If Bruno Mars is so great why wasn't anybody checking for him before Uptown Funk?
What do you mean by nobody was checking for him before UF? Bruno was still touring the world at the end of 2014 when UF was released, I mean Moonshine Jungle tour has sold 2m tickets WW grossing $155m. That's enough checking for than having a hit that went barely Platinum.
The timeframe from Bruno'' last released single and Uptown Funk are what about a year? It took damn near 2 years for Bruno to get back into the spotlight.
He went from having every one of his album singles being multi-platinum to 2 years later only managing to score 3 top 5's? Thats a decline. It took Uptown Funk for people to even care about Bruno's music again.