Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Bruno Mars continues to break streaming records, as he becomes the first artist to cross the 150 million monthly listeners threshold on Spotify.
Mars, who has not put out a solo album since 2016’s “24K Magic,” made history on the platform on the back of his hot streak of collaborative singles. “Die With a Smile,” his mid-tempo duet with Lady Gaga, has amassed nearly 1.7 billion Spotify streams since its release in Aug.
2024, becoming his ninth number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 and opening the year in the top spot months after it dropped.
In October, he continued his hot streak with his Rosé collab “Apt.” in October, already surging past the billion streams mark and peaking at No.
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