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Grande celebrated the tremendous success of her hit single, and its accompanying music video, in a recent Instagram post.

\"Thank u for seven weeks at number 1,\" she wrote.

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A post shared by Ariana Grande (@arianagrande) on Jan 2, 2019 at 12:54pm PST

\"What a beautiful start to this year,\" she added.

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