Grande confirmed the four new tracks to be " Someone Like U (Interlude)", " Test Drive", " Worst Behavior" and " Main Thing" in the countdown to the premiere of the "34+35" remix music video. On February 1, 2021, Grande announced a Deluxe Edition of Positions, featuring four new tracks and the remix of " 34+35" featuring Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion On February 9, 2021, Grande announced on her social media that the Positions Deluxe will be released on February 19. Limited physical editions of Positions were issued DTC with two other cover artworks, that feature the same photograph as the original, except Grande is looking at the camera, with repositioned hands and face angle. On October 23, 2020, Grande revealed the album's cover art.
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The album is mainly influenced by her love life, and her relationship with Dalton Gomez, her husband,who she began dating in January 2020. Three days later, Grande posted a slow-motion video of her typing the word "positions" on a keyboard and launched two countdowns on her website counting down to Octoand October 30, 2020. On October 14, 2020, she revealed on Twitter that the album would be released the same month. On September 14, 2020, Grande posted a snippet of a song that was later revealed to be " Positions", on her social media with the caption "brb".
On March 24, 2020, she posted a 45 second leak snippet of the song titled " Nasty from Positions" on her social media. In 2019, Ariana Grande began working on the album.