Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson Join Mariah Carey Onstage to Sing 'Oh Santa' During Christmas Tour

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Fans have a lot of thoughts on Ariana Grande’s new reflective post about her “challenging” 2023!

with her costar broke in July, Ariana Grande has seemingly spoken out about the backlash.In an Instagram Story posted on December 29, Grande shared a long end-of-year message about “one of the most transformative, most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years” of her life. She doesn't directly mention her relationship with Slater (nor the ), but it doesn't take much reading between the lines to understand what she's referring to when she talks about “whispers” and “assumptions.”The saga continues.By “I have never felt more pride or joy or love while simultaneously feeling so deeply misunderstood by people who don't know me, who piece whispers together and make what they want out of me and their assumptions of my life,” Grande wrote in part.

Ariana Grande has looked back on her 2023, admitting that while she has “never felt more pride or joy or love”, she has also felt “so deeply misunderstood by people who don’t know me”.Grande has largely been away from the spotlight for much of 2023 while she’s been working on the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Positions’ but earlier this year addressed fans’ “concerns” over her body by urging them to be kinder to others and remember that “healthy can look different”.In a new post on her Instagram story, Grande wrote that 2023 was “one of the most transformative, yet most challenging, and yet happiest and most special years of my life. there were so many beautiful and yet polarised feelings.“I’ve never felt more at the mercy of and in acceptance of what life was screaming to teach me.

Ariana Grande and her boyfriend, Ethan Slater, are going strong after their controversial beginnings. The couple keeps a low profile, but on December 23rd they were photographed on a rare outing in New York City. They were with her father, Ed Butera.The couple went to eat at an Italian restaurant with Butera and a blonde friend.

Scooter Braun might no longer be working with Ariana Grande, but he’s still in her corner.

Ariana Grande has continued to tease new music by sending a package and a note to fans.The package contained a red lipstick from Grande’s beauty brand r.e.m and a photo featuring a close-up of her mouth in which she appears to be wearing a similar shade of lipstick. It was accompanied by a note reading ‘See you next year’, which also seems to have been written in lipstick.Grande went on to share more teasers for her forthcoming seventh album – the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Positions’ – in a new post on her Instagram.One photo confirmed that producer Ilya Salmanzadeh had worked on the album.

side to side with her beau. The two-time Grammy Award winner was seen making a rare public appearance in New York City with her boyfriend, Broadway “Spamalot” star Ethan Slater, 31.

and judge wore a black bra top with diamond studded tassels and a red robe, both from , along with a black glittery high-waisted midi skirt. Some might call this outfit more naughty than nice for Christmas Eve.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Mariah Carey already held the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but she has put it even further out of anyone else’s grasp by claiming a 93rd week on top, thanks to “All I Want for Christmas” continuing its annual reign again this week. The song is No.

posted a video of her 12-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan, begging her not to perform “All I Want For Christmas Is You.”“Mom, please. We don’t want to do this every time,” Moroccan says to Carey, who is dressed in her iconic red and white suit, while Monroe agrees.

a source of psychic strain and emotional damage. Still, crippling carols and all, Christmas music is an enduring piece of our national landscape. In the words of Post columnist Rich Lowry: “American tastes have drastically changed over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has remained largely the same.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s a secret to having a Christmas record that is successful in the 21st century: Put it out before 1970. That’s clear from just looking at the top 10 songs each December, and knowing that Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first two weeks of this month.

Mariah Carey will be celebrating the holidays with her children this year. News broke yesterday that the iconic singer and her long-time boyfriend, Bryan Tanaka, have broken up. The couple has been together since 2016, which undoubtedly left a big impact on both of their lives.

Ariana Grande is showing off her Christmas decorations!

Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka have broken up, but it is now confirmed. The singer and dancer have been together since 2016, but when he was absent from her Merry Christmas One and All! tour that started in November, fans knew something was up.Page Six confirmed the news Wednesday, with a source saying their 14-year age gap played a role.

Madonna got in some quality time with Santa Claus before the busiest night of his year.

Todd Gilchrist editor Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why the two-disc set “Now That’s What I Call Christmas” was certified 6x platinum just three years after its 2001 release).

Wham! taking the lead for the peak position on the charts.The news follows a neck-and-neck race between the iconic ‘80s pop duo Wham! And Eurovision star Sam Ryder over the past week, with their respective songs ‘Last Christmas’ [1986] and ‘You’re Christmas To Me’ [2023].At the first look at the race last week, just 42 chart units stood between the two taking the top spot on the UK charts, however, this week it has been revealed by the Official Charts that Wham! are in pole position, and have widened the gap between Ryder’s Amazon Music original track – which remains at Number Two.However, it doesn’t seem likely that the charts will stay this way until Christmas, with Ryder set to play a fan-exclusive gig tonight (December 19) in Shoreditch, London, in a push to promote the song in time for Christmas Day.Similarly, today (December 19) The Pogues are sharing a special, limited-edition physical run of their own iconic Christmas song ‘Fairytale Of New York’ in a push to climb the charts.Originally released in 1988 and featuring Kirsty MacColl, the track is being reissued in memory of the band’s late singer Shane MacGowan, who died “peacefully” in hospital from pneumonia on November 30. He was 65 years old and his funeral took place in Nenagh, County Tipperary on December 8.All proceeds from the reissue will be donated to the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, and the release also arrived alongside a fan campaign to get Fairytale of New York to Christmas Number 1 for the first time.The push for the top position on the charts has also been endorsed by Shane MacGowan’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke.

Sam Ryder has admitted that he would “love” for The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’ to beat him to this year’s Christmas Number One spot.The Eurovision star is one of the competitors in this year’s race, with his single ‘You’re Christmas to Me’, taken from the film Your Christmas or Mine 2.However, since the news broke of the death of Shane MacGowan, fans of his festive classic are rallying to get that track to the Christmas Number One. It has never gone above second place in the UK charts, peaking there on its initial release in 1987.