Pop star Arianna Grande is no stranger to success and is not new to breaking records. The 27-year-old Florida born artist has millions of fans across the globe and has won numerous awards and accolades for her stellar performances.
Recently, Grande earned her 20th Guinness World Record title – She now has the “most songs to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100,” with five of her songs topping the charts. Her recently released single, Positions reached No.1 on 7th November 2020, helping her earn this title.
The other songs of hers that reached No. 1 in the past are “thank u, next” (17 November 2018), “7 rings” (2 February 2019), “Stuck with U” (feat. Justin Bieber; 23 May 2020), and “Rain on Me” (Lady Gaga feat. Ariana Grande; 6 June 2020).
Remarkably, Grande is currently the only artist to have accomplished this in history, according to the Guinness World Record website.
Here are the other records that the talented singer holds:
- Most streamed track on Spotify in one week (female): “7 rings”, with 71,467,874 streams on Spotify for the week ending 24 January 2019.
- Most followers on Spotify (female): 54+ million followers as of 13 December 2020.
- First solo act to occupy top three positions simultaneously on US singles chart: With “7 Rings” at No.1, “Break up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” at No.2, and “Thank U, Next” at No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 23 February 2019.
- Fastest hat-trick of UK No.1 singles by a female artist: 98 days with songs “Thank U, Next”, “7 Rings”, and ““Break up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored”.
- Most simultaneous Top 40 entries on US singles chart by a female artist: On the Billboard Hot 100 dated 23 February 2019, Ariana Grande had 11 tracks in the Top 40 – all but one of the songs from her No.1 album Thank U, Next. As well as occupying the top three positions with “7 Rings”, “Break up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” and “Thank U, Next”, Grande debuted with “Needy” (No.14), “NASA” (No.17), “Imagine” (No.21), “Bloodline” (No.22), “Ghostin” (No.25), “Fake Smile” (No.26), “Bad Idea” (No.27) and “In My Head” (No.38)
- First female artist to replace herself at No.1 on UK singles chart: Grande spent three weeks at No.1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart with “7 Rings” before knocking herself off the top with “Break up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored”, on 21 February 2019.
- Most streamed track on Spotify in one week: 71,467,874 streams, with “7 Rings”.
- First solo artist to replace themselves at No.1 on UK singles chart for two consecutive weeks: Ariana Grande spent three weeks at No.1 on the UK’s Official Singles Chart with “7 Rings” before knocking herself off the top with “Break up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” on 21 February 2019, and then replacing herself at No.1 again with “7 Rings” on 28 February 2019.
- Most popular Eevee tattoo: Ariana Grande’s love for Pokemon went next-level when she posted a pic of her new Eevee tattoo to Snapchat on 14 Jan 2019. The black-and-white homage has since been approved by 12,146 of the pop star’s Snapchat followers.
- Most subscribers for a musician on YouTube (female): 41.1 million subscribers.
- Most MTV VMA nominations for Best Collaboration: 6 nominations, as of 30 July 2020. Ariana Grande ties this title with singer Rihanna.
- Most followers on Instagram for a female musician: 219+ million followers as of 31 January 2021.
- Most followers on Instagram for a female: 219+ million followers as of 31 January 2021.
- Most streamed album by a female artist in one week (USA): Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande (USA) attracted 307 million on-demand audio streams in the US in the week following the album’s release on 8 February 2019. In total, the 12 tracks from the album had been streamed 166,408,992 times on Spotify as of 14 February 2019, with only “Make Up” attracting less than 10 million spins for the week.
- Most streamed album by a female artist in one week (UK): Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande attracted 59 million on-demand audio streams in the UK in the week following the album’s release on 8 February 2019.
- Most streamed pop album in one week (USA): Thank U, Next attracted 307 million on-demand audio streams in the US in the week following the album’s release on 8 February 2019.
- Most streamed track in one week by a female artist on the Billboard charts: “Thank U, Next” was streamed 93,800,000 times for the week ending 6 December 2018.
- Most monthly listeners on Spotify for a female: 76,729,036 monthly listeners.
- Most streamed act on Spotify (female): As of 13 December 2020, tracks by Ariana Grande have been streamed 21.6 billion times on Spotify. “7 rings” and “thank u, next” are Grande’s most popular recordings with 1.32 billion and 1.22 billion streams registered, respectively. “7 rings” is Spotify’s most streamed track in a single week, posting 71,467,874 streams for the week ending 24 January 2019.
Source: Guinness World Records
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