TABLE 1.
Music Celebrities Ranked by Number of Food or Beverage Brand Endorsements
Music Celebrity | Endorsed Food or Beverage Brands | Number of Food or Beverage Endorsements | Mean NPI Score for Food Productsa | % of Endorsements That Are Food or Beverage Brands |
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Baauer | A&W Restaurants, Dr Pepper, Hot Pockets, Red Bull, Pepsi Regular | 5 | 50.43 | 71 |
will.i.am | Coca-Cola, Doritos, Dr Pepper, Pepsi Regular | 4 | 42.59 | 15 |
Britney Spears | GG Tea, McDonald’s, Pepsi Regular | 3 | 48 | 27 |
Justin Timberlake | Chili’s,b McDonald’s, Pepsi Regular | 3 | 46.75b | 25 |
Jessie J | McDonald’s, Pop Tarts, Cadbury’s | 3 | 34.18 | 100 |
Pitbull | Dr Pepper, Pepsi Regular, Sheets Energy Strips | 3 | 70 | 30 |
Maroon 5 | Coca-Cola, Snapple | 2 | — | 18 |
Chris Brown | Got Milk, Wrigley’s Doublemint | 2 | 46.89 | 100 |
Snoop Dogg | Hot Pockets, Monster Energy | 2 | 52.67 | 20 |
Psy | Wonderful Pistachio, Nongshim Shin Ramyun Black Cup | 2 | 48 | 33 |
Shakira | Pepsi Regular, Activia | 2 | 71.46 | 40 |
Carrie Underwood | Vitamin Water, Hershey | 2 | 27.88 | 40 |
Usher | Honey Nut Cheerios, Twix | 2 | 33.9 | 50 |
Juicy J | CORE Hydration, Red Bull | 2 | — | 100 |
Katy Perry | Pepsi Regular, PopChips | 2 | 51.86 | 22 |
Blake Shelton | Pepsi Regular, Pizza Hutb | 2 | b | 40 |
Nelly | Honey Nut Cheerios, Mike and Ike | 2 | 44.23 | 50 |
Macklemore | Cracker Jack, Dr Pepper | 2 | 39 | 20 |
One Direction | Nabisco, Pepsi Regular | 2 | 43.47 | 29 |
Ne-Yo | Pepsi Regular | 1 | 65.67 | 40 |
—, indicates that the artist only endorsed beverage products, meaning NPI scores did not apply.
Lower scores represent less healthful foods.
Complete nutrition information was unavailable for this company, so it was excluded from analyses.