Shaboozey has been making music for more than a decade. However, he didn’t truly begin to make waves in the country music world until 2024 with the release of his breakout album Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going. The success of his award-winning hit single “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” helped bolster sales and streams of the album and put the singer/songwriter in the spotlight. Now, the highly successful track has brought him a major milestone.
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Over the weekend, Shaboozey received his first Spotify Billions Club plaque. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” has surpassed 1.3 billion streams on the popular streaming platform. Many of the songs on Spotify’s Billions Club playlist have gained streams for years or decades. It joins classics like “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Enter Sandman” by Metallica, Chris Stapleton’s rendition of “Tennessee Whiskey,” “Love Story” by Taylor Swift, and many more. “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” appeared on the streaming platform just over a year ago on April 12, 2004.
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This new milestone puts Shaboozey in an elite club of streaming artists. Of the countless songs available to stream on the platform, the official Billions Club playlist features less than 1,000 songs.
Shaboozey Discusses His Smash Hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)”
Shaboozey released “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” as a single from his breakthrough album Where I’ve Been Isn’t Where I’m Going, and it became a massive hit. It went to No. 1 in multiple countries. In the United States, it spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. It also topped the publication’s Adult Pop Airplay, Country Airplay, Hot Country Songs, and Pop Airplay charts.
Shaboozey discussed how the hit song came to be in an interview with Variety. He and his collaborators took a break from working on the song, “Anabelle,” and were listening to music from the 2000s. J-Kwon’s “Tipsy,” which they interpolated for the song, inspired the track. “I sang, ‘They know me and Jack Daniels got a history’ and everyone was just like, ‘F**k,’” he recalled. “My two producers picked up the guitar, started playing chords, and then we started writing it.”
The song came together quickly, and they knew they had created something special. “It was definitely a lightning-in-a-bottle thing,” Shaboozey said.
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