2025 continues to be another stand out year for Cola & Lollipops as it reach new heights on the charts and expands into more diverse genres and global markets

2025 continues to be another stand out year for Cola & Lollipops as it reach new heights on the charts and expands into more diverse genres and global markets around the seven seas. Cola & Lollipops' release "Pimp House, Vol. 6 - The Ultimate Collection" has reigned supreme in the Top 100 of Beatport's charts in many genres including Jackin' House at the #1 position even 4-5 months after its first release on Valentine's Day 2025.

If Cola & Lollipops were a new hot stock or cyrpto-currency to bet on of record labels, this would be the label to bet on. With its dedicated founder Jim Carson, persistently taking the label to new goals and higher standards, and newcomers like DJ MOTA (US), The Dirty Rabbi, DJ SNOWDEN, and Mizter Bonezz, also showing passion and drive for releasing quality material, not a moment goes by where Cola & Lollipops isn't taking it to the next level.

Coming out next week, is the all-brand new - Pimp House, Vol. 12 - Summer of Love - Vibe Check - exclusive at Beatport for two weeks and then available worldwide after that.

The P-House funky, nu disco, tech & bass house music series continues with the twelfth installment sub-titled "Pimp House, Vol. 12 - Summer of Love - Vibe Check." Are you ready for the 2025 Summer of Love? Get your bikinis &  swimwear ready & let's dive deep into the sonic journey & ocean sound waves of Cola & Lollipops from the shores of Orange County Los Angeles to Bangkok & Koh Phangan. We're about to do a vibe check and see who is bussin and rizzing and who is sus. Make sure you don't miss out on P-House Vol. 12 - Summer of Love - Vibe Check. It is the GOAT. https://www.beatport.com/label/cola-lollipops/84800

Available for pre-order as a single on June 6, 2025, exclusively on Beatport, Monstr Drop releases his latest tech house banger; driving & raging groovy house tune - "BACK2FUNK."

Monstr Drop's debut release on Cola & Lollipops, we present to you, Monstr Drop from Ventura, California, USA. Monstr Drop has released previous house music tunes on Homewerx, Detention Records, FRENZY, and MKMZ. "Back2Funk" is a hard-driving cross between bass house and tech house that thumps and gets the party started right! Pounding deep 808 sub bass drops, acid basslines, and old school hip hop vocal stabs take you on a funky & uplifting sonic journey. Pro-level sound sure to be a favorite this summer and all seasons across dancefloors from Ibiza to London to Los Angeles to Barcelona and beyond. Festivals from Europe to Asia to Canada to Mexico to Japan, Korea, Thailand, Spain, South America, and North America will be rocking "Back2Funk" on all stages.

"Back2Funk" will be the opening track on "Pimp House, Volume 12" and you will see, hear, and feel why! An amazing tune, produced, mixed, and premastered by Monstr Drop, Jim Carson put the final touches on the master to really make it pop and rattle your speakers. Definitely, an anthem for the dancefloor and sonic memory to add to your summer soundtrack for good times and blissful memories. Hand-selected by the acute ears of Mr. Carson who knows a hit when he hears one! Remember to download this tune on opening day, June 20, 2025, at Beatport.com on Cola & Lollipops - https://www.beatport.com/label/cola-lollipops/84800

Today, in music history, June 2, 1979, The Cars released their second studio album, Candy-O. It features the title track plus "Let's Go," “Dangerous Type” and "It's All I Can Do." It went on to peak at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart and would eventually sell more than four million copies in the U.S., a milestone that earned it a four-times platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2001. The cover features artwork by Alberto Vargas (1896 – 1982), a famed painter of American pin-up art. The album’s producer, Ray Thomas Baker, died April 12, 2025, at age 78.

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1962 - Ray Charles started a five-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. and U.K. singles charts with the Don Gibson-penned country ballad, "I Can't Stop Loving You." Choral backing was provided by the Randy Van Horne Singers, and the song was ranked No. 164 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

1973 - Paul McCartney had two No. 1 positions on the U.S. charts when Red Rose Speedway went to the top of the album chart and "My Love" started a four-week run as the No. 1 single.

1978 - Bruce Springsteen released his fourth studio album, Darkness on the Edge of Town. It features "Prove It All Night," "Badlands," and "The Promised Land."

1978 - Peter Gabriel released his second studio album, which is self-titled. It’s nicknamed Scratch, due to the cover art. It features “D.I.Y.”

1979 - Donna Summer started a three-week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Hot Stuff," her second U.S. No. 1. The song was her first single release from her Bad Girls album and was a bit of a departure from the disco sound that Summer had been associated with until this point. “Hot Stuff" won her the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance in the inaugural year the award was given out.

1981 - Prince made his live British debut at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. He wouldn't play the U.K. again for five years.

1986 - Queen released their 12th studio album, A Kind of Magic. It features "A Kind of Magic," "One Vision," "Friends Will Be Friends," and "Who Wants to Live Forever."

1987 - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine released their 10th studio album, Let It Loose. It features “Rhythm Is Gonna Get You,” "Anything for You," and "1-2-3."

1987 - Whitney Houston's second album, Whitney, was released. It contained four No. 1 hits, including the enduring "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."

1992 - The Lemonheads released their fifth album, It’s a Shame About Ray. It features the title track, “Mrs. Robinson,” “My Drug Buddy,” and “Confetti.”

1992 - Mariah Carey released the live EP, MTV Unplugged. It features “I’ll Be There.”

1992 - Saigon Kick released their second studio album, The Lizard. It features “Love Is on the Way.”

1998 - Smashing Pumpkins released their fourth studio album, Adore. It features “Perfect” and “Ava Adore.”

2002 - The wedding ring that Paul McCartney had given his fiancé Heather Mills was thrown out of the window of the hotel where the couple was staying in Miami. The hotel staff used metal detectors to find the $25,000 ring the next day. Despite the quarrel, McCartney and Mills went ahead with the wedding.

2005 - Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was detained by Russian police after being suspected of being a spy. Kapranos was attempting to board a plane in Moscow when the altercation took place. Traveling under his actual surname, Huntley, Alex was accused of being an MI6 agent who was previously suspected of stealing information about Russian weaponry. Unluckily for Alex, the surname Huntley was also used by an actual former MI6 agent, Richard Tomlinson, who did steal secrets in the early 1990s. The singer was freed after he pointed out that the Huntley they were so concerned about was 42 years old, 13 years Kapranos's senior.

2006 - Jackson Browne, Dar Williams and Pete Seeger play a hayloft in Garrison, New York, to kickstart Orleans founder John Hall's congressional campaign.

2008 - American blues guitarist and singer Bo Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates) died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida, aged 79.

2014 - LP released their third studio album, Forever for Now. It features “Into the Wild.”

2016 - The limited edition vinyl pressing of the David Bowie album Changesonebowie was at No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Vinyl Album Chart. Bowie had four other vinyl albums on the chart; Blackstar at No. 14, Hunky Dory at No. 17, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars at No. 18 and Nothing Has Changed - The Very Best of David Bowie at No. 23. Sales of vinyl records were up 32 percent to $416 million, their highest level since 1988, according to the RIAA.

2017 - Alt-J released their third studio album, RELAXER. It features "3WW," "In Cold Blood," "Adeline," "Deadcrush," and "Pleader."

2017 - Bleachers released their second studio album, Gone Now. It features “Don’t Take the Money.”

2017 - Dan Auerbach released his second studio album, Waiting on a Song.

2017 - Dua Lipa released her debut studio album, which is self-titled. It features “New Rules,” “Be the One,” and “IDGAF.”

2018 - BTS became the first K-pop band to top the U.S. albums chart when Love Yourself: Tear debuted at No. 1.

2020 - Many in the music industry recognized "Blackout Tuesday" in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, using the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused.

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