hundreds of leaks since 2011, forty-five songs taken in a single year, and a lawsuit filed days before her last album came out.
the short answer
in july 2026 she filed suit in california against unidentified defendants over what the complaint describes as a years-long hacking campaign targeting her photographers and producers. it alleges hundreds of leaks since 2011, forty-five songs stolen in 2023 alone, and material sold on the dark web. the suit claims invasion of privacy, computer hacking and conversion.
the lawsuit
filed in california state court in july 2026, days before petal was released. it names no individuals — up to a hundred unidentified defendants — which is the standard opening move when the identities have to be established through discovery.
- the method alleged. phishing attacks on the people around her rather than on her directly: photographers, producers and others with access to unfinished material.
- the scale alleged. hundreds of leaks since 2011, and forty-five songs taken in 2023 alone. two separate 2024 attacks are alleged to have taken unreleased photographs.
- the market alleged. material sold on the dark web for substantial sums, which is the part that distinguishes this from ordinary fan file-sharing.
- the claims. invasion of privacy, violation of california's computer crime statute, and conversion.
why it is not a fan story
there is a real cost to the work in that. an artist who knows every session file will be taken and sold makes different decisions about what to record, and she has been unusually protective of the process since 2023 — smaller rooms, fewer collaborators, an executive producer credit of her own.
what actually exists
a great deal, and this page will not catalogue it. the honest position: a large body of demos, alternate versions and abandoned songs circulates, some of it genuinely hers and some of it misattributed, none of it released, and all of it obtained in ways she has now gone to court over.
the misattribution is worth flagging separately. a substantial fraction of what circulates as an unreleased ariana grande song is a soundalike, an ai reconstruction, or a demo by a writer who pitched a song to her. there is no reliable public index that distinguishes them, and confident tracklists of her unreleased catalogue are not built on anything.
the one that was released
worth noting as a contrast: put your hearts up is the only recording she has actively tried to remove from circulation, and it is a released single. she asked for the video to come down and it did. everything else on this page is material she never chose to put out at all.
questions people ask
did ariana grande sue over leaked music?
yes. she filed suit in california in july 2026 against unidentified defendants over an alleged years-long hacking campaign targeting her collaborators.
how many ariana grande songs have leaked?
the complaint alleges hundreds of leaks since 2011, including forty-five songs taken in 2023 alone.
how was the music taken?
the suit alleges phishing attacks on her photographers and producers rather than on her directly, with material then sold on the dark web.
is there a list of her unreleased songs?
no reliable one. a large amount of what circulates is soundalikes, ai reconstructions or demos by writers who pitched songs to her.
has she ever removed a released song?
she asked for the put your hearts up video to be taken down from her channel. the recording itself remains on streaming services.