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Break Free (song)

October 20, 2023

This article is about the Ariana Grande song. For other songs with this title, see Break Free.

"Break Free" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande featuring Russian-German music producer Zedd. Written by Savan Kotecha and its producers Zedd and Max Martin, it premiered on July 2, 2014, on Total Ariana Live, MTV's revival of Total Request Live. The song was made available by digital download later that day and was serviced to contemporary hit and rhythmic radio on July 8, 2014, as the second single from Grande's second studio album My Everything (2014). Musically, the song explores EDM and electro genres, a musical departure for Grande, whose discography is primarily composed of pop and R&B.[4][5][2]

"Break Free"
Single by Ariana Grande featuring Zedd
from the album My Everything
ReleasedJuly 2, 2014 (2014-07-02)
Recorded
  • 2014
StudioConway Recording Studios
Genre
Length3:34
LabelRepublic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Zedd
  • Max Martin
Ariana Grande singles chronology
"Problem"
(2014) 		"Break Free"
(2014) 		"Bang Bang"
(2014)
Zedd singles chronology
"Find You"
(2014) 		"Break Free"
(2014) 		"I Want You to Know"
(2015)
Music video
"Break Free" on YouTube

"Break Free" peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's third consecutive top-ten from My Everything after "Problem" and "Bang Bang", and fourth overall in the US. Similarly, "Break Free" hit number three on the Australian ARIA Charts, and number five on the Canadian Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart.[6] Overall, the song attained top-ten peaks in multiple countries including Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden, as well as reaching the top twenty in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

The song has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA and has sold 1.9 million copies in the United States as of 2018, making it Grande's seventh single to have sold over a million.[6] "Break Free" also marked a milestone in Grande's career, as it entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week "Bang Bang" and "Problem" were charting. Consequently, she became the second lead female artist in chart history to simultaneously hold three positions in the top ten on the Hot 100 after Adele.

Production and composition Edit

 
"Break Free"
A 22-second sample of the song, featuring Grande singing over an electronic trance beat, a musical departure from her previous singles.
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"Break Free" was written by Savan Kotecha, Zedd and Max Martin and produced by the latter two.[7][8] The song was originally intended for a male singer, due to her working on his 2013 single "Say Somethin". In a May 2014 interview during which he talked about "Break Free", Zedd spoke about wanting to collaborate with Grande after hearing her voice for the first time at a Universal showcase. He said, "I was backstage and I heard someone sing. And I didn't know who it was, and I just said 'I want to make a song with whoever is singing right now.' I didn't know who it was, and it turned out to be her. And luckily, now there's a song!"[7][9] Grande first spoke about collaborating on a song with Zedd in late April in an interview with Billboard. She described the song as "fantastic and super-experimental for me" and further stated, "I never thought I'd do an EDM song, but that was an eye-opening experience, and now all I want to do is dance."[10][11] She later talked about the song at Wango Tango and shared that she wanted it to be the next single.[12][13]

According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Kobalt Music Services America, "Break Free" is written in the key of G minor.[14] Ariana Grande commented on the seemingly nonsensical lyrics, telling Time magazine, "I fought [Max Martin] on it the whole time. I am not going to sing a grammatically incorrect lyric, help me, God! Max was like, 'It's funny — just do it!'"[15]

Release Edit

On May 10, 2014, during an interview after her performance at Wango Tango, Grande revealed that she wanted "Break Free" to be her next single after "Problem". She said, "I did a song with Zedd, who I just met for the first time here, and I'm really excited about that song. I really want that to be the second single. My whole team is like, 'Oh it's too early to pick a new single,' but I'm really leaning towards that one. I love that song so much. He's fantastic and the song is really fun."[16]

Grande began dropping hints about her second single on social media throughout the month of June but did not confirm that it was her Zedd collaboration until June 21, at which point she also revealed the song's name on Twitter. To build hype, Grande started an online countdown for the ten days leading up to "Break Free's" release. On June 28, Grande uploaded a teaser video with a snippet of the song to her Instagram account.[17]

"Break Free" premiered on the one-day revival of the MTV show Total Request Live in a half-hour special titled Total Ariana Live on July 2, 2014.[18] It was made available for purchase as a digital download on iTunes a few hours after the TRL premiere.[19][20] It reached the number one spot on the iTunes Sales Chart soon after its release.[21]

Critical reception Edit

Rachel Sonis from Idolator gave the song a positive review calling it "the club anthem of the summer" and thought that Grande herself is "dipping her toes into exciting new waters for her upcoming record."[22] Lewis Corner from Digital Spy gave the song four stars out of five and said that the track is "too catchy to be generic".[23] Larry Fitzmaurice from Pitchfork also liked the song praising both the production part of the song and the vocal saying that, "from the zippy opening synth line to the verse's insistent pounding, 'Break Free' certainly invites comparisons to Swedish pop mastermind Robyn; as ever, Grande brings her own skyscraping voice in top form, so vocally the comparisons don't stick." He compared the message of the song to Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone".[2]

"Break Free" was nominated at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards in the Break-Up Song category.[24] It was also nominated for Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.[25]

Accolades Edit

Year Organization Award Result Ref.
2014 Teen Choice Awards Choice Break-Up Song Nominated [26]
2015 Billboard Music Awards Top Dance/Electronic Song Nominated [27]
Telehit Awards Most Popular Video in Telehit Nominated [28]

Commercial performance Edit

In the United States, "Break Free" debuted at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 161,000 digital downloads sold in its first week, entering the Digital Songs chart at number five.[29][30] Following the release of the song's official music video on August 12, "Break Free" soared on the Hot 100 from number 18 to number four, becoming Grande's fourth top-ten single and her third consecutive top-ten single of 2014.[31] Grande's other singles, "Bang Bang" and "Problem" were also in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten that week, placing at number ten and seven respectively. With three songs in the top ten, Ariana Grande became the second female lead artist to have three singles in the top ten since Adele in 2012. In that same week, "Break Free" jumped from 14 to four on the Billboard Digital Songs charts with 116,000 digital downloads sold, along with "Bang Bang" and the promotional single "Best Mistake" (featuring Big Sean) ranking at numbers two and six respectively. Consequently, Grande became the first female artist to have three songs placing in the top six of the Billboard Digital Songs chart simultaneously and the second overall artist since Michael Jackson.[32] This also marked Zedd's second top ten and his highest-peaking single to date in the US. "Break Free" also peaked at number three on the Dance Club Songs, while topping the Dance/Electronic Songs chart for nine weeks, becoming Grande's and Zedd's first number one in the latter. The song has sold 1.9 million copies in the nation as of April 2018.[6]

Internationally, the song also reached the top ten in Australia,[33] Austria,[34] Canada,[35] Finland,[36] Ireland,[37] Netherlands,[38] New Zealand,[39] Poland,[40] and Sweden.[41]

Impact Edit

In March 2022, "Break Free" has received attention in the Philippines during a campaign rally for presidential candidate, Vice President Leni Robredo and her running mate, Sen. Francis Pangilinan. A video of the crowd singing "Break Free" went viral, catching the attention of Grande herself. Grande posted the video on Instagram, stating "I could not believe this was real. I love you more than words". An estimated 137,000 people attended the rally.[42]

Music video Edit

 
Grande is seen removing clothing while floating in zero gravity, paying homage to the opening scene of the 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella.[43]

The music video was filmed from June 10–12, 2014.[44] It was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero. Having an intergalactic theme, Grande stated that the video was inspired by the 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella, the Star Wars series and space in general.[45][46][47][48] The plot consists of Grande on a fictional planet renouncing her allegiance to an evil regime of extraterrestrials and freeing a group of prisoners from their cages. She subsequently attacks a giant robot using missiles, but the robot managed to release its hand to catch her, bringing her to the planet's overlord. Her character succeeds in defeating the villain, and the clip ends with Grande and the prisoners she rescued flying away in a spaceship, partying with the crew, as Beats by Dre products are visible in the scene. The song's producer Zedd makes an appearance.

It premiered on YouTube on August 12, 2014. It surpassed 100 million views on October 5, making it Grande's third Vevo-certified music video after "The Way" and "Problem". It made its televised debut three days later on Disney Channel during its original movie How to Build a Better Boy.[49][50] As of May 2019, the video has received over 1 billion views on YouTube.[51]

Live performances Edit

Grande first performed at the "IHeartRadio Theater at the L.A Honda Stage" on August 22, 2014. She performs the song for the second time at the 31st annual MTV Video Music Awards on August 24, 2014.[52] She then went on to perform it on several television shows, including America's Got Talent on August 27,[53] on Today on August 29,[54] and on The X Factor Australia on September 8.[55] She also performed it at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 19.[56][57] She performed a half acoustic, half upbeat version of "Break Free" on Saturday Night Live on September 27, 2014.[58] Grande once again performed "Break Free" at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards on November 9, 2014, opening up the show along with her other single "Problem". Grande performed the song at the American Music Awards on November 23, 2014.[59] "Break Free" was part of Grande's set list for the Honeymoon Tour, the Dangerous Woman Tour and One Love Manchester, a benefit concert held on June 4, 2017, for the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing.[60]

The song was also performed at Grande's Sweetener World Tour on all dates from March 18 to November 22, 2019, before it was removed.

Credits and personnel Edit

Credits adapted from My Everything liner notes.[61]

Recording and management

Personnel

  • Ariana Grande – lead vocals, background vocals
  • Zedd – songwriting, production, programming, instruments, mixing
  • Max Martin – songwriting, production for MXM Productions
  • Savan Kotecha – songwriting
  • Ryan Shanahan – engineering
  • Jesse Taub – engineering
  • Sam Holland – engineering
  • Cory Bice – engineering
  • Tom Coyne – mastering
  • Aya Merrill – mastering

Other versions Edit

For its sixth season, the hit musical-comedy TV series Glee covered this song in the ninth episode titled "Child Star". This version is performed by Lea Michele, Josie Totah, Dot-Marie Jones, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, and Chord Overstreet as their characters Rachel Berry, Myron Muskovitz, Sheldon Beiste, Sue Sylvester, Will Schuester, and Sam Evans, respectively. A small portion of the lyrics is changed for an unknown reason.

Fantasy-comedy series The Good Place uses the original recording of this song as background music for a sequence in its series premiere "Everything Is Fine".

Reese Witherspoon and Nick Kroll performed this in the 2021 animated feature Sing 2 as Rosita and Gunther.

Dakota Lotus, Olivia Sanabia and Ruby Rose Turner sing a portion of the song in a 2020 episode of Coop & Cami Ask the World in their respective roles as Coop, Charlotte and Cami, after Ariana Grande fails to show up at Cami's birthday party. The episode aired during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The song appears in the 2019 Max Martin jukebox musical & Juliet. The song appears in Act 1, where it is performed by Angelique and Lance.

Charts Edit

Certifications and sales Edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[132] 6× Platinum 420,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[133] 4× Platinum 320,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[134] Platinum 400,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[135] 2× Platinum 100,000‡
Japan (RIAJ)[136] Platinum 250,000*
Netherlands (NVPI)[137] 2× Platinum 60,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[138] Gold 7,500*
Norway (IFPI Norway)[139] 4× Platinum 240,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[140] Gold 5,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[141] Platinum 40,000‡
Sweden (GLF)[142] 4× Platinum 160,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[143] Gold 15,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[144] Platinum 600,000‡
United States (RIAA)[145] 3× Platinum 1,900,000[6]
Streaming
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[146] Platinum 2,600,000†
Japan (RIAJ)[147] Gold 50,000,000†
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[148] Platinum 8,000,000†

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

Release history Edit

"Break Free" release history
Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
United States July 3, 2014 Digital download Republic [149]
France July 4, 2014 [150]
Italy [151]
Japan [152]
United States July 8, 2014
[153]
United Kingdom August 6, 2014 Digital download [154]
Italy September 26, 2014 Radio airplay Universal [155]

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This article is about the Ariana Grande song For other songs with this title see Break Free Break Free is a song by American singer Ariana Grande featuring Russian German music producer Zedd Written by Savan Kotecha and its producers Zedd and Max Martin it premiered on July 2 2014 on Total Ariana Live MTV s revival of Total Request Live The song was made available by digital download later that day and was serviced to contemporary hit and rhythmic radio on July 8 2014 as the second single from Grande s second studio album My Everything 2014 Musically the song explores EDM and electro genres a musical departure for Grande whose discography is primarily composed of pop and R amp B 4 5 2 Break Free Single by Ariana Grande featuring Zeddfrom the album My EverythingReleasedJuly 2 2014 2014 07 02 Recorded2014StudioConway Recording Studios Los Angeles California Zedd1 Studio Santa Monica California GenreElectro house 1 synth pop 2 EDM 3 Length3 34LabelRepublicSongwriter s Anton Zaslavski Max Martin Savan KotechaProducer s Zedd Max MartinAriana Grande singles chronology Problem 2014 Break Free 2014 Bang Bang 2014 Zedd singles chronology Find You 2014 Break Free 2014 I Want You to Know 2015 Music video Break Free on YouTube Break Free peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Grande s third consecutive top ten from My Everything after Problem and Bang Bang and fourth overall in the US Similarly Break Free hit number three on the Australian ARIA Charts and number five on the Canadian Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart 6 Overall the song attained top ten peaks in multiple countries including Austria Czech Republic Finland Ireland the Netherlands Norway Poland Slovakia and Sweden as well as reaching the top twenty in Belgium Denmark Germany Italy Japan Poland Scotland South Korea Spain Switzerland and the United Kingdom The song has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA and has sold 1 9 million copies in the United States as of 2018 making it Grande s seventh single to have sold over a million 6 Break Free also marked a milestone in Grande s career as it entered the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 the same week Bang Bang and Problem were charting Consequently she became the second lead female artist in chart history to simultaneously hold three positions in the top ten on the Hot 100 after Adele Contents 1 Production and composition 2 Release 3 Critical reception 4 Accolades 5 Commercial performance 6 Impact 7 Music video 8 Live performances 9 Credits and personnel 10 Other versions 11 Charts 11 1 Weekly charts 11 2 Year end charts 11 3 Decade end charts 12 Certifications and sales 13 Release history 14 ReferencesProduction and composition Edit nbsp Break Free source source A 22 second sample of the song featuring Grande singing over an electronic trance beat a musical departure from her previous singles Problems playing this file See media help Break Free was written by Savan Kotecha Zedd and Max Martin and produced by the latter two 7 8 The song was originally intended for a male singer due to her working on his 2013 single Say Somethin In a May 2014 interview during which he talked about Break Free Zedd spoke about wanting to collaborate with Grande after hearing her voice for the first time at a Universal showcase He said I was backstage and I heard someone sing And I didn t know who it was and I just said I want to make a song with whoever is singing right now I didn t know who it was and it turned out to be her And luckily now there s a song 7 9 Grande first spoke about collaborating on a song with Zedd in late April in an interview with Billboard She described the song as fantastic and super experimental for me and further stated I never thought I d do an EDM song but that was an eye opening experience and now all I want to do is dance 10 11 She later talked about the song at Wango Tango and shared that she wanted it to be the next single 12 13 According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes com by Kobalt Music Services America Break Free is written in the key of G minor 14 Ariana Grande commented on the seemingly nonsensical lyrics telling Time magazine I fought Max Martin on it the whole time I am not going to sing a grammatically incorrect lyric help me God Max was like It s funny just do it 15 Release EditOn May 10 2014 during an interview after her performance at Wango Tango Grande revealed that she wanted Break Free to be her next single after Problem She said I did a song with Zedd who I just met for the first time here and I m really excited about that song I really want that to be the second single My whole team is like Oh it s too early to pick a new single but I m really leaning towards that one I love that song so much He s fantastic and the song is really fun 16 Grande began dropping hints about her second single on social media throughout the month of June but did not confirm that it was her Zedd collaboration until June 21 at which point she also revealed the song s name on Twitter To build hype Grande started an online countdown for the ten days leading up to Break Free s release On June 28 Grande uploaded a teaser video with a snippet of the song to her Instagram account 17 Break Free premiered on the one day revival of the MTV show Total Request Live in a half hour special titled Total Ariana Live on July 2 2014 18 It was made available for purchase as a digital download on iTunes a few hours after the TRL premiere 19 20 It reached the number one spot on the iTunes Sales Chart soon after its release 21 Critical reception EditRachel Sonis from Idolator gave the song a positive review calling it the club anthem of the summer and thought that Grande herself is dipping her toes into exciting new waters for her upcoming record 22 Lewis Corner from Digital Spy gave the song four stars out of five and said that the track is too catchy to be generic 23 Larry Fitzmaurice from Pitchfork also liked the song praising both the production part of the song and the vocal saying that from the zippy opening synth line to the verse s insistent pounding Break Free certainly invites comparisons to Swedish pop mastermind Robyn as ever Grande brings her own skyscraping voice in top form so vocally the comparisons don t stick He compared the message of the song to Kelly Clarkson s Since U Been Gone 2 Break Free was nominated at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards in the Break Up Song category 24 It was also nominated for Top Dance Electronic Song at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards 25 Accolades EditYear Organization Award Result Ref 2014 Teen Choice Awards Choice Break Up Song Nominated 26 2015 Billboard Music Awards Top Dance Electronic Song Nominated 27 Telehit Awards Most Popular Video in Telehit Nominated 28 Commercial performance EditIn the United States Break Free debuted at number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 161 000 digital downloads sold in its first week entering the Digital Songs chart at number five 29 30 Following the release of the song s official music video on August 12 Break Free soared on the Hot 100 from number 18 to number four becoming Grande s fourth top ten single and her third consecutive top ten single of 2014 31 Grande s other singles Bang Bang and Problem were also in the Billboard Hot 100 top ten that week placing at number ten and seven respectively With three songs in the top ten Ariana Grande became the second female lead artist to have three singles in the top ten since Adele in 2012 In that same week Break Free jumped from 14 to four on the Billboard Digital Songs charts with 116 000 digital downloads sold along with Bang Bang and the promotional single Best Mistake featuring Big Sean ranking at numbers two and six respectively Consequently Grande became the first female artist to have three songs placing in the top six of the Billboard Digital Songs chart simultaneously and the second overall artist since Michael Jackson 32 This also marked Zedd s second top ten and his highest peaking single to date in the US Break Free also peaked at number three on the Dance Club Songs while topping the Dance Electronic Songs chart for nine weeks becoming Grande s and Zedd s first number one in the latter The song has sold 1 9 million copies in the nation as of April 2018 6 Internationally the song also reached the top ten in Australia 33 Austria 34 Canada 35 Finland 36 Ireland 37 Netherlands 38 New Zealand 39 Poland 40 and Sweden 41 Impact EditIn March 2022 Break Free has received attention in the Philippines during a campaign rally for presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo and her running mate Sen Francis Pangilinan A video of the crowd singing Break Free went viral catching the attention of Grande herself Grande posted the video on Instagram stating I could not believe this was real I love you more than words An estimated 137 000 people attended the rally 42 Music video Edit nbsp Grande is seen removing clothing while floating in zero gravity paying homage to the opening scene of the 1968 sci fi film Barbarella 43 The music video was filmed from June 10 12 2014 44 It was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero Having an intergalactic theme Grande stated that the video was inspired by the 1968 sci fi film Barbarella the Star Wars series and space in general 45 46 47 48 The plot consists of Grande on a fictional planet renouncing her allegiance to an evil regime of extraterrestrials and freeing a group of prisoners from their cages She subsequently attacks a giant robot using missiles but the robot managed to release its hand to catch her bringing her to the planet s overlord Her character succeeds in defeating the villain and the clip ends with Grande and the prisoners she rescued flying away in a spaceship partying with the crew as Beats by Dre products are visible in the scene The song s producer Zedd makes an appearance It premiered on YouTube on August 12 2014 It surpassed 100 million views on October 5 making it Grande s third Vevo certified music video after The Way and Problem It made its televised debut three days later on Disney Channel during its original movie How to Build a Better Boy 49 50 As of May 2019 the video has received over 1 billion views on YouTube 51 Live performances EditGrande first performed at the IHeartRadio Theater at the L A Honda Stage on August 22 2014 She performs the song for the second time at the 31st annual MTV Video Music Awards on August 24 2014 52 She then went on to perform it on several television shows including America s Got Talent on August 27 53 on Today on August 29 54 and on The X Factor Australia on September 8 55 She also performed it at the iHeartRadio Music Festival on September 19 56 57 She performed a half acoustic half upbeat version of Break Free on Saturday Night Live on September 27 2014 58 Grande once again performed Break Free at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards on November 9 2014 opening up the show along with her other single Problem Grande performed the song at the American Music Awards on November 23 2014 59 Break Free was part of Grande s set list for the Honeymoon Tour the Dangerous Woman Tour and One Love Manchester a benefit concert held on June 4 2017 for the victims of the Manchester Arena bombing 60 The song was also performed at Grande s Sweetener World Tour on all dates from March 18 to November 22 2019 before it was removed Credits and personnel EditCredits adapted from My Everything liner notes 61 Recording and management Recorded at Conway Recording Studios Los Angeles California and Zedd1 Studio Santa Monica California Mastered at Sterling Sound New York City New York Zedd Music Empire ASCAP all rights administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing MXM administered by Kobalt ASCAP MXM administered by Kobalt ASCAP Personnel Ariana Grande lead vocals background vocals Zedd songwriting production programming instruments mixing Max Martin songwriting production for MXM Productions Savan Kotecha songwriting Ryan Shanahan engineering Jesse Taub engineering Sam Holland engineering Cory Bice engineering Tom Coyne mastering Aya Merrill masteringOther versions EditFor its sixth season the hit musical comedy TV series Glee covered this song in the ninth episode titled Child Star This version is performed by Lea Michele Josie Totah Dot Marie Jones Jane Lynch Matthew Morrison and Chord Overstreet as their characters Rachel Berry Myron Muskovitz Sheldon Beiste Sue Sylvester Will Schuester and Sam Evans respectively A small portion of the lyrics is changed for an unknown reason Fantasy comedy series The Good Place uses the original recording of this song as background music for a sequence in its series premiere Everything Is Fine Reese Witherspoon and Nick Kroll performed this in the 2021 animated feature Sing 2 as Rosita and Gunther Dakota Lotus Olivia Sanabia and Ruby Rose Turner sing a portion of the song in a 2020 episode of Coop amp Cami Ask the World in their respective roles as Coop Charlotte and Cami after Ariana Grande fails to show up at Cami s birthday party The episode aired during the COVID 19 pandemic The song appears in the 2019 Max Martin jukebox musical amp Juliet The song appears in Act 1 where it is performed by Angelique and Lance Charts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2014 2017 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 62 3Australia Dance ARIA 63 1Austria O3 Austria Top 40 64 5Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 65 17Belgium Dance Ultratop Flanders 66 13Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 67 17Belgium Dance Ultratop Wallonia 68 2Brazil Billboard Brasil Hot 100 69 81Canada Canadian Hot 100 70 5Canada AC Billboard 71 29Canada CHR Top 40 Billboard 72 3Canada Hot AC Billboard 73 10Czech Republic Radio Top 100 74 30Czech Republic Singles Digital Top 100 75 3Denmark Tracklisten 76 19Euro Digital Song Sales Billboard 77 12Finland Suomen virallinen lista 78 4France SNEP 79 27Germany Official German Charts 80 12Ireland IRMA 81 9Italy FIMI 82 16Japan Japan Hot 100 83 19Mexico Airplay Billboard 84 17Netherlands Dutch Top 40 85 3Netherlands Single Top 100 86 6New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 87 5Norway VG lista 88 4Poland Polish Airplay Top 100 89 9Poland Dance Top 50 90 19Scotland OCC 91 12Slovakia Radio Top 100 92 21Slovakia Singles Digital Top 100 93 3Slovenia SloTop50 94 49South Korea International Chart GAON 95 12Spain PROMUSICAE 96 9Sweden Sverigetopplistan 97 6Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 98 15UK Singles OCC 99 16US Billboard Hot 100 100 4US Adult Contemporary Billboard 101 26US Adult Top 40 Billboard 102 23US Dance Club Songs Billboard 103 3US Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 104 1US Latin Pop Airplay Billboard 105 39US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 106 4US Rhythmic Billboard 107 15Venezuela Record Report 108 78 Year end charts Edit Chart 2014 PositionAustralia ARIA 109 39Austria O3 Austria Top 40 110 71Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 111 96Belgium Dance Ultratop Flanders 112 55Belgium Dance Ultratop Wallonia 113 30Canada Canadian Hot 100 114 33France SNEP 115 139Germany Official German Charts 116 84Italy FIMI 117 61Japan Japan Hot 100 118 72Netherlands Dutch Top 40 119 19Netherlands Single Top 100 120 21Sweden Sverigetopplistan 121 32UK Singles OCC 122 86US Billboard Hot 100 123 37US Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 124 6US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 125 26Chart 2015 PositionJapan Japan Hot 100 126 61Spain PROMUSICAE 127 89US Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 128 13Chart 2016 PositionJapan Japan Hot 100 129 61Chart 2017 PositionJapan Streaming Songs Billboard Japan 130 34Decade end charts Edit Chart 2013 2019 PositionUS Hot Dance Electronic Songs Billboard 131 20Certifications and sales EditRegion Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 132 6 Platinum 420 000 Canada Music Canada 133 4 Platinum 320 000 Germany BVMI 134 Platinum 400 000 Italy FIMI 135 2 Platinum 100 000 Japan RIAJ 136 Platinum 250 000 Netherlands NVPI 137 2 Platinum 60 000 New Zealand RMNZ 138 Gold 7 500 Norway IFPI Norway 139 4 Platinum 240 000 Portugal AFP 140 Gold 5 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 141 Platinum 40 000 Sweden GLF 142 4 Platinum 160 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 143 Gold 15 000 United Kingdom BPI 144 Platinum 600 000 United States RIAA 145 3 Platinum 1 900 000 6 StreamingDenmark IFPI Danmark 146 Platinum 2 600 000 Japan RIAJ 147 Gold 50 000 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 148 Platinum 8 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Streaming only figures based on certification alone Release history Edit Break Free release history Region Date Format s Label Ref United States July 3 2014 Digital download Republic 149 France July 4 2014 150 Italy 151 Japan 152 United States July 8 2014 Contemporary hit radiorhythmic contemporary radio 153 United Kingdom August 6 2014 Digital download 154 Italy September 26 2014 Radio airplay Universal 155 References Edit Corner Lewis August 13 2014 Break Free Single Review Digital Spy a b c Ariana Grande Break Free ft Zedd Pitchfork Retrieved 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