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Thank U, Next
2019 studio album by Ariana Grande

Thank U, Next is the fifth studio album by American singer Ariana Grande, released on February 8, 2019, by Republic Records, following her Sweetener album. Created amid personal struggles, including the loss of Mac Miller and breakup with Pete Davidson, it features work from producers like Tommy Brown and Max Martin. Embracing pop, R&B, and trap sounds, it includes chart-topping singles such as the title track and 7 Rings, both debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Certified double platinum, the album received critical acclaim and multiple award nominations, solidifying Grande’s career and supported by the successful Sweetener World Tour.

Background and recording

In August 2018, singer Ariana Grande's Sweetener was released to critical acclaim, her best received album to that point. Grande began contemplating her follow-up as she prepared touring. Republic Records sought to bolster Sweetener's global rollout by releasing "Breathin" as the third single, but the label abruptly postponed their promotional endeavors when Grande's old friend and ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller, died from an accidental drug overdose in early September.1 Grande then took a brief hiatus from the media to record new material.23 By the following month, the still reticent singer expressed renewed interest in touring, one supporting both Sweetener and her forthcoming project, and she soon announced the initial leg of her Sweetener World Tour.4 At the same time, Grande ended her five-month engagement with comedian Pete Davidson.5

Thank U, Next's recording commenced less than two months after the release of Sweetener.6 The producers conducted most of their recordings at Jungle City Studios in New York City and scheduled additional sessions in New York's Right Track Studios, MXM, Conway Recording Studios and the Record Plant in metropolitan Los Angeles, Wolf Cousins Studios in Stockholm, and Entirety Studios in London.7

The fallout of Miller's death influenced Grande's choice of collaborators. She assembled Thank U, Next's production team from producers and songwriters with shared rapport to better cope with the trauma.8 Songwriters included her longtime collaborators Victoria Monet, Max Martin, Ilya Salmanzadeh, and Tommy Brown in addition to Tayla Parx, Charles Anderson, Social House's Michael Foster, and others.910

The development of Thank U, Next was unusually swift, but productive. Grande and her team wrote about nine songs in merely a week, and they completed most of the recording after another two weeks.11 Grande's team kept champagne in the studio, notably Veuve Clicquot, as later referenced in her collaboration with songwriter Victoria Monét, "Monopoly".12 Monét contributed to six songs, including "Ghostin", the first and simultaneously longest song to develop.13 Grande found creating "Ghostin" difficult and initially requested the song's exclusion from the final track listing.14

Composition

Music and lyrics

Thank U, Next is a pop, R&B and trap record with many influences of hip hop on its beats and productions.1516171819 It explores a diversity of other music genres, including dancehall, soul, pop-rap and many urban influences.20 Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone stated that the album is about a woman taking her mood "out for a drive until she pedal-to-the-metals it right off a cliff."21 In an interview with Zach Sang she said: "We walked to the studio everyday, and just made music and it turned everything around in my life. It sounds very corny but it was like, the most beautiful."22

Songs

The album begins with the song "Imagine",23 an R&B ballad with a trap-inspired rhythm.2425 The song features multiple whistle notes,26 and its lyrics speak about Grande's denial of failed relationships, specifically her relationship with Mac Miller.2728 The next track "Needy" is a mid-tempo minimalistic song with a metronome-like synth in the foreground.29[better source needed] Its lyrics are about Grande's insecurities in relationships.30 "NASA", named after the U.S. space agency of the same name,31 is a "bouncy-R&B tune" with "thumping bass and trap drums".3233 The track features a spoken introduction by Shangela, an American drag queen. She says, "One small step for woman, one giant leap for womankind",34 a variation on Neil Armstrong's quote, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."35 The fourth track is "Bloodline." It is a reggae-pop song with R&B influences that contains brassy horns and a pounding bass.3637 It has been compared to Grande's 2016 single "Side to Side" and "Greedy" from her third studio album, Dangerous Woman.38 The song features a sound bite from Marjorie Grande, Grande's grandmother, in which she is talking about a hearing aid.39 The Guardian wrote that the song "posits the idea that maybe it's best to just see how things go relationship-wise and getting engaged after a few months isn't essential", believing that this song is about Pete Davidson.40

The fifth track off the album is "Fake Smile", a hip hop soul-inspired track with a trap groove.41 Lyrically, the song is about the attack on her concert in Manchester and the death of ex-boyfriend Mac Miller, and the emotional toll that these events inflicted upon her.42 "Bad Idea" is an EDM and trap number, beginning with an 80's rock-ballad intro that garnered comparison to David Guetta's 2012 hit single "Titanium" featuring Sia.43 With an orchestra throughout the bridge and outro,44 its lyrics are about Grande's desire to numb her pain.45 The seventh track "Make Up" is Grande's most sexually explicit song on the album, featuring many double entendres.46 It is a trap record with wonky pop and bubblegum influences and it contains a "rap-influenced bridge".47 "Ghostin", the eighth track, is an emotional art pop synth-and-strings ballad.4849 Lyrically, it discusses Grande's last two relationships, stating that "she should ghost the guy that still makes her cry and wants to stop hurting the person she is with now while he is being patient with her," being Miller and Davidson.50 Savan Kotecha, who co-wrote the song with Grande, told Rolling Stone of working on the track: "[When we were writing] 'Ghostin,' we were in New York... The song speaks for itself in terms of what it's about. We were with her for a week in New York witnessing that, witnessing her feelings on that."51 According to Grande, she "begged" her manager, Scooter Braun, to remove the track from the album, but he convinced her to keep it.52

The ninth track "In My Head" begins with an excerpt of a voicemail from by Grande's close friend Doug Middlebrook.53 It is a trap-pop hybrid with many R&B influences.54 "7 Rings", the tenth track, is a trap-pop and R&B song.555657 It features a heavy bass58 and sees Grande discuss "how global success has allowed her to enjoy the finer things".59 Billboard magazine noted it's "the most hip-hop-leaning song Grande has released in the post-Sweetener era yet, with Grande almost rapping the song's verses".60 The album's lead single, "Thank U, Next" is the eleventh track on the album. A self-empowerment pop and R&B song with elements of synth-pop, its lyrics discuss many of Grande's past relationships.61626364 Grande explained in an interview that "thank u, next..." is a phrase that she and fellow singer/songwriter Victoria Monét use.65 The final track "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" is a trap-pop and R&B song.6667 It was said to be Grande's most eye-catching song from the album.68 The track replaced "Remember", a song previously planned to be on the album, but was too personal for Grande to release.6970 It samples "It Makes Me Ill" by NSYNC in the bridge.71

Release and promotion

Thank U, Next was released worldwide on February 8, 2019, by Republic Records,727374 five months and 22 days after Sweetener, which was released on August 17, 2018. On releasing the album so soon after her previous offering, Grande said she dreamed of putting out music like a rapper does and break "certain standards that pop women are held to that men aren't." Tired of previous release strategies used for her records, she explained: "'Bruh, I just want to fucking talk to my fans and sing and write music and drop it the way these boys do. Why do they get to make records like that and I don't?' So I do and I did and I am, and I will continue to."75

The album cover art, shot by Alfredo Flores, shows Grande laying upside-down on the floor with the album title painted on her neck. The digital edition cover features a pink border, whilst the physical edition features a black border.7677

Tour

Main article: Sweetener World Tour

On October 25, 2018, Grande officially announced the Sweetener World Tour, in promotion of both Thank U, Next and Sweetener.78 The tour began on March 18, 2019,79 and concluded on December 22, 2019. Normani and Social House were opening acts for the first leg of the tour.80

Singles

The title track was released as the lead single from the album on November 3, 2018, without prior announcements.8182 Commercially, the single was a massive success, peaking at number-one of the charts of 12 countries and breaking a string of records. The song also became Grande's first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100. She performed the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 7.83 Its accompanying music video was released on November 30, which broke the records for both the most-watched music video in YouTube within 24 hours and the fastest Vevo video to reach 100 million views on YouTube.8485 The song spawned an Internet meme, inspired by the lyrics "One taught me love/one taught me patience / one taught me pain".86 In a similar fashion, it has also been used as a slogan.87

"7 Rings" was released as the second single on January 18, 2019.88 The track was also commercially successful, peaking atop the charts of 15 countries, including the US, debuting atop of the Billboard Hot 100, making Grande the third female artist to have two or more songs debuting at the top slot of the Hot 100. This also made Grande the third artist in history to have an album with two songs that debuted at number one on the Hot 100, after Drake's Scorpion in 2018 and Mariah Carey's Daydream in 1995.89 It received generally mixed reviews from music critics,909192 and was the center of plagiarism accusations from multiple artists.939495 "7 Rings" was also nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.96

"Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" was released as the third single on February 8, 2019, the same day the album came out. The song debuted atop of the charts in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In the latter, Grande became the first female artist to replace herself at number one on the chart, and joined only three other artists in having three chart-topping singles in under 100 days.97 As the track became her fifth number-one single in Ireland, Grande now also holds the record for the most number ones in the 2010s decade on the chart, alongside Rihanna.98 "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" debuted at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's 13th top ten single on the chart. With this single at number two, "7 Rings" at number one and "Thank U, Next" at number three, Grande became the first artist to hold the top three on the chart since the Beatles in 1964.99

"Imagine" was released as the album's only promotional single on December 14, 2018.100 Grande performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on December 18.101

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.1/10102
Metacritic86/100103
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic104
The A.V. ClubA−105
Consequence Of SoundA−106
Entertainment WeeklyB+107
The Guardian108
The Independent109
The Irish Times110
NME111
Pitchfork7.9/10112
Rolling Stone113

Upon release, Thank U, Next received widespread acclaim from music critics.114115116 At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 86 based on 24 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim"; it is the highest Metascore for any of Grande's albums.117

Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone stated that Thank U, Next is "one of the year's best pop albums so far, even in a 2019 that's already turning out to be a great one for new music. Thank U, Next makes you suspect that the best Ariana is yet to come."118 Ross Horton from The Line of Best Fit praised both the songwriting and production of the album, stating that it is an "airtight, dense pop record with an obnoxiously brash production" and commenting that "even the most delicate, sensual things here are tightly compressed and scrubbed of anything resembling acoustics."119 AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine also gave the album a positive review, commenting that "Grande is swaggering with [...] confidence" and concluding that the album "embodies every aspect of Ariana Grande, the grand pop star."120 Mikael Wood of the Los Angeles Times said, "Thank U, Next flaunts Grande's emotional healing; it's suffused with the joy of discovering that what didn't kill her really did make her stronger."121

Michael Cragg of The Guardian commented that Thank U, Next seems to be a "result of a burst of creativity and a prevailing mood", yet criticized "7 Rings" as a "braggadocious, ice-cold low point" of the album. He concluded positively, stating that Grande is a "pop star [...] finally working out who they are and what they want to say" and compared the album to Rihanna's Anti.122 Helen Brown from The Independent stated that Grande is "embracing her inner mean girl (on the sexy "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored") [and] owning her flaws and contradictions" on tracks such as "Needy" and "NASA", yet concluded that the album lacks enough "vocal grit".123 Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine awarded the album three-and-a-half stars out of five, believing that the album "is easily Grande's most sonically consistent effort to date". He criticized that "some of the [...] tracks tend to blur together", but ultimately concluded in saying that Grande's "refusal to fake a smile that proves to be what makes her so damn likeable."124 In a capsule review for Vice, Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention () and summed it up as Grande's "maturing from multitracked studio trickeration to straight love songs—love songs an old grouch might complain are all too superstar-specific"; the title track and "Ghostin'" were cited as highlights.125

MTV named it as one of the ten albums of 2019, stating that the album "unpacks love, lust, and pain in a metallic pop coating. It's cooler, weirder, and deeper than Sweetener, and manages to make that project look shockingly surface-level".126 Billboard ranked Thank U, Next as their number one best album of 2019, stating that "the pop princess officially became a queen".127 This was also the second consecutive year that Billboard ranked Grande's album as the best of year after naming the artist's previous album, Sweetener, as their number one best album of 2018.128 Billboard complimented Grande's liberation to guilt, emotional restraint and independence, they said "in the aftermath of her personal struggles from that year, she found solace in the studio, sipping champagne with her friends and collaborators, while writing and recording the best album of her career in just two weeks". Thank U, Next placed on Billboard's decade end album's list "The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s", at number eight.

Year-end accolades

Year-end and decade-end lists
PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
AllMusicBest of 2019Placed129
BBCTop 10 Albums of 20198130
BillboardThe 50 Best Albums of 20191131
ComplexThe Best Albums of 20193132
The GuardianThe 50 Best Albums of 201916133
The IndependentThe 50 Best Albums of 201942134
The New York TimesBest Albums of 201911135
NMEThe 50 Best Albums of 201930136
PitchforkThe 50 Best Albums of 201929137
Rolling StoneThe 50 Best Albums of 20191138

Decade-end accolades

Decade-end lists
PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
BillboardThe 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s8139
Consequence of SoundTop 100 Albums of the 2010s97140
Rolling StoneThe 100 Best Albums of the 2010s30141
UproxxThe Best Albums of the 2010s48142

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for Thank U, Next
YearOrganizationAwardResultRef.
2019People's Choice AwardsAlbum of 2019Nominated143
American Music AwardsFavorite Pop/Rock AlbumNominated144
LOS40 Music AwardsBest International AlbumNominated145
2020Grammy AwardsAlbum of the YearNominated146
Best Pop Vocal AlbumNominated
Juno AwardsInternational Album of the YearNominated147
Billboard Music AwardsTop Billboard 200 AlbumNominated148

Commercial performance

United States

Thank U, Next debuted at number-one on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 360,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week, of which 116,000 came from pure sales. It was Grande's fourth number one album, and second in less than six months; marking the shortest gap between number one albums for a woman at the time since Olivia Newton-John's If You Love Me, Let Me Know (1974) and Have You Ever Been Mellow (1975). Its opening week figure of 360,000 was also the largest for a pop album since Taylor Swift's Reputation (2017). Thank U, Next's tracks collected a total of 307 million on-demand audio streams in its first week, representing the largest US streaming week ever for a female artist and pop album. Overall, it earned the eighth-largest streaming debut ever in the US. Billboard also noted that of the 20 largest album streaming weeks at the time, Thank U, Next was the only non-hip hop title present.149

On the Billboard Hot 100 chart, issue dated February 20, all 12 songs from Thank U, Next appeared simultaneously; eleven of those songs appeared in the top 40, breaking the record for the most simultaneous top 40 entries by a female artist.150 The following week, issue dated February 27, all 12 of the album's tracks remained on the chart for a second consecutive week.151 In its second week, the album remained atop the chart, earning an additional 151,000 units, consisting of 20,000 pure album sales, becoming Grande's first album to spend multiple weeks at number one. It earned 168.6 million on-demand streams in its second week, marking (at the time) the third-largest streaming week ever by a woman, and the second-largest for a pop album, behind its own first week figure.152

Thank U, Next was 2019's second-best-performing album on the Billboard 200 chart. It spent a total of 171 weeks on the chart, becoming Grande's longest-running album.153 Combining singles sales and streaming, Thank U, Next sold 2.056 million units throughout 2019,154 and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for exceeding two million units in the US in June 2020.155 As of June 2020, the album has sold 302,000 units in the country.156

Elsewhere

In the United Kingdom, Thank U, Next debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart with 65,000 album-equivalent units. The album became Grande's third number-one on the chart and marked her largest album opening week to date there. Earning 59 million streams, Thank U, Next set a new record for most album streams ever by a female artist in a week in the country, beating her previous album, Sweetener.157 It spent two additional weeks at number one in the UK.158 Following its release, "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, replacing "7 Rings", with the latter returning to number one the following week, making Grande the first female solo artist since Madonna in 1985 to simultaneously hold the number one and two spots on the UK Singles Chart and the first musical artist to replace herself twice consecutively at number one in UK chart history. Also, "Needy" peaked at number eight on the chart.159 Thank U, Next also was 2019's third fastest-selling download by a female artist in the UK, behind Taylor Swift's Lover and Pink's Hurts 2B Human.160

In Canada, Thank U, Next debuted at number one on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart, marking Grande's third number one in the country. It also scored the largest streaming week by a female artist in the country at the time (29 million audio streams). The album remained atop the chart for three weeks, and became the country's third-most-streamed album of 2019.161162 Additionally, all 12 of the album's tracks charted on the Canadian Hot 100 simultaneously, for two consecutive weeks.163

In Ireland, Thank U, Next also became Grande's third number one on the Irish Albums Chart, selling nearly 5,389 units, more than the rest of the top five combined (according to Official Charts Company).164 Upon its release, Thank U, Next became the only female album of the 2010s decade to feature three Irish number-one singles. Following the album's success, Sweetener (2018) arose three places to number eight, and Dangerous Woman (2016) re-entered the top 50 at number 43.165 In Australia, Thank U, Next debuted at number one on the Australian Albums Chart, becoming Grande's fourth number one in the territory. All 12 album tracks also appeared on the ARIA Singles Chart.166

Thank U, Next has sold more than one million pure copies worldwide. It was the eighth best-selling album of 2019 globally and ranked fourth among female artists.167

Track listing

Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Imagine"3:32
2."Needy"Brown2:51
3."NASA"
  • Brown
  • Anderson
3:02
4."Bloodline"
  • Martin
  • Ilya
3:36
5."Fake Smile"
  • Pop Wansel
  • Happy Perez
3:28
6."Bad Idea"
  • Grande
  • Martin
  • Salmanzadeh
  • Kotecha
  • Martin
  • Ilya
4:27
7."Make Up"
  • Grande
  • Monét
  • Parx
  • Brown
  • Brian Baptiste
  • Brown
  • Baptiste
2:20
8."Ghostin"
  • Grande
  • Monét
  • Parx
  • Martin
  • Salmanzadeh
  • Kotecha
  • Martin
  • Ilya
4:31
9."In My Head"
  • Grande
  • Wansel
  • Perez
  • Brittany "Chi" Coney
  • Denisia Andrews
  • Lindel Deon Nelson, Jr.
  • Roberts
3:42
10."7 Rings"
  • Brown
  • Anderson
  • Foster
2:58
11."Thank U, Next"
  • Grande
  • Monét
  • Parx
  • Brown
  • Anderson
  • Foster
  • Vitia
  • Krysiuk
  • Brown
  • Anderson
  • Foster
3:27
12."Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored"
  • Martin
  • Ilya
3:10
Total length:41:11
Japanese CD/DVD deluxe edition (bonus tracks)
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
13."7 Rings" (remix; featuring 2 Chainz)
  • Grande
  • Monét
  • Foster
  • Anderson
  • Parx
  • Vitia
  • Krysiuk
  • Brown
  • Rodgers
  • Hammerstein II
  • Tauheed Epps
  • Brown
  • Anderson
  • Foster
2:58
14."Monopoly" (with Victoria Monét)
  • Grande
  • Monét
  • Foster
  • Anderson
  • Tim Suby
2:38
Total length:46:47
Japanese CD/DVD deluxe edition (DVD content)168
No.TitleDirector(s)Length
1."Thank U, Next" (music video)Hannah Lux Davis5:30
2."7 Rings" (music video)Lux Davis3:04
3."Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" (music video)Lux Davis3:24
Total length:11:58

Notes

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal and the album's liner notes.169170171

Vocals

Instrumentation

  • Happy Perez – guitar (tracks 1, 5, 9), keyboards (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Pop Wansel – keyboards (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Peter Lee Johnson – strings (track 2)
  • Wojtek Bylund – alto saxophone (track 4)
  • Ilya Salmanzadeh – bass (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), drums (tracks 4, 6, 12), guitar (tracks 4, 6, 8), keyboards (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), string arrangement (track 6)
  • Janne Bjerger – trumpet (track 4)
  • Max Martin – bass (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), drums (tracks 4, 6, 12), guitar (tracks 4, 6, 8), keyboards (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), string arrangement (track 6)
  • Mattias Bylund – horns arrangement (track 4), strings (tracks 6, 8), string arrangement (track 6), violin (track 6)
  • Magnus Johannson – trumpet (track 4)
  • Peter Noos Johannson – trombone (track 4)
  • Tomas Jonnson (Jonsson)173tenor saxophone (track 4)
  • JProof – keyboards (tracks 5, 9)
  • David Bukovinszky – cello (tracks 6, 8)
  • Alexander West – guitar (track 7)
  • Larrance Dopson – guitar (track 7)
  • Mattias Johansson – violin (track 8)

Production

  • Ariana Grande – executive production, vocal production (all tracks), musical arranger (track 11)
  • Scooter Braun – executive production
  • Happy Perez – production (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Pop Wansel – production (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Tommy Brown – production (tracks 2–3, 7, 10–11)
  • Charles Anderson – production (tracks 3, 10–11)
  • Max Martin – production (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), vocal production (track 8)
  • Ilya Salmanzadeh – production (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12), vocal production (track 8)
  • Brian Baptiste – production (track 7)
  • Michael Foster – production (tracks 10–11)
  • Victoria Monét – vocal production (tracks 2–3, 7–8, 10–11)
  • Tayla Parx – vocal production (tracks 2, 7)
  • Nova Wav – co-production (track 9)
  • Andrew Luftman – production coordination (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Sarah Shelton – production coordination (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Zvi Edelman – production coordination (tracks 1, 5, 9)

Technical

  • Happy Perez – programming (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Pop Wansel – programming (tracks 1, 5, 9)
  • Tommy Brown – programming (tracks 2–3, 10)
  • Charles Anderson – programming (tracks 3, 10)
  • Ilya Salmanzadeh – programming (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12)
  • Max Martin – programming (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12)
  • Michael Foster – programming (track 10)
  • John Hanes – mixing (tracks 1–3, 10), mixing assistance (tracks 4–9, 11–12)
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (all tracks)
  • Billy Hickey – engineering (tracks 2, 3, 7, 10, 11)
  • Sam Holland – engineering (tracks 6, 8)
  • Brendan Morawski – recording (track 1), engineering (tracks 2, 3, 5, 7–11)
  • Joe Gallagher – recording (track 1), engineering (tracks 5, 9)
  • Sean Klein – recording assistance (tracks 1–3, 5, 7–8, 10, 11), remix engineering assistance (track 9)
  • Jeremy Lertola – recording assistance (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12)
  • Cory Bice – recording assistance (tracks 4, 6, 8, 12)

Artwork

  • Jessica Severn – art direction and design
  • Brian "kid orange" Nicholson – Neck tag/graffiti artwork174
  • Alfredo Flores – photography

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Thank U, Next
Chart (2019–2024)Peakposition
Argentine Albums (CAPIF)1751
Australian Albums (ARIA)1761
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)1771
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)1781
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)1793
Canadian Albums (Billboard)1801
Croatian International Albums (HDU)1812
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)1821
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)1831
Estonian Albums (Eesti Tipp-40)1841
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)1852
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)1862
French Albums (SNEP)1873
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)1883
Greek Albums (IFPI)1896
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)19011
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn)1912
Irish Albums (IRMA)1921
Italian Albums (FIMI)1932
Japan Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)19410
Japanese Albums (Oricon)19512
Latvian Albums (LAIPA)1961
Lithuanian Albums (AGATA)1971
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)1981
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)1991
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)2001
Polish Albums (ZPAV)2013
Portuguese Albums (AFP)2022
Scottish Albums (OCC)2031
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)2042
South Korean Albums (Gaon)20530
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)2063
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)2071
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)2082
UK Albums (OCC)2091
US Billboard 2002101

Monthly charts

Monthly chart performance for Thank U, Next
Chart (2019)Position
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)2112
Japanese International Albums (Oricon)2125
Slovak Albums (ČNS IFPI)2132
South Korean Albums (Gaon)21483

Year-end charts

2019 year-end chart positions for Thank U, Next
Chart (2019)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)2157
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)21640
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)21711
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)21846
Canadian Albums (Billboard)2193
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)22013
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)22111
French Albums (SNEP)22259
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)22380
Icelandic Albums (Tónlistinn)2248
Irish Albums (IRMA)2256
Italian Albums (FIMI)22659
Latvian Albums (LAIPA)2273
Mexican Albums (AMPROFON)2285
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)2293
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)2306
Polish Albums (ZPAV)23160
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)23244
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)23310
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)23443
UK Albums (OCC)2357
US Billboard 2002362
Worldwide (IFPI)2378
2020 year-end chart positions for Thank U, Next
Chart (2020)Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)23868
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)23974
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)240158
Danish Albums (Hitlisten)24184
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)24280
French Albums (SNEP)243187
Irish Albums (IRMA)24440
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)24543
UK Albums (OCC)24674
US Billboard 20024757
2021 year-end chart positions for Thank U, Next
Chart (2021)Position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)248151
Polish Albums (ZPAV)24931
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)25099
US Billboard 20025192
2022 year-end chart positions for Thank U, Next
Chart (2022)Position
Polish Albums (ZPAV)25291

Decade-end charts

Decade-end chart performance for Thank U, Next
Chart (2010–2019)Position
US Billboard 20025368

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Thank U, Next
RegionCertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)254Platinum70,000‡
Austria (IFPI Austria)255Gold7,500‡
Belgium (BRMA)256Gold10,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)257Diamond160,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)2584× Platinum320,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)2592× Platinum40,000‡
France (SNEP)260Platinum100,000‡
Germany (BVMI)261Gold100,000‡
Italy (FIMI)262Platinum50,000‡
Mexico (AMPROFON)263Platinum60,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)2645× Platinum75,000‡
Norway (IFPI Norway)2654× Platinum80,000*
Poland (ZPAV)2664× Platinum80,000‡
Portugal (AFP)267Gold3,500‡
Singapore (RIAS)2682× Platinum20,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)269Gold20,000‡
Sweden (GLF)270Platinum30,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)2714× Platinum80,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)272Platinum494,000273
United States (RIAA)2742× Platinum2,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release formats for Thank U, Next
RegionDateVersionFormat(s)LabelRef.
VariousFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)StandardRepublic275276
May 10, 2019 (2019-05-10)LP277
JapanJune 26, 2019 (2019-06-26)DeluxeUniversal278

See also

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