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

After more than a decade of appearances on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart, St. Paul & the Broken Bones have their first No. 1.

“Sushi and Coca-Cola,” the lead single from the band’s new self-titled album (out today, Oct. 10), lifts one rank to top the list dated Oct. 18.

The Paul Janeway-fronted act, which is leading any Billboard songs chart for the first time, first reached Adult Alternative Airplay in May 2014 with “Call Me,” which peaked at No. 6. The band has six career entries on the ranking, with “Apollo” (No. 3, 2018) its previous high before “Sushi and Coca-Cola.”

St. Paul & the Broken Bones are the third act to rule Adult Alternative Airplay for the first time in 2025, following Role Model, whose “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” led in September, and Royel Otis, with “Moody,” beginning in July.

St. Paul meets The Beatles: also notably, the band’s wait of 11 years, five months and one week between its first entry and first No. 1 marks the longest for any act on Adult Alternative Airplay since The Beatles, who went nearly 28 years between “Free as a Bird” in 1996 (just after the chart began) and No. 1 “Now and Then” in 2023.

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Sushi and Coca-Cola” rises 46-42 with 995,000 radio audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 9, up 6%, according to Luminate. The song hit a No. 40 high two weeks ago, the band’s best, surpassing the No. 44 peak of “Apollo.”

St. Paul & the Broken Bones is the band’s first album since 2023’s Angels in Science Fiction.

All Billboard charts dated Oct. 18 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 14.