Yours Truly

Yours Truly (originally titled Daydreamin) is Ariana Grande's debut studio album. It was released through Republic Records on September 3, 2013. The album was recorded starting on August 10, 2011 and finishing in June 2013.
==Background==
===Early recording as Daydreamin===
Yours Truly is the result of three years of work. The project underwent significant conceptual and sonic changes throughout that time. Grande began working on the album while she was filming Victorious and formally started to work on it with a record label after she was signed to Republic Records on August 10, 2011.
On September 10, 2011, Grande already had twenty songs prepared and was going through the process of narrowing it down to thirteen. The first single, a bubblegum pop song called "Put Your Hearts Up" was released on December 12, 2011.
During an interview in June 2012, Grande described everything on the album as being "50s, 60s doo-wop-inspired" and revealed that two new singles were going to be released before the album, one of which was called "Do You Love Me" and featured SkyBlu.
Other songs that Grande had named as being part of the album included "Honeymoon Avenue", "Voodoo Love", "Pink Champagne", "Boyfriend Material", "You're My Only Shawty", "Tattooed Heart", and "Daydreamin'".
In several interviews during 2013, she named songs as being part of the album like "Sometimes", "Only 1", "Cadillac Song" and "You'll Never Know".
The album's "throwback" feel was then reworked as being reminiscent of urban pop from the late 1990s to early 2000s, as opposed to its original 1950s and 1960s doo-wop sound. Grande said in an interview with Elle magazine, "My album is going to be pop, but it's also old-school inspired and has a little bit of a 1950's feel to it." In another interview, Ariana said, "My album is throwback Motown. It’s like modern Motown inspired pop and soul".
=== Renaming ===
Although the album was originally called Daydreamin, Grande revealed in an interview with Power 106 that it was renamed to Yours Truly after she decided that the album felt like a love letter she wanted to sign.