Ariana Grande is really under a microscope these days.

Some say she’s so thin, she could fit under one!

But her voice isn’t thin and neither are her sales.

Ariana’s new album, “Petal,” debuted at number 1 on Friday with 291,853 copies sold according to hitsdailydouble.com.

A little more than half were physical sales, too. The rest came from streaming.

Ariana may not be spending Sunday in the Park with George, but she’ll be taking September off with a nice big hit under her belt.

Ariana outsold the other new album of the week — by country star Shaboozey — by miles.

Shaboozey, who struck gold with “The Bar Song” two years ago, sold only 31,618 copies of his new album.

The problem is that “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is one of those singles than wreck a career, like Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.” They get lodged in the culture, and nothing can follow it up. “A Bar Song” will haunt him forever.

A surprise dud of the summer season: Gracie Abrams’ “Daughter from Hell.” It debuted at number 1 two weeks ago, but fell apart quickly without a hit single. Now it’s 59 on iTunes and gone from the main charts. A Taylor Swift disciple, Abrams perhaps relied on good will and not enough marketing for the album.

Madonna has finally posted a tribute to late producer and collaborator William Orbit.

She mentions his “crooked teeth.” See below.

Madonna fails to note Orbit’s scathing post from March 17th of this year, when he said she ignored his plan to make a sequel to their “Ray of Light” album. She wouldn’t even speak to him.

Orbit wrote: “I am writing a book, and that’s where I will put that entire story along with my candid reflections…Have transitioned now to a man for whom Fs are no longer on offer. Zero fucks. For the music biz. But who likes to hear somebody go on about feeling good. So, for the history books, she doesn’t love me any more waaaaaaaaaaaah”

It gets worse.

Orbit wrote: “Right. Let’s put this Madonna ROL 2.0 thing to rest here and now folks. Can get exhausting. Is NOT going to happen. Look, why don’t I just lay it out, cos I get asked constantly. I have an album ready that imho is indeed the successor to ROL. Everything about how it was made and how it sounds yells that from the first few bars. And I reached out. And there has been heard. Nil response. A week later. I speak with many close to her, including fam, but have not had a single syllable back in over two decades…last time we spoke was at in Midtown Manhattan, MSR Studios, for MDNA.”

Orbit continues: “Zero zero absolute zero hard feelings. Are you kidding, I will always love that woman. For real. She made my career. But am I crying?”

You can read his whole post below. In case it gets taken down, I’ve screen shot it.

Was Orbit ill in March and reviewing his life? Was something else going on? I don’t know. Maybe we will learn more. And get to see his book.

RIP.

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The family of Madonna collaborator William Orbit says he died on July 23rd.

Orbit was 69 years old. He wrote and produced Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” “Music,” and her best single, “Beautiful Stranger.”

The family does not say what happened to Orbit, whose real name was William Mark Wainwright.

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Brandi Carlile has just taken a wrecking ball to her tour schedule in Europe and the UK.

She’s the latest artist to cancel or reschedule shows –in this case a whole tour — “due to personal circumstances.”

Now her fall tour abroad has been moved to next spring 2027. Some cities have been changed, others dropped.

It’s kind of a colossal mess.

Lately, artist after artist has been dropping or changing dates at a moment’s notice either for illness of lack of ticket sales. The Lionel Richie/Earth Wind & Fire tour just did it for the second time, Barry Manilow just moved a date, and on and on. I thought Mercury was out of retrograde but I guess I’m wrong. These are not easy decisions. Brandi doesn’t explain anything else, but let’s hope she and her band are ok.

Meantime, her current tour in the US is sold out, including August 18th at Tanglewood in the Berkshires.

She writes on social media:

To my friends in the UK and Europe,

I need to let you know that due to personal circumstances, I have no choice but to reschedule my UK and European tour from this fall to the spring.

I have been so profoundly anxious about this decision and I’m aware that this change may be disappointing and inconvenient for many of you, especially those of you who were planning on traveling internationally, but I am hoping this gives you all enough time to adjust any plans.

My team has been working really hard behind the scenes to reschedule the tour with as little disruption as possible. However, due to availability, a few of the venues have changed, but we thought it was more important to get back over there and play these shows as soon as we possibly could. The good news is, this has also enabled us to add more shows which I couldn’t be more excited to play!

To my beloved Portuguese fans, sadly Lisbon was the only show that we could not make work with these rescheduled dates. I’m so sorry and I promise we will do everything in our power to get back to you as soon as we can.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. I want nothing more than to see my friends across the pond and I have done everything in my power to avoid rescheduling this tour. I sincerely hope you’ll all come back and see me in the spring. I promise I will make it up to you and that it will be worth the wait!

With love and gratitude,

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