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# Modelo Especial Pushes Bud Light to No.2 in U.S. Beer Rankings
- URL: https://bevnews.net/modelo-especial-pushes-bud-light-to-no-2-in-u-s-beer-rankings/
- Published: 2023-06-15T04:01:41.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-15T04:01:41.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker
- Tags: Advertising

**Anheuser-Busch's** **Bud Light** has been dethroned as the No. 1 beer in the U.S. by **Modelo Especial,** produced by **Constellation Brands.** Modelo Especial has 8.4%of U.S. retail beer sales in the four weeks ended June 3, while sales of Bud Light fell to 7.3% in the same period, according to **Bump Williams** who analyzed Nielsen IQ data.

Until the four weeks ended April 22, Bud Light had about 10% of the U.S. beer market. Then Bud Light's share dropped to 8.7% and has been trending downward ever since. 

April 22, of course, is about the time the Dylan Mulvaney controversy erupted after the transgender influencer displayed a can of Bud Light with her picture on heer Instagram account. A-B said the can was a special production, the sort of thing it has done for other influencers. But conservative commentators and others launched a boycott campaign which appears to have been successful.