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Ariana Grande writes her way to songwriter of the year at 2025 SESAC L.A. Awards

Ariana Grande collects songwriter of the year at the 2025 SESAC L.A. Music Awards and scoops song of the year for “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” a track that crowned the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2024.

Universal Music Publishing Group, which published the single, is named publisher of the year, sharing space on the winners’ list with producers Dez Wright and The Legendary Traxster, recognized for contributions to works with Beyoncé, Travis Scott, and Megan Thee Stallion.

Ariana Grande wins VMA with visual gloom and a shoutout to “therapists and gay people”

Ariana Grande collects the Video of the Year trophy at the VMAs for “Brighter Days Ahead,” a longform visual narrative stitched together with polished melancholy and frame-perfect sentimentality.

Onstage, she sidesteps cliché gratitude lists and quips her thanks to “my therapists and gay people,” folding sincerity into irreverence like a true product of post-modern pop stardom.