The 25- year- old award- winning singer, Ariana Grande  is 201’8’s billboard woman of the year, she will be presented with the award on Dec. 6 at the 13th annual Women in Music dinner and awards gala in New York.

It has been quite a year for Grande, with her songs being in the top 10 with “breathin'” and “God is a woman” hitting no. 1 on the charts. Her latest chart-topper was August’s “Sweetener,” “No Tears Left to Cry” and “God Is a Woman” and scoring the largest streaming week ever for a pop album by a female artist upon its release.

This past weekend she released a new pop single “Thank you, next,” her single reached number one on pop trending songs on apple music and Spotify withing only 24 hours.

A statement by Billboard’s vice president, Ross Scarano says Grande, “consistently stands up for herself and her decisions in a world that often isn’t hospitable to that sort of strength in young women.”

In the past year, Grande created and organization, “one love Manchester” that helped raise 23 million for those who were affected during the Manchester bombing, Ariana is not only an amazingly talented music artist but she is such a genuine and caring person. She definitely deserves to be awarded as billboards “woman of the year 2018” not only for how many things she can go through as a person but she deserves to be recognized for all her hard work.