Manchester hero Ariana Grande been crowned the ‘most influential woman in the world’ in a report ranking Google searches, Wikipedia views, social media followers and GIFs.

In 2017, the US pop star became an honorary Manchester citizen after she raised millions of pounds for the victims of the Arena attack.

Now a new report from The Body Shop has named the list of the ‘world’s most influential women’.

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The report is based on numbers of Google searches, social media followers, Wikipedia page views and GIFs.

Here’s how Ariana ranked:

  • Google searches: 7,392,000
  • Wikipedia views: 7,558,269
  • Social media followers: 328,300,000
  • GIFs: 1,995

The ‘God is a Woman’ singer rose to fame on the Nickelodeon series Victorious and rose to stardom after signing a record deal in 2011. Her debut album went straight number one.

She is also a well-known for being vegan and advocating a plant-based diet.

The star uses her social media platform to regularly promote charities.

After the Manchester Arena attack, she hosted the One Love Manchester benefit, which raised almost £20m to support victims of the atrocity.

By the age of 28, Ariana had won two Grammys and was the highest-paid female musician on Forbes’ 2020 Celebrity 100 list, listed as being worth $72 million.

To add to her accolades, she is also the most followed woman on Instagram, with over 256 million followers, and had over 7.5m Wikipedia page views in 2020 alone.

Coming second was Kim Kardashian, a businesswoman whose claim to fame can be attributed to the hit American TV show ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ – the show also featured the fifth most influential woman, Kylie Jenner.

In third place was American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, whose songs have regularly hit the top of the charts in different parts of the world.

Here’s the top 10 influential women, according to The Body Shop :

1. Ariana Grande

2. Kim Kardarshian

3. Taylor Swift

4. Kamala Harris

5. Kylie Jenner

6. Billie Eilish

7. Selena Gomez

8. Katy Perry

9. Beyoncé Knowles

10. Jenifer Lopez