Ariana Grande shares new live performance of ‘Santa Tell Me’ to celebrate 10th anniversary

Ariana Grande has shared a new live performance of ‘Santa Tell Me’, right in time for Christmas.

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Last night (December 23), Grande took to Instagram to post a snippet of a new live performance of the 2014 track to not only usher in the Christmas season but to celebrate the song’s 10th anniversary.

She wrote on social media: “celebrating ten years of ‘Santa Tell Me’! thank you so much for all of the love you have shown this record over the past decade. wishing you all a happy, happy holiday!”

She has also shared the full performance on YouTube, which can be seen below. Per the video, the performance was recorded during her ‘Eternal Sunshine’ sessions earlier this year, where she performed other tracks to promote her latest album.

The release of the performance comes just days after Spotify declared Grande’s ‘Santa Tell Me’ as the most-streamed Christmas song from the 2010s, as well as the third most-streamed Christmas song of all time behind Wham!‘s ‘Last Christmas’ and Mariah Carey‘s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’.

Following the release of Grande’s ‘Eternal Sunshine’, she has only made two live performances: one for Saturday Night Live, and one at the 2024 Met Gala. She recently revealed that she doesn’t foresee herself returning to music “anytime soon”, although she said that “music will always be a part of my life”. For now, she plans to focus on her acting career, and is gearing up for Wicked: For Good in 2025.

In a four-star review of Wicked, Nick Levine wrote for NME: “Erivo and Grande are both vocally extraordinary. Crucially, they also have crackling chemistry punctuated by Erivo’s bursts of intensity and Grande’s slick comic timing. By the end, you won’t quite be levitating off your seat but you’ll definitely be enchanted enough to stream the soundtrack on the way home. Funny, colourful and full of empathy for outsiders, this film really is the Shiz.”

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