forty facts

the person

• her legal name is ariana grande-butera. grande is her mother's surname, butera her father's.
• she is named after princess oriana, from the felix the cat cartoons.
• born 26 june 1993 in boca raton, florida. that makes her a cancer and 33 years old.
• she is five foot three. the height page explains why published figures vary.
• her natural hair is dark brown and curly. the red on victorious destroyed it.
• vegan since 2013, consistently, and she has never made it a rule for anybody else.
• raised roman catholic, practises kabbalah since her teens.
• her older half-brother is frankie grande, a broadway performer.
• her mother runs a marine communications manufacturer. she has never been her daughter's manager.
• she has roughly a dozen dogs, almost all rescues, and once kept a pot-bellied pig called piggy smallz.

the career

• she was on broadway at fourteen, in 13, two years before nickelodeon.
• elizabeth gillies was in that cast. they were cast together on victorious two years later.
• her actual debut single, put your hearts up, is one she has publicly disowned.
• yours truly debuted at number one while she was still contracted to a children's sitcom.
• she has nine hot 100 number ones, six of which debuted at the top.
• in february 2019 she held the entire top three simultaneously. the previous act to do it was the beatles, in 1964.
• three grammys from twenty nominations, the most recent in 2026 for a showtune.
• she has skipped six consecutive grammy ceremonies, including two she won at.
• around forty guinness world records, most of them about streaming.
• she was the youngest headliner in coachella's history when she topped the bill in 2019.

the odd ones

• her palm tattoo reads as shichirin — a small charcoal grill — rather than seven rings.
• she has a starbucks drink named after a song: the cloud macchiato, after the perfume, after the sound.
• she performed inside fortnite in 2021, with her own skin and a piggy smallz backpack.
• every one of her song titles is lowercase, on purpose.
• santa tell me earns almost all of its streams in six weeks a year and is still her twelfth biggest song.
• she directed a short film in 2025 and it won video of the year at the vmas.
• she has said she dislikes the name of her own fandom.
• her third album was announced as moonlight, and then was not.
• she deleted her twitter account on christmas eve 2021 and has never returned.
• she has never authorised a documentary about herself.

ten that get repeated and are wrong

if you want the versions with sources attached, every claim above links to the page that carries them. if you would rather be tested on it, the games do that better than a list can.