Uptown Funk
2014
Six studios, eighty-two takes at the guitar part, Ronson collapsing in the studio, and fourteen weeks at number one.
★ 7.5
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Just the Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
2010
Every instrument played by Mars and Ari Levine at Levcon Studios, and a Grammy for male pop vocal followed.
★ 5.7
When I Was Your Man
2012
Voice and piano, nothing else, Mars playing it himself at Levcon and singing a regret he cannot take back.
★ 5.3
Treasure
2013
Breakbot got a songwriting credit after the fact, and Mars turned late-seventies disco into a top-five American hit.
★ 4.9
Grenade
2010
Rebuilt two days before the album was due, its surf-pop guitars gone, and Mars sings it like a wound.
★ 4.7
Nothin' On You
B.o.B and Bruno Mars
2010
A Joe Tex drum break under a Smeezingtons hook, and Bruno Mars stepping out from behind the songwriting desk.
★ 4.2
It Will Rain
2011
Half-finished on the Hooligans tour, the melody landed once Mars saw an early cut of Breaking Dawn.
★ 3.3