Ariana's 'thank u, next' beats Adele's 'Hello' to fastest 100 million views

The song was released three weeks after the singer's breakup with Pete Davidson

LOS ANGELES: Ariana Grande’s breakup anthem thank u, next has become the fastest music video to reach 100 million views, video hosting service Vevo said on Tuesday.

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The single, released after the 25-year-old singer’s much publicised breakup with fiance Pete Davidson, has also topped the Billboard charts for three weeks, giving Grande the biggest hit of her seven-year career.

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Vevo said the thank u, next video, in which Grande recreates scenes from popular women’s empowerment movies Legally Blonde and Mean Girls, reached 100 million views in under four days following its November 30 release.

The previous record was held by British singer Adele’s Hello comeback music video in 2015, which took five days to reach 100 million views, Vevo said.

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“100 million already. Thank you, everybody. We love you and are so excited,” Grande tweeted.

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The video also features cameo appearances from Legally Blonde actor Jennifer Coolidge, singer Troye Sivan and Kris Jenner, the matriarch of the Kardashian reality TV show family.

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The song thank u, next was released just three weeks after Grande and Davidson, whose engagement in June 2018 - after dating for less than two months - became a celebrity media sensation, split up in October.

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Grande, who has 137 million Instagram followers, sings with affection of Davidson and another ex-boyfriend, rapper Mac Miller who died in Los Angeles in September 2018 after a drug overdose, but she also sings that she has found a new love - herself.

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