The former won Grande her first Grammy award, while the latter garnered US number-one singles "Thank U, Next" and "7 Rings", and made her the first solo artist to occupy the top three spots of the Billboard Hot 100.

She subsequently achieved the most number-one debuts in Hot 100 chart history with the title track of her sixth album, Positions (2020), as well as the collaborations "Stuck with U" with Justin Bieber and "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga.

[36] Grande and McCurdy reprised their roles as Cat Valentine and Sam Puckett on the buddy sitcom, which paired the characters as roommates who form an after-school babysitting business.

[64][65] Selling 438,000 digital copies in its opening week, it achieved the highest first-week sales numbers of 2014[66] and made Grande the youngest woman, at 20 years old, to debut with over 400,000 downloads at the time.

[68] The album's second single, "Break Free", featuring German musician and producer Zedd,[69] was released on July 3 and reached number four in the United States.

[95] She was featured in the remix version of "Over and Over Again", a song by English singer Nathan Sykes from his solo debut studio album Unfinished Business, which was released in January 2016.

[99] The same month, Grande appeared as host and musical guest of Saturday Night Live, where she performed "Dangerous Woman" and debuted the promotional single "Be Alright",[100] which charted at number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Grande suspended the remainder of the tour and held a televised benefit concert, One Love Manchester, on June 4,[114] helping to raise $23 million to aid the bombing's victims and affected families.

[133] Grande gave four concerts to promote the album, billed as The Sweetener Sessions, in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, and London between August 20 and September 4, 2018.

[266] Two extended editions of Eternal Sunshine containing the pre-released single remixes, guest vocals from Troye Sivan, and live versions of several tracks, were surprise released in March and October.

[270] On the Las Culturistas podcast, Grande acknowledged that she would likely scale back her pop music output compared to earlier in her career, shifting her focus more towards acting.

[272] Grande starred as Galinda Upland, alongside Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, in the two-part film adaptation of the fantasy musical Wicked, directed by Jon M.

"[296] Grande learned how to sound engineer and produce her own vocals because she "love[s] being hands on" with every project, revealing that rapper Mac Miller first taught her how to use the digital audio workstation Pro Tools.

[297] Collaborator Justin Tranter remarked that he felt inspired seeing how involved Grande is in creating her music "from the writing to the vision to the storytelling and to even engineering and comping her own vocals.

[294] Elias Leight of Rolling Stone opined that Grande "set her sights on conquering trap, savage basslines and jittery swarms of drum programming" and "embrace[d] the sound of hard-bitten Southern hip-hop" on Sweetener, exploring funk music with themes of love and prosperity.

[304] Music producer and collaborator Savan Kotecha stated that he and Grande were influenced by Lauryn Hill when creating her fourth album Sweetener and its lead single "No Tears Left to Cry".

[7] In The New York Times, Jon Pareles noted that Grande's voice "can be silky, breathy or cutting, swooping through long melismas or jabbing out short R&B phrases; it's always supple and airborne, never forced.

"[331] That year, she abandoned her earlier style in favor of short skirts and crop tops with knee-high boots in live performances and red carpet events.

[346] Grande herself poked fun at the incident while hosting Saturday Night Live in 2016, saying, "A lot of kid stars end up doing drugs, or in jail, or pregnant, or get caught licking a doughnut they didn't pay for.

[329][379] In 2017, Celia Almeida of the Miami New Times wrote that of all the biggest pop stars of the past 20 years, Grande made the most convincing transition "from ingénue to an independent female artist".

[391] Recording artists who have cited Grande as an influence or inspiration include Billie Eilish,[392] Breanna Yde,[393] Bryson Tiller,[394] Chappell Roan,[395] Charlie Puth,[396] Giselle of Aespa,[397] Grace VanderWaal,[398] Jungkook of BTS,[399] Lana Del Rey,[400] Madison Beer,[401] Maggie Lindemann,[402] Meghan Trainor,[403] Melanie Martinez,[404] Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast,[405] Sufjan Stevens,[406] Tate McRae,[407] Troye Sivan,[408] and Zara Larsson.

[472][473] She was featured with Bridgit Mendler and Kat Graham in Seventeen magazine in a 2013 public campaign to end online bullying called "Delete Digital Drama".

[480] As a feminist, Grande wrote a well-received, "empowering" essay on Twitter decrying the double standard and misogyny in the focus of the press on female musicians' relationships and sex lives instead of "their value as an individual".

[483][484] That year, Grande joined Madonna to raise funds for orphaned children in Malawi;[485] she and Victoria Monét recorded "Better Days" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[494] Grande donated the proceeds from the first show in Atlanta on her Sweetener World Tour to Planned Parenthood in a response to the passage of a number of anti-abortion laws in several states including Georgia.

[200] That month, Grande joined a Los Angeles protest against the murder of George Floyd, demanding justice and asking fans to sign petitions condemning the act of police brutality.

Manchester Foundation Trust Charity revealed that Grande had gifted nearly 1,000 presents to patients across the hospital network's children's wards and newborn intensive care units in 2021.

[549] Grande was raised Catholic, but left the church during the pontificate of Benedict XVI (circa 2013),[550] opposing its stance on homosexuality[5] and noting that her half-brother Frankie is gay.

Because the couple had a prenuptial agreement, no children, and no significant legal disputes in their split, their divorce moved quickly and cleanly in the court system and only had to wait the required six months before a judge's order could take effect.

[583][584] Under their settlement, Grande was ordered to make a one-time payment of $1.25 million to Gomez with no future alimony, give him half of the proceeds of the sale of their Los Angeles home, and pay up to $25,000 towards his attorney's fees.