Bruno Mars Became One Of The Best-Selling Artists In The United States

By TradingPlatforms 

Bruno Mars just recently became one of the best-selling artists in the United States, with more than 120.5 million certified singles sales, a status that can be seen in the number of streams his songs have generated on Spotify.

Last week, Bruno Mars’s cumulative single sales in America hit 120.5 million, according to data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With this milestone, he now joined an elite club of just 14 artists who had sold more than 120 million singles in the United States. His Spotify stats, however, are even more impressive as the Hawaii-born singer and songwriter is also the second most listened to artist on the streaming platform.

To identify the most-streamed artists and songs on Spotify and the most listened to track from every country, the team at TradingPlatforms aggregated data from Kworb and Spotify’s all-time weekly charts.

Data shows that, with more than 115.1 million monthly listeners, Bruno Mars is the second-most-streamed artist on Spotify after Canada’s pop star The Weeknd, who attracts slightly more regular listeners on the platform, roughly 119.4 million each month. According to Kworb, Bruno Mars currently has 109 songs streamed on Spotify, with a total of 47.7 billion streams, which would account for $190.7 million in revenue, when multiplied by $0.004 per stream.

Here are Spotify’s top 10 artists by monthly listeners

1. The Weeknd – 119.4 million monthly listeners
2. Bruno Mars – 115.1 million monthly listeners
3. Taylor Swift – 109.0 million monthly listeners
4. Rihanna – 101.5 million monthly listeners
5. Lady Gaga – 100.6 million monthly listeners
6. Justin Bieber – 99.5 million monthly listeners
7. Billie Eilish – 93.3 million monthly listeners
8. Ed Sheeran – 92.5 million monthly listeners
9. Coldplay – 91.8 million monthly listeners
10. Ariana Grande – 84.6 million monthly listeners

• The collaboration between Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga on ‘Die With a Smile’ is the artist’s most-streamed song, with 3,079 million streams, generating approximately $12.3 million in revenue.
• Among his solo tracks, ‘Just the Way You Are’ and ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ are the most popular, with 2.958 million and 2.856 million streams respectively, which, so far, have generated around $11.8 million and $11.4 million in revenue for the artist, the rights holders, and for Spotify.
• ‘Just the Way You Are’ is also Spotify’s most-streamed song from 2010, surpassing even megahits like Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and Eminem and Rihanna’s ‘Love the Way You Lie’. Two other tracks by Mars are among 2010’s most listened to songs, namely ‘Talking to the Moon’ ranking 7th and ‘Grenade’ 8th.
• The collaboration with K-pop singer Rosé, ‘APT.’, which became a global hit blending pop, R&B, and K-pop influences, is Bruno Mars’s seventh most-streamed song on Spotify, with 2.074 million streams, generating approximately $8.3 million in revenue.

Here are the top 10 most-streamed songs by Bruno Mars (or featuring) on Spotify

1. ‘Die With a Smile’: 3.079M streams → $12,314,880
2. ‘Just the Way You Are’: 2.958M streams → $11,832,340
3. ‘Locked Out of Heaven’: 2.856M streams → $11,423,340
4. ‘When I Was Your Man’: 2.843M streams → $11,373,360
5. ‘That’s What I Like’: 2.820M streams → $11,281,730
6. ‘Uptown Funk’ (feat. Bruno Mars): 2.463M streams → $9,850,024
7. ‘APT’.: 2,074M streams → $8.297,804
8. ‘Talking to the Moon’: 1.883M streams → $7,532,692
9. ‘24K Magic’: 1.766M streams → $7,065,616
10. ‘Grenade’: 1.748M streams → $6,993,008

Total: 24.490M streams → $97,964,494 (~$98M)

More information on Spotify’s most-streamed songs and artists around the world, as well as the estimated revenue each song generates from streams, and the complete methodology behind these calculations, can be found in the full report.

Credit: Daniel Lane Data Analyst
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