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    "articleBody": "Five years ago today, on November 12, 2021, Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak released An Evening with Silk Sonic, a nine-song, 31-minute love letter to 1970s soul that went on to win every major Grammy its lead single was eligible for. Then the duo did something almost nobody at the top of the industry does: they pulled the album out of the next Grammy race on purpose. It opened at No. 2 on the US albums chart with 104,000 equivalent units in its first week, landed at No. 1 on the R&B/hip-hop albums list, and has since gone platinum in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Brazil. How a backstage joke became a band The partnership started on the road. Mars and .Paak met in 2017, when .Paak was opening the European run of Mars’s 24K Magic World Tour. The first idea they put on tape was a throwaway line, “smokin out the window,” pictured as the words of a stressed chain-smoker. That joke later became the album’s third single. The sessions stalled when the tour ended. In February 2020, Mars played the old recordings back, liked what he heard and called .Paak into the studio, on .Paak’s birthday. The pandemic then cleared both men’s touring calendars, and .Paak has said he was not sure the project would exist otherwise. Most of the album was cut at Shampoo Press & Curl Studios in Los Angeles between early 2020 and mid-2021. Two hires shaped the sound. Producer and multi-instrumentalist D’Mile, whom Mars found on Instagram after hearing his work with Lucky Daye, became a core writer. Funk great Bootsy Collins, who came up with the name Silk Sonic, hosts the record as a sort of late-night emcee. Old gear, new key changes The retro feel was not a plug-in. Engineer Charles Moniz and the duo tracked down veteran session players, studied old drumming magazines and gathered period equipment, including Ludwig drums, a Hohner Clavinet and an electric sitar, then recorded several musicians at once in the same room with only one or two microphones. .Paak played drums on most tracks; Mars handled guitars, percussion and that sitar. The payoff is in the songwriting details. “Leave the Door Open,” “Smokin out the Window,” “After Last Night,” “Put On a Smile” and “Blast Off” all shift key mid-song, a classic Philly soul move that many modern hits skip. Babyface co-wrote “Put On a Smile,” and Thundercat plays bass and sings on “After Last Night.” The five-year scorecard Here is how the album’s run adds up, counted from its release history: March 5, 2021: “Leave the Door Open” drops and later tops the Hot 100, Mars’s eighth No. 1 and .Paak’s first. November 12, 2021: the album arrives; it passes a billion Spotify streams by December 29. February 25, 2022: the Las Vegas residency at Park MGM opens. April 2022: “Leave the Door Open” takes four Grammys: the two R&B categories plus both Song of the Year and Record of the Year. August 26, 2022: the vinyl release moves about 37,000 records in a week, a record for an R&B album on vinyl at the time. Four of its singles reached No. 1 on the adult R&B airplay chart, a feat only Toni Braxton’s 1993 debut had matched. Then Mars and .Paak declined to submit the album for the following Grammy cycle, citing the awards they had already collected, even though it was widely expected to contend for Album of the Year. On the more recent .Paak thread, he has since teamed up with Cordae on Anderson .Paak and Cordae’s joint album Heavy Is the Crown. The Silk Sonic album itself was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2022 Soul Train Awards, a show that has since returned to Chicago with fan-voted trophies. Mars has also moved on as a solo artist: his discography now lists The Romantic as his 2026 album, the first full Mars release since Silk Sonic. A second Silk Sonic record has never been announced, so the 31 minutes and 19 seconds released on November 12, 2021 are, for now, the whole story. Further reading Wikipedia: An Evening with Silk Sonic Image: Pangalau, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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