Songfacts®:

• Ariana Grande recorded the demo for this doo-wop-inspired song when she was 17. Despite its popularity, the cut didn't make Yours Truly, but the songstress promised her diehard Arianators that when she hit 10 million followers on Twitter she would release the studio version. Upon reaching the magic number on October 1, 2013, Ariana popped the champagne and dropped the song.
• An official video for Pink Champagne was released on June 10, 2017.
• Grande wrote the song with Pebe Sebert, Kesha's mom. Pebe is an accomplished writer with credits on several of Kesha's hits, including "Your Love Is My Drug" and "Learn To Let Go."
  
  The track's producers, Damon Sharpe and Matt Squire, also have songwriting credits on the track.
• In a Songfacts interview with Pebe Sebert, she talked about writing this song with Grande. "I knew Ariana well enough because I feel like it's all about trying to know the person to know what's going to be a real look for them," she said. "It's like getting a person ready for a photo shoot. Like, what's going to be a good look for her?
  
  She was 17 and portraying this kind of goody-two-shoes on the Nickelodeon series. We didn't want to go too far from that image at that age, and she was still on the series.
  
  So, that particular day, the two other writers, Damon Sharpe and Matt Squire, came in, and Ariana and I had already talked through some things. I knew her family background, being from New York and from Florida. You almost have to have a little movie that you're writing in your head. Like, here's Ariana and the movie is 'Pink Champagne,' which is just a little dangerous, but it would be acceptable for a 17- or 18-year-old to have a sip of pink champagne. It's not like drinking vodka under the bridge, it's a sip of pink champagne.
  
  We tried to start it off with the whole idea of how hard she worked, because she was a very hardworking young girl. We went off reality: 'Every day I'm grindin'.' Thank goodness I had two really good track people that kept the feel really bouncy and really cool and young. We played it real safe with that song because it was literally the first time she was in the studio to write with people making a track."