Welcome to the brand new temporary layout of BrunoMars.US titled “Runaway Baby”. I decided to put this layout up for a quick while as we prep for a much bigger and better look for fall. I hope you all like! x

Bruno Mars has been nominated for “Favorite Male Music Artist” from the 2011 NCLR ALMA Awards. The ALMA Awards will be airing September 10, 2011. Voting ends on September 5. Head over HERE to vote for Bruno!

Favorite Male Music Artist
Taio Cruz
Enrique Iglesias
Bruno Mars
Ricky Martin
Pitbull

Bruno Mars has been nominated for 3 more Teen Choice Awards! He has been nominated in categories such as: Summer Song, Summer Music Star, and Breakout Artist! Make sure you head over to the Teen Choice Awards website to vote for Bruno!

Choice Summer Song
“Party Rock Anthem,” LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock
“Skyscraper,” Demi Lovato
“The Lazy Song,” Bruno Mars
“Super Bass,” Nicki Minaj
“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F),” Katy Perry

Choice Summer Music Star: Male
Jason Derulo
David Guetta
Bruno Mars
Pitbull
Lil Wayne

Choice Music: Breakout Artist
Adele
Javier Colon
Wiz Khalifa
Bruno Mars
Scotty McCreery

Bruno Mars new webstore has just recently opened. Currently, there is a Summer Celebration sale going on to save about 50% on selected merch. Make sure you head over to the store! There are shirts, bracelets, necklaces, posters, and more!

Massive congratulations to Bruno Mars & The Smeezingtons today! He has been nominated for 4 MTV Video Music Awards including “Best Male Video”, “Best Choreography”, “Best Pop Video” and “Video Of The Year”. We all know Bruno deserves each & every one of these awards – so I know all of you will be VOTING NON-STOP!

BEST POP VIDEO
Adele
“Rolling in the Deep”

Britney Spears
“Till the World Ends”

Bruno Mars
“Grenade”

Katy Perry
“Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)”
Directed by Marc Klasfeld & Danny Lockwood

Pitbull f/ Ne-Yo, Nayer, and Afrojack
“Give Me Everything”

BEST MALE VIDEO

Bruno Mars
“Grenade”

Cee-Lo Green
“F*** You”

Eminem f/ Rihanna
“Love the Way You Lie”

Justin Bieber
“U Smile”

Kanye West f/ Rihanna and Kid Cudi
“All Of The Lights”

VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Adele
“Rolling in the Deep”

Beastie Boys
“Make Some Noise”

Bruno Mars
“Grenade”

Katy Perry
“Firework”

Tyler, The Creator
“Yonkers”

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY

Beyoncé
“Run the World (Girls)”

Britney Spears
“Till the World Ends”

Bruno Mars
“The Lazy Song”

Lady Gaga
“Judas”

LMFAO f/ Lauren Bennett & Goon
“Party Rock Anthem

Voting is open right now and the show goes down on August 28th! We know he’ll be up there accepting awards.

You can also text VMA to 66333 to vote!

LOOOL! Check out this new video clip of Bruno & Phil serenading a bag of Popchips potato chips. Gotta love it – this lil’ diddy come definitely do good on the charts today – right?

WOW! What an amazing accomplishment Bruno has made once again! Today, his cover for Billboard Magazine’s special 50th anniversary issue was unveiled and with it comes a new interview in which he speaks on becoming one of the biggest names in music history, fame, and things in his past.

Bruno took to his official Twitter page to express his happiness about everything and here’s what he said:

@Billboarddotcom I’ve always wanted to see my songs in the pages of your magazine… But the Cover?? WOW! Im so honored. Thank you Billboard

Check out some excerpts from the interview below & the full-size cover in the gallery.

“It’s a rare thing that happens,” he says, a packet of cigarettes and a smartphone resting by his feet, “especially in this day, where it’s real hard to sell albums. I’m traveling to places that I’ve never even heard of and there are all these people singing the songs back — and English is not even their first language. It’s like, what the hell happened?” The answer is simple: Music fans the world over have fallen in love with Bruno Mars.

“The great thing about Bruno is that you can’t put him in a box. That’s why I think people are so attracted to him and his music,” Atlantic Records chairman/COO Julie Greenwald says. “You can put him with any type of artist from any genre and it will be beautiful. He understands music.” To understand the roots of Mars’ musical education one must go back to the late ’80s when he made his onstage debut, at age 4, impersonating Elvis Presley in his parents’ 1950s-style revue on Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach. “That was it,” Mars says. “I was Elvis.”

“I’m just a mixed-up dude,” he says when asked about his genre-crossing versatility. “I want to work with the Kanyes, the Jay-Zs… a Rihanna, a Gaga, Kings of Leon, Mumford & Sons. I want to do all those things. As proud as I am of “Doo-Wops,” I feel like, ‘Oh, man. People haven’t seen nothing. They don’t even know what I’m about to do,’ and that’s what I can’t wait to show the world.”

Full interview Billboard Magazine

Be sure to order YOUR copy of this very special edition of Billboard: HERE.

Tickets for Bruno Mars’ short UK tour, set to take place this autumn, go on sale today (July 14).

The US singer will perform three dates, starting at London’s Brixton Academy on October 23.

Dates are also scheduled for Nottingham’s Capital FM Arena on November 1 and Manchester’s Apollo on November 2.

The shows are in addition to Mars’ previously announced UK dates set to take place in August, which include a performance at the V Festival.

Tickets go on sale at 9am. For more details and to buy Bruno Mars tickets, check out Gigwise Gig Tickets.

Bruno Mars’ UK tour dates are:

• October 23rd – O2 Brixton Academy – London, UK
• November 1st – Capital FM Arena – Nottingham, UK
• November 2nd – O2 Apollo – Manchester, UK

Bruno Mars performed at the iTunes Festival at The Roundhouse on July 8th in London, United Kingdom. I’ve added a couple pictures to the gallery from his performance! Check them out!

It has been announced that Bruno Mars will be playing at the iHeartRadio Music Festival this year on Friday, September 23rd in Las Vegas, NV. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday, July 16th at 1 pm ET at Ticketmaster.com!