Mercedes-Benz’ is the most popular car brand in music
Mentioned more than any other carmaker, Mercedes-Benz was name dropped in 279 different songs, appearing especially popular in those released in the noughties.

Mercedes-Benz is the most name-dropped brand across eight different music genres, including R&B and contemporary R&B, grime, hip hop, pop, rap, reggae, and world music. Peter Vardy found the ‘Benz’ to be favoured mostly by hip hop artists, appearing in 61 songs across the genre. It’s mostly dropped in lyrics as a status symbol associated with the rich and famous, once even sung by Puff Daddy as the “Benz he ain’t even drove yet”

3 popular songs that name-drop Mercedes-Benz include:

Get The Party Standard – P!nk
In Da Club – 50 Cent
Otis – Kanye West ft. Jay-Z.
Ferrari cars are a dancer’s favourite
The ‘Mercedes-Benz’ was closely followed by italian luxury sports carmaker, Ferrari. To any car lover, Ferraris are highly alluring with their high exclusivity – there’s no wonder the car is name dropped in 105 songs. It was particularly loved by dance music artists..

The classic Cadillac is most loved by rock legends
Summer, a convertible and a pair of aviators are written into a rock and roll lover’s DNA. Alternative rock, blues, country, heavy metal, punk rock and rock genres all name-dropped the Cadillac more times than any other car brand.

The cadillac was knowingly loved by rock and country legend Elvis Presley who was said to own over 200 models, likely inspiring other onlooking rock legends to do the same.

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Methodology: Peter Vardy analysed 41,451 song lyrics from the top 30 playlists on Spotify across 23 different genres to find out which car manufacturers were mentioned the most frequently. We looked for explicit mentions of car manufacturers as well as slang, e.g. “rari” for ferrari, “jag” for Jaguar, and “Chevy” for Chevrolet.

They removed brands that could be referencing something else, for example SEAT, Dodge, Lincoln.