Bruno Mars "When I Was Your Man" holds at No. 3 and claims the Hot 100's top Airplay Gainer award for a third consecutive week. The piano ballad, from "Unorthodox Jukebox," the Billboard 200's new No. 1 album (and Mars' first), jumps 11-9 on Radio Songs (82 million, up 18%), marking his 10th consecutive career-opening top 10 on the tally. Only Mariah Carey (12) and T-Pain (11) have begun with longer top 10 streaks dating to the list's 1990 launch. "Man" lifts 3-2 on Digital Songs (231,000, up 1%) and 11-8 on Streaming Songs (3.5 million, up 12%).
I think this's huge & deserves its own thread, bruno has received his 10th consecutive top 10 in just 3 years, Mariah Carey, a living legend, still holds the record, can bruno tie her record or even overtake it when it's all over & done.
Not surprised at all considering all his songs become massive crossover hits on Radio for no reason.
Pop + HAC + AC + Rhythmic + Urban...he better have huge hits if he gets major support from all of them. I really like Bruno and he deserves a lot of success but I find it a bit odd that "When I Was Your Man" is about to go Top 10 on Rhythmic. Again, great song but really makes you wonder.
Not surprised at all considering all his songs become massive crossover hits on Radio for no reason.
Pop + HAC + AC + Rhythmic + Urban...he better have huge hits if he gets major support from all of them. I really like Bruno and he deserves a lot of success but I find it a bit odd that "When I Was Your Man" is about to go Top 10 on Rhythmic. Again, great song but really makes you wonder.
Not every song played on the radio can be a huge hit and sell 3-5M, there are a lot of songs which were top 10 on the radio and still they could barely sell 2M at the end.
1. Nothin' on You
2. Billionaire
3. Just the Way You Are
4. Grenade
5. The Lazy Song
6. Lighters
7. Young, Wild, Free
8. It Will Rain
9. Locked out of Heaven
10. When I Was Your Man
Is this counting features? Because I'm sure Mirror didn't get top 10 I don't know if he has them solo or not, but that would be unfair to ignore feats.. You either exclude features or count them all.
To be fair, Mirror shouldn't be counted, the song didn't receive any kind of promotion, not one live performance, I don't even think it was sent to the pop radio, and after like 5 months from release, Wayne finally released a music video. And still the song was a success, it has sold more than 1M copies and the music video has more than 200M views, and not to forget it was one of the most streamed songs of 2012.