About Focus

"Focus" is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande. It was released on October 30, 2015, by Republic Records written by Grande, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson and its producers Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, and features horns with cowbells and handclaps as percussion. Originally intended to be the lead single off of Grande's third studio album, the song later scrapped and replaced by its title track "Dangerous Woman", and consequently removed from the album's standard edition.

The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Some praised Grande's vocals and the song's brassy production, and others criticized its similarity to her 2014 song "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, Greece, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. By January 2016, "Focus" sold 544,000 copies in the United States and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. It is also certified Diamond in Brazil. Its music video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, premiered on October 30, 2015 on Grande's Vevo channel. Until 2019, it remained the fourth most viewed music video on Grande's YouTube channel. She performed "Focus" at the November 22 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.