Caesars were a Swedish garage-rock band who, like a number of acts in this era, owe their global moment to a single advertising placement. "Jerk It Out", a jittery, organ-driven garage-pop song first released at the start of the 2000s, became inescapable when Apple used it in a 2005 iPod Shuffle commercial, introducing the track to a worldwide audience overnight.
The band had a solid following at home and put out several albums, but outside Sweden they remain entirely defined by that one buzzing, hook-laden single.
On streaming, "Jerk It Out" sits near 391 million plays, while their next most-streamed track trails at around four million. That sends the ratio above 90, one of the most extreme figures in our entire database.
By our measure Caesars are a certified one-hit wonder of the starkest kind. Theirs is the classic advertising-era story: a perfectly catchy song that might have stayed a cult favourite, lifted into global recognition by a single well-chosen commercial, then left standing almost completely alone as the rest of the band's catalogue faded back into obscurity outside their home country.