184 Facts About Ariana Grande

Personal struggles influenced Ariana Grande's trap-infused albums Sweetener and Thank U, Next.

Ariana Grande subsequently achieved the most number-one debuts in Hot 100 chart history with the title track of her sixth album, Positions, as well as the collaborations "Stuck with U" and "Rain on Me".

Ariana Grande returned to film acting with the political satire Don't Look Up and received critical praise for her portrayal of Glinda in the fantasy musical Wicked, earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Ariana Grande's accolades include two Grammy Awards, a Brit Award, two Billboard Music Awards, three American Music Awards, ten MTV Video Music Awards, and thirty-seven Guinness World Records.

Ariana Grande was featured in listicles such as Rolling Stones greatest singers of all time, Time 100, and Celebrity 100.

Outside of music and acting, Ariana Grande has worked with many charitable organizations and advocates for animal rights, mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality.

Ariana Grande has a large social media following, being the sixth-most-followed individual on Instagram.

Ariana Grande-Butera was born on June 26,1993, in Boca Raton, Florida.

Ariana Grande is the daughter of Joan Grande, the Brooklyn-born CEO of Hose-McCann Communications, a manufacturer of marine communications equipment owned by the Grande family since 1964, and Edward Butera, a graphic design firm owner in Boca Raton.

Ariana Grande is of Italian descent and has described herself as an Italian American with Sicilian and Abruzzese roots.

Ariana Grande has an older half-brother, Frankie Grande, who is an entertainer and producer.

Ariana Grande's family moved from New York to Florida before her birth, and her parents separated when she was eight or nine years old.

Ariana Grande has a close relationship with her maternal grandmother, Marjorie Ariana Grande.

Ariana Grande performed in their productions of The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast.

Ariana Grande was cast in the Nickelodeon television show Victorious along with 13 co-star Elizabeth Gillies in 2009.

Ariana Grande had to dye her hair red every other week for the role, which damaged it.

In May 2011, Ariana Grande appeared in Greyson Chance's video for the song "Unfriend You" from his album Hold On 'til the Night, portraying his ex-girlfriend.

Ariana Grande made her first musical appearance on the track "Give It Up" from the Victorious soundtrack in August 2011.

Ariana Grande voiced the title role in the English dub of the Spanish-language animated film Snowflake, the White Gorilla in November 2011.

In December 2011, Ariana Grande released her first single, "Put Your Hearts Up", which was recorded for a potential teen-oriented pop album that was never issued.

Ariana Grande later disowned the track for its bubblegum pop sound, saying she had no interest in recording music of that genre.

In December 2012, Ariana Grande collaborated on the single version of "Popular Song", a duet with British singer and songwriter Mika.

Ariana 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.

Ariana Grande played Amanda Benson in Swindle, a 2013 Nickelodeon film adaptation of the children's book of the same name.

Ariana Grande released her debut album, Yours Truly, on August 30,2013.

Ariana 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 " by The Jimmy Castor Bunch.

Ariana Grande recorded the duet "Almost Is Never Enough" with Nathan Sykes of The Wanted, which was released as a promotional single in August 2013.

Ariana Grande joined Justin Bieber on his Believe Tour for three shows and kicked off her own headlining mini-tour, The Listening Sessions.

Ariana Grande released a four-song Christmas EP, Christmas Kisses in December 2013.

Ariana Grande received the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award from the Music Business Association, recognizing her achievements throughout 2013.

In March 2014, Ariana Grande sang at the White House concert, "Women of Soul: In Performance at the White House".

Ariana Grande released her second studio album My Everything on August 25,2014; it debuted atop the Billboard 200 with 169,000 copies and received generally positive reviews.

Ariana Grande explored EDM, dance-pop, and electro genres on the album.

Ariana Grande performed the song as the opening of the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, and won Best Pop Video for "Problem".

Ariana Grande was the musical performer on Saturday Night Live, with Chris Pratt as the host on September 27,2014.

Later that month, Ariana Grande released the Christmas song "Santa Tell Me" as a single from the reissue of her first Christmas EP, Christmas Kisses.

Ariana Grande later released the fifth and the final single from My Everything, "One Last Time", which peaked at number 13 in the US.

In February 2015, Ariana Grande embarked on her first worldwide concert tour, The Honeymoon Tour, to further promote My Everything, with shows in North America, Europe, Asia and South America.

Ariana Grande was featured on Cashmere Cat's song "Adore", which was released in March 2015.

Ariana Grande filmed an episode for the Fox Broadcasting Company reality TV series Knock Knock Live, but the show was canceled before her episode aired.

Ariana Grande recorded the duet "E Piu Ti Penso" with Italian recording artist Andrea Bocelli, which was released in October 2015 as the lead single from Bocelli's album Cinema, and covered the song "Zero to Hero", originally from the animated film Hercules, for the compilation album We Love Disney.

Ariana Grande began recording songs for her third studio album, Dangerous Woman, originally titled Moonlight, in 2015.

Ariana Grande was featured in the remix version of "Over and Over Again", a song by English singer Nathan Sykes from his solo debut studio album Unfinished Business, which was released in January 2016.

In March 2016, Ariana Grande released "Dangerous Woman" as the lead single from the retitled album of the same name.

Ariana Grande garnered positive reviews for her appearance on the show, including praise for her impressions of various singers, some of which she had done on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Ariana Grande released Dangerous Woman on May 20,2016, which debuted at number two on the Billboard 200.

Ariana Grande recorded the title track of the soundtrack for the 2017 live-action remake of Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast.

Ariana Grande began working on songs for her fourth studio album, Sweetener with Pharrell Williams in 2016.

Ariana Grande released "No Tears Left to Cry" as the lead single from Sweetener in April 2018, with the song debuting at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, making Ariana Grande the only artist to have debuted the lead single of her first four albums in the top ten of the Hot 100.

Ariana Grande simultaneously charted nine songs from the album on the Hot 100, along with a collaboration, making her the fourth female artist to reach the ten-song mark.

Ariana Grande gave four concerts to promote the album, billed as The Sweetener Sessions, in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London between August 20 and September 4,2018.

In October 2018, Ariana Grande participated in the NBC broadcast, A Very Wicked Halloween, singing "The Wizard and I" from the musical Wicked.

In November 2018, Ariana Grande released the single "Thank U, Next" and announced her fifth studio album of the same name.

The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Ariana Grande's first chart-topping single in the United States, spending seven non-consecutive weeks atop.

In January 2019, it was announced that Ariana Grande would be headlining the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where she became the youngest and only the fourth female artist ever to headline the festival.

In February 2019, it was reported Ariana Grande wouldn't attend the Grammy Awards after she had a disagreement with producers over a potential performance at the ceremony.

Ariana Grande ended up earning her first Grammy, for Best Pop Vocal Album, for Sweetener.

Ariana Grande embarked on her third headlining tour, the Sweetener World Tour, to promote both Sweetener and Thank U, Next, which began on March 18, and concluded on December 22,2019.

Ariana Grande was nominated for 9 awards at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards, including Top Artist.

Ariana Grande performed at the event via a pre-recorded performance from her Sweetener World Tour.

Ariana Grande co-executive produced the soundtrack to the film Charlie's Angels, which was released on November 1,2019; she co-wrote and performed various songs for the record.

Ariana Grande co-wrote singer Normani's debut solo single "Motivation", which was released on August 16,2019.

Ariana Grande won three awards at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, including the Artist of the Year award.

Ariana Grande was nominated for 12 awards in total, including Video of the Year for "Thank U, Next".

Ariana Grande was featured on the remix of American singer and rapper Lizzo's song "Good as Hell", which was released on October 25,2019.

Ariana Grande became the most-streamed female artist of the decade on music streaming service Spotify.

In January 2020, Ariana Grande received multiple nominations at the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards, including Female Artist of the Year.

Ariana Grande's performance was ranked by various publications among the best of the ceremony.

Ariana Grande received the third-most nominations, including her first nods for Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

Ariana Grande was named by Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter as one of the biggest snubs of the ceremony.

The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Ariana 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; Ariana Grande became the first artist to have her first three number ones debut at the top, following "Thank U, Next" and "7 Rings".

Ariana Grande then appeared on Lady Gaga's "Rain on Me", the second single from Gaga's sixth studio album Chromatica.

Ariana Grande won four awards, including Song of the Year for "Rain on Me".

Ariana Grande's third chart-topping album in two years and three months, it marked the fastest accumulation of three number-oe albums by a woman at that time.

Ariana 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.

Ariana Grande released a "34+35" remix featuring American rappers Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion on January 15,2021.

Ariana Grande was named the most-played artist on iHeartRadio's stations in 2021, reaching 2.6 billion in audience.

On November 13,2020, Ariana Grande made a surprise appearance on the Adult Swim Festival, performing music artist Thundercat's song "Them Changes" alongside him, which Ariana Grande had previously covered.

Ariana Grande released the concert film for her Sweetener World Tour, Excuse Me, I Love You, on December 21,2020, exclusively on Netflix.

Ariana Grande joined Paul McCartney as the only artists to earn three number-one duets on the Hot 100.

In June 2021, Ariana Grande featured on the song "I Don't Do Drugs" from Doja Cat's third studio album Planet Her.

In September 2021, she joined as a coach of the twenty-first season of The Voice; Ariana Grande became the highest-paid coach in the show's history, earning a reported $25 million for that season.

At the 27th Critics' Choice Awards, Ariana Grande received nominations in the categories Best Song and Best Acting Ensemble, as a part of the cast.

Ariana Grande received a nomination at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

On January 17,2024, Ariana Grande announced her seventh studio album, titled Eternal Sunshine.

Ariana Grande became the first woman to have two albums produce multiple number-one single debuts in the US, after Thank U, Next.

On May 6,2024, Ariana Grande performed at the Met Gala, and was joined on stage by Cynthia Erivo to close out her performance.

Ariana Grande appeared on Saturday Night Live as the musical guest on March 9,2024 to promote Eternal Sunshine.

Ariana Grande featured on the remix to "Sympathy Is a Knife" on Charli XCX's remix album Brat and It's Completely Different but Also Still Brat, released on October 11,2024.

Ariana Grande released Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead, a reissue of Eternal Sunshine, on March 28,2025.

Ariana Grande starred as the protagonist Peaches in an accompanying short film Brighter Days Ahead, co-directed and co-written by Christian Breslauer and her, which was released on the same day.

Ariana Grande was cast in November 2021, and had auditioned five times for the role.

Ariana Grande was credited with her birth name Ariana Grande-Butera, which was her name when she first saw the stage musical at age 10.

Ariana Grande reported that she began taking acting and singing lessons months before she auditioned for the role of Glinda because she wanted to be cast "so badly".

The film's accompanying soundtrack was co-billed to Ariana Grande, who performed seven songs from the musical.

Elias Leight of Rolling Stone opined that Ariana Grande "set her sights on conquering trap, savage basslines and jittery swarms of drum programming" and "embrace[d] the sound of hard-bitten Southern hip-hop" on Sweetener, exploring funk music with themes of love and prosperity.

Ariana Grande grew up listening mainly to urban pop and 1990s music.

Ariana Grande credited Gloria Estefan with inspiring her to pursue a music career after Estefan saw and complimented Grande's performance on a cruise ship when she was eight years old.

Ariana Grande is literally my favorite human being on the planet.

Ariana Grande reflected on her childhood by posting videos of herself singing songs from Dion's 1997 album Let's Talk About Love on her social media.

Heap in particular Ariana Grande has said is her favorite musician, songwriter, and producer of all time.

Ariana Grande named Judy Garland as a childhood influence, admiring her ability to tell "a story when she sings".

Music producer and collaborator Savan Kotecha stated that he and Ariana Grande were influenced by Lauryn Hill when creating her fourth album Sweetener and its lead single "No Tears Left to Cry".

Ariana Grande has been described as a soprano, possessing a four-octave vocal range and a whistle register.

Ariana Grande is subverting it with cute, comfortable, and on-trend dresses with a feminine slant.

Ariana Grande cited Audrey Hepburn as a major style influence in her early career; however, she later found emulating Hepburn's style "a little boring".

Ariana Grande drew inspiration from actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Ann-Margret, Nancy Sinatra, and Marilyn Monroe.

Ariana Grande's modest look early in her career was described as "age appropriate" in comparison to contemporary artists who grew up in the public eye.

Ariana Grande began regularly wearing cat and bunny ears and, subsequently, oversized jackets and hoodies.

Ariana Grande's style is often imitated by social media influencers and celebrities.

Ariana Grande subsequently apologized, saying that she is "extremely proud to be an American" and that her comments rather referred to obesity in the United States.

Ariana Grande later released a video apology for "behaving poorly".

Ariana Grande is the sixth-most-followed individual on Instagram, and was the first woman to surpass 150 million and 200 million followers on the platform.

Ariana Grande was the most-followed woman on the platform from 2019 to January 2022.

In December 2021, Ariana Grande deleted her Twitter account, which was one of the most-followed accounts on the platform.

In 2016 and 2019, Ariana Grande was named one of Times 100 most influential people in the world.

In 2017, Celia Almeida of the Miami New Times wrote that of all the biggest pop stars of the past 20 years, Ariana Grande made the most convincing transition "from ingenue to an independent female artist".

Ariana Grande was included in Pitchfork's list of "The 200 Most Important Artists of Pitchfork's First 25 Years" for "emerging with music that pushed her artistry further as it asserted a magical trifecta of hope, joy, and a powerhouse voice".

Ariana Grande's song "Thank U, Next" was ranked number 137 in Rolling Stone 2021 revision of their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, while its parent album was ranked number 61 in their "250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century".

In May 2024, Katy Perry claimed that Ariana Grande is "the best singer of our generation".

Ariana Grande has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Ariana Grande has accumulated 13 million albums and 107 million digital singles units as a lead artist in the United States, making her the 14th-highest-certified artist and fifth-highest-certified female artist on RIAA's Top Artists ranking.

Ariana Grande is one of the best-selling female artists in the UK, with over 31 million certified units as of 2024.

Ariana Grande was the most-streamed female artist of the 2010s decade on Spotify, being the only woman in the overall top five.

Ariana Grande was the most-streamed female act on Apple Music as of 2019, and was the first female act to amass 3 billion total streams on the platform.

Ariana Grande was the most-streamed female artist, and fourth-most-streamed artist, in the US of the 2010s decade, in audio and video streams across all services; being the only woman and non-rapper in the top five.

Ariana Grande became the most-streamed female artist of all time on Spotify in 2020, surpassing Rihanna, and held the record for over two years.

Ariana Grande is the second woman in the platform's history to amass 40 and 50 billion streams.

Ariana Grande became the first woman with one and two billion streams with one album, 3.5 billion streams on three separate albums, and the first artist to have five albums with four billion streams.

Ariana Grande has 20 songs that have surpassed over one billion streams on Spotify, making her the female artist with the most songs to have achieved the feat; she was the first woman to have 14 and 20 songs surpass the mark.

In 2024, Ariana Grande became the first artist to have five albums with multiple songs over a billion streams on the streaming platform.

Ariana Grande is the fifth-most-followed artist and third-most-followed female artist on Spotify, with over 104 million followers; she is only the fourth artist in the streaming service's history to surpass 100 million followers.

Ariana Grande is the second-most-subscribed female soloist on YouTube, with over 55 million subscribers.

Ariana Grande has won two Grammy Awards, one Brit Award, ten MTV Video Music Awards, three MTV Europe Music Awards, and three American Music Awards.

Ariana Grande has received 42 Billboard Music Award nominations and won 2 in 2019, including Top Female Artist.

Ariana Grande has won six iHeartRadio Music Awards and twelve Teen Choice Awards.

Ariana Grande was named Billboard Women in Music's Rising Star in 2014 and Woman of the Year in 2018, the greatest pop star of 2019, with honorable mentions in 2014 and 2018; and the most successful female artist to debut in the 2010s by Billboard.

Ariana Grande was named as one of the ten best-selling global recording artists of 2018,2019, and 2020 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, being the highest-ranked woman of 2018.

Nine singles by Ariana Grande have topped the Billboard Hot 100, her most recent being "We Can't Be Friends ".

Ariana Grande has a total of twenty-three top-ten songs on the chart, which includes sixteen top-ten debuts thus far, beginning with her first single "The Way"; the lead single from each of her first seven studio albums have debuted in the top ten, making her the only artist to achieve this.

Ariana Grande would become the first artist to have three singles debut at number one on a single calendar year.

Ariana Grande later broke the record for most simultaneously charting songs on the top 40 of the Hot 100 for a female artist with the release of her fifth studio album, Thank U, Next, when eleven of the twelve tracks charted within the region.

Ariana Grande is the female artist with the most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, a tie with Taylor Swift.

Ariana Grande was named the Billboard year-end Top Female Artist of 2017 and 2019 and was ranked sixth among women on the magazine's decade-end Top Artists Chart for the 2010s, the highest for any female act to have debuted that decade.

At age ten, Ariana Grande co-founded the South Florida youth singing group Kids Who Care, which performed at charitable fund-raisers and raised over $500,000 in 2007 alone.

Ariana Grande was featured with Bridgit Mendler and Kat Graham in Seventeen magazine in a 2013 public campaign to end online bullying called "Delete Digital Drama".

In September 2014, Ariana Grande participated at the charitable Stand Up to Cancer television program, performing her song "My Everything" in memory of her grandfather, who had died of cancer that July.

Ariana Grande has adopted several rescue dogs as pets and has promoted pet adoption at her concerts.

Later that year, Ariana Grande headlined the Dance On the Pier event, part of the LGBT Pride Week in New York City.

Ariana Grande noted that she has "more to talk about" concerning her music and accomplishments rather than her romantic relationships.

That year, Ariana Grande joined Madonna to raise funds for orphaned children in Malawi; she and Victoria Monet recorded "Better Days" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

In September 2017, Ariana Grande performed in A Concert for Charlottesville which benefitted the victims of the August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ariana Grande donated the proceeds from the first show in Atlanta on her Sweetener World Tour to Planned Parenthood in a response to the passage of a number of anti-abortion laws in several states including Georgia.

Ariana Grande supported a COVID-19 fund named Project 100, which aimed to provide $1,000 digital payments to 100,000 families who have been greatly impacted by the pandemic.

In May 2020, Ariana Grande announced that all net proceeds from her collaboration with singer Justin Bieber, "Stuck With U", would be donated to the First Responders Children's Foundation to fund grants and scholarships for children of frontline workers who are working during the global pandemic.

That month, Ariana Grande joined a Los Angeles protest against the murder of George Floyd, demanding justice and asking fans to sign petitions condemning the act of police brutality.

Ariana Grande highlighted white privilege and called for more activism outside social media.

Manchester Foundation Trust Charity revealed that Ariana Grande had gifted nearly 1,000 presents to patients across the hospital network's children's wards and newborn intensive care units in 2021.

In May 2022, Ariana Grande was among 160 artists and influencers, who signed a 'Bans Off Our Bodies' full-page advertisement in The New York Times, in support of abortion rights in the US.

Ariana Grande was one of 175 entertainers to sign an open letter to oppose books bans in US schools in 2023.

In June 2022, Ariana Grande endorsed Karen Bass for 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election.

In 2023, Ariana Grande signed an open letter from Artists4Ceasefire to president Joe Biden during the Gaza war.

In May 2024, after Israel launched an airstrike on Rafah, Ariana Grande shared a fundraiser aimed at providing humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.

In February 2016, Ariana Grande launched a fashion line with Lipsy London.

In 2017, Ariana Grande collaborated with Square Enix to create a character based on herself for the mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

In May 2019, Ariana Grande was announced as the face of Givenchy's fall-winter campaign.

Ariana Grande collaborated with the company's global creative director Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert on a capsule collection, released in January 2025.

Ariana Grande has appeared in commercials for Macy's, T-Mobile, and Apple, as well as for her own fragrances.

Since 2019, Ariana Grande has been among the ten highest-paid individuals on Instagram.

Ariana Grande launched her debut fragrance, Ari by Ariana Grande, in 2015.

Ariana Grande then released the duo fragrance collection Mod Vanilla and Mod Blush.

Ariana Grande has said she struggled with hypoglycemia, which she attributed to poor dietary habits.

Ariana Grande has said she has been in therapy for over a decade, having first seen a mental health professional shortly after her parents' divorce.

Ariana Grande was raised Catholic, but left the church during the pontificate of Benedict XVI, opposing its stance on homosexuality and noting that her half-brother Frankie is gay.

In November 2019, Ariana Grande endorsed Bernie Sanders' second presidential bid.

Ariana Grande endorsed Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential election, and Kamala Harris for the 2024 presidential election.

Ariana Grande dated her 13 co-star Graham Phillips for three years.

From August 2012 to August 2014, Ariana Grande was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Australian YouTuber Jai Brooks.

Ariana Grande briefly dated English singer Nathan Sykes during their separation, and then dated rapper Big Sean for eight months.

Ariana Grande was in a year-long relationship with Ricky Alvarez, who was one of her backup dancers on the Honeymoon Tour.

Ariana Grande was prominently featured on his fourth album The Divine Feminine, including on its third single "My Favorite Part".

Ariana Grande began dating real estate agent Dalton Gomez in January 2020.

Ariana Grande announced their engagement on December 20,2020, after 11 months of dating.