{"id":336167,"date":"2026-03-09T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336167\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:43:08","slug":"bruno-mars-scores-first-no-1-album-in-13-years-with-the-romantic-debuts-atop-billboard-200-billboard-bruno-mars-music-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainment-photos-and-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/336167\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars Scores First No. 1 Album in 13 Years With \u2018The Romantic,\u2019 Debuts Atop Billboard 200 | Billboard, Bruno Mars, Music | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/bruno-mars\/\" title=\"Bruno Mars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Mars<\/a> is back on top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old superstar just secured his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as his new album The Romantic debuts at the top of the most recent chart, dated March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The album opened with about 186,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in its first week according to Luminate, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1236195055\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=billboard_BreakingNews&amp;utm_content=669209_03-08-2026&amp;utm_term=56896\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1236195055\/#recipient_hashed=b92941641788d15805f03b377d572994d12bdade7478975c93d0143007f01373&amp;recipient_salt=e829000bb0b218c27fbd0c12f4a38481876a8ab041cc990efde89259509b9611&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=billboard_BreakingNews&amp;utm_content=669209_03-08-2026&amp;utm_term=56896&#039;); return false;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of that, 93,500 units came from album sales, while 90,500 came from streaming. The strong debut was boosted by physical sales in the form of 10 album variants, along with CD, cassette and digital formats. Vinyl accounted for about 48,000 copies alone.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 debut also marks Bruno\u2018s first time on top of the album charts since 2013\u2032s Unorthodox Jukebox.<\/p>\n<p>Find out the meaning behind his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/01\/god-was-showing-off-lyrics-bruno-mars-shares-the-romantic-love-song\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">romantic song \u201cGod Was Showing Off\u201d!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars is back on top of the charts. The 39-year-old superstar just secured his second No. 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-336167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}