Bruno Mars
US Top 10 Singles Dated July 17th, 2021
next we we get the BTS-Ed Sheeran collab
US Top 10 Singles Dated July 10th, 2021
BTS remain on top for a sixth week
US Top 10 Singles Dated July 3rd, 2021
as good at gaming the charts as TS
US Top 10 Singles Dated June 26th, 2021
BTS at # 1 for a fourth week
US Top 10 Singles Dated June 12th, 2021
BTS are just too manufactured
US Top 10 Singles Dated June 5th, 2021
Listening to BTS is like eating veal, as good as it may taste you can’t forget how it was made.
US Top 10 Singles Dated May 29th, 2021
she lacks the linguistic punch of Elvis
US Top 10 Singles Dated May 22nd, 2021
Dua won’t be reaching number one so Bruno can get another smash
US Top 10 Singles Dated May 15th, 2021
The Weeknd knows how to use a remix to keep him at the top,”
US Top 10 Singles Dated May 8th, 2021
we haven’t even reached “Scared To Live”
The 63rd Grammy Awards Ceremony Will Include Some Live Performances, On A Real Stage
The ceremony will also pay tribute to independent music venues
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Of March 2nd, 2019
the sort of single that is eaten alive on the charts in 2019
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, OCTOBER 20TH TO 28TH
On Sunday, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are at The Forum
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending February 22nd, 2018
do you think Blocboy JB suddenly got hot?
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending February 15th, 2018
at least consistently good
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending February 8th, 2018
there is no doubting the hook, “bad things/wishing”… that one.
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending February 1st, 2018
It wasn’t terrible
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending January 25th, 2018
‘bad things, there are a lot of bad things”
Jam Today: Monday, January 29th, 2018, Reviewed
the Grammys are so tone deaf they shut out “Despacito”
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending January 18th, 2018
Silly consumer, new rules are for kids
US Top 10 Singles For The Week Ending January 10th, 2018
it must be the video
The Worst Single Of 2018: “Finesse” By Bruno Mars (featuring Cardi B)
He isn’t that good.
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, NOVEMBER 6TH TO 12TH 2017
Morrissey and Billy Idol sharing the bill at the Hollywood Bowl
Bruno Mars 24 Karat Tour At Madison Square, Saturday, September 23rd, 2017, Reviewed
it’s McDonalds as performance art
US Top 10 Albums Week Ending June 9th, 2017
There is nothing here from last year except Bruno
US Top 10 Singles, October 29th, 2016
Bruno will be joining Scientology
Bruno Mars Dumps Manager Brandon Creed
Creed had successfully worked with Mars for nine years
US Top 10 Singles 3-7-15
A bit of a snoozer though better the Weeknd than Ellie, and how sick am I of Bruno and Mark -every time i hear it I want to bitch slap em both… do we really have to hear these fakers for the rest of our lives? The jerks Plus what’s with this damn weather?
US Top 10 Singles 2-14-15
I am so tired of saying Bruno Mars is overrated but he is so damn overrated. I wouldn’t say that if Little Richard or James Brown never existed but they do (one does, the other did) exist and so dumbass bruno feels like watered down spineless mimickry. Nothing personal, mind.
US Top 10 Singles 1-24-15
Sure, I went with Billboard’s great picture but I think I wanna take five minutes to praise my God liike genius in claiming “Thinking Out Loud” was the one when I noticed it during a first listen of X. Yes, folks I am the King Of The Pop Universe. and Ed Sheeran owes me (and Taylor) big time.
Dr. Dre Made $20 A Second In 2014!
Rappers are still going strong even those I haven’t heard anything from for a long time, like Diddy ($60 million and $1.90 per second)! Beside this you have Calvin Harris ($66 million and $2.09 per second), Jay Z ($60 million and $1.90 per second), and Drake ($33 million and $1.05 per second)
US Top Singles 1 – 17 -15
The only excuse for Bruno Mars is huge sales, without huge sales he ceases to be anything at all, but with huge sales he comes a beacon of populist r&b, a Michael Jackson disciple, a true star. “Uptown Funl” is too derivitative up to the place where it hits the top of the charts. After that it is just right.
Not With The Band: Which Band Of Today Will Be Relevant In 10 Or 20 Years?
Today, there is certainly a lot of mediocrity, any American Idol, X Factor product is an example for me! But at the same time, there is a lot of excellent music, it is just harder to find it because of the enormous amount of bands formed every year and songs released each day!
UK Top 10 Singles 1-10-15
something of a holding pattern though the more I hear the Ronson-Mars collab the more it sounds like a major rip off, I guess it might be considered something like the way “Let’s Dance” ripped off “Twist And Shout” but all of it is a 70s rip off with James Brown on top. It’s OK but really, are we at the place where we need James Brown interpreted for us?
UK Top 10 Singles 1-3-15
The return of Mark and Mars to # 1 makes you wonder if XFactor have been spiking the ball a little. The battle for Christmas single is pretty darn vicious and you gotta think… it wouldn’t take that many downloads, certainly $50K would do it… I wonder.
UK Top 10 Singles, December 20th, 2014
I know it says Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson but let’s be clear here, what it is is James Brown being ripped off yet again, this time by the Little Richard of pop. In other news, I believe they finally decided where to bury the man though the fight over his estate is going on and on. Somebody should slip em a copy of Dicken’s “Bleak House”
US Top 10 Singles 12-13-14
There seems to be zero change here from before they were counting streams –this is exactly what you’d expect, and if every 10 sales equals 1500 streams it might be a long time before you do whatever the claim is. By the way, Bruno Mars? James Brown is so great even lame ass copies sound good.
10 Songs: Friday, November 28th, 2014
Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars – An amazing simulation of soul and funk and James Brown, unyielding replication of what it means to have funkadelia in your soul but so what if it isn’t the real thing, it still sounds good – B+
10 Songs: Saturday, November 15th, 2014
Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson, bruno Mars – It starts like Chic before mainlining james brown and it is so good you might wanna kiss yourself. A great piece of funky disco – A
US Top 10 Albums 3-1-14
Eric sold nearly 300K copies of his dog album, giving spoken word a bad reputation from sea to shiny sea. The thing is, when he is good he is not good enough and when he is bad he is the absolute pits. Come back “Jack Daniels” all is forgiven.
US Top 10 Albums 2-22-14
The charts, which, of course, have never been a beacon of good taste aren’t even an icon of success. I think we use it because, you know, otherwise we’d have no idea who’s is winning. Now we can only take a guess at best.
Bruno Mar's Superbowl Half Time Show, Sunday February 2nd, 2014, Reviewed
You got what he has been selling for the past year and that’s it. The sense of moment, of importance, of whatever it means, just the honor of playing the Half Time Show was completely beyond him. We get “Locked Out Of Heaven”, we get “Treasure” but we always get them. Even the stage wasn’t all that, nothing much going on at all. It was as boring as the blow out we were watching.