- Chart Beat
10/8/2024
From "Just the Way You Are" to "Die With a Smile," here's a look at the hitmaker's best-performing tracks.
10/8/2024
From a behind-the-scenes start lifting others’ careers to carving out his own colossal catalog, Bruno Mars has become one of the most consistent hitmakers of the last decade.
After Mars spent years shuffling through the label system and building a roster of collaborators, he earned a key breakthrough as a co-writer of Flo Rida’s “Right Round,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks in early 2009. Just a year later, he’d be on top again — but this time under his own name, earning a featured artist credit on B.o.B’s “Nothin’ on You,” which ruled the big chart for three weeks.
From there, Mars’ career ignited. Despite the singer-songwriter’s penchant for hopscotching across genres, offering his take on acoustic pop, 1980s pop/rock, ’70s-inspired funk, ’90s-led new jack swing and anything in between, Mars settled into a consistent level of enviable success. All four of his studio projects — his three solo efforts Doo-Wops and Hooligans, Unorthodox Jukebox and 24K Magic, as well as his collaborative album with Anderson .Paak, An Evening With Silk Sonic — have each generated at least one Hot 100 No. 1 hit, and the collections were also favored by his industry peers, with each set also claiming at least one Grammy Award.
And true to his collaborative roots, even Mars’ featured appearances have yielded staggering results. Eight of his 19 Hot 100 top 10s involve other artists, most notably his supporting spot on Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk!” The defining smash dominated the Hot 100 for 14 weeks in 2015 and earned the honors of the chart’s top title of the year and the biggest hit of the entire 2010s decade.
As we review one of the strongest singles collections in recent pop history, here’s a countdown of Bruno Mars’ 20 biggest hits as an artist on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bruno Mars’ biggest hits ranking is based on actual performance on the weekly Billboard Hot 100, through Oct. 12, 2024. Songs are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at No. 100 earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods.
“Smokin Out The Window” (with Anderson .Paak)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 5Hot 100 Peak Date: Nov. 27, 2021
“Wake Up in the Sky” (with Gucci Mane & Kodak Black)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 11Hot 100 Peak Date: Dec. 22, 2018
“Die With a Smile” (with Lady Gaga)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 3Hot 100 Peak Date: Aug. 31, 2024
“Please Me” (with Cardi B)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 3Hot 100 Peak Date: March 16, 2019
“Treasure”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 5Hot 100 Peak Date: Aug. 3, 2013
“Young, Wild & Free” (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa feat. Bruno Mars)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 7Hot 100 Peak Date: March 17, 2012
“Lighters” (Bad Meets Evil feat. Bruno Mars)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 4Hot 100 Peak Date: Sept. 10, 2011
“The Lazy Song”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 4Hot 100 Peak Date: June 18, 2011
“Billionaire” (Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 4Hot 100 Peak Date: June 26, 2010
“Finesse” (with Cardi B)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 3Hot 100 Peak Date: Jan. 20, 2018
“24K Magic”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 4Hot 100 Peak Date: Dec. 10, 2016
“It Will Rain”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 3Hot 100 Peak Date: Dec. 10, 2011
“When I Was Your Man”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (one week)Hot 100 Peak Date: April 20, 2013
“Nothin’ on You” (B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (two weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: May 1, 2010
“Leave the Door Open” (with Anderson .Paak)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (two weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: April 17, 2021
“Grenade”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (four weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: Jan. 8, 2011
“Locked Out of Heaven”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (six weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: Dec. 22, 2012
“That’s What I Like”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (one week)Hot 100 Peak Date: May 13, 2017
“Just the Way You Are”
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (four weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: Oct. 2, 2010
“Uptown Funk!” (Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars)
Hot 100 Peak Position: No. 1 (14 weeks)Hot 100 Peak Date: Jan. 17, 2015
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