Ariana Grande has added another chapter to one of pop music's most consequential chart runs.
Her new single "Hate That I Made You Love Me" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, becoming her milestone 10th career chart-topper and tying her for the 10th-most No. 1s in the survey's history. The achievement arrived just two days after she launched the Eternal Sunshine Tour — and nearly two months before the release of Petal, her eighth studio album, due July 31.
The numbers behind the debut are hard to argue with. The track drew 23.6 million official streams, 18.9 million radio audience impressions, and 70,000 sales in its first tracking week in the United States. Globally, the song drew 63.4 million streams and sold 81,000 downloads worldwide from its May 29 release through June 4. It also launched at No. 1 on the Digital Song Sales and Billboard Global 200 charts, making it one of the most complete commercial openings of the year.
The co-write and co-production credit tells its own story. Grande created the track alongside Max Martin and ILYA — and with the debut, Martin extended his all-time record to 28 Hot 100 No. 1s as a producer. He also pushed his songwriter tally to 30 chart-toppers, second only to Paul McCartney's 32. Martin's run, which stretches from Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time" in 1999 to the present, now spans nearly three decades of pop dominance — and shows no sign of slowing.
For Grande, the milestone reframes a career that many have tried to define too narrowly. She now holds her eighth No. 1 debut on the Hot 100 — tying Taylor Swift for the most among female artists, with only Drake's 10 chart-topping entrances surpassing them overall. She has also extended her unprecedented streak of debuting the lead single from each of her proper studio albums within the Hot 100's top 10 — a run that dates back to her 2013 debut Yours Truly. No other artist has maintained that level of consistency across an entire catalog.
The No. 1 marks Grande's first chart-topper since 2024's "We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)." In the interim, she completed one of the most visible crossover years in recent memory, with Wicked becoming a global box office event and its sequel already in production. Yet the arrival of "Hate That I Made You Love Me" makes clear that her music career was never on pause — it was building toward something.
Grande reacted to the news on Instagram, writing: "Crying........ thank you all from the bottom of my heart for my tenth number one! I simply cannot believe those words." She credited both her fans and her collaborators, singling out ILYA and Martin by name.
Whether the song holds the top spot into a second week remains to be seen — eyes are already turning to next week's chart, where Taylor Swift may contend with her Toy Story 5 contribution "I Knew It, I Knew You." But "Hate That I Made You Love Me" has already secured its place in Billboard history. Ten No. 1s. Eight debut chart-toppers. And a writer-producer team with 30 No. 1s between them. The only question left is what Grande does with the momentum.
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