eight albums, a great many colour variants, and two pressings that are genuinely hard to find rather than artificially scarce.
the short answer
all eight studio albums have been pressed, most with multiple colour variants sold through her own store. the genuinely scarce items are the early pressings of yours truly and my everything, which were pressed in small quantities before vinyl demand recovered. everything since 2018 exists in quantity.
what is genuinely scarce
two things, and they are scarce for the same boring reason: they were pressed when almost nobody was buying vinyl. the original 2013 and 2014 pressings of yours truly and my everything had small runs because a pop album's vinyl edition in 2013 was an afterthought. both have been repressed since, which is worth knowing before paying a premium for what might be a 2019 copy.
the variant problem
everything from sweetener onward has been released in multiple colour variants, usually with a store-exclusive and a retailer-exclusive alongside the standard black. that is now industry-wide practice and it is a chart mechanic as much as a collecting one — variants sell to the same person more than once.
the practical consequence: a limited edition of a modern grande record is limited in the sense that a number was printed on the sleeve, not in the sense that it is hard to find. the resale prices reflect scarcity that was designed rather than scarcity that happened.
what is actually worth owning
- positions. the best-sounding record in the catalogue on vinyl, because it is the least compressed — a small band, performed strings and a lot of space.
- eternal sunshine. sequenced as an album rather than as a collection, which is the thing the format is for.
- petal. the sparsest arrangements she has released. if any of her records rewards a good system, it is this one.
- yours truly. for the opposite reason — live-sounding drums and real backing vocal arrangements, which is what the format was built for.
the christmas oddity
the two christmas eps have had limited physical life, and christmas & chill in particular exists in far smaller quantities than anything else. it is the one item in the catalogue where the scarcity is genuine and nobody engineered it.
for what is on each record rather than what it is pressed on, the catalogue has every recording with its credits, and the albums in order has the chronology.
questions people ask
are ariana grande albums on vinyl?
yes, all eight studio albums, most of them in multiple colour variants.
what is the rarest ariana grande vinyl?
the original pressings of yours truly and my everything, which had small runs before vinyl demand recovered. both have since been repressed.
how do i tell a first pressing?
check the matrix runout in the dead wax and the catalogue number on the label rather than the sleeve. repressings look near-identical.
are the limited edition variants actually rare?
generally no. modern variants are limited in the sense that a number was printed on the sleeve, not in the sense that they are hard to find.
which of her albums sounds best on vinyl?
positions, because it is the least compressed — a small band, performed strings and a lot of space in the arrangement.