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Ariana Grande blesses fans with deluxe 'Positions' album

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated Feb 19, 2021 3:38 PM ET

Ariana Grande bolstered her unquestioned position as pop royalty by unleashing Positions (Deluxe) on Friday.

The expanded project tacks five tracks onto Grande's sixth studio album Positions, which dropped Oct. 30, 2020, including "34+35 Remix" featuring Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion. The never-before-heard songs are "someone like u," "test drive," "worst behavior" and "main thing." The "34+35 Remix" got an official music video last week:

Grande has been churning out hits at an incredible (and incredibly successful) rate since 2018. The 27-year-old songstress and songwriter followed 2016's Dangerous Woman with Sweetener (August 2018), Thank U, Next (February 2019) and Positions. Sweetener, her first body of work after suffering through the tragic Manchester Arena bombing, gave Grande her first Grammy for best pop vocal album. Following the accidental fatal overdose of her ex-boyfriend Mac Miller in September 2018, Grande poured herself into Thank U, Next.

it’s been one hall of a productive, emotional, wild and yet ... happy! year. thankful for my babies who have provided me with endless strength, energy and inspiration... and to my friends who have held me together on the road and at home. i’m sure they’re just as exhausted lmao.
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) November 3, 2019

During a wide-ranging interview with The Zach Sang Show to commemorate Positions' arrival, Grande said that the album was created "from a more healed place":

Since Positions' original October release, Grande announced her engagement to A-list real estate agent Dalton Gomez:

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Listen to Positions (Deluxe) here.

Megan Armstrong

Megan Armstrong (@megankarmstrong) is a writer whose work has appeared in places such as Billboard, GQ, Esquire, Bleacher Report, Uproxx, and others. Megan has also produced various podcasts and hosted a daily radio show at Mizzou. She grew up obsessed with sports — impressing adults by memorizing NFL statistics as a kindergartner — and grew into an obsession with music

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