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| Single by Ariana Grande | ||||
| Released | October 30, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2015 | |||
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| Genre | Funk-pop | |||
| Length | 3:31 | |||
| Label | Republic | |||
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| "Focus" on YouTube | ||||
"Focus" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande. It was released on October 30, 2015, by Republic Records. Originally intended to be the lead single off of Grande's third studio album, Dangerous Woman, then named Moonlight, the song was scrapped from the album with its title track serving as the official lead single. The song appears as a bonus track on the Japan deluxe edition of the album. Written by Grande, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson and produced by Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, the song features horns with cowbells and handclaps as percussion.
The song received mixed reviews from music critics who praised Grande's vocals and the song's brassy production but criticized its similarity to her 2014 hit "Problem". "Focus" debuted at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with 113,000 downloads in its first week. It was Grande's sixth top-ten single, and her first unaccompanied by another artist. The song also reached the top ten in Canada, Australia, Austria, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. By January 2016, "Focus" sold 544,000 copies in the United States and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.
Its music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, premiered on October 30, 2015, on Grande's YouTube channel. Until 2019, it remained the fourth most viewed music video on Grande's YouTube channel. She performed "Focus" at the 2015 American Music Awards and at the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles concert, and it was on the set list of the second leg of Grande's 2017 Dangerous Woman Tour.