24K Magic, released November 18, 2016, is Bruno’s third album, and his first in the four years since 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox. The 80’s funk inspired, lead single is the album’s title track “24K Magic.” Being more-rapped-than-sung, it has a lot in common with Bruno’s swaggy 2014 hit “Uptown Funk” with Mark Ronson. In an interview with Zane Lowe for Radio Beats 1 Bruno admitted, “You hear these ’90s influences on the whole album,” but 24K Magic spends more time revisiting the ‘80s than anything else, revisiting the styles of New Edition, Bobby Brown, Babyface, and The Gap Band on many of the tracks. The album even restricts its tracklist to a lean 9 songs, which was the standard for albums in the early '80s. Bruno refers multiple times to the album as a whole organic work that has to be listened together, all the songs are connected to each other, on the same wave. Bruno also talked about making a film: With this album, I wanted to make a movie,” he said. “A real movie. I told myself, ‘We’re gonna have a screenplay and we’re gonna go to that.' 24K Magic won the Grammy Awards for Best R&B Album and the Album of the Year at the 2018 Grammys held on Jan. 28, 2018.