Soda-Pop Music: Saja Boys, ‘Diet Pepsi’ & ‘Coca-Cola’ Have Filled Up 2025 With Buzzy Hits

This twelvemonth finds artists quenching fans’ thirst for popular hits, literally.

On the latest, Sept. 20-dated Adult Alternative Airplay chart, St. Paul & the Broken Bones marque a fizzy assistance to No. 10 with “Sushi & Coca-Cola.” (It’s the act’s 3rd apical 10 connected the tally and archetypal since 2018.)

In February, Addison Rae earned her archetypal apical 10 connected a Billboard vigor illustration — fittingly, Pop Airplay — with “Diet Pepsi.”

Meanwhile, Saja Boys’ addictive confection “Soda Pop,” from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters, has spent the past 4 weeks bubbling successful the Billboard Hot 100’s apical 10, reaching No. 5.

A twelvemonth aft Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” became a buzzy smash, hitting No. 3 connected the Hot 100, listeners’ philharmonic tastes person segued to carbonated caffeinated treats.

Historically, different artists person had the moxie to marque specified hits.

In 1945, the Andrews Sisters enjoyed 1 of their biggest songs, the pre-rock epoch way “Rum and Coca-Cola.” (Coca-Cola deed the marketplace successful 1886; notably, eight years before Billboard, whose ain tag enactment successful the 2000s was “Experience the Buzz.”)

The Beatles’ 1969 Hot 100 No. 1 “Come Together” includes Coca-Cola successful its lyrics (though with a rather antithetic accepted meaning).

Perhaps astir famously, the New Seekers and the Hillside Singers poured concurrent hits connected the Hot 100 successful 1971-72 with “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing,” with their versions climbing to Nos. 7 and 13, respectively. The opus originated arsenic a beloved Coca-Cola jingle “Buy the World a Coke,” sung by the Hillside Singers.

In 1979, Mel Tillis’ “Coca Cola Cowboy” chugged to No. 1 connected Hot Country Songs.

In 1988-89, R.E.M. uncapped an Alternative Airplay No. 1 with “Orange Crush” (also not conscionable astir the drink).

Britney Spears’ debut LP, 1999’s …Baby One More Time, which ruled the Billboard 200 for six weeks, begins with 3 deed singles — the Hot 100 No. 1 rubric cut, “(You Drive Me) Crazy” and “Sometimes” — earlier fans were further introduced to her with her ain “Soda Pop.”

By 2023, EXO’s “Cream Soda” added a saccharine vanilla spirit to the Billboard Global 200, Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and World Digital Song Sales charts.

Plus, “If You Could Only See” deed No. 1 connected Mainstream Rock Airplay and the apical 10 connected Adult Pop Airplay successful 1997, becoming the signature opus for (who else?) Tonic.

All charts dated Sept. 20 volition update Tuesday, Sept. 16, connected Billboard.com.

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