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Song of the Day #3,064: ’24K Magic’ – Bruno Mars

bruno_mars_24k_magicRounding out Billboard’s top five are two more blog repeats — twenty one pilots with ‘Heathens’ and DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber with ‘Let Me Love You.’ It’s been two months since I last did a Billboard countdown and yet half the top ten is intact. I guess you don’t see a lot of chart movement in the fall.

At #6 is Bruno Mars with ’24K Magic,’ his claim to retake the pop music throne after the runaway success of ‘Uptown Funk.’ And given that that track was actually a Mark Ronson tune, it’s actually been four years and two Super Bowl performances since Mars released his last album.

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Song of the Day #2,426: ‘Uptown Funk (Live on Ellen)’ – Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars

bruno_mars_uptown_funkTwo and a half months into 2015, I’m kicking off my first installment of ‘What are the Kids Listening To?,’ wherein I feature ten songs ranking high on Billboard’s Hot 100.

A glance at the chart reveals that the music business is a lot like the movie business, in that the first quarter of the year is sloooow. Most of the songs atop the Hot 100 are from 2014.

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Song of the Day #2,335: ‘Uptown Funk’ – Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars

bruno_mars_uptown_funkWith just 16 days left in 2014, it’s time for me shift into year-end mode. So here’s how the next few weeks on the blog will go.

This week and next I’ll feature my final look at the Billboard charts for 2014. The week of New Year’s Eve, my family and I will be out of town so I’ll put the blog in vacation mode (with some nice tracks to fill the time, I hope). Then I’ll come back in the first week of 2015 and count down my top 20 songs of the year.

Sound good? Great!

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Song of the Day #2,016: ‘Locked Out of Heaven’ – Bruno Mars

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Guest blogger Dana continues…

Dana’s Best Songs of 2013
Bruno Mars – ‘Locked Out of Heaven’

 
This is another one that came up in my comments to your list regarding what I thought were some conspicuous omissions.

Like you, I am not a huge fan of Mars, and I have never bought one of his albums. However, his talent is really quite undeniable, even if I don’t always love his style.

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Song of the Day #1,095: ‘The Lazy Song’ – Bruno Mars

Last July I spent two weeks on summer singles — those songs that dominate the airwaves during these carefree months. Songs that mostly check their brains at the door and ask nothing of the listener but to hum or dance along.

I’ve traditionally been way behind in discovering summer singles, often not hearing them until months later. I’m the guy who didn’t hear ‘Umbrella’ or ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ until they’d been in rotation for more than a year. Last summer I proactively remedied that situation, and this summer I’ve aiming to do so again.

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