Ariana Grande’s new single shoots into the top 10 thanks to her famous collaborators

Ariana Grande recently selected her song “The Boy Is Mine” as the third official single from her new album Forget it!The singer is doing everything she can to promote the song and make it a real hit, including hiring some famous faces to add a creative touch to the song and add some star power to the production.

On Friday (June 21), Grande released a new version of “The Boy Is Mine” that features two superstars. The reworked cut now includes both Brandy and Monica, and their presence has sparked a buying frenzy.

The collaborative edition of “The Boy Is Mine” is storming the iTunes charts in the US. At the time of writing, the song is ranked 8th in the list of best-selling tracks in America on the platform.

Monica and Brandy are the women who made “The Boy Is Mine” a hit in the first place. They released their duet in 1998 and it reached number one on the Hot 100. The hit spent 13 weeks at the top of the major song charts in the US and has remained an R&B classic ever since.

If Grande’s updated version of “The Boy Is Mine” continues to sell well, the song could be on the Billboard charts next week. Depending on how this new release fares—compared to Grande’s original solo effort—Monica and Brandy could be on their way to another hit on multiple charts. Billboard adds the name of a featured artist to a song that is already in the charts if their version is the most consumed during a given tracking period.

This week, “The Boy Is Mine” returns to the Hot 100 after Grande released the single’s music video. The song currently sits at No. 64 on the country’s most-consumed track chart, but will likely climb back up soon.

“The Boy Is Mine” reached number 16 on the Hot 100 when Grande released Forget it!. Fans immediately picked it as a standout track from the album, so it’s no surprise that it was chosen as the project’s latest single. The song follows two number one hits, as both “Yes, And?” and “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” topped the charts for a time.

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