Ariana Grande is making history once again with her new album Thank U, Next, and has become the first artist to get the Billboard 100 triple since The Beatles did in 1964. It’s only taken 55 years, but Ariana has matched the Beatles’s achievement with her latest release, after three of her tracks from Thank U, Next soared to the top three of the Billboard 100 chart. The Beatles were the only band to do the same all those years ago and actually had five of their songs making up the top five. Music News reports that Ariana, meanwhile, is at the top of the charts with her single 7 Rings, while her track Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored went to number two and her song Thank U, Next followed at number three.
Fans had actually tried boycotting 7 Rings to get Break Up With Your Boyfriend, I’m Bored to number one instead and Ariana co-signed the unconventional movement, saying there was ‘nothing funnier’. She’s been taking over the charts lately with her new album and even knocked herself off the top spot as Thank U, Next soared to the top of the Official Single and Album chart on Friday. Her fifth studio album becomes her third to debut straight at the top of the chart, following 2016’s Dangerous Woman and last summer’s Sweetener. But Thank U, Next is the 25-year-olds’s biggest opening week for an album to date at 65,000 combined sales, including 59 million streams across its 12 tracks.
Thank U, Next supposedly includes many bittersweet references to Ariana’s ex Mac Miller in a number of the albums songs and she has said it ‘sucked’ to write emotional tack Ghostin.
Mac died in September last year, following an accidental overdose. He and Ariana had split in May 2018, with Grande going on to date ex-fiance Pete Davidson shortly after their break up. Pete and Ariana split in the months that followed Mac’s death. He is now rumoured to be romancing Kate Beckinsale, with Ariana saying she thinks their pairing is ‘so cute’.
