"Put Your Hearts Up" premiered on On Air with Ryan Seacrest on December 9, 2011 and became available for digital download through iTunes three days later.

"[9] In an interview published in the August 2013 issue of Seventeen, Grande said, "It was bubblegum pop, which isn't me, but it was something I thought my fans wanted.

"[10] In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2014, Grande said that "Put Your Hearts Up" "was geared toward kids and felt so inauthentic and fake.

For the video, they gave me a bad spray tan and put me in a princess dress and had me frolic around the street.

"[11] In a 2020 interview with Zach Sang, Grande retracted her statements about "hating" the song, saying she was in an uncomfortable position at the time about her music career and felt that her fans wanted to hear a bubblegum pop song due to her Cat Valentine character on Victorious.

[13] In the video, Grande walks through the streets of a city sending love to lonely people while dancing and singing.

[15] On July 20, 2014 it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for combined sales and streams of 500,000 units in the US.