When Ariana Grande sang “We Can’t Be Friends,” she certainly wasn’t talking about Jimmy Fallon.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon announced Grande as the talk and musical guest for the June 6 episode of the Emmy-nominated late-night show on Thursday (May 30) via the show’s official Instagram page.
Grande’s upcoming appearance is particularly special. This will mark the “7 Rings” singer’s 11th guest spot on The Tonight Show, as well as her first late-night interview since 2021. Grande will perform “The Boy Is Mine,” the latest single from her Billboard 200-topping Eternal Sunshine, and discuss her latest LP. The official music video for “The Boy Is Mine,” which some fans speculate will star You actor Penn Badgley is set to arrive the following day (June 7).
2024 has already been a banner year for Grande, and some of her biggest moments are still yet to come. At the top of the year, she earned her eighth Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 single with the house banger “Yes, And?” (chart dated Jan. 27), helping her tie Beyoncé for the eighth-most Hot 100 chart-toppers among female soloists. The Max Martin-helmed track, which Mariah Carey blessed with a remix, also extended Grande’s record for being the first artist in Billboard history to debut in the top 10 on the Hot 100 with each lead single from her first seven studio albums.
The same week Eternal Sunshine became Grande’s sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, second single “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” which received an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-inspired music video starring Evan Peters, debuted atop the Hot 100, marking her ninth No. 1 single and making her the female artist with the most No. 1 debuts in history alongside Taylor Swift (seven).
Of course, music isn’t the only field in which the singer-actress has shined this year. This fall, she will star opposite Cynthia Erivo in part one of the Wicked movie musical, which arrives Nov. 27. Grande plays Glinda the Good Witch to Erivo’s Elphaba, while Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, Bowen Yang, Peter Dinklage, Ethan Slater and Keala Settle round out the cast.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights on NBC at 11:35 p.m. See the show’s announcement below:
