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Billboard’s 2018 Woman of the Year: Ariana Grande



Billboard’s 2018 Woman of the Year: Ariana Grande By: Aelita Arshakyan

Billboard’s Woman of the Year, Ariana Grande, has never had more career momentum than she has now. Her fourth album, Sweetener, became “her third No, 1 on the Billboard 200 in August,” according to Billboard. The album has produced two top singles, so far, on the Hot 100. While promoting her new project, her ex-boyfriend, dear friend, and collaborator Mac Miller passed away. Shortly after, her engagement to comedian Pete Davidson ended. Though she went through such difficult times, she still managed to make her fans happy.

Ariana Grande has always had a good work ethic. She began performing in public before she was ten and went to Broadway by the time she was fifteen. According to Billboard, “she’s the only artist ever to have the lead single from each of her first four albums debut in the top 10 of the Hot 100, and the first woman in three years to have a single debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100.”

The singer is currently preparing for her Sweetener World Tour, which starts in March 2019.

Ariana states, “I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of the artist I can be, and I just want to keep growing and practicing and getting better. I never want to get lazy.”

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