Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. “Die With a Smile” becomes Bruno Mars’s third-longest Hot 100 hit ...

Every year since 2009, the impressively consistent Sondre Lerche has premiered a just-recorded contemporary cover song on ...

Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” hits 13 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200, breaking Mars’s personal record and tying Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers.” NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 28: ...

We have our first new Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 of 2025 — and it’s with a song that was already on the chart for 18 weeks in 2024. With the seasonal glut of holiday songs vacating the chart in this post ...

Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s hit duet “Die With A Smile” came out back in the middle of 2024, but it’s still dominating the world: Spotify revealed their year-end stats a couple days ago and the track ...

Lady Gaga is starting 2025 on a high. On Tuesday, the pop star celebrated”Die With a Smile,” her duet with Bruno Mars, hitting Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. “I am so incredibly ...

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars‘ “Die With a Smile” has climbed to No. 1 on its 20th week on the Hot 100 songs chart. The Grammy-nominated collaboration debuted at No. 3 on the chart in late August and ...