Bruno Mars has announced his new album ‘The Romantic’. Read on for further details.
- READ MORE: Bruno Mars – ’24K Magic’ review
The US singer-songwriter and producer released his third and most recent record, the multi-Grammy-winning ’24K Magic’, a decade ago in 2016. He later joined forces with Anderson .Paak to form the duo Silk Sonic, who released their LP ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’ in 2021.
Mars has since teamed up with Lady Gaga on the hit ballad ‘Die With A Smile’, worked with BLACKPINK’s Rosé on the huge joint track ‘APT.’, and featured on Sexyy Red’s single ‘Fat Juicy & Wet’.
On Monday (January 5), he announced that his long-awaited new album was “finished”, and now he’s shared further details on its upcoming release.
Titled ‘The Romantic’, the record will be released on February 27, with a first single coming on Friday (January 9).
Alongside the announcement, Mars shared the album cover, which features a black and white illustration of him. Check it out below.
New music this Friday 🫂
The Romantic coming 2.27 🌹♥️Preorder at https://t.co/ghcdaneyea pic.twitter.com/jeKK9vXbMP
— Bruno Mars (@BrunoMars) January 7, 2026
In a four-star review of ’24K Magic’, NME described the LP as “half an hour of party tunes that sound like the best bits of ’90s R&B”. It added: “Few albums designed to sound like a party actually play like one, but Bruno Mars has pulled it off with style.”
Meanwhile, Rosé and Mars’ ‘APT.’ was recently named one of TikTok’s top 20 global songs of 2025. The track previously landed at Number 14 on NME‘s 50 best songs of 2024 list.
Elsewhere, Mars joined Eddie Vedder, Slash, Yungblud, Anthony Kiedis and more to cover some rock classics at a lavish corporate Christmas party in New York.
In other news, the singer recently revealed that he was close to scrapping his hit Lady Gaga collab ‘Die With A Smile’, but changed his mind after learning that she was working on Joker: Folie à Deux.
