Hot 100 First-Timers: Addison Rae Debuts With Breakthrough Single ‘Diet Pepsi’

Addison Rae is officially a Billboard Hot 100-charting artist, thanks to her single “Diet Pepsi.”

Released Aug. 9 on ARXOXO/Columbia Records, the song debuts at No. 86 on the Sept. 21-dated Hot 100, becoming her first career entry on the chart. It arrives with 5 million official U.S. streams (up 9%) and 487,000 all-format radio audience impressions (up 111%) Sept. 6-12, according to Luminate.

Rae first appeared on Billboard‘s charts on April 3, 2021, when she debuted on Emerging Artists largely thanks to her debut single “Obsessed,” which hit the Hot 100’s Bubbling Under chart. She reaches a new No. 23 high on the latest Emerging Artists list.

Her five-track EP AR, which includes “Obsessed,” later reached No. 19 on the Heatseekers Albums chart and No. 45 on Top Current Album Sales in October 2023.

“Diet Pepsi” is Rae’s first song released since AR, and her major-label debut. She also hopped on a remix of Charli XCX’s “Von Dutch” in March, after the pair teamed up on the AR track “2 Die 4.”

Rae (full name: Addison Rae Easterling), from Lafayette, La., first developed a following on TikTok. She’s currently the fifth most-followed person on the platform, with 88.8 million followers. Her videos have amassed 5.7 billion likes, the second-most among all users.

“Diet Pepsi” benefitted from that audience. The song has soundtracked over 194,000 videos on the platform to date.

Rae has additionally acted in several movie and TV projects, including the Netflix film He’s All That in 2021 and Thanksgiving in 2023.