The Best (Ariana Grande album)

The Best is a greatest hits album by American singer Ariana Grande that released only in Japan. It features songs from her first three studio albums: Yours Truly (2013), My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016), as well as her duet with John Legend, "Beauty and the Beast" for the Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017) and "Faith" with Stevie Wonder for the Sing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2016).[1] It was released, digitally and physically, exclusively only in Japan on September 27, 2017, by Universal Music Japan.[2]

The Best
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2017 (2017-09-27)
Genre
Length64:41
LabelUniversal Music Japan
Ariana Grande chronology
Dangerous Woman
(2016)
The Best
(2017)
Sweetener
(2018)

Track listing

The BestStandard edition
No. TitleOriginal album Length
1. "Break Free" (featuring Zedd)My Everything, 2014 3:35
2. "Problem" (featuring Iggy Azalea)My Everything 3:13
3. "Baby I"  Yours Truly, 2013 3:17
4. "Into You"  Dangerous Woman, 2016 4:04
5. "Bang Bang" (with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj)My Everything 3:18
6. "Side to Side" (featuring Nicki Minaj)Dangerous Woman 3:46
7. "One Last Time"  My Everything 3:17
8. "The Way" (featuring Mac Miller)Yours Truly 3:47
9. "Be Alright"  Dangerous Woman 2:59
10. "Love Me Harder" (with the Weeknd)My Everything 3:56
11. "Everyday" (featuring Future)Dangerous Woman 3:14
12. "Right There" (featuring Big Sean)Yours Truly 4:07
13. "Greedy"  Dangerous Woman 3:34
14. "Piano"  Yours Truly 3:54
15. "Dangerous Woman"  Dangerous Woman 3:55
16. "Best Mistake" (featuring Big Sean)My Everything 3:53
17. "Faith" (Stevie Wonder featuring Ariana Grande)Sing, 2016 2:42
18. "Beauty and the Beast" (with John Legend)Beauty and the Beast, 2017 3:47
Deluxe Edition – DVD
No. TitleDirector Length
1. "Baby I" (music video)Ryan Pallotta  
2. "Break Free" (music video)Chris Marrs Piliero  
3. "Into You" (music video)Hannah Lux Davis  
4. "Side to Side" (music video)Davis  
Limited Release – Blu-ray
No. TitleDirector Length
1. "Baby I" (music video)Ryan Pallotta  
2. "The Way" (music video)Jones Crow  
3. "Right There" (music video)Nev Todorovic  
4. "Break Free" (music video)Chris Marrs Piliero  
5. "Bang Bang" (music video)Hannah Lux Davis  
6. "Love Me Harder" (music video)Davis  
7. "One Last Time" (music video)Max Landis  
8. "Dangerous Woman" (music video)The Young Astronauts  
9. "Into You" (music video)Davis  
10. "Everyday" (music video)Piliero  

Personnel

Vocals

Production

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2017) Peak
position
Japan Download Albums (Billboard)[3] 1
Japan Hot Albums (Billboard)[4] 1
Japan Top Album Sales (Billboard)[5] 2
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[6] 2

Year-end charts

Chart (2017) Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[7] 68
Chart (2018) Position
Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)[8] 73

Release history

Region Date Format Label Ref.
Japan September 27, 2017 Republic [9]

References

  1. "The Best". Apple Music. Japan. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  2. "Ariana Grande – The Best". Universal Music Japan. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  3. "Japan Download Albums". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. "Japan Hot Albums". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. "Japan Top Album Sales". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2017-10-09" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
  7. 年間アルバムヒットチャート 2017年(平成29年) (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved December 24, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  8. "Hot Albums 2018 Year End". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved December 6, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  9. "Discography - Ariana Grande". Universal Music Japan. Retrieved September 26, 2017.