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Ariana Grande‘s chart-topping Eternal Sunshine just broke another record thanks solely to the pop star’s 98-year-old grandmother, Marjorie “Nonna” Grande.
Nonna is featured on “Ordinary Things,” the closing track of Grande’s seventh studio album, giving her granddaughter some important romantic advice. The song debuted at No. 55 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Nonna the oldest living person to ever make the chart.
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Billboard sent Granny Grande a commemorative plaque honoring her achievement, a photo of which the Wicked star shared on social media.
“Celebrating the one and only, most beautiful Nonna who has now made history for being the senior most person to ever appear on the @billboard Hot100,” Grande wrote on Instagram. “We love and thank you.”
Nonna has a spoken word outro on “Ordinary Things,” and is credited on the song as a featured artist.
“And when he’d come home and I’d see him, when he first gets off that train, it was like God almighty arrived. It was like seein’ daylight,” Nonna is heard saying at the end of the track. “I mean, I could’ve packed up and left a million times, you know? It’s not that we never fought. You can overcome that, you know? It-it’s very easy.”
She goes on to advise, “And as I told her, never go to bed without kissin’ goodnight. That’s the worst thing to do, don’t ever, ever do that. And if you can’t, and if you don’t feel comfortable doing it, you’re in the wrong place, get out.”
Perhaps heeding her Nonna’s advice, Grande filed for divorce from husband Dalton Gomez in September 2023, after two years of marriage. She released the somber Eternal Sunshine back in March, generating the No. 1 hits “Yes And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends.” Both songs debuted atop the Hot 100, making her the the woman with the most Hot 100 number-one debuts.
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