Bruno Mars has done it again.
The electrifying performer has charged to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with his latest release, ‘Uptown Funk’.
Details below…
The dance-floor jam, which is produced and co-headlined by Mark Ronson, rose #2-#1 on the US tally this week.
Key tea about the feat:
* The song swaps places with previous chart topper, ‘Blank Space’ by Taylor Swift, which spent seven weeks at #1.
* Its rise ends a record-tying 19 weeks in-a-row of only women holding the #1 spot.
* The majority (65 percent) of the song’s chart activity this week came from good ole sales. Impressive given the current shape-shifting going on surrounding the weighting of streaming and radio.
* ‘Funk’ serves as Mars’ sixth chart topper and second as a “featured” act. For Ronson, the song becomes his first #1 with his first Hot 100 as an artist. His previous Hot 100 entries as a songwriter/producer include Amy Winehouse’s ‘Rehab’ (which peaked at #9 in 2007), Christina Aguilera’s ‘Hurt’ (rolled out in 2006, with a peak of #19) and interestingly Mars’ 2012/13 hit ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ – which hit #1 and stayed there for six weeks.
Bruno’s previous Hot 100 winners are his guest stint (and first mainstream appearance) on on B.o.B’s ‘Nothin’ on You’ in 2010, which was quickly followed by his own chart-topper ‘Just the Way You Are’ (four weeks, 2010), ‘Grenade’ (four weeks, 2011), ”Heaven’ and ‘When I Was Your Man’ (six weeks and one week, 2013).
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Congrats are most certainly in order! The track, which also topped the charts in the UK, is entirely deserving of its success and is a fine addition to the discographies of both Mars and Ronson.
‘Uptown Funk’ is lifted from Ronson’s album ‘Uptown Special’, which hits stores on January 13th. {Source}