The single received critical acclaim from music critics, who noted the track's "summer vibes", in addition to the "funky" influences of the 1970s. The song reached the top five in the United States and New Zealand, as well as top twenty in several other countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark and the United Kingdom. Andy Kellman of AllMusic praised "the duo's playfulness", as "they push each other into new levels of showmanship without pandering to the audience. An Evening with Silk Sonic received universal acclaim, and is the most acclaimed studio album of Mars' career, with reviewers praising its retro sensibility and the chemistry between Mars and . Paak have announced their album 'An Evening with Silk Sonic' is dropping November 12🎹💿 We…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

They needed the right gear, such as a Ludwig drums with Remo Ambassador heads, Giovanni Hidalgo congas, a Hohner Clavinet D6 keyboard, a Danelectro sitar, a Trophy Music mini- Glockenspiel and a Solid State Logic mixing board. Paak said the duo was influenced by Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder and Prince.In the studio, the duo would jam out, trying to understand how to make people feel good with the songs they created from scratch and what was missing on the tracks, having to recreate a song from scrap at times. Leave the Door Open" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and New Zealand, becoming Mars's eighth and .

Silk Sonic won International Group of the Year at the 2022 BRIT Awards and are set to open the 2022 GRAMMY Awards. This achievement led An Evening with Silk Sonic to become the second album with four number-one singles on the former chart, tying with Toni Braxton's self-titled (1993) studio album.

Change country: -Select- Anguilla Aruba Bahamas Belgium British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Cook Islands Czech Republic Denmark Dominica El Salvador Finland France French Polynesia Grenada Guatemala Guernsey Honduras Ireland Jamaica Jersey Liechtenstein Luxembourg Marshall Islands Monaco Montserrat Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia Nicaragua Niue Norway Palau Papua New Guinea Poland Portugal Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Slovakia Solomon Islands Sweden Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu United Kingdom Vanuatu Vatican City State Virgin Islands (U. An Evening with Silk Sonic is the debut studio album by American musical superduo Silk Sonic, composed of Bruno Mars and Anderson . Paak was not sure the project would become a reality if the COVID-19 pandemic had not occurred, since they would have been playing shows at that time. It charted moderately, reaching number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 12 in New Zealand, and topping the Israel charts. They created an amusing "stressed-out" man smoking too many cigarettes as he tries to find his way out of "anxious" situations.