Cardi B & Bruno Mars "Please Me"

This song debuted at #5 this week. The video isn't available yet, so here's the audio!

I just listened to a podcast about their previous collaboration: The New Jack Swing throwback song "Finesse (Remix)" and it's interesting how this is also a90's Throwback feeling song!

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars & Cardi B "Finesse"

This song jumps 35 -> 3 after the video came out. And you'll be able to see why. The video is SO FUN! I really enjoyed this and I'm glad that it bumped it up to the Top Ten

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars "That's What I Like"

I can only find live performances of this song, but that may be for the best because I think Bruno Mars is so so SO entertaining to watch live. He OWNS that stage

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars "24K Magic"

Here's a song that debuts at #5 this week. I really enjoyed watching him perform it on SNL, so I'll put that video on here too! Glad to see him making music again!

Top Ten Tuesday: Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars "Uptown Funk!"

This is a fun video and fun song. Kind of an old-school feel. I was going to also include the recent SNL performance of this song, but it's pretty much just a recreation of this video on the SNL stage.

Enjoy!

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars "Treasure"

Third single from the album Unorthodox Jukebox and Bruno Mars is sticking with the video style where the video looks like it was made in 1980 and only recently found on a VHS tape. The thing is, that style works PERFECTLY for the kind of songs that these videos are for. It's a throwback look for a throwback sound. And I can dig it.

Throwback Thursday: 2011

Further and further into the past we go....

2011 is the year that my daughter was born!

10. Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory
9. Britney Spears - I Wanna Go
8. Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight
7. Bad Meets Evil featuring Bruno Mars - Lighters


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 I was planning on posting the Katy Perry song down at #2, but I watched the video for this and I'm just amazed I missed this song. It is beautiful AND tough in the exact way that I like Eminem to be. The chorus is catchy, the verses are elaborate and complicated, and the video ends on a gorgeous note that, sure, rips off Tangled a little bit, but imagine Eminem in Tangled. Royce da 5'9" has one of the most awkward names I've ever heard but I enjoyed his verse as well as I enjoyed Eminem's so I guess it doesn't matter.

6. Adele - Rolling in the Deep
5. Lil Wayne - How to Love
4. Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack, and Nayer - Give Me Everything
3. Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
2. Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
1. LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

All Time Hot 100 (Part 3)

Day 3 of me finding videos for each of the songs that Billboard has calculated as the highest charting songs of their 55 year history. Let's see how many times Lionel Richie shows up today!

80. The Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra (1982)

79. Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise (1995)

78. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff (1979)

77. Shania Twain - You're Still the One (1998)

76. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1968)

75. Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland - Dilemma (2002)

74. Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are (2010)

73. The Archies - Sugar, Sugar (1969)

72. Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980)

71. Dionne and Friends - That's What Friends Are For (1986)

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars "When I Was Your Man"

So I guess Bruno Mars is going with this whole 70's TV thing with the videos from this album. And I mean, I can't blame him. The songs have a classic sound to them and the videos add that extra hint of nostalgia that makes the whole Bruno Mars thing work.

Top Ten Tuesday: Bruno Mars "Locked Out of Heaven"

Here's the song that entered 2013 at #1. It has been sitting at #2 for the past couple of weeks while "Thrift Shop" (which you'll remember from a couple of weeks ago) holds the top position. This song comes from his latest album, Unorthodox Jukebox which you can purchase at Amazon or iTunes

I saw Bruno Mars perform it on SNL and it was really fantastic. I think I don't give him enough credit and I'm sure that if I checked out his albums, I would enjoy them immensely!

And, as a bonus, here is Bruno Mars again, performing "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Walking on the Moon" with Sting, and then "Could You Be Loved" along with Rihanna, Damien Marley and Ziggy Marley in the Bob Marley tribute from this year's Grammys. It was one of my favorite performances of the evening.