--- title: Ariana Grande's Album Has Silent Tribute to Manchester Victims description: Ariana Grande's new album Sweetener includes a silent tribute to the victims of the 2017 terrorist attack on her concert in Manchester canonical: https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-17T16:45:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:22.789Z og:title: Ariana Grande Included a Secret, Silent Tribute to Manchester Bombing Victims on Her New Album og:description: It's on a song called "Get Well Soon" og:url: https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta81b55066c7ac8ba/6989311597cdffaad76b54ac/gettyimages-692287220.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1945 og:image:height: 1094 og:image:alt: One Love Manchester Benefit Concert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ariana Grande Included a Secret, Silent Tribute to Manchester Bombing Victims on Her New Album twitter:description: It's on a song called "Get Well Soon" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta81b55066c7ac8ba/6989311597cdffaad76b54ac/gettyimages-692287220.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ariana Grande Included a Secret, Silent Tribute to Manchester Bombing Victims on Her New Album > Sponsored content. 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Kevin Mazur/One Love Manchester—Getty Images for One Love Manchester by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 17, 2018 4:45 PM UTC Ariana Grande’s new album _Sweetener_ includes a silent tribute to the fans who were killed in the [suicide bombing](http://time.com/4790072/manchester-terror-attack-how-to-help/) at her concert in Manchester, England. Grande released her song “No Tears Left To Cry,” as the first single from her fourth album. The song was written after 22 people were killed in a terrorist attack at her concert in 2017\. [More than](http://time.com/5286596/ariana-grande-anniversary-manchester-arena-attack/) 800 adults and children with both physical and psychological injuries. The heart-wrenching track wasn’t the only [tribute](http://time.com/4790194/ariana-grande-concert-manchester-bomb-victims/) to the bombing victims on the album. “Get Well Soon,” the final track on _Sweetener_, finishes with 40 seconds of silence, bringing the track’s run time to five minutes and 22 seconds, marking the date 5/22 that the bombing took place. Fans took to Twitter to comment on the album’s touching ending. > [](https://twitter.com/Chelseaxphelps/status/1030331083152343040) > [](https://twitter.com/bexcelia/status/1030381829210161152) > [](https://twitter.com/gabby%5Ffrost/status/1030477650920439814) > [](https://twitter.com/Jaavigaaarcia/status/1030349414844518400) > [](https://twitter.com/JemmaToon97/status/1030450998588989440) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/"},"headline":"Ariana Grande Included a Secret, Silent Tribute to Manchester Bombing Victims on Her New Album","datePublished":"2018-08-17T16:45:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:22.789Z","description":"It's on a song called \"Get Well Soon\"","url":"https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta81b55066c7ac8ba/6989311597cdffaad76b54ac/gettyimages-692287220.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta81b55066c7ac8ba/6989311597cdffaad76b54ac/gettyimages-692287220.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"One Love Manchester Benefit Concert","caption":"One Love Manchester Benefit Concert","creditText":"Kevin Mazur/One Love Manchester—Getty Images for One Love Manchester","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5370306/ariana-grande-tribute-manchester-victims-sweetener/","name":"Ariana Grande Included a Secret, Silent Tribute to Manchester Bombing Victims on Her New Album"}}]}] ```