The Weeknd vs Bruno Mars (the hits)

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

1. breakthrough songs: Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You
2. breakthrough solo songs: The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. their 2nd huge hits: Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. big soundtrack singles: Earned It vs It Will Rain
5. 1st lead after their breakthrough albums: Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. the biggest songs: Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. lead (Las Vegas) singles: Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. remixed songs by two huge female artists: Save Your Tears vs Finesse
9. slow breakup songs: Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. the latest lead singles: Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open
11. random: I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like
12. random: In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song
13. overall: Weeknd vs Bruno

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

Bruno

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I'd probably take Bruno overall, but both have a consistent track record of quality.

[Edith Puthie]

7 - 6 in favor of Weeknd, but there were some very difficult and still questionable choices on my behalf.

[dbhmr]

Went with Bruno for "It Will Rain" and "When I Was Your Man" and the Weeknd for the rest.

[franklin]

The Weeknd for everything.

[Ling-Ling]

1. Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You
2. The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. Earned It vs It Will Rain
5. Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. Save Your Tears vs Finesse
9. Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open
11. I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like
12. In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song

7-5 to The Weeknd. Outside of a couple of tracks, I didn't really get into Bruno until 24K Magic. But some of these were super close and could easily flip in Bruno's favor given the day.

[jdanton2]

Bruno for most of them . i like quite a few of The Weeknd songs as well.

1. breakthrough songs: Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You both songs are great
2. breakthrough solo songs: The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. their 2nd huge hits: Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. big soundtrack singles: Earned It vs It Will Rain
5. 1st lead after their breakthrough albums: Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. the biggest songs: Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. lead (Las Vegas) singles: Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. remixed songs by two huge female artists: Save Your Tears vs Finesse both songs are great
9. slow breakup songs: Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. the latest lead singles: Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open
11. random: I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like both songs are great
12. random: In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song
13. overall: Weeknd vs Bruno

[𝓲𝓽'𝓼.𝓰𝓿]

Voted for Weeknd for all except for the lead current/Vegas singles and slow break-up songs which I chose Bruno. Bruno and Weeknd happens to be my favorite musicians, but I preferred Bruno in my early teen days, but now my musical preference lies more to the latter.

[chanman]

Almost all votes for Bruno with the exception of "Grenade"...I choose "Cant Feel My Face"

[when the pawn...]

The Weeknd for almost everything.

[Fire]

1. breakthrough songs: Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You
2. breakthrough solo songs: The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. their 2nd huge hits: Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. big soundtrack singles: Earned It vs It Will Rain (probably the weakest matchup here tbh :/)
5. 1st lead after their breakthrough albums: Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. the biggest songs: Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. lead (Las Vegas) singles: Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. remixed songs by two huge female artists: Save Your Tears vs Finesse
9. slow breakup songs: Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. the latest lead singles: Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open
11. random: I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like
12. random: In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song
13. overall: Weeknd vs Bruno (going just by these matchups, bruno wins, however generally i think i prefer the weeknd since his two best songs - blinding lights and i feel it coming - are both flawless in my eyes)

[dremolus - solarpunk]

Aug 9, 2021 15:26:32 GMT -5 dbhmr said:

Went with Bruno for "It Will Rain" and "When I Was Your Man" and the Weeknd for the rest.

I went the exact same way lol. The only reason I went with It Will Rain was because Earned It is awful and the worst Weeknd hit. Bruno has several here that have not aged well (i.e. everything pre-Unorthodox Jukebox).

Just the Way You Are is unlistenable for me

[pancakes]

Bruno for Nothin' on You, 24k Magic, and When I Was Your Man. The Weeknd for the rest.

[kimberly]

1. Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You
2. The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. Earned It vs It Will Rain
5. Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. Save Your Tears vs Finesse
9. Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open (still haven't heard TMB and it's too new to decide, anyway)
11. I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like
12. In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song

The Weeknd easily takes this for me.

[Zach]

It Will Rain (Earned It remains trash), 24K Magic and Leave the Door Open got my votes. The Weeknd got all other match-ups.

[born]

Aug 9, 2021 21:24:34 GMT -5 chanman said:

Almost all votes for Bruno with the exception of "Grenade"...I choose "Cant Feel My Face"

The exact opposite for me. I voted for The Weeknd in all but one of the matchups (Grenade vs Can't Feel My Face).

[Jay D83]

I've only heard 2 Weeknd songs and none of them are on my Apple Music and Bruno has one of my favorite albums of the last 10 years sooooo.......

[chanman]

Aug 10, 2021 5:57:47 GMT -5 born said:

Aug 9, 2021 21:24:34 GMT -5 chanman said:

Almost all votes for Bruno with the exception of "Grenade"...I choose "Cant Feel My Face"

The exact opposite for me. I voted for The Weeknd in all but one of the matchups (Grenade vs Can't Feel My Face).

Well crazy huh. I've found someone who proves the alternate world theory could exist. LOL 

[back2blk]

I like both, prefer Bruno, and these current match-ups make it almost half and half for me.

I would like each of them to give us an unplugged or tiny desk experience.

[Leo ✔]

1. Love Me Harder vs Nothin' On You
2. The Hills vs Just The Way You Are
3. Can't Feel My Face vs Grenade
4. Earned It vs It Will Rain
5. Starboy vs Locked Out Of Heaven
6. Blinding Lights vs Uptown Funk
7. Heartless vs 24K Magic
8. Save Your Tears vs Finesse
9. Call Out My Name vs When I Was Your Man
10. Take My Breath vs Leave The Door Open
11. I Feel It Coming vs That's What I Like
12. In Your Eyes vs The Lazy Song

[Au$tin]

1. Love Me Harder
Never cared for Nothin on You. Love Me Harder I rather enjoy, though.

2. The Hills
Never been super into either track, but I do like them both to an extent. I'm definitely a bit more interested in The Hills, though.

3. Can't Feel My Face
This one is actually pretty difficult! I think I might be more excited to hear Grenade if it came on right this second, but I know at their peaks I was way more into CFMF than Grenade. Both are career highlights though.

4. It Will Rain
I really don't like Earned It. It Will Rain isn't a great track either, but I do enjoy it to a certain extent. Earned It is a station changer, though.

5. Starboy
Another very difficult one. Locked Out of Heaven is a jam and one of my favorite Bruno tracks, but Starboy just hits different.

6. Blinding Lights
I loved Uptown Funk once upon a time. But it has aged really poorly for me. Blinding Lights is great.

7. Heartless
Heartless is fine, but fine is all it takes to beat out the annoying station changer that is 24K Magic.

8. Finesse
Honestly, neither. Both songs just don't do it fot me, but Finesse is at least somewhat catchy and I can somewhat enjoy it if someone else who really likes it is playing it. Save Your Tears? I honestly still can't tell you what it sounds like despite hearing it like 20+ times at this point.

9. Call Out My Name
When I Was Your Man is dreadful. Call Out My Name slaps.

10. Take My Breath
Leave the Door Open is fine, but a tad dull. Take My Breath isn't as instant for me as it seems to have been for many of you, but I do know instantly it beats out LTDO.

11. I Feel It Coming
That's What I Like is okay, I have similar feelings about it as I do Finesse, but I Feel It Coming is amazing.

12. In Your Eyes
I like In Your Eyes well enough, though I've never been super into it. The Lazy Song is just so meh.

Overall: The Weeknd
Bruno is still someone I pay attention to because he does have a nice array of tracks I like quite a bit, but I'm definitely into The Weeknd more. I'm also realizing a lot of my favorite Bruno tracks either weren't singles or not his biggest hits (Gorilla, Natalie, Moonshine, Treasure).

[MyLastView]

Bruno Mars: 7
The Weeknd: 5
Overall: Bruno Mars

I feel like The Weeknd has some of the strongest tracks overall, but Bruno’s more recent releases have slapped. I don’t like most of his early singles. This was a pretty tough one!