Bruno Mars has made it to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with his new album, The Romantic. It has earned 186,000 equivalent album units (93,500 album sales and 90,500 streaming equivalent albums) in the US in the week ending March 5, according to Billboard.

It's his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, but surprisingly his first to debut at No. 1. Unorthodox Jukebox, Mars’s sophomore LP, reached the top of the chart in early March 2013, three months after its release. Doo-Wops & Hooligans — which has remained on the chart for more than 700 weeks — debuted at No. 2. His collaborative album with Anderson .Paak, An Evening With Silk Sonic at No.2 as well, same as his previous solo project, 24K Magic.

Mars now has the longest gap between No. 1s for a living artist since Paul McCartney, who scored it in 2018 with Egypt Station, 36 years and three months after Tug of War’s last week atop the chart.

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