Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande-Butera, who was born on June 26th, 1993, is an American singer-songwriter. Grande is also a actress. Grande's genres are pop and R&B.

## Career

### Nickelodeon

Grande started her career on Nickelodeon, to star on Victorious as Cat Valentine. Cat sang multiple songs on the show, mostly known for Give It Up, a duet with co-star, Elizabeth Gillies, and LA Boyz, a duet with co-star, Victoria Justice. After Victorious got suddenly cancelled around Season 4, Grande would go on to replay Cat on "Sam & Cat", along with co-star Jennette McCurdy who replayed Sam. Grande had no singing parts in this show. The show later got cancelled around Season 1.

### Yours Truly

During Grande's time on Sam & Cat, Grande would release her debut album, Yours Truly, released on September 3rd, 2013. The album first debuted on #1 on the Billboards and had sold over 138,000 copies in its first week. This was Grande's first album to also go platinum. The singles on this album were "The Way," featuring Mac Miller, "Baby I", and "Right There", featuring Big Sean. "Almost Was Never Enough" was also a promotional single for the album, featuring Nathan Sykes. Grande also kicked off her mini-tour, "The Listening Sessions" to promote the album. Along with the release of Yours Truly, Grande also released her first Christmas EP, "Christmas Kisses", released on December 13, 2013.

### My Everything

After the success of Yours Truly, Grande went on to release "My Everything", released on August 25th, 2014. Her second album also debuted at #1 on the Billboards and sold 169,000 copies in the first week. The lead single for the album was "Problem", featuring Iggy Azalea. The singles to follow up were "Break Free", featuring Zedd, "Bang Bang", featuring Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, "Love Me Harder", featuring the Weeknd, and "One Last Time," which was also used as a promotional single. "Best Mistake" was also used as a promotional single, featuring Big Sean. Grande embarked on her second tour, "The Honeymoon Tour", to promote the album. The tour lasted until February 25 to October 25 2015. Including the promotional singles, My Everything has the most singles, adding up to 7. Before the start of the Dangerous Woman Era, and around December 18, 2015, Grande would release her 2nd Christmas EP, "Christmas & Chill."

### Dangerous Woman

First named "Moonlight", but then changed to "Dangerous Woman", Grande released the album on May 20th, 2016. Her third album was the first to not peak #1 on the Billboards, but instead peaked #2. The album also sold 175,000 copies in the 1st week. The lead single for this album was the title track, that was released on March 11th, 2016. The singles to follow up were "Into You", "Side To Side", featuring Nicki Minaj, and "Everyday", featuring Future. "Be Alright", "Let Me Love You", and "Jason's Song (Gave It Away)," that would later be featured on the deluxe version on the 5th anniversary of the album, would also used as promotional singles. This also is also tied with "My Everything" for having the most singles, including the promotional singles. Grande proceeded to start her 3rd tour, "Dangerous Woman Tour", starting on February 3rd, 2017 and ending on September 21, 2017. During the tour, the tragic Manchester bombing incident happened on May 22nd, 2017. Grande would halt the tour and then return to Manchester on June 7th, 2017, to perform a benefit concert for the bombing. On July 23, 2018, Grande announced via Twitter that a documentary about the Dangerous Woman Tour was going to be released. 4 months after Grande made the announcement all 4 episodes of the docuseries dropped with it being named *Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries*

### Sweetener

A year after the success of "Dangerous Woman", "Sweetener" was then released on August 17th, 2018. The album was the 3rd album to peak at #1 after "Dangerous Woman" hit #2. The album also sold 231,000 copies in the 1st week. Apart from the singles, this is Grande's first album to have non-single songs to peak on the Billboards. The lead single, "No Tears Left To Cry", was released on April 20th, 2018. The singles to follow up were "God Is A Woman" and "Breathin'". "The Light Is Coming" featuring Nicki Minaj was used as a promotional single, released on June 20th, 2018. Before the release of the album, Grande went to perform on her 4th (but 2nd mini-tour), "The Sweetener Sessions" to promote the album before the release. Grande performed 4 shows during the mini-tour. This is Grande's favorite album with many proves.

### Thank U, Next

After the sudden death of Mac Miller, and the break-up with Pete Davidson, Grande would release her 5th album, "Thank U, Next" on February 9th, 2019. This would be Grande's 4th album to peak at #1 on the Billboards, and then proceeded to sell 360,000 copies in the 1st week. The lead single, with the same name as the album, was Grande's first song to hit #1 on the Billboards. Her second single, "7 Rings" also hit #1 while "Thank U, Next" remained at #2. After the third and final single, "Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" debuted at #3, all three "Thank U, Next" singles had taken over the top 3 spots on the Billboards. Grande then embarked on her 5th, and biggest tour, "Sweetener World Tour" starting on March 18, 2019, and then closing on December 22, 2019. As a Christmas gift, Grande released her first live album, "K, Bye For Now" on December 23, 2019. A year later, Grande would release a Netflix documentary, "Excuse Me, I Love You", on December 21st, 2020.

### Positions

Grande released her 6th, and most recent album, "Positions" on October 30th, 2020. The album peaked #1 along with Grande's other albums, excluding "Dangerous Woman" and sold 174,000 copies in the 1st week. The lead single, with the same name as the album, peaked at #1. The other singles to come along after were "34+35", and "POV." This is Grande's first album to have all songs peak on the Billboards, on November 14, 2020. A deluxe version of the album was announced on February 1st 2021 and then released on the 19th of the same month.

## Discography

* Yours Truly - September 3, 2013
* Christmas Kisses - December 13, 2013
* My Everything - August 25, 2014
* Christmas & Chill - December 18, 2015
* Dangerous Woman - May 20, 2016
* Sweetener - August 17, 2018
* Thank U, Next - February 9, 2019
* Positions - October 30, 2020

## Tours

* The Listening Sessions-August 13, 2013 to September 22, 2013
* The Honeymoon Tour- February 25, 2015 to October 25, 2015
* The Dangerous Woman Tour- February 3, 2017 to September 21, 2017
* Sweetener World Tour- March 18, 2019 to December 22, 2019

## Promotional Tour

Sweetener Session- August 20, 2018 to September 4, 2018