Ariana Grande’s “Hate That I Made You Love Me” lifts to the top of Billboard’s Pop Airplay chart (dated Sept. 12). The song marks the superstar’s 11th No. 1 at the format, while parent album Petal becomes her record-rewriting seventh consecutive album with a leader on the list.
With the track, from Grande’s Babydoll/Republic album Petal, she ties for the third-most No. 1s in the Pop Airplay chart’s three-and-a-half-decade history. Taylor Swift leads with 15 No. 1s, followed by Bruno Mars (13). Justin Bieber, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, Rihanna also have 11 each.
(Pop Airplay ranks songs by weekly plays on nearly 150 mainstream top 40 radio stations monitored by Mediabase, with data provided to Billboard by Luminate.)
Meanwhile, Grande now boasts at least one Pop Airplay No. 1 from each of her last seven proper studio albums, from 2014’s My Everything through Petal. That’s solely the best streak over the chart’s archives, surpassing Rihanna’s six-album run in 2006-2013.
Here’s a recap of Grande’s 11 Pop Airplay leaders, and the albums of hers on which they appear:
- “Hate That I Made You Love Me,” one week to date, Sept. 12, 2026 (Petal)
- “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” two weeks, beginning May 25, 2024 (Eternal Sunshine)
- “Die for You” (with The Weeknd), two, Feb. 11, 2023
- “34+35,” three, Feb. 13, 2021 (Positions)
- “Positions,” seven, Dec. 26, 2020 (Positions)
- “7 Rings,” six, March 16, 2019 (Thank U, Next)
- “Thank U, Next,” one, Jan. 26, 2019 (Thank U, Next)
- “God Is a Woman,” one, Nov. 10, 2018 (Sweetener)
- “No Tears Left to Cry,” one, July 21, 2018 (Sweetener)
- “Side to Side” (feat. Nicki Minaj), five, Dec. 24, 2016 (Dangerous Woman)
- “Problem” (feat. Iggy Azalea), two, July 12, 2014 (My Everything)
Grande cowrote and coproduced “Hate That I Made You Love Me” with Max Martin and ILYA. Marking more records, Martin extends his Pop Airplay totals to an unprecedented 47 No. 1s as a writer and 41 as a producer.
The track soared in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June, becoming Grande’s milestone 10th leader. Martin added his 30th No. 1 as a writer and his record-extending 28th as a producer.
In August, Petal bloomed as Grande’s seventh No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Helping drive the success of “Hate That I Made You Love Me”? Its “stellar rhyme design,” notes Hit Songs Deconstructed, which analyzes top 10 Hot 100 hits. “Rather than saving all of its catchiness for the chorus, the song uses strategic end-of-line rhymes, internal rhymes, repetition, alliteration and precise rhyme placement to make the verse, pre-chorus and chorus each feel highly engaging in their own right.”
All Billboard charts dated Sept. 12 will update Wednesday, Sept. 9, on Billboard.com.
