Next year's Grammy Awards? Bruno Mars makes comeback with full-length album after 10 years 'Return of the King'

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"Living Legend" Bruno Mars made an official comeback on the 27th with his fourth solo studio album "The Romantic" in 10 years.

The album included "I Just Might," which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart upon its debut, as well as the track "Risk It All," which features Bruno Mars' unique ballad and romantic sensibility. Along with the release of the album, the music video for "Risk It All," directed by Bruno Mars and Daniel Ramos, was also released.

To mark the release of the album, various offline and online activities have also been conducted worldwide. They include a mobile flower truck distributing roses, a "love lock" month operating in major global cities, and a pop-up store for The Romantic Flower Shop in Los Angeles.

"The Romantic" was recently released following a series of global chart performances by Bruno Mars. The Grammy-winning song "Die With A Smile," which collaborated with Lady Gaga, was recorded as the fastest song to surpass 1 billion streams in Spotify's history and topped the Billboard Global 200 chart for 18 weeks. In addition, "APT," which collaborated with ROSé, was named the world's most sold single in 2025 by IFPI, and was named the world's most streamed song in 2025 by Apple Music. The song topped the Billboard Global (excluding the U.S.) chart for 19 weeks, the Billboard Global 200 chart for 12 weeks, and won the "Song of the Year" at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards. In addition, he was nominated for "Song of the Year", "Record of the Year", and "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance" at the 68th Grammy Awards.

Bruno Mars continues to prove his position as one of the most influential artists in the music industry. He became the first artist in Spotify history to surpass 150 million monthly listeners in January 2025, and the first artist in RIAA history to record six singles as diamond-certified in October 2022. As of 2026, more than seven songs, including "Just the Way You Are" (21x RIAA Platinum, the best certified song in RIAA history), "Uptown Funk" (with Mark Ronson), "Grenade," "That's What I Like," "When I Was Your Man," "Locked Out of Heaven," and "The Lazy Song," have obtained RIAA diamond certification.

The debut album "Doo-wops & Hooligans" holds the record for the longest single male artist studio album on the Billboard 200 chart (more than 345 weeks), and Bruno Mars has placed 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart to date. It also topped the Billboard Global 200 chart for a total of 30 weeks through hits from 2024 to 2025.

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