Recently, American pop star Bruno Mars sent compliments and gratitude to his colleagues who collaborated with him on his two latest music products, Rose (Blackpink) in APT. and Lady Gaga in Die With A smile.
Bruno Mars wrote on Instagram: "My girls, Lady Gaga and Rose are making history."
Along with that, he shared the achievement of Die With A smile reaching 1 billion streams on Spotify in record time, and APT. topping the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart.
Die With A Smile (released on August 16, 2024) became the fastest song to reach 1 billion streams in Spotify history, after 96 days, defeating Jungkook (BTS)s song Seven featuring Latto, which once reached 1 billion streams after 108 days.
At the same time, Die With A smile surpassed the achievements of many other European-American artists such as Flowers by Miley Cyrus (112 days), Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter (117 days).
Meanwhile, APT. (released on October 18, 2024) is the first song by a Western artist to top the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart in this decade, and is one of five Western artist songs to reach No. 1 in history.
Rose is also the first female K-pop solo artist to climb to No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100. Japan - the world's second largest music market - which dominates domestic artists and Japanese songs, makes it difficult for an English song to dominate the Top 1 of the Billboard chart in Japan.
Currently, "APT." is topping the charts of major Japanese music platforms including Spotify and Apple Music.
This year, Bruno Mars made an impressive comeback. After releasing Die With A Smile and APT., he surpassed The Weeknd to set a record for the artist with the highest monthly attendance of all time on Spotify, with 134.26 million listeners as of November 21.
On November 22, Bruno Mars and Rose will perform at the 2024 MAMA music awards ceremony, taking place in Japan.
At noon of the same day, Rose was scheduled to release a new song "Number One Girl". According to The Black Label Company, Bruno Mars is also involved as a producer for this song.
