"Uptown Funk" is a song recorded by British producer Mark Ronson, with vocals from American singer Bruno Mars, for Ronson's fourth studio album, 'Uptown Special' released in 2015. RCA Records released the song as the album's lead single on 10 November 2014. This is Mars' fourth collaboration with Ronson (following Mars' own songs "Locked Out of Heaven", "Moonshine", and "Gorilla").
The single was a commercial success, staying sixteen non consecutive weeks atop the global track chart, fourteen consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and seven weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart. It topped the charts in several other countries including Australia, Canada, France, Ireland and New Zealand. In the week of 25 January 2015, the song was streamed a record 2.34 million times in a single week in the UK. "Uptown Funk" also set a new record for the highest number of streams in one week in the US, with 4.8 million streams. Worldwide, the song has accumulated an estimated 14.6 million points from sales and streams. In 2015, "Uptown Funk" won Ronson the Brit Award for British Single of the Year. The video for "Uptown Funk" was also nominated for five MTV Video Music Awards in 2015, winning Best Male Video.
The video received its billionth view on YouTube on 15 September 2015, becoming the 9th video on YouTube to receive over 1 billion views.
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