Ariana Grande has achieved numerous milestones and records on the Billboard Hot 100. Grande has ten top ten debuts, starting with her first single “The Way,” which debuted at number ten in 2013. From then, all her lead singles from each of her studio albums debuted in the top ten, making her the only artist in history to do so. In 2020, Grande became the first artist in history to have her first three number one singles, “Thank U, Next”, “7 Rings”, and “Stuck With U” featuring Justin Bieber, to debut at number one. Grande also ties with Mariah Carey, Drake, and Justin Bieber with the most songs to debut at number one. With the release of Sweetener, Grande charted nine songs from the album, alongside charting her collaborative single “Bed” with Nicki Minaj. With ten songs in total, Grande became the fourth female artist to chart at least ten songs on the Billboard Hot 100 behind Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Cardi B. She would later break this record after the release of her fifth studio album, Thank U, Next, in which she charted all 12 songs from the album. Eleven of the twelve songs charted within the top 40, making Grande the female artist with the most songs charting in the top 40 simultaneously, surpassing Cardi B’s record of nine songs. The three singles from Thank U, Next, “7 Rings”, “Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored”, and “Thank U, Next” charted at numbers one, two, and three respectively on the week of February 23, 2019, making Grande the first solo artist in history to occupy the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100, and the first artist to do so since the Beatles in 1964. This isn’t the first time Grande had three songs in the top ten simultaneously, as she achieve this first back in 2014 when her singles “Bang Bang”, “Break Free”, and “Problem” all charted in the top ten at number ten, four, and seven respectively. Grande has also broken records with her albums as well, most notably with the release of Thank U, Next, Grande sets the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album with 307 million on-demand audio streams. She has the largest streaming week for both a pop album and for a female artist.

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