The \u2019Thank U, Next\u2019 video also helped the song return to No. 1.<\/b>
\n\u201c Thank U, Next \u201d has been a career-defining moment for Ariana Grande. Shortly after she released the post- Sweetener single, it debuted at the top of the charts, becoming her first No. 1 song. More recently, she debuted the highly anticipated video for the song, and that also made some waves. The video was so popular that it broke the all-time YouTube record for most views in the first 24 hours, with a staggering 55.4 million.
The success of the video has also meant there are still more records for \u201cThank U, Next\u201d to break, and it just shattered a big one. The song returned to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 on the chart dated December 15, and that was due primarily to its 93.8 million U. S. streams during that week. ( YouTube streams are factored into Billboard \u2018s chart data, by the way.) If that sounds like a lot, that\u2019s because it is: it\u2019s the largest weekly total ever by a female artist .
That distinction was previously held by Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cLook What You Made Me Do,\u201d which garnered 84.5 million streams, which was reflected on the chart dated September 17,2017.
As far as the overall weekly streaming ranks, this historic \u201cThank U, Next\u201d stretch ranks 7th all time. First is the 116.1 million streams Drake\u2019s \u201cIn My Feelings\u201d earned on the chart dated July 28,2018. Between that and Grande\u2019s week on the chart are other weeks of \u201cIn My Feelings,\u201d as well as a week of Drake\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Plan\u201d and a couple different weeks of Baauer\u2019s \u201cHarlem Shake.\u201d<\/p>\n