My Everything debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States, selling 169,000 copies in its first week, marking Grande's second consecutive chart-topper in the US. It was later certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and was listed as one of the most popular albums of 2014, 2015 and the 2010s on the Billboard 200. The album debuted at number one in Australia and Canada as well, and peaked in the top ten of twenty countries worldwide. It received generally favorable reviews from music critics, appearing in year-end best-music lists of 2014. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in 2015, My Everything was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.
My Everything was supported by five singles; all of which reached global success. The lead single, "Problem", broke numerous digital sales records upon release, and peaked at number two on the US BillboardHot 100. The second single, "Break Free", reached number four in the United States. The following single, "Bang Bang", peaked at number three in the US and topped charts internationally. The fourth and fifth singles, "Love Me Harder" and "One Last Time", peaked at numbers seven and thirteen, respectively, with the latter reaching number two in the United Kingdom. Aided by My Everything's singles, Grande attained the most top ten hits for any artist in 2014 on the Hot 100. To further support the album, Grande embarked on the Honeymoon Tour in 2015.
Background and recording
"It's an album that I want to do a little bit different. I don't want it to sound like an extension of Yours Truly. I want it to sound like an evolution. I want to explore more sounds and experiment a little bit. I have a bunch of ideas I'm very excited about and a lot of stuff cooking."
The singer's debut studio album Yours Truly was released on September 3, 2013, and was met with critical acclaim. Later that month, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Grande stated that she had begun writing and working on her second studio album and had already completed two songs.[1] Recording sessions began in October 2013 with Grande working with previous producers from her debut album Harmony Samuels and Tommy Brown.[2][3] Grande was initially aiming at releasing the album around February 2014.[4] In January 2014, Grande confirmed she had been working with new producers Ryan Tedder, Savan Kotecha, Benny Blanco, Key Wane and Max Martin.[5][6][7] Grande stated in late February that she wanted to name her album after a song she had finished that weekend that is very honest and makes her cry.[8][9]
It was announced on March 3, 2014, that Grande would be featured on the fifth single from Chris Brown's album X titled "Don't Be Gone Too Long".[10] The single was originally set for release on March 25, 2014. However, it was postponed due to Brown being sent to jail awaiting trial on assault charges.[11] Grande had announced the song's delay on March 17, 2014, via Twitter stating "My loves… so obviously some things have changed recently... So we have to delay the dbgtl countdown, some things are out of our control".[11] That same night she held a live stream to make up for the single's delay, where she previewed four new songs from her second album.[12][13] Two days following the announcement, Grande revealed that due to the song's delay, she would be releasing the first single from her upcoming second studio album instead.[14][15] She finished working on the album in late May 2014.[16] On June 28, Grande confirmed the title of the album to be My Everything and the release date to be August 25, 2014.[17] The photos for the packaging in the album were taken on May 27, 2014.[18] Grande stated that she chose the cover artwork because she felt that "each song is so strongly themed that I just wanted to have a very simple overall cover. So that within each song we could create more visual themes."[19]
Music and lyrics
My Everything is a pop-R&B album.[20] It revisits the '90s retro-R&B style present in Grande's debut album Yours Truly: Annie Zaleski from The A.V. Club, described the album as a "slick throwback to melodramatic '80s and '90s pop."[21] The album's tracks include EDM, hip hop tunes and piano-driven ballads.[20][22] The album opens with "Intro", in which Grande addresses her fans: "I'll give you all I have and nothing less, I promise".[23] The second track is the lead single "Problem", an uptempo dance-pop song influenced by R&B,[24][25]jazz, hip hop and funk.[25][26]Rap-Up described the track as an "infectious horn-heavy jam" that features a "carefree" Grande "declaring her independence". It includes "an empowering verse from Iggy Azalea and a whispering Big Sean on the hook."[27] "One Last Time" is a dance-pop and EDM-light song.[28][29] The album continues with "Why Try", co-written and co-produced by Ryan Tedder and Benny Blanco and features the lyrics "Now we're screaming just to see who's louder".[20] Some critics expressed an opinion that the song has a similar composition with Beyoncé's "XO" (2013; also produced by Tedder).[30]
The following track is the EDM song "Break Free".[31] The song combines the EDM and electro genres.[32][33] In an interview with Billboard, Grande described the song as "fantastic and super-experimental for [her]" and stated: "I never thought I'd do an EDM song, but that was an eye-opening experience, and now all I want to do is dance."[7] The album's first of three ballads, "Best Mistake", features Big Sean. Billboard described it as "A moody ballad that grows stickier upon each listen, "Best Mistake" carries a tidy collection of impressive production details, the momentary string stabs among them".[20] Musically, it is a minimal hip-hop piano ballad lament that utilizes instrumentation from strings and a drum machine.[34] It tells a story about a couple trying to "make up their minds about the future of their relationship, with deep affection buried underneath their problems."[34][35][36] "Be My Baby" featuring Cashmere Cat is a "bouncy R&B jam".[37] The song was compared with Mariah Carey's songs.[38] The eighth track is "Break Your Heart Right Back", a R&B number featuring Childish Gambino. The song is about a cheating boyfriend, and samples Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out," including vocals and guitar.[37][38]
"Love Me Harder", featuring The Weeknd, is a mid-tempo synthpop and R&B song,[39][40][41] which starts small before its "'throbbing', electro-heavy chorus",[42] with a guitar riff,[43] while "big vacuum-esque synths zip" can be heard throughout the track.[44] Rob Copsey wrote for The Official Charts Company that the song reminded him of Drake at his most emotional.[42] Lyrically, the song has Grande demanding romantic satisfaction,[43] using double entendres about BDSM.[41] The track "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart" is the album's second ballad, co-written by Harry Styles.[20][45] Official Charts compared the eleventh track, "Hands on Me", featuring ASAP Ferg, with Rihanna's "Cockiness (Love It)" (2012) and Azalea's "Fancy" (2014).[45] Jason Lipshutz of Billboard described "Hands on Me" as "an out-of-left-field banger that removes Grande from her teenybopper phase and finds the 21-year-old discovering her inner Rihanna with lines."[20] The title track "My Everything" concludes the standard edition of the album on a somber note, recalling "Intro", and concerns Grande's struggles to regain the solid footing she once had with her partner.[34]
The first bonus track on deluxe edition, "Bang Bang", featuring Jessie J and Nicki Minaj is an up-tempo, "soulful" song that features a "clap-heavy" production built over "big bouncy beats and horn blasts".[46][47] The next track was described by Billboard as "short, snappy and sumptuous, 'Only 1' is a light confection that succeeds due to its busy, intricate percussion".[20] The deluxe edition of My Everything concludes with the track "You Don't Know Me".
On June 28, 2014, Grande announced that her album would be available for pre-order through her website. Those who pre-ordered the album would get exclusive access to Grande's concert stream that will be held on August 24 where she will perform songs from her album live for the first time.[48][non-primary source needed] Grande embarked on her first world tour titled The Honeymoon Tour in support of the album which began in February 2015.[49]
In the weeks preceding the release of My Everything, several previews of songs from the album were released. On July 7, 2014, Grande posted a teaser of "Best Mistake" onto her Instagram page. The song features rapper Big Sean.[50][51] On July 27, 2014, a preview of "Be My Baby" was filmed at a concert of featured artist, Cashmere Cat, and uploaded to YouTube, by a fan. Grande retweeted a link to the video on her Twitter profile.[52][53] She then retweeted a second snippet on August 4.[54][55][non-primary source needed] Twenty days before the album's release, Grande released a preview of "Love Me Harder", which features Canadian recording artist The Weeknd, onto her Instagram profile.[56] On August 20, four songs from the album, "Why Try", "Be My Baby", "Love Me Harder", and "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart", were released courtesy of MTV.[57]
On August 24, Grande opened the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards with "Break Free" and then later appeared to perform "Bang Bang" with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj. Following her performance on the show, My Everything was released worldwide on August 25, 2014. During the week of its release, commercials aired on television to promote My Everything as well as the Beats Pill.[58] On August 29, Grande performed "Problem", "Break Free", "Bang Bang", and "Break Your Heart Right Back" on The Today Show. In addition to performing, Grande was also interviewed, forecasted to weather and brought her grandmother for an interview of her own.[59] On September 5, Grande performed the title track from My Everything during the Stand Up to Cancer television program in dedication to her grandfather, who had died from cancer earlier that year.[60]
Singles
Grande premiered her first single "Problem", which features Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, at the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards and released it for digital download later that night on April 28, 2014. The song debuted at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold 438,000 units in its first week making it the fifth largest debut by a woman in history.[61] The single later peaked at number two on the Hot 100, holding that position for five non-consecutive weeks.[62] The single has sold 3.7million copies in the US and has been certified eight-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).[63] As of September 2024, its music video has over 1.4 billion views on YouTube.[64]
The second single, "Break Free", features electronic music producer Zedd and was released on July 2, 2014. The song debuted at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 161,000 downloads sold in its first week.[65][66] After the release of the song's music video, "Break Free" soared on the Hot 100 from number 18 to number four,[67] while Grande's other singles, "Bang Bang" and "Problem" were also in the top ten that week, at numbers ten and seven respectively. With three songs in the top ten, Ariana Grande became the second female lead artist to have three singles in the top ten since Adele in 2012. It also reached number one on the BillboardDance/Electronic Digital Songs chart.[68] "Break Free" has sold 1.9million copies as of June 2020, and is certified five-times platinum by the RIAA.[69] Its music video has over 1.2 billion views on YouTube as of September 2024.[70]
"Bang Bang" by Jessie J, Ariana Grande, and Nicki Minaj, was first sent to hot adult contemporary radios on July 28, 2014, through Republic Records,[71] the label that houses all three artists, being released as a digital download on July 29, 2014, through Lava and Republic, serving as a joint single.[72][73][74] It serves as the lead single from Jessie J's album Sweet Talker, and the third single from My Everything.[75] The song debuted at number six, and peaked at number three on the Hot 100, while debuting atop the UK Singles Chart. As of November 2017, "Bang Bang" has sold 3.5million copies in the US since its release.[76] It was certified diamond by the RIAA in 2024, becoming the first all-female collaboration to achieve the threshold.[77] The music video for "Bang Bang" has over 2 billion views on YouTube, as of July 2024.[78]
The fourth single, "Love Me Harder", which features Canadian PBR&B artist The Weeknd, was released to rhythmic crossover radio on September 30, 2014. It debuted at number 79, and later peaked at number seven on the Hot 100, making Grande the artist with the most top-ten singles in 2014. It also became The Weeknd's first top ten entry in the United States.[79] As of April 2018, the song had sold 1.3million copies; [76] it was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA in 2024.[80] Its music video has over 827 million views as of September 2024.[81]
"One Last Time" was released to rhythmic crossover and contemporary hit radio stations on February 10, 2015, as the fifth and final single.[82][83][84] It debuted at number 80 on the Hot 100 and peaked at number 13, becoming the only single from the album to not reach the top ten.[84] As of June 2020, "One Last Time" has sold 918,000 digital units in the US;[76] it was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA in 2024.[85]
Promotional singles
"Best Mistake" featuring Big Sean was released on August 12, 2014, as a promotional single to those who preorder the album.[86][87] It sold 104,000 units in its first week landing at number six on the Digital Songs chart.[88][89] It also peaked at number 49 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to ratings and reviews from mainstream critics, My Everything received an average of 64, based on 19 reviews, which the cite defines as "generally favorable reviews".[91] Rob Sheffield, writing for Rolling Stone, says, "My Everything proves, she's already a major force" on a release showing how Grande is growing up because "It's a confident, intelligent, brazen pop statement, mixing bubblegum diva vocals with EDM break-beats."[99] Adam Markovitz says for Entertainment Weekly how "Grande has picked a set of songs so lyrically bland, sonically inoffensive, and artistically empty that they produce a zero-impact experience—musical vanilla fro-yo poured directly into your ears."[94] Markovitz states, "It's by no means painful; there are even moments of fun, including the thigh-high-boot swagger of summer smashes 'Problem' and 'Bang Bang,' both of which borrow their strut from coheadliners Iggy Azalea and Jessie J with Nicki Minaj, respectively."[94] Mikael Wood, writing on behalf of the Los Angeles Times, finds Grande in impressive form because she is "deeply cheerful yet with guns blazing, an innocent newcomer no more."[96]
Elysa Gardner, on behalf of USA Today, writes that Grande "digs into ballads and more emotionally earnest fare" simultaneously, doing so with a "girlish playfulness... and a sense of growing confidence", and she is "Blending sugar and spice" together to create a pleasing concoction to satisfy the varying palates of her supporters."[100]Stephen Thomas Erlewine says for AllMusic that "Grande doesn't embody the songs the way an old-fashioned diva would, but she functions as a likeable pop ringleader, stepping aside when the track calls for it and then unleashing a full-throated wail when it's her time to shine."[92] Jason Lipshutz from Billboard writes that the album "turned Grande into a dance artist, pop artist, and soul artist" with a more uniformed and more mature sound.[93]Gary Graff says on behalf of The Oakland Press that it is "a solid step forward for Grande, which makes 'there's more to see' an intriguing promise rather than a threat."[101] In a 7.7 out of ten review for Pitchfork, Meaghan Garvey explains how it "feels like Grande's arrival as a true pop fixture, not just a charming novelty... and while the best songs here may not be timeless, they certainly feel right for right now."[98] The album was placed at number eleven on Digital Spy's Best Albums of 2014 list.[102] Jessica Goodman and Ryan Kistobak of The Huffington Post included the album on their list of 2014's best releases, commenting that the album makes sure "Grande's sheer talent did not go unnoticed".[103]
In a more mixed review, Jim Farber from the New York Daily News writes that Grande's "sexed-up" vocals and range are shown off but the "constant jerking back and forth between styles interrupts any sense of flow."[104] Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian praises Grande's vocals but feels that the songs are indistinct and have a "facelessness" to them.[95] Annie Zaleski writes for The A.V. Club how it "is so well-constructed and designed to succeed, it rarely loosens up enough to let any depth of character (or real surprises) surface", yet it "further establishes Grande as a consummate performer and vocal interpreter."[21]Kitty Empire from The Observer notes that Grande's vocal ability is showcased but that the songs lack personality.[97] Evan Sawdey, writing for PopMatters, commented that Grande mimicks other artists, leaving her distinguished voice with only the support of hollow lyricism.[105] In agreement, Will Robinson rated the album a 2.5 out of five for Sputnikmusic, saying it "ends up ringing hollow".[106] Writing for Vibe magazine, Adelle Platon was positive towards the album's sound and compared Grande's vocals to those of Mariah Carey and Christina Aguilera.[107] Andrew Chan, writing on behalf of Slant Magazine, stated that Grande "emphasizes the sheer fun of singing over any sense of emotional urgency", yet "What her voice lacks in depth, texture, and variety will probably take time to acquire."[108]
More than three years after the album's release, Grande's graceful, yet precarious, kneeling pose on a stool for the album's cover suddenly became a viral subject on Twitter, spawning a humorous conspiracy theory, memes, a "challenge" taken up by many to try to recreate the pose, and international press coverage.[109]
On August 27, Billboard reported that My Everything would sell over 160,000 copies in its first week.[113]My Everything officially debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold 169,000 copies in its first week.[114] By doing so, Grande attained her second consecutive number-one album in the country, becoming the first female artist to have her first two albums debut at number one since Scottish singer Susan Boyle did it with I Dreamed a Dream (2009) and The Gift (2010).[114] The album has sold 759,000 copies in the United States as of April 2018.[76] In March 2016, the RIAA certified the album double platinum, for combined album sales, on-demand audio, video streams, track sales equivalent of two million album-equivalent units. In Japan, My Everything remained atop the iTunes Store chart for nine weeks, thus earning Grande the longest at number one in 2014, breaking the previous record held by Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.[115]
In 2015, My Everything was ranked as the 17th most popular album of the year on the Billboard 200.[116]
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
My Everything (Tenth Anniversary Edition) is a reissue of Ariana Grande's second studio album My Everything (2014), to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the album's original release. Surprise released on August 22, 2024, the reissue was made available in two formats: a digital deluxe edition and a vinyl deluxe. The digital re-issue includes the bonus tracks "Too Close" and "Cadillac Song", which were previously Target CD-exclusives.[214] The vinyl edition was made available for pre-order on August 22; it comprises the original tracklist, digital bonus tracks, and the deluxe tracks that were previously never available in vinyl format: "Bang Bang", "Only 1", "You Don’t Know Me".[215]
Additionally, a limited 7-inch vinyl of the album's singles "Problem", "Break Free", "Love Me Harder" and "One Last Time" was issued on August 26, followed by a digital bundle featuring a capella and instrumental versions of those singles along with "Bang Bang" on August 27. An anniversary merchandise collection was also released.[214]
Following the release of the reissue, the album's tracks saw a spike in streaming on Spotify, ranging from up 115% to 545% in US streams on August 22, 2024.[216]
Track listing
The reissue contains the deluxe fifteen tracks as well as the previously Target edition-exclusive tracks "Cadillac Song" and "Too Close".
My Everything–10th anniversary vinyl reissue (bonus tracks)[217]
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