Ariana, Bieber raise $3.5m for child health charity

‘Stuck With U,’ Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s 2020 charity collaboration, has raised $3.5 million for the First Responders Children’s Foundation, reports Billboard.

On May 8, 2020, the two pop artists released their Covid-19 lockdown ballad. The team contributed 100 per cent of the earnings from the song’s streaming and sales to the organization while working with their manager Scooter Braun’s SB Projects and their companies Def Jam Recordings (Bieber) and Republic Records (Grande). The First Responders Children’s Foundation redirected the funds to thousands of families of first responders, including healthcare workers, paramedics, firefighters and EMTs who have fought the pandemic on the frontlines for the last year and a half.

The single debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Bieber’s sixth and Grande’s third chart-topper. According to Nielsen Music/MRC Data, ‘Stuck with U’ sold 108,000 downloads in its first week, making it the first song to sell 100,000 downloads in a single week since Taylor Swift’s ‘Me!’ starring Brendon Urie in May 2019.

The homemade accompanying visual featured Bieber and Grande with their respective partners Hailey Bieber and Dalton Gomez, as well as Demi Lovato, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Chance the Rapper, Michael Bublé, Jaden Smith and many more. ‘Stuck with U’ also won awards for best music video from home at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.