Grande says 2018 has been one of best for career at Billboard awards
Ariana Grande officially became Billboard’s “2018 Woman of the Year.”
The music industry publisher presented the award to the 25-year-old Boca Raton pop singer at Thursday night’s Women in Music dinner and awards gala in New York City.
“Thank you so much for coming to my Quinceañera, I appreciate it,” she joked on stage, according to Billboard.com
She also went on to thank her team and reflected on the past year.
“I find it interesting that this has been one of the best years of my career and the worst of my life,” said Grande, whose album “Sweetener’’ debuted at the top of the album charts last summer.
She was also recently engaged to “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson. They broke up in October. Her ex-boyfriend rapper Mac Miller, whom she dated before Davidson, died of an apparent drug overdose in September.
“A lot of people would look at someone in my position right now as an artist that could be at her peak and think, ‘She’s really got her s--- together, she’s really on it. She’s got it all.’ And I do, but as far as my personal life goes, I really have no idea what the f--- I’m doing,” she said at the show.
On a more positive note, her new music video “Thank U, Next’’ which debuted last week, broke YouTube’s record for most views within a 24-hour release.