Ariana Grande did not just return to the top of the charts this week — she walked straight into a club that almost nobody gets into. Her new single “Hate That I Made You Love Me” arrived at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 13, 2026, and in doing so it became the tenth chart-topper of her career. Ten. That is the kind of number that turns a pop star into a permanent fixture of music history, and Grande hit it the way she has hit most of her milestones lately: with a debut straight at the summit.
What Happened
“Hate That I Made You Love Me” is the lead single from Petal, Grande’s eighth studio album, which is due out on July 31. The song was released on May 29 and its official video premiered on June 1, giving it just a short window to rack up the numbers it needed. It did the job comfortably. According to Luminate, the track pulled 23.6 million official U.S. streams, reached an audience of 18.9 million through radio airplay, and sold 70,000 copies in its first tracking week.
That sales figure is where things get interesting. The song bowed at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales with 55,000 of those copies coming from downloads, helped along by a small army of alternate versions: an “Ari lyric draft from bed,” a “live from rehearsal” take, a cappella and instrumental mixes, plus cassette and 7-inch vinyl pressings for collectors. It debuted at No. 3 on Streaming Songs and No. 25 on Radio Songs, a sign that the launch leaned more on devoted fans hitting buy and play than on radio saturation. For a debut week, that is a remarkably front-loaded show of strength.
Why It Matters
Reaching ten No. 1s places Grande in genuinely rarefied air. She now ties Janet Jackson, Bruno Mars, and Stevie Wonder for the tenth-most Hot 100 chart-toppers of all time, a leaderboard topped by The Beatles (20) and Mariah Carey (19). Even more telling: counting only from her first leader onward, she has racked up more No. 1s in that span than any other act, edging past Taylor Swift. This is also her eighth song to debut at No. 1, which ties Swift for the most among women, with Drake the overall leader at ten debut entrances.
The record books got rewritten behind the scenes too. Grande co-wrote and co-produced the single with longtime collaborators Max Martin and ILYA. With it, Martin extends his own all-time record for the most Hot 100 No. 1s as a producer to 28, and he now sits second only to Paul McCartney among songwriters, with 30 chart-topping writing credits to McCartney’s 32. Martin’s first Hot 100 No. 1 came back in early 1999 with Britney Spears’ “…Baby One More Time,” which tells you just how long this Swedish hitmaker has been quietly shaping the sound of American pop radio.
Reaction
The way this single climbed says a lot about where Grande sits in the culture right now. A debut this dependent on pure sales and streaming — rather than the slow burn of radio — is the signature of an artist with an unusually committed audience. Fans did not wait around. They bought the cassettes, collected the variants, and streamed the song hard enough to push it past everything else in its first week, including established hits that had spent weeks marinating on the chart.
It also landed in a busy week up top. Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” held at No. 2 after a 10-week reign, Drake placed two songs in the top 10, and Bruno Mars, Olivia Dean, and the Tame Impala and JENNIE collaboration “Dracula” all hung around the upper rungs. Grande arriving above all of them, cold, was the clearest signal of the week that her fanbase remains one of the most reliable forces in pop.
What’s Next
This is only the opening move. “Hate That I Made You Love Me” is the appetizer for Petal, arriving July 31, and the debut continues a streak that is genuinely unprecedented: Grande has now sent the lead single from every one of her proper studio albums into the Hot 100’s top 10, going all the way back to “The Way” in 2013. No other artist can claim a run quite like it, and it raises the obvious question of how high the album’s follow-up singles can reach.
She is also back on the road with her Eternal Sunshine Tour, which keeps her front and center as the new era ramps up. With a major album release weeks away, a tour in full swing, and a discography that now reads like a record-book entry, the back half of 2026 is shaping up to be one of the busiest stretches of her career. The smart bet is that “Hate That I Made You Love Me” will be remembered less as a peak than as a starting line.
Closing Thoughts
What makes this milestone land differently is the company it puts her in. Ten Hot 100 No. 1s is not a hot streak; it is a body of work. Grande has spent more than a decade turning lead singles into instant chart-toppers, and she has done it while the music industry itself was being reshaped by streaming, by viral release strategies, and by the collapse of the old radio-first playbook. She adapted to all of it without losing the thing that made her a star in the first place: a voice and a fanbase that show up the moment she does.
There is a neat bit of trivia buried in the achievement, too. “Hate That I Made You Love Me” is the first Hot 100 No. 1 ever to put the word “hate” in its title — though, fittingly, the title sneaks “love” in right after it. Pop’s favorite subject stays undefeated. For Grande, the bigger story is simpler: with Petal on the horizon and a tenth No. 1 already in hand, she has reminded everyone exactly how rare an artist she is. As reported by outlets including The Hollywood Reporter and NPR, this is a number that will follow her name for the rest of her career.
한글 요약
아리아나 그란데의 신곡 ‘Hate That I Made You Love Me’가 6월 13일 자 빌보드 핫 100에서 1위로 데뷔하며 그녀에게 통산 열 번째 핫 100 1위를 안겼습니다. 이 곡은 7월 31일 발매 예정인 여덟 번째 정규 앨범 ‘Petal’의 리드 싱글로, 5월 29일 공개 후 첫 주에 미국 내 스트리밍 2,360만 회, 라디오 청취자 1,890만 명, 판매량 7만 장을 기록했습니다. 특히 디지털 송 세일즈 1위로 출발하며 충성도 높은 팬덤의 구매력을 다시 한 번 증명했습니다.
열 번째 1위로 그란데는 재닛 잭슨, 브루노 마스, 스티비 원더와 함께 역대 핫 100 최다 1위 공동 10위에 올랐습니다. 또한 자신의 첫 1위 이후 누구보다 많은 1위를 배출하며 테일러 스위프트를 앞섰고, 데뷔 즉시 1위에 오른 곡도 여덟 곡으로 여성 가수 최다 기록을 공유하게 됐습니다. 함께 작업한 프로듀서 맥스 마틴은 프로듀서 부문 최다 1위 기록을 28회로 늘렸습니다.
이번 1위는 시작에 불과합니다. 그란데는 데뷔 이래 모든 정규 앨범의 리드 싱글을 핫 100 톱 10에 진입시킨 전례 없는 기록을 이어가고 있으며, 현재 ‘Eternal Sunshine’ 투어도 진행 중입니다. 7월 말 새 앨범 발매와 투어가 맞물리면서 2026년 하반기는 그녀의 커리어에서 가장 바쁜 시기 중 하나가 될 전망입니다.
참고 / 출처: Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, NPR