Sweetener

Sweetener (2018) is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande. It was released on August 17, 2018, through Republic Records.

According to Billboard, as of 2022, Sweetener is one of the 15 best-performing 21st-century albums without any of its singles being number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Sweetener debuted at number-one on the US Billboard 200 with 231,000 album-equivalent units, of which 127,000 represented traditional album sales. It marked Grande's third number one album in the US and her fastest-selling album to date. Among female artists, Sweetener scored the third-largest US sales debut of 2018, behind Carrie Underwood's Cry Pretty (266,000 album-equivalent units) and Cardi B's Invasion of Privacy (255,000 album-equivalent units).