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Bruno Mars hasn’t released new music under his name in half a decade. It’s been even longer since he’s doled out a full-length. For many pop stars, such a break would be a career-killer, but that doesn’t appear to be the case when it comes to the Grammy champion.
This week in the U.K., Mars reaches a special milestone. The singer, songwriter, and producer hits a landmark number he’s never seen before as fans in the country continue to press play on the hits that made him a superstar.
Mars’ debut full-length Doo-Wops & Hooligans is celebrating 350 weeks on the U.K. albums chart. The set is the musician’s first to make it to that huge number, which remains relatively elusive for many pop stars.
Doo-Wops & Hooligans is far and away Mars’ longest-charting album in the U.K. So far, no other project from the singer has been able to rack up triple-digit frames on the tally.
Mars’ second-longest-charting full-length remains his sophomore set, Unorthodox Jukebox. That Grammy-winning release has thus far spent 85 frames on the U.K. albums chart, including just one at No. 1.
This week, Doo-Wops & Hooligans falls on the tally in the U.K., but only barely. It dips from No. 78 to No. 79.
The hit-packed collection spent two weeks at No. 1 across the pond, and it’s Mars’ only album to manage more than one frame in charge. Those turns atop the tally were spread out by several months in a somewhat rare showing. Doo-Wops & Hooligans debuted at No. 1 in January 2011, and then it returned to the summit the following January.