Bruno Mars backstage on the 68th GRAMMY Awards in Los Angeles on February 01, 2026. He didn’t truly win any awards that evening, regardless of being nominated for report of the 12 months and tune of the 12 months.
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Bruno Mars pulls off a number of chart feats he is by no means achieved earlier than. Gorillaz, BLACKPINK and Mitski return to the highest 10. And a tune popularized by a figure-skating routine makes waves past its preliminary viral second.
TOP STORY
Bruno Mars is among the twenty first century’s most embellished pop stars, with 16 Grammy wins and 10 chart-topping singles to his identify. As of this second, based on Spotify’s calculations, he is the most-listened to artist on the earth. Nonetheless, there are a couple of milestones he hasn’t reached, partly as a result of he is solely launched 5 albums in his profession — and a type of, An Night With Silk Sonic, was as half of a aspect challenge with Anderson .Paak.
Till the discharge of The Romantic in late February, Mars hadn’t launched an album beneath his personal identify since 2016. So it should not come as an enormous shock that the brand new report posts his best-ever weekly numbers for streaming and vinyl gross sales — two industries which have expanded significantly within the final decade. However The Romantic‘s chart success this week does embrace a pair of true milestones: It is Mars’ first album to debut at No. 1, and this week marks the primary time he is posted a No. 1 album and a No. 1 single concurrently.
That No. 1 single is “I Simply Would possibly,” which debuted at No. 1 two months in the past and slid out of the highest spot after a pair weeks. This week, buoyed by streaming of The Romantic, it is again on high — and it is joined within the high 5 by the album’s lead observe, “Danger It All,” which debuts at No. 4. Not surprisingly, all of The Romantic‘s songs land on this week’s Sizzling 100; there are solely 9 of them, in any case.
Mars hadn’t hit No. 1 on the albums chart since Unorthodox Jukebox in 2013 — giving him a roughly 13-year hole between chart-toppers. That is nowhere close to a report, provided that Paul McCartney as soon as waited 36 years between No. 1 albums, however nonetheless.
All that mentioned, with regards to Bruno Mars albums, their success is not outlined by lofty peaks — a lot of albums debut at No. 1, solely to fade shortly into oblivion — a lot as unusual longevity. All three of Mars’ solo data previous to The Romantic land on this week’s Billboard 200, and so they’ve averaged 412 weeks on the chart. That is practically eight years every.
There isn’t any manner of actually figuring out, at this early stage, whether or not The Romantic will match that mark. However, given its strong begin, it simply would possibly.
TOP ALBUMS
Final week, Megan Moroney‘s Cloud 9 led a pack of 4 albums that debuted within the high 10. This week, it is the one certainly one of that quartet remaining in that area of the chart, and it slips from No. 1 to No. 6; the others slide farther, with Hilary Duff‘s luck… or one thing plummeting from No. 3 all the best way to No. 191. Chart longevity is difficult, y’all.
This week, one other 4 albums debut within the high 10, led by Bruno Mars at No. 1. The Romantic is prone to stick round some time, however the others face extra unsure futures, with numbers that tilt closely towards gross sales. (For an album to stay round on the Billboard 200 for a pleasant, future, you actually want huge streaming numbers.)
At No. 7, the cartoon-avatar’d “band” Gorillaz posts its sixth high 10 album with The Mountain, bolstered by a great deal of totally different bodily editions on vinyl, cassette, CD and digital obtain. At No. 8, the Ok-pop superstars in BLACKPINK debut with DEADLINE; even aided by 13 totally different CD variations, it lags effectively behind its predecessor, BORN PINK, which debuted at No. 1 in 2022. (Learn extra about DEADLINE right here.) And at No. 10, Mitski posts her second high 10 album with Nothing’s About to Occur to Me.
All three non-Mars debuts are prone to vacate the highest 10 subsequent week, when first-week gross sales are not an element and Harry Kinds‘ new album comes a-stormin’ onto the charts.
TOP SONGS
Bruno Mars’ success apart, the Sizzling 100 singles chart is wanting much less full of life than its album-driven counterpart. However alongside the standard suspects — Ella Langley‘s “Choosin’ Texas” at No. 2, Olivia Dean‘s “Man I Want” at No. 3 and so forth — there’s one high 10 interloper value noting.
Final week on this area, we took word of a steep chart climb for PinkPantheress‘ “Stateside (feat. Zara Larsson),” which benefited from its placement in a figure-skating routine by U.S. Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu. The tune jumped from No. 41 to No. 13 within the instant aftermath of Liu’s viral efficiency, however in the event you thought that was a one-time boomlet — the momentary byproduct of a shared cultural expertise — assume once more.
This week, “Stateside” leaps to No. 7, suggesting momentum that extends effectively past the Olympics. “Stateside” marks PinkPantheress’ second high 10 hit — her collaboration with Ice Spice, “Boy’s a Liar, Pt. 2,” hit No. 3 in 2023 — whereas Larsson cracks the highest 10 for the primary time in her profession, after first charting a decade in the past.
Liu deserves a great deal of credit score for serving to the tune surge up the charts. However this week’s Sizzling 100 demonstrates that, as soon as “Stateside” reached an enormous array of latest followers, they clearly preferred what they heard.
