

It reached the number one spot on the iTunes Sales Chart soon after its release.
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It was made available for purchase as a digital download on iTunes a few hours after the TRL premiere. "Break Free" premiered on the one-day revival of the MTV show Total Request Live in a half-hour special titled Total Ariana Live on July 2, 2014. On June 28, Grande uploaded a teaser video with a snippet of the song to her Instagram account. To build hype, Grande started an online countdown for the ten days leading up to "Break Free's" release. Grande began dropping hints about her second single on social media throughout the month of June but did not confirm that it was her Zedd collaboration until June 21, at which point she also revealed the song's name on Twitter. He's fantastic and the song is really fun." My whole team is like, 'Oh it's too early to pick a new single,' but I'm really leaning towards that one. I really want that to be the second single. She said, "I did a song with Zedd, who I just met for the first time here, and I'm really excited about that song. On May 10, 2014, during an interview after her performance at Wango Tango, Grande revealed that she wanted "Break Free" to be her next single after " Problem". I am not going to sing a grammatically incorrect lyric, help me, God! Max was like, 'It's funny - just do it!'" Release Ariana Grande commented on the seemingly nonsensical lyrics, telling Time magazine, "I fought on it the whole time. Īccording to the sheet music published at by Kobalt Music Services America, "Break Free" is written in the key of G minor. She described the song as "fantastic and super-experimental for me" and further stated, "I never thought I'd do an EDM song, but that was an eye-opening experience, and now all I want to do is dance." She later talked about the song at Wango Tango and shared that she wanted it to be the next single. And luckily, now there's a song!" Grande first spoke about collaborating on a song with Zedd in late April in an interview with Billboard. And I didn't know who it was, and I just said 'I want to make a song with whoever is singing right now.' I didn't know who it was, and it turned out to be her. He said, "I was backstage and I heard someone sing. In a May 2014 interview during which he talked about "Break Free", Zedd spoke about wanting to collaborate with Grande after hearing her voice for the first time at a Universal showcase.

The song was originally intended for a male singer, due to her working on his 2013 single "Say Somethin". "Break Free" was written by Savan Kotecha, Zedd and Max Martin and produced by the latter two. Problems playing this file? See media help. Consequently, she became the second lead female artist in chart history to simultaneously hold three positions in the top ten on the Hot 100 after Adele. "Break Free" also marked a milestone in Grande's career, as it entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week " Bang Bang" and " Problem" were charting.

The song has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA and has sold 1.9 million copies in the United States as of 2018, making it Grande's seventh single to have sold over a million. Overall, the song attained top-ten peaks in multiple countries including Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, as well as reaching the top twenty in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Similarly, "Break Free" hit number three on the Australian ARIA Charts, and number five on the Canadian Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart.

"Break Free" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's third consecutive top-ten from My Everything after "Problem" and "Bang Bang", and fourth overall in the US. Musically, the song explores EDM and electro genres, a musical departure for Grande, whose discography is primarily composed of pop and R&B. The song was made available by digital download later that day and was serviced to contemporary hit and rhythmic radio on July 8, 2014, as the second single from Grande's second studio album My Everything (2014). Written by Savan Kotecha and its producers Zedd and Max Martin, it premiered on July 2, 2014, on Total Ariana Live, MTV's revival of Total Request Live. " Break Free" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande featuring Russian-German music producer Zedd. For other songs with this title, see Break Free. This article is about the Ariana Grande song.
