Happy 40th Birthday to the gorgeous, mega talented chart-topping, record-breaking, history-making, 16-times Grammy winning Singer, Songwriter, Designer, Entrepreneur, Fashion & Global Icon and Pop Legend, the One & Only Bruno Mars! 👏🎂🎉🎈🌟🐐👑❤️🔥
#BrunoMars is one of the best-selling artists of All Time, having sold over 200 Million records as a lead and featured Artist, and is one of the greatest singers in history with an amazing three-octave tenor vocal range! He is also a brilliant song writer! Bruno has scored 9 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 as a lead artist and 2 as a featured Artist, and in 2022, he became the 1st Artist to have 6 Diamond-certified songs in the U.S.! He has scored 11x No. 1s on the Digital Song Sales chart, its 9th-best total. He is the only artist to spend 30 weeks at No. 1 on the Global 200, and was the 1st Artist in the World to surpass 150 Million monthly listeners on Spotify on January 27, 2025! Bruno is also famous for his incredible live performances, his retroshowmanship, and for singing in various musical styles, including pop, R&B, funk, soul, disco, rock and especially reggae, having grown up in Hawaii. His concert tours are some of the highest-grossing in history! In 2024, Mars was the first artist since Michael Jackson to sell out 7 shows at the 55,000-capacity Tokyo Dome! In 2024, Bruno played 14 concerts in Brazil, breaking RBD's 2006 13-show record for an international artist! Bruno's Headlining Performance at the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime in 2014 was watched by an amazing 115.3 million viewers, the most viewed halftime performance in Super Bowl history at the time! Bruno performs with his band, #theHooligans, who are also his backup singers and dancers, and in 2021, he and fellow singer #AndersonPaak formed the Grammy-winning musical superduo Silk Sonic.
Bruno exploded on the music scene following his guest performances on the singles "Nothin' on You" (2009) by #BoB and "Billionaire" (2010) by #TravieMcCoy, which hit No. 1 and No. 4 on the U.S. Hot 100, respectively! His debut album, 'Doo-Wops & Hooligans' (2010) sold over 15.5 million units globally, and spawned the global smash hits "Just the Way You Are", "Grenade", and "The Lazy Song" which all hit #1 on the Hot 100 and around the world. In 2012, "Just the Way You Are" and "Grenade" were the best-selling digital singles of the year globally, with sales of 12.5 million and 10.2 million and Mars was the year's biggest-selling artist! "Just The Way You Are", "Grenade", "Locked Out Of Heaven", and "When I Was Your Man" each sold over 4M digital copies, making him the first male artist to do so as a lead singer! His 2nd album, 'Unorthodox Jukebox' (2012) sold over 6M units worldwide, and produced 2 global hits "Locked Out of Heaven" and "When I Was Your Man" which both reached #1 on the Hot 100! In 2014, Bruno released the massive hit "Uptown Funk" with #MarkRonson, the No. 1 song of the year in 2015 and of the 2010s decade in the US, spending 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Uptown Funk" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year after reaching #1 in 17 countries! Bruno's 3rd album, '24K Magic', released on November 18, 2016, was a huge critical and commercial success, selling almost 6M units and winning 7 Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year! The album spawned the hot 100 No. 1 single "That's What I Like", the Top 5 US hit "24K Magic", and the hits "Versace on the Floor" and a remix of "Finesse" ft. #CardiB. '24K Magic' sold 5M global units, and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Music Canada (MC), and Recorded Music NZ(RMNZ).
In 2021, Bruno & Anderson .Paak released the hugely successful album, 'An Evening with Silk Sonic which scored the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit "Leave the Door Open" becoming Mars's 8th and Paak's 1st No. 1 song in the U.S. The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and won 4 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Bruno's 2024 smash hit with #LadyGaga, "Die with a Smile", is a massive critical and commercial success, and is the longest-reigning No. 1 song in Global Spotify chart history, and the fastest song to reach one and two Billion streams on Spotify! It scored 16 weeks at No. 1 on the United World chart, and a historic 44 weeks in the top 2, the longest run of All Time! It's the most successful song of 2025 on the year-to-date United World chart and the No. 3 most successful song of All Time on the United World ALL TIME CHART and could end up the most successful global smash hit of All Time very soon! "Die With A Smile" has scored 18 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Global 200 and 15 weeks at #1 on the Global Excl'US! It also spent 5 weeks at #1 one the Billboard Hot 100! "Die With a Smile" has topped the official weekly charts in over 40 countries, and is a Diamond certified hit in Brazil & France, and a Multi Platinum hit in over 20 countries including Australia, Canada & the US! "Die with a Smile" was nominated for Song of the Year and won for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. It won Collab of the Year and International Video at the 2025 AMAs, and Best Collaboration at the 2025 VMAs & IHeartRadio Music Awards! Bruno's latest Smash hit "APT." with K-Pop Superstar #ROSÉ, released in 2024, is also a massive global success, and was the 2nd-most searched song on Google in 2024! It reached 1 Billion streams on Spotify in just 100 days, the 2nd-fastest overall song to reach this Milestone after Bruno's own "Die With a Smile"! It broke several YouTube and Spotify records as the fastest MV by an Asian Act to reach 1 Billion views! "Apt." was also the 2nd-fastest song to reach 1 Billion streams in Spotify history after Bruno's own "Die With A Smile"! "APT." hit 1 & 2 Billion views on YouTube and Spotify simultaneously, a first in history for matching these metrics on both platforms! It's the fastest song to reach 2 Billion views on YouTube this Decade and the 4th fastest overall in history! It's also the 4th Fastest song to reach 2B streams in Spotify history! "APT." scored the biggest debut by a male artist on the Billboard Global 200, becoming the first song with at least 200 million streams globally in multiple weeks, and spent 12 weeks atop the Global 200, the longest-running No. 1 song of 2024! "APT." spent a record-breaking 19 weeks atop the Global Excl. US chart! "APT." has topped the weekly charts in over 50 countries and spent 21 incredible weeks atop the United World chart, the 3rd longest-running #1 song in UWC chart History, the longest-running #1 song in 2025 (12 wks) and the longest-running #1 song of All Time by an Asian Act! It is now the 9th most successful Song in United World chart history! "APT." has been certified Diamond in France & multi-platinum in 15 countries. “APT.”’s record-breaking chart performance, and cultural significance, cements its status as a landmark collaboration in K-pop and pop music. "APT." received the Global Sensation award at the 2024 MAMA Awards for its global impact and won 'Song of the Year' at the VMAs among others.
Bruno has received over 500 Award nominations and over 200 wins honoured with 16 Grammy Awards, including 3 Record of the Year wins! At the 2018 Grammys, he was the 2nd recipient of the Awards, Record and Song of the Year, with 2 songs from the same album, and became the 2nd 3-time Record of the Year recipient at the 2022 Grammys! He has also won 14 American Music Awards including Artist of the Year in 2017, 14 Soul Train Awards, 9 Billboard Music Awards, 9 BET Awards and 8 Guinness World Records including "First Male Artist to achieve three 10-Million-Selling Singles" (2017) and "Most entries by a male artist on the Billboard Hot 100"! He has also won 4 Brit Awards, an iHeartRadio Music Award and an NRJ Award among others! In 2010, Music Week named Mars one of the best songwriters of the year and in 2011, he featured on Time magazine's 100 list! In 2013, Billboard ranked him 6th on its 2013 list of Hot 100 Songwriters and in 2014, he topped Forbes' "30 Under 30" list of the brightest young stars in 15 fields in the U.S.! In 2025, Bruno was also recognized on Bilboards Hot 100 Top Producers of the 21st Century at #17 and is ranked No. 20 on Billboard's Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century.
Bruno is one of the most endorsed artists, having worked for Bench in 2011, Chromatik in 2012, bringing better music education into schools, NJOY in 2013 & SelvaRey Rum in 2014! In 2021, Mars released Lacoste x Ricky Regal, a luxury 1970s-inspired sportswear line and in 2023 he partnered with Fender on the "Bruno Mars Stratocaster", a limited-edition Fender Stratocaster guitar in a color called "Mars Mocha Heirloom"! In February, 2024, he opened his own lounge bar in Vegas, The Pinky Ring, with the Hooligans performing every night of its first two weeks. Bruno wore a pinky ring to celebrate the opening, created by Tiffany & Co! In August 2024, Mars starred in a commercial for the Japanese discount-store Don Quijote and in September 2024, he partnered with Stetson to release a new "silhouette inspired by the American heritage brand's early designs". In December 2024, Mars and Hello Kitty collaborated to celebrate Hello Kitty's 50th anniversary and the opening of Mars' Park MGM residency. In June 2025, he was the star of Season 9 of the Fortnite Festival, introducing a set of cosmetics in the game!
Bruno is also a philanthropist, and in 2014 he partnered with the Hawai'i Community Foundation and the Grammy Foundation to establish a Grammy Camp Scholarship Fund for qualified needs-based applicants from Hawaii in honour of his mother. In 2017, he expanded his camp scholarship to include applicants from all over the U.S. In 2014, he donated US$100,000 to the orphans of Bantay Bata, who were among the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, giving hope to those who lost their families and homes. In 2017, Mars and Live Nation donated 1 million dollars from his show at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan, to help the victims of the Flint water crisis. In November 2018, he donated 24,000 meals in aid to the Salvation Army Hawaiian & Pacific Islands Division's 48th annual Thanksgiving Dinner and in 2020, he donated $1 million to the MGM Resorts Foundation, to assist MGM employees with financial difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic. Up till 2021, Mars donated all profits earned with SelvaRey Rum to the Honolulu Community College's Music & Entertainment Learning Experience program, in Hawaii. In 2022, Mars became a co-chair for the "Grammy Museum's Campaign for Music Education" whose aim is to raise between 3–$5 million for Grammy's educational programs! In 2024, Mars performed a charity concert sponsored by Budweiser Brasil at the Tokio Marine Hall in São Paulo to help victims of the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods!
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Happy birthday to Michael Joseph Jackson who once said, “To me, nothing is more important than making people happy, giving them a release from their problems and worries, helping to lighten their load.” Thank you, Michael, for inspiring + entertaining us. You are missed.