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"I'm just a dude that wants to sing. That's all." (Bruno Mars)
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October 4, 2010 marks the release' date of the debut album by the pop star Bruno Mars which first charted at number three on the Billboard 200 selling 55,000 copies (It's at #110 for this Week), since then the album has sold more than 2M in the US and more than 6M WW. It has sold more than 35m singles WW including the the best-selling digital track of 2011 "Just the way you are".
The album has also proved to be a success on Catalog Albums and has topped the chart for the 11 weeks during 2013 which is the most weeks that an album by a male artist has logged at #1 on this chart in a calendar year since Michael Jackson's Number Ones spent 19 weeks on top in 2009.
Longevity is the key word when it comes to Bruno's success.