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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif">Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” Sets #1 Top 40 Radio Audience Record of All Time and </span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt; font-family:"Georgia",serif">Continues to Hold No.1 Spot on
<i>Billboard </i>HOT 100 Chart For 9 Consecutive Weeks</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">(New York – March 9, 2015) Mark Ronson</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">’s “<b>Uptown Funk</b>” featuring <b>Bruno Mars</b> sets the record for having
the #1 largest Top 40 audience record of all time, and held the #1 spot on the Top 40 airplay chart for 6 consecutive weeks. “Uptown Funk” also continues to hold the #1 spot on the
<i>Billboard</i> HOT 100 Chart for its 9<sup>th</sup> consecutive week. In addition, the single also holds the record for having the #3rd largest radio audience of all time at all radio formats. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">The track is from Ronson’s fourth album, <b><i>Uptown Special</i></b> which was released on <b>January 13, 2015 </b>via <b>RCA Records</b>. The album was written and produced with fellow
GRAMMY<sup>® -</sup>winning producer <b>Jeff Bhasker</b> (Kanye West, Drake, Alicia Keys), and the majority of the album’s lyrics were written by Pulitzer-winning American novelist <b>Michael Chabon</b>. <b><i>Uptown Special </i></b>includes collaborations
with <b>Stevie Wonder</b>, Tame Impala's <b>Kevin Parker</b>, Miike Snow's <b>Andrew Wyatt</b>, <b>Mystikal </b>and newcomer <b>Keyone Starr. </b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0" target="_blank">PRESS HERE</a> to watch the music video for “<b>Uptown Funk,</b>” which was directed by Bruno Mars and Cameron
Duddy (Bruno Mars, Grouplove, Awolnation). The video has had over 330M views in just 4 months.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Following a meteoric climb up the charts since its release, <b>Mark Ronson</b>'s international hit single <b>"Uptown Funk"</b> featuring <b>Bruno Mars</b> has held the<b> #1 position</b> on
the <b><i>Billboard </i>Hot 100 Chart </b>for a ninth week<b>. </b>The track has also been the No. 1 streaming track on Spotify US for 7 consecutive weeks and broke the global and U.S. record for number of streams in one week with over 4.8 million in the U.S.
and 14.79 million streams worldwide. The song was co-written and co-produced by Ronson and Mars.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">Praise for Uptown Special:</span></u></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“every inch and detail of [<i>Uptown Special]</i> rings with real skill and intelligence” -
<b><i>TIME</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[<i>Uptown Special
</i>is] a knockout when it is at its best.”- <b><i>Wall Street Journal</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[<i>Uptown Special</i>] combines talent in jaw-dropping ways to create music steeped in vintage R&B, from the '70s to the
'90s. Uptown Funk, Ronson's current chart-topping hit with Mars, is just the tip.” –
<b><i>USA Today</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[‘Uptown Funk’] is a pulsing, funky rager” -
<b><i>NPR</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“An all-star funk summit” –
<b><i>Rolling Stone</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[‘Uptown Funk’ is] a full-on combustible groove workout with elastic bass and indomitable spirit.” –
<b><i>Billboard</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“Mark Ronson's grasp of weapons-grade Soul Train revivalism has no parallel. ‘Uptown Funk’ breaks a serious sweat, but the
centerpiece of Ronson's fourth album is the volcanic 'Feel Right': Over heaving horns and bubbly bass, Mystikal spits surreal lines about bananas and bamboo and getting interplanetary with Bruno Mars. It's a master class in stanky, guttural rump shaking.”
– <b><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[<i>Uptown Special]</i> is not just a collection of tunes, not just a set, but it is an album of words and melodies that
drives home the import of what a phonograph album was originally designed to be: A package, a mood, and more than a four-minute trek to the dance floor.” -
<b><i>Yahoo</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“[‘Uptown Funk’ is] An irresistible (and aptly titled) party jam” –
<b><i>Los Angeles Times</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“The whole thing…hangs together as one of the slickest and most unashamedly fun mainstream pop albums in recent memory.” –
<b><i>Stereogum</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">“Uptown Special</span></i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"> puts the retro virtue of craftsmanship above all else and
succeeds in making something lasting — the kind of pop gold worthy of future plundering.” –
<b><i>Vulture</i></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">For more information on Mark Ronson contact: Chloe Walsh or Gina Schulman at Press Here
</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"><a href="mailto:chloe@pressherepublicity.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>chloe@pressherepublicity.com/</i></b></a><a href="mailto:gina@pressherepublicity.com" target="_blank"><b><i>gina@pressherepublicity.com</i></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black">At RCA: </span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif; color:black"><a href="mailto:sarah.weinstein@rcarecords.com" target="_blank"><b><i>sarah.weinstein@rcarecords.com</i></b></a></span></p>
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