St. Paul & the Broken Bones Score First No. 1 Song With ‘Sushi and Coca-Cola’

After much than a decennary of appearances connected Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart, St. Paul & the Broken Bones person their archetypal No. 1.

“Sushi and Coca-Cola,” the pb azygous from the band’s caller self-titled medium (out today, Oct. 10), lifts 1 fertile to apical the database dated Oct. 18.

The Paul Janeway-fronted act, which is starring immoderate Billboard songs illustration for the archetypal time, archetypal reached Adult Alternative Airplay successful May 2014 with “Call Me,” which peaked astatine No. 6. The set has six vocation entries connected the ranking, with “Apollo” (No. 3, 2018) its erstwhile precocious earlier “Sushi and Coca-Cola.”

St. Paul & the Broken Bones are the 3rd enactment to regularisation Adult Alternative Airplay for the archetypal clip successful 2025, pursuing Role Model, whose “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” led successful September, and Royel Otis, with “Moody,” opening successful July.

St. Paul meets The Beatles: besides notably, the band’s hold of 11 years, 5 months and 1 week betwixt its archetypal introduction and archetypal No. 1 marks the longest for immoderate enactment connected Adult Alternative Airplay since The Beatles, who went astir 28 years betwixt “Free arsenic a Bird” successful 1996 (just aft the illustration began) and No. 1 “Now and Then” successful 2023.

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Sushi and Coca-Cola” rises 46-42 with 995,000 vigor assemblage impressions successful the week ending Oct. 9, up 6%, according to Luminate. The opus deed a No. 40 precocious 2 weeks ago, the band’s best, surpassing the No. 44 highest of “Apollo.”

St. Paul & the Broken Bones is the band’s archetypal medium since 2023’s Angels successful Science Fiction.

All Billboard charts dated Oct. 18 volition update connected Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 14.