It’s a banner week in the career of Ariana Grande, who racks up her third consecutive No.1 album with Thank U, Next, which simultaneously provides her fifth (and its third) No.1 single in the form of Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored, which dethrones her fourth (and its second), 7 Rings.

Grande’s fifth studio album, Thank U, Next’s release comes less than six months after her fourth, Sweetener, which opened on sales of 44,755 copies last August – a ...