired on July 17
Ariana Grande 2013–2015: Yours Truly and My Everything
Grande recorded her debut studio album Yours Truly, originally titled Daydreamin’, over three years. It was released on August 30, 2013, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, with 138,000 copies sold in its first week. Yours Truly also debuted in the top ten in several other countries, including Australia, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Its lead single, “The Way”, featuring Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller, debuted at number ten on the US Billboard Hot 100,eventually peaking at number nine for two weeks. Grande was later sued by Minder Music for copying the line “What we gotta do right here is go back, back in time” from the 1972 song “Troglodyte (Cave Man)” by The Jimmy Castor Bunch. The album’s second single, “Baby I”, was released in July. Its third single, “Right There”, featuring Detroit rapper Big Sean, was released in August 2013.They respectively peaked at number 21 and 84 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Grande recorded the duet “Almost Is Never Enough” with Nathan Sykes of The Wanted, which was released as a promotional single in August 2013. She also joined Justin Bieber on his Believe Tour for three shows and kicked off her own headlining mini-tour, The Listening Sessions.The following month, Billboard magazine ranked Grande at number four on their list of “Music’s Hottest Minors 2013”, an annual ranking of the most popular musicians under the age of 21At the 2013 American Music Awards, she won the award for New Artist of the Year.She released a four-song Christmas EP, Christmas Kisses in December 2013Grande received the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award from the Music Business Association, recognizing her achievements throughout 2013. By January 2014, Grande had begun recording her second studio album, with singer-songwriter Ryan Tedder and record producers Benny Blanco and Max Martin. The same month, she earned the Favorite Breakout Artist award at the People’s Choice Awards 2014.In March 2014, Grande sang at the White House concert, “Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House”The following month, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama invited Grande again to perform at the White House for the Easter Egg Roll event.
Grande released her second studio album My Everything on August 25, 2014, and debuted atop the Billboard 200.Its lead single “Problem” features Australian rapper Iggy Azalea and premiered at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards on April 26, 2014.The song debuted at number three (eventually climbing to number two) on the Billboard Hot 100The album’s second single, “Break Free”, featuring German musician and producer Zedd,peaked at number four in the United States. She performed the song as the opening of the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, and won Best Pop Video for “Problem”.Rolling Stone placed this song at number 40 on its list of The 50 Most Inspirational LGBTQ Songs of All Time. Grande and Nicki Minaj provided guest vocals on “Bang Bang”, the lead single from Jessie J’s album Sweet Talker which peaked at number one in the UK and reached number three in the US.With the singles “Problem”, “Break Free”, and “Bang Bang”, Grande joined Adele as the only female artist with three top ten singles simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist.
Ariana Grande 2020–2023: Positions
Ariana Grande In January 2020, Grande received multiple nominations at the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year. The following month, she made a guest appearance in the second season of the American television series Kidding, which stars Jim Carrey. On March 27, 2020, she appeared on Childish Gambino’s fourth studio album 3.15.20 on the track “Time”. Grande and Justin Bieber released a collaboration song titled “Stuck with U” on May 8, 2020; net proceeds from the sales of the song were donated to the First Responders Children’s Foundation in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s third chart-topping single. Alongside Bieber, both artists tied Mariah Carey and Drake for the most songs to debut at number one on the Hot 100; Grande is the first artist to have her first three number ones debut at the top, following “Thank U, Next” and “7 Rings”. Grande also released a collaboration with Lady Gaga, “Rain on Me”, as the second single from Gaga’s sixth studio album Chromatica. The song also debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s fourth number-one single and helping Grande break the record for the most number-one debuts on that chartThe song won the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance category at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.In 2020, Grande became the highest-earning woman in music on Forbes’s 2020 Celebrity 100 list, placing 17th overall with $72 million. At the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, she was nominated for nine awards for both “Stuck with U” (with Bieber) and “Rain on Me” (with Gaga). For the latter, Grande received her third consecutive nomination for Video of the Year. She won four awards, including Song of the Year for “Rain on Me”.
Grande’s sixth studio album, Positions, was released on October 30, 2020.It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, becoming Grande’s fifth number-one album.The eponymous lead single was released on October 23 It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande’s fifth chart-topping single and breaking numerous records. Grande became the first artist to have five number-one debuts on the Hot 100 and the first to have their first five number ones debut at the top. “Positions” became her third number-one single in 2020 following “Stuck with U” and “Rain on Me”, making Grande the first artist since Drake to have three number-one singles in a single calendar year and the first female artist to do so since Rihanna and Katy Perry in 2010.Alongside the release of Positions, the song from the album “34+35” served as the second single off the album. The song debuted at number 8, becoming Grande’s 18th top ten single.Grande released a “34+35” remix featuring American rappers Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion on January 15, 2021. The remix helped the song reach a new peak at number two, the highest-charting song credited to three or more female soloists on the Hot 100 since Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink and Lil’ Kim’s “Lady Marmalade” in 2001 The remix was one of five
additional tracks included on the deluxe edition of Positions, released on February 19, 2021. In March, the song “POV” was sent to radio as the album’s third single. The song reached number 27 on the Hot 100 and would reach the top ten on mainstream radio, making Grande the first artist to have three concurrent songs in the top ten for Pop Airplay.Grande was named the most-played artist on iHeartRadio’s stations in 2021, reaching 2.6 billion in audience.
On November 13, 2020, Grande made a surprise appearance on the Adult Swim Festival, performing alongside music artist Thundercat, performing his song “Them Changes”, which Grande had previously covered.Grande and Jennifer Hudson also featured on a remix of Mariah Carey’s 2010 Christmas song “Oh Santa!”. The song was released on December 4, 2020, as part of Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special.[228] Grande released the concert film for her Sweetener World Tour, Excuse Me, I Love You, on December 21, 2020, exclusively on Netflix
Ariana Grande In April, Grande was featured on a remix of the Weeknd’s “Save Your Tears”. The remix reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming both artists’ sixth number one single. She joined Paul McCartney as the only artist to earn three number-one duets on the Hot 100.The remix also became, with 69 weeks, one of the songs with the most total weeks on the chart. Grande and the Weeknd performed “Save Your Tears” together at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards. On February 24, 2023, following months-long renewed interest in and virality of the Weeknd’s 2016 song “Die for You,” a remix of the song with Grande was released. The remix marked their fourth collaboration. In the Billboard Hot 100 issue dated March 11, 2023, the remix reached the top of the chart, becoming both artists’ seventh number one hit] In June, Grande featured on the song “I Don’t Do Drugs” from Doja Cat’s third studio album Planet Her.Her contribution as a songwriter and featured artist on the song earned Grande a nomination for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. Later that month, she debuted seven live performances on Vevo. Grande performed virtually as the headline act of the “Rift Tour” on the video game Fortnite from August 6 to 8, 2021.[ Forbes estimated that Grande would earn over $20 million from merchandise sales aloneThe concert attracted 78 million players, beating Travis Scott’s record of 11.7 million views for his own concert, and helped fuel a spike in streams for the songs included in her set. In December 2021, Grande appeared in Adam McKay’s film Don’t Look Up, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Meryl Streep. With streams of more than 152 million hours in a week, it broke the record for the biggest week of views in Netflix history.To promote the film, Grande released the song “Just Look Up”, in collaboration with rapper Kid Cudi, on December 3, 2021. At the 27th Critics’ Choice Awards, Grande received nominations in the categories Best Song and Best Acting Ensemble, as a part of the cast.She also received a nomination at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
On August 25, 2023, Grande released a reissue of her debut studio album, Yours Truly Tenth Anniversary Edition).On December 9, 2023, Grande and Jennifer Hudson made a surprise appearance onstage to sing the “Oh Santa!” remix at Mariah Carey’s show at the Madison Square Garden, of her Merry Christmas One and All! tour.