Ariana Grande New Music: Album No. 7 Details, Quotes

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New Ari era? Ariana Grande has started to tease new music for the first time since the release of her 2020 album, Positions.

“ag7: goat mother,” she joked in an October 2023 Instagram caption, referring to a possible title of her forthcoming album.

Keep reading for everything we know on album No. 7, release date, collaborations and more.

Is Ariana Grande Releasing New Music?

Starting in early December 2023, Ariana has posted multiple Instagram photos and videos of herself in a recording studio. Stars like Billie Eilish, Selena Gomez, SZA and Victoria Monet have all commented under such posts with supportive messages. “Oh this bout to eat,” SZA wrote, with Selena writing a simple: “FINALLY.”

Ariana’s last musical drop was when the songstress dropped a re-recorded version of her Yours Truly album in August 2023, to celebrate the record’s 10-year anniversary.

Months prior, in February 2023, Ariana and The Weeknd announced that they recorded a remix of his 2016 song “Die For You.” At the time, Ariana teased a snippet of the track via TikTok, writing, “Wrote and recorded a verse for my friend after a 14-hour day on set. This certain exception had to be made.”

The Weeknd reposted the video on his Instagram page, simply captioning the post with a smiling teary-eyed emoji. This isn’t the first, or second time, that the pair have collaborated with one another, the first time being the 2014 track “Love Me Harder,” where they also starred in the music video together. Additionally, Ariana was featured on his 2021 track “Save Your Tears” and The Weeknd was featured on Ari’s 2020 album Positions on “Off the Table.”

What Has Ariana Grande Said About Album No. 7?

During a Q&A posted on her R.E.M. Beauty YouTube Channel in April 2022, Ariana responded to a fan question asking about her seventh album — which she admitted doesn’t yet exist.

“This is a question I’m nervous to answer, but I feel like I want to have a little bit of transparency and honesty with my fans,” she said. “The truth is, I have not begun an album. I hear through the grapevine that you have a lot of theories and expectations in that department.”

At the time, she was busy working as a coach on NBC’s The Voice and auditioning for the role of Glinda opposite Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba in Wicked. “That was kind of around the time that I started hearing murmurs about a Wicked audition coming soon, so I went into full preparation mode while I was also shooting The Voice,” she explained. “I was shooting and then also doing lessons every day ’cause I just wanted to be prepared.”

Now that she’s landed the Wicked part, the Nickelodeon alum revealed that she plans on devoting all her time to perfecting the role, since it’s her childhood dream.

“That is going to have every piece of me, every minute, every ounce of my heart, my time, my soul, my everything that I can give it,” she said. “My hands are quite full with a lot of other ‘thrillifying’ work at the moment. I am spending all of my time with Glinda, I just was not ready.”

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