The album 's lead single , " Just The Way You Are " , received the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance award at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2011 and received the Top Radio Song award at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards . '' Doo-Wops & Hooligans '' was nominated for the International Album of the Year award at the 2011 Danish GAFFA Awards , Best Album Pop Rock International at the 2012 Swiss Music Awards , and received two nominations ( Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year ) for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012 . The album 's second single , " Grenade " , received three nominations ( Record of the Year , Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance ) for the 2012 Grammys . Rolling Stone 's Jody Rosen and Bill Lamb of About.com called the album one of the year 's best debuts . Lamb praised Mars ' vocals and most of the melodies as " surefire " , calling Mars a " creative artist " and saying that on his next album the singer could " stretch the horizons further and deliver truly memorable songs " . Rosen described the songs as " near-perfect " , " mov ing from power ballads to bedroom anthems ... Call it bubblegum that eats like a meal . " In November 2013 , the '' Doo-Wops & Hooligans '' artwork designed by Nick Bilardello was 31st on '' Complex '' " 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years " . Susan Cheng wrote that Mars would have an enduring career , as " depicted in the path left behind by a black jet on the cover " of the album , whose " sunny hues convey a sense of self-confidence and the singer 's outlook on the road ahead ... the silhouette in the lower right , presumably a representation of Bruno Mars , reveals humility in the wake of so much success . " '' Doo-Wops & Hooligans '' debuted ( and peaked ) at number three on the '' Billboard '' 200 , with sales of 55,000 on its October 13 , 2010 issue date in the United States . It topped '' Billboard '' s Top Catalog Albums chart ; it remained at number one for 11 weeks , surpassing Bob Marley and the Wailers ’ compilation album '' Legend '' ( 1984 ) for the most weeks at number one in 2013 . The album had the second-longest stretch at number one for a male artist , behind Michael Jackson ’s 2003 greatest-hits album '' Number Ones '' ( 19 weeks ) . During the week of February 5 , 2014 ( after Mars ' Grammy appearance and performance at the Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show ) , sales of '' Doo-Wops & Hooligans '' increased by 303 % and it rebounded to number 19 on the '' Billboard '' 200 . The album was certified quintuple platinum for sales and streaming figures equivalent to five million copies by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) in June 2016 , and sold 2,626,000 million copies in the United States by July 2017
54th Annual Grammy Awards
54th Annual Grammy Awards
Doo-Wops & Hooligans