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Ariana Grande Scores Seventh No. 1, Announces UK Tour, Hiatus

8/10/2026

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Ariana Grande Tops

Ariana Grande earned her seventh No. 1 Billboard 200 album with “petal,” debuting at 295,000 units.
The album sold 168,000 copies—96,000 on vinyl, its biggest sales week in a decade—and logged 128.83 million on-demand streams (126,000 SEA units).
Grande’s “petal” opened at No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Chart with 7.822 million streams, tied her with Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson for fifth-most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, and made her first female artist with No. 1 songs from three albums.

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Grande Announces UK

Ariana Grande announced UK shows at London’s O2 Arena from Aug. 15 to Sept. 1 after ending the Eternal Sunshine Tour’s American leg in Chicago.
She will step back from visibility, pausing public-facing work in a planned break not prompted by appearance scrutiny.
The hiatus means she will drop her slated starring role in the London revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George next summer.

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Ariana Grande Tops

Ariana Grande earned her seventh No. 1 Billboard 200 album with “petal,” debuting at 295,000 units.
The album sold 168,000 copies—96,000 on vinyl, its biggest sales week in a decade—and logged 128.83 million on-demand streams (126,000 SEA units).
Grande’s “petal” opened at No. 1 on Spotify’s Global Chart with 7.822 million streams, tied her with Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson for fifth-most Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, and made her first female artist with No. 1 songs from three albums.

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