Bruno Mars and Cardi B’s “Finesse” shot up from number 35 debut to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 recently.
Finesse gives Bruno Mars entrance to an exclusive club: artists with at least three top five Hot 100 hits from each of their first three proper albums. He’s the first male and third act overall to boast such career-opening consistency, following only Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.
According to Billboards Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, and Bruno Mars are the only artist to make it over the Hot 100’s like this in a 59-year history span.
Mariah Carey is still the champ. Mariah repeated her achievement four times with her albums “Mariah Carey”, “Emotions”, “Music Box” and “Daydream”.
Beyoncé has repeated three times with albums “Dangerously In Love”, “B’Day”, and “I Am… Sasha Fierce”.
Bruno Mars follows behind them with his three albums “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”, “Unorthodox Jukebox”, and “24K Magic”.
The success of “24k Magic” has the following songs above top 10 in the top 100’s chart:”24K Magic,” No. 4, Dec, 10, 2016, “That’s What I Like,” No. 1 (one week), May 13, 2017, “Finesse,” with Cardi B, No. 3 (as of Jan. 20, 2018)
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