Eight years the public has been waiting for a new album from Bruno Mars. If the American artist exploded at the beginning of the 2010s with his huge hits “Grenade”, “Just The Way You Are”, “Locked Out of Heaven” and “Uptown Funk”. Except that his last solo record, “24K Magic”, dates back to 2016 and since then, he has only collaborated with Anderson .Paak on the soul-funk project “Silk Sonic” released at the end of 2021. But Bruno Mars is indeed the big star of this end of year 2024 and this, only with two singles. Published in mid-August after weeks of intense rumors, the 70’s duet “Die With A Smile”, shared with Lady Gaga, broke all listening records on Spotify, and currently has more than 770 million plays on the platform . Riding on this enormous success, Bruno Mars consolidated its popularity with “APT”, in collaboration with K-pop star Rosé, which has been number one worldwide since its release. With an average of 10 million streams per day, the pop song has more than 160 million plays to date!
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Two singles that are huge hits
These two singles logically exploded his popularity on Spotify, where he now beats a personal record. For the first time in his career, Bruno Mars therefore becomes the most listened to artist currently on Spotify. With 120.86 million monthly listeners, the “When I Was Your Man” singer dethrones The Weeknd, second with 119.6 million fans, while Lady Gaga occupies third place on the podium with 110.6 million little monsters at the meeting. So, Bruno Mars breaks the historic record for listeners on the platform, held a few weeks ago by The Weeknd, acclaimed by 120.6 million fans per month.
More Bruno Mars could have another unexpected competitor in the person of… Tyler, The Creator! The American rapper sees his popularity skyrocket with the release of his new album, the excellent “Chromakopia”. With 85.6 million streams in one day (an average of 6 million per track), it is the best hip-hop debut of the year, the second of all genres behind the “Tortured Poets Department” of Taylor Swift and even the 16th highest score in the history of the platform! Bruno Mars will it remain at the top in the coming weeks? To be continued…
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