Ariana Grande

Like she sang in “7 Rings,” Grande gets what she wants! Grande, 29, has been one of the most-streamed artists on Spotify in recent years and currently commands a following of more than 63 million monthly listeners.

In 2021, she earned her whopping 20th Guiness Book of World Records title when “Positions,” from her 2020 album of the same name, topped the Billboard Hot 100 list — at the time, she was the only artist to do that five times. (Drake has since broken the record, with seven).

With two Grammys on her mantle and 15 total nominations, Grande’s ascent has always been on her own terms.

The “God is a Woman” singer dropped her three most recent albums in rapid succession (Sweetener in 2018, Thank U, Next in 2019 and Positions in 2020), eschewing pop’s traditional rules around music releases because she wanted to reach her fans at those moments in her life.

In conversation with Billboard in 2018 for her Woman of the Year cover, Grande declared that any pushback she experienced about her career decisions was sexist.

“My dream has always been to be — obviously not a rapper, but to put out music in the way that a rapper does. I feel like there are certain standards that pop women are held to that men aren’t,” she explained.

“It’s just like, ‘Bruh, I just want to f—ng talk to my fans and sing and write music and drop it the way these boys do. Why do they get to make records like that and I don’t?’ ” Grande said. “So I do and I did and I am, and I will continue to.”

In recent months, Grande has taken a break from music to star as Glinda the Good Witch in the upcoming Wicked film adaptations. In February, though, she teased that she was working on her section of a remix of The Weekend’s 2016 Starboy hit “Die for You” which was released Feb. 24.