Melissa Kacar

"I'll give you all I have and nothing less, I promise," are the first lines of Ariana Grande's sophomore album  My Everything , a sentiment that she has been delivering on for over a decade now.  My Everything  was the moment she was able to fully break out of her shell and garner massive worldwide acclaim for her incredible talents. As time went on, she was able to experiment with her sound and develop more as an artist, but at that point  My Everything  seems to have been more of a transitional period for her into becoming the superstar she is today. While it doesn't really have a focus on breaking any new ground with this music, it is full of so many timeless hits that are still among her most recognizable to this day.  "Problem", which served as the album's lead single featuring Iggy Azalea, was Ariana's biggest hit at the time, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the decade to follow, this also became one of the highest selling singl...

Ariana Grande has reached the incredible milestone of having 14 songs reach over a billion streams each on Spotify! Over the past 10 years, Ariana has amassed over 39 billion streams on the platform and has become a member of the coveted Spotify Billions Club more than any other female artist. This achievement comes as no surprise, as Ariana has been a streaming titan for over a decade and was one of the first to embrace the early streaming era of the early 2010's long before many of her peers in the industry did. "It's a really absurd number – I can’t really wrap my head around the number," Ariana said in the Billions Club episode. "This really shook me a little." She has always been one of my favorite artists and this felt like the perfect time to rank all of her record-breaking songs that are in the Spotify Billions Club, as of February 2024. All of these are staples in her long and ever-growing list of hits. Several more songs are already on the brink o...

10 years ago, Ariana Grande released her debut album, Yours Truly , which really signified the birth of one of the greatest popstars of this generation. It's an album that mixes so many different sounds and sonic influences from a wide range of musical eras.  Yours Truly was made over a span of three years while Ariana was simultaneously starring on Nickelodeon's Victorious and later, Sam and Cat . It is so rare for someone like her, with the background of being an actress on a kid's show, to be able to make a debut album like this in the first place, but also to subsequently have built the career she has in the years since. It is so evident that they all really took their time over those three years while making this album to create something really special and timeless, which is a testament to how well this album held up over the last ten years.  The majority of  Yours Truly  still sounds so fresh a decade later, which honestly is rare to achieve with much of the ...

Ariana Grande 's  eternal sunshine  is in part a concept album based on the 2004 film  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, as well as an insight into the place Ariana is currently at in her life. Sonically it is very pop and R&B inspired, with an emphasis on having a 90's and early 2000's throwback feel. It is also among some of her strongest and most consistent bodies of work yet. The film that the album's title and many of the songs loosely reference is about a couple who agrees to undergo a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories forever, following a bad breakup. For Ariana, this album represents a final lamentation on her ex-husband and their divorce, as well as looking optimistically into the future with her new relationship. She uses the plotline of that film to portray the downfall of their marriage and how she overcame the heartache that came with her divorce, singing "you're just my eternal sunshine" to her ex-husban...