Bruno Mars' 'The Romantic' Debuts At No. 1 On Billboard 200, His First Chart-Topper In 13 Years
 | Mon, March 9, 2026 at 8:22 AM |
Bruno Mars scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with The Romantic, which debuts with 186,000 equivalent units in its first week of release. The album generated 93,500 in sales, with 90,500 streaming units from 93.95 million streams. Vinyl sales totaled 48,000 copies across 10 variants, marking his best vinyl week ever. The Romantic is Mars' first chart-topper in over a decade, following Unorthodox Jukebox which reached No. 1 in March 2013. Mars' 13-year gap between No. 1 albums represents the longest span for any living solo male artist since Paul McCartney's 36-year interval between chart-toppers came to an end in 2018. The album's lead single, "I Just Might," became Mars' 10th Hot 100 No. 1 hit and first to debut atop the chart, while also spending seven weeks at No. 1 on R&B charts.
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Several notable debuts also cracked the top tier of this week's Billboard 200, including Gorillaz claiming their sixth Top 10-charting album of their career with the No. 7 launch of The Mountain, while BLACKPINK scores its third Top 10 as DEADLINE premieres at No. 8, and Mitski's Nothing's About To Happen to Me arrives at No. 10 with nearly 43,000 equivalent album units earned, the artist's best sales week ever. Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving climbs two spots to No. 5, while the rest of the Top 10 is rounded out by all former chart-toppers, as Bad Bunny's DeB TiRAR M S FOToS holds at No. 2, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem jumps two places to No. 3, and Don Toliver's OCTANE climbs up two slots to No. 4. Last week's No. 1, Megan Moroney's Cloud 9, plummets five spots to No. 6 in its second week, while Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl remains at No. 9.
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