"Santa Tell Me" is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande. It was written by Grande, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Savan Kotecha. The song was released on November 24, 2014, via iTunes Stores, as the Christmas original single in America. Musically, the song is a Christmas song with influences of R&B and soul.

Commercially, despite being a Christmas song, "Santa Tell Me" entered the US Billboard Hot 100 and later peaked at number 42 while also entering the record charts of several other nations, including Canada, Netherlands and Japan. The music video was directed by Chris Marrs Piliero and was released on Grande's official Vevo on December 12, 2014. The song received its first performance at the 2014 A Very Grammy Christmas concert in the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on November 18, 2014.

Ariana released her first Christmas EP titled Christmas Kisses on December 17, 2013. The extended play had a total of 4 songs, and included covers of classics, such as "Santa Baby" and Wham!'s "Last Christmas". It also contained two original songs: "Love Is Everything" and "Snow in California".

"Santa Tell Me" was first mentioned by Ariana Grande on Tuesday, October 28 in a livestream through Twitcam. In the livestream, she said that she didn't want to do a Christmas song at first, but she changed her mind. Ariana also announced that a music video would accompany "Santa Tell Me", and that this song was her favorite Christmas song out of all of the ones she had recorded so far.

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