Bruno Mars has been lighting up the charts with his humorous and varied songwriting forays into pop, R&B, and even reggae ever since he first entered the music industry in 2010. The 1985 Honolulu, Hawaii, native and Uptown Funk hitmaker has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the most prosperous musicians of all time. His best songs have also shown him to be remarkably skilled at giving classic musical styles a completely new spin.
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PLEASE ME
This collaboration with Cardi B, Bruno Mars’ second with the rapper from the Bronx, demands to be heard and is best understood as a component of Mars’ obsession with 90s R&B. Please Me, which samples Jodeci’s 1995 R&B hit Freek’n You, is overtly sexual and features Mars pleading with Cardi to succumb to temptation. The song’s promotional video, which Mars co-directed with Florent Dechard, showed off the couple’s sultry chemistry. The song, which peaked at No. 5 in the US and No. 12 in the UK, sparkles with such real sensuality that it’s difficult to argue against it earning a spot among the top Bruno Mars songs.
IT WILL RAIN
The vampire love story gained some more bite because It Will Rain. “I believe the phrase “it’s the darker side of love” is the greatest way, to sum up, the song. That, in my opinion, sums it all up,” Mars told Billboard Magazine. When “It Will Rain” was released in September 2011, it peaked at No. 3 in the US.
LIQUOR STORE BLUES
Liquor Store Blues, a pop-reggae stormer that had a music video developed to go along with its release, never actually reached the charts, but it’s difficult to dispute its popularity and it is also known as the best song by Bruno Mars.
GRENADE
The 2010 single Grenade, a heart-stopping love song, launched Mars into the pop charts, where it peaked at No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Mars talks about sadness and how his efforts to gain a lover’s favor—short of shooting him in the head—are all fruitless while playing with power-pop chord changes.