Bruno Mars dominates Billboard’s charts dated March 14, thanks to the debut of his new album, The Romantic.
Released on Feb. 27 (on Atlantic Records), the set launches atop the Billboard 200 with 186,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in its opening week, according to Luminate. Mars earns his first No. 1 debut and second leader overall, after 2013’s Unorthodox Jukebox.
The album also helps Mars jump from No. 11 to No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100. He leads for an eighth week and for the first time since July 2017. All nine songs from The Romantic reach the Billboard Hot 100, led by the return of lead single “I Just Might” to No. 1 and “Risk It All” arriving in the top five — as Mars triples up atop the Artist 100, Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously for the first time.
Here’s a recap of Mars’ Hot 100 hits this week (all of which are debuts except where noted).
Rank, Title:
No. 1, “I Just Might” (up from No. 5; third week at No. 1)
No. 4, “Risk It All”
No. 25, “Cha Cha Cha”
No. 28, “God Was Showing Off”
No. 38, “Why You Wanna Fight?”
No. 42, “Dance With Me”
No. 43, “On My Soul”
No. 46, “Something Serious”
No. 54, “Nothing Left”
With eight debuts, Mars has now charted 44 total songs on the Hot 100 in his career. He first debuted on the ranking in February 2010 as featured on B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You,” which spent two weeks at No. 1. He has logged 10 No. 1 hits, tying him with Janet Jackson and Stevie Wonder for the 10th-most all-time.
Four songs from The Romantic additionally chart on Hot R&B Songs: “I Just Might” reigns for an eighth week, followed by, in order at Nos. 5-8, “Cha Cha Cha,” “God Was Showing Off,” “Why You Wanna Fight?” and “On My Soul.”
The Artist 100 measures acts’ activity across key metrics of music consumption: album sales, track sales, radio airplay and streaming. Using a methodology comprising those metrics, the chart provides a weekly multidimensional ranking of artist popularity.
