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 | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | September 27, 2017 | |||
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Length | 64:41 | |||
Label | Universal Music Japan | |||
Ariana Grande chronology | ||||
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Track listing
The Best – Standard edition | |||||||||
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No. | Title | Original 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 | |||||||||
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No. | Title | Director | 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 | |||||||||
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No. | Title | Director | 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
- Ariana Grande – vocals (all tracks)
- Iggy Azalea – vocals (2)
- Jessie J – vocals (5)
- Nicki Minaj – vocals (5, 6)
- Mac Miller – vocals (8)
- The Weeknd – vocals (10)
- Future – vocals (11)
- Big Sean – vocals (12, 16)
- Stevie Wonder – vocals (17)
- John Legend – vocals (18)
Production
- Max Martin – production (1, 2, 4-6, 13, 15), vocal production (11, 15)
- Zedd – production (1)
- Ilya – production (2, 4-6, 11, 13), vocal production (7, 11), co-production (7)
- Peter Carlsson – vocal production (2, 10)
- Shellback – production (2)
- Antonio Dixon – production (3)
- Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds – production (3)
- Kuk Harrell – vocal production (5)
- Rickard Göransson – production (5)
- Carl Falk – production (7)
- Giorgio Tuinfort – co-production (7)
- Rami – production (7)
- Savan Kotecha – vocal production (7)
- Ariana Grande – vocal production (8)
- Harmony – production (8, 12, 14)
- Sauce – vocal production (8, 16)
- Tommy Brown – production (9)
- Twice as Nice – production (9)
- Ali Payami – production (10)
- Peter Svensson – production (10)
- Jo Blaq – vocal production (12, 14)
- Mikey – additional production (12)
- Mo-Keyz – additional production (12)
- Johan Carlsson – production (15, vocal production (15)
- Key Wane – production (16)
- Benny Blanco – production (17)
- Harvey Mason Jr. – vocal production (17)
- Ryan Tedder – production (17)
- Ron Fair – production (18)
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Release history
Region | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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Japan | September 27, 2017 |
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Republic | [9] |
References
- ↑ "The Best". Apple Music. Japan. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Ariana Grande – The Best". Universal Music Japan. Archived from the original on August 19, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
- ↑ "Japan Download Albums". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Japan Hot Albums". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Japan Top Album Sales". Billboard (in Japanese). October 9, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Oricon Top 50 Albums: 2017-10-09" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
- ↑ 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.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Hot Albums 2018 Year End". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved December 6, 2018.
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: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Discography - Ariana Grande". Universal Music Japan. Retrieved September 26, 2017.