{"id":321224,"date":"2026-03-04T11:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321224\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:03:11","slug":"the-predictions-are-in-bruno-mars-the-romantic-album-set-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/321224\/","title":{"rendered":"The Predictions Are In! Bruno Mars&#8217; &#8216;The Romantic&#8217; Album Set to Sell&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/03\/the-predictions-are-in-bruno-mars-the-romantic-album-set-to-sell\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-2026-tgj-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/bruno-mars-the-romantic-2026-tgj-600x750.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/bruno-mars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bruno Mars<\/a> is off to a fiery start with his latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/02\/stream-bruno-mars-the-romantic-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018The Romantic.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Long-awaited, the project serves as the crooner\u2019s first solo body of work since 2016\u2019s \u201924K Magic.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Preceded by the single <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2026\/01\/new-song-bruno-mars-i-just-might\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u2018I Just Might,\u2019<\/a> the nine-track LP has easily served as one of the year\u2019s most highly anticipated releases, with first-week sales tallies in and all eyes on how tall the superstar towers with the project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We now know more because the first-week predictions are here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Full story below<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hitsdailydouble.com\/news\/charts\/what-a-romantic-top-20-2026-03-03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hits Daily Double<\/a>, \u2018The Romantic\u2019 is set to launch at #1 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales in the ballpark of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>175,000<\/p>\n<p>Not a shabby number by any account. And it would function as Mars\u2019 first #1 debut.<\/p>\n<p>However, should the figure hold, it would serve as Mars\u2019s lowest opening since his debut album.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how his projects stack up Stateside:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Doo-Wops &amp; Hooligans | 55,000 | #3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Unorthodox Jukebox | 192,000 | #2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">25k Magic | 231,000 | #2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Could higher heights be on the cards as the week progresses? Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, let us know\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Photo Credit: Atlantic \/ John V. Esparza]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars is off to a fiery start with his latest album, \u2018The Romantic.\u2019 Long-awaited, the project serves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[159635,2713,146,85,46,409,124506,159636],"class_list":["post-321224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bruno","tag-bruno-mars","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-the-romantic","tag-the-romantic-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}