The most popular artist on Spotify currently hasn’t released a new solo album in eight years. Pretty good statistics, right?
that artist is Bruno Marswith two of his evergreen songs and two global hit duets on standout:
- die with a smile The August release of Lady Gaga has just over 1 billion Spotify streams;
- Easy. ROSÉ, released in October, has nearly 500 million Spotify streams.
Mars Beyond weekend On October 29, he became Spotify’s number one artist in terms of monthly listeners.
One day later, Mars officially broke the platform’s all-time record for monthly listeners, taking the top spot. 126 million (Breaking the previous record, by weekendof 120.7 million.)
Since then, Atlantic has signed Mars’ popularity Spotify Continue to grow and set Many new records To monthly listeners on the platform.
November 12, Mars Became the first artist in Spotify history to surpass 130 million monthly listeners.
Then, this Monday (November 25), he broke that record and passed another major milestone. 135 million monthly listeners.
Judging from the situation today (November 29), Mars has 135.54 million (see below) – A figure that appears to be constantly moving toward the sky.
Total with Spotify monthly active users The character is now standing 640 millionlisteners to Mars Music account for just over a fifth of the service’s global user base.
Not only that, earlier this week die with a smile – recently nominated song of the year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance 2025 Grammy Awards – Officially the fastest track ever built 1 billion Spotify streams.
this pair universal music group and endoscopeLady Gaga’s record label, released the record.
But the current wave martian mania This is also quite big news for the world’s largest music and audio streaming platform atlantic records and its new CEO, Elliot Grange.
not only Mars’ A catalog of billions of streams Atlantic,but Warner Music Group The label also released Rose cooperate, easy.
according to Spotify Credits, recording copyright Easy. Owned by ROSÉ and exclusively licensed Atlantic Around the world outside Korea.
RoseMembers of Korean supergroup BLACKPINK recently signed a new publishing deal with South Korea Warner Chappell Music.
(Bruno Mars’ long-time publisher is bone cementalthough he sold part of his song catalog to Warner Chappell in 2021.
Perhaps the most interesting thing is Bruno Mars’ current dominance SpotifyA new album isn’t in the equation at all, though.
Mars’ The latest LP is A night with Silk Sonichis 2021 collaboration with Anderson .Paak.
Mars’ His most recent solo studio album is his third, 24K magicreleased in 2016.
One particularly excited music industry figure Mars’ Soaring to the top of Spotify’s popularity charts is his longtime co-songwriter and collaborator, James Fauntleroy II.
Fauntleroy co-wrote Past Bruno Mars crush includes That’s what I like. He is also a co-author (with Andrew Watt and others) of the book die with a smile.
celebrate die with a smile record-breaking adventure, Fontelle Roy Writing on Crazy.
Fontelle Roy Features of MBW’s new book How to write a hit piecewhich you can download here. (It also has Easy. co-author Amy Allen and Theron Thomas.)
How to write a hit piece,support body mass indexa compilation of priceless advice for creators, all taken from MBW’s the world’s greatest songwriter Interview series. (James Fauntleroy The full interview in the series is a special corker and explains his relationship with Bruno Mars. It can be read here.
at the same time, Bruno Mars recent rise Spotify There seems to be one question most frequently asked by his global army of fans: Does this indicate that he might be brewing the release of his fourth studio album (aka “BM4”)?
If so, this Thanksgiving weekend, Elliot Grange and his new team atlantic records Most likely treat yourself some… Pie with a smile.
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