Bruno Mars has just released a new song, 'Fat, Juicy & Wet' (I wonder what that's supposed to be about) and is celebrating hitting a major milestone in music.
The singer has become the first musician to rack up 150 million monthly streams on Spotify, and given how much the streaming platform pays artists that's probably worth several hundred thousand dollars to Mars.
Sharing the happy news of his success to his Instagram Stories, Bruno Mars also took the time to poke fun at the rumours that he was in serious levels of debt.
In case you didn't know, last year there were claims from NewsNation that the singer had accumulated a hefty gambling debt of over $50 million (£40 million) and that MGM Resorts 'basically own him'.
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A spokesperson for MGM Resorts said that the claims were 'completely false' and that Mars 'has no debt with MGM', but that hasn't stopped the singer from having some fun with it.
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In his Instagram Stories post celebrating becoming the first artist on Spotify to hit 150 million monthly listeners, Mars wrote: "KEEP STREAMING! I'll be out of debt in no time."
This was accompanied by an emoji of someone dancing, so he would seem to be treating the denied rumours of his debts with his tongue firmly in his cheek.
It's not the first time he's joked about the rumours either, as last summer ahead of the release of 'Die With A Smile', his duet with Lady Gaga, he shared a viral video of someone dancing and captioned it 'Lady Gaga on her way to get Bruno Mars out of debt'.
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If he is up to his eyeballs in debt it would seem that he's decided laugher is the best solution, but since he doesn't seem too bothered and can have a joke about it that might suggest he's doing alright financially.
You'd expect someone in $50 million of debt to be more downbeat about it, wouldn't you?
Meanwhile, in other Bruno Mars-related happenings a company that owns a portion of his song 'When I Was Your Man' launched a lawsuit against Miley Cyrus over claims that she copied the tune for her song 'Flowers'.
In November representatives for Cyrus filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on the grounds that the company Tempo Music doesn't have exclusive copyright to the song and only 'a legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive copyright' can sue for infringement.
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The filing made on behalf of Miley Cyrus also says that the singer's camp 'categorically deny copying' the Bruno Mars song.
Topics: Bruno Mars, Celebrity, Music
Joe Harker