Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” reaches number 1 on the Hot 100

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by American Dogwood/EMPIRE/Magnolia Music — all of which, like Shaboozey, top the Hot 100 for the first time — is the star, with 60 million radio airplay impressions (up 11%, good for the Hot 100’s top airplay gainer distinction), 44.8 million official streams (up 10%) and 23,000 copies sold (up 6%) in the United States from June 28 to July 4.

The single tops the Digital Song Sales chart for eighth week, rises 3:1 in its first week at the top of Streaming Songs, where it is Shaboozey’s first chart-topper, and reaches the top 5 (7:4) on Radio Songs.

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” reflects his popularity and is the first song ever to be released on all four Billboard Radio charts: Country Airplay, Pop Airplay, Adult Pop Airplay and Rhythmic Airplay. (In total, only 13 songs have appeared in all four format rankings, although the lists have existed side by side since March 1996.)

The track enters the top 5 (7-5) on Rhythmic Airplay and the top 10 (12-6) on Country Airplay, and reaches positions 10-8 on both Pop Airplay and Adult Pop Airplay.

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” interpolates J-Kwon’s hip-hop classic “Tipsy” – with the pair performing a mashup of the tracks at the 2024 BET Awards on June 30.

In its crowning glory, “A Bar Song” surpasses the Hot 100 peak of “Tipsy,” which hit No. 2 in April 2004. The latter also dominated Hot Rap Songs for five weeks that year. Thanks to “A Bar Song,” J-Kwon lands his first Hot 100 No. 1 as a writer. Shaboozey also co-wrote the song.

“I’ve been wanting to turn a song from the 2000s around for some time,” said Shaboozey Billboard. “I just said, ‘Everyone at the bar is getting tipsy…’ (One of the song’s producers) picked up the guitar and started playing the chords, and then we started writing, just having fun and being creative.”

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” becomes the first song by a Black male artist or an artist who is considered biracial to top both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs. He is the second Black artist overall to achieve this honor, following Beyoncé with “Texas Hold ‘Em” in early 2024.

“A Bar Song” is now the 28th hit to top both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs, dating back to 1958, when the former was created and the latter became the only hit in the country genre. Billboard Charts. It is the third such song in 2024, after four of them topped the Hot 100 in 2023, the most in a single year since 1975. It is also the eighth this decade, after only two topped the chart in the previous 36 years.

Songs that peaked at number one on both the Hot 100 and Hot Country Songs charts:

“A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is the 1,174th No. 1 hit in the Hot 100’s nearly 66-year history, joining only 10 others with the word “song” in the title. It is the first such chart-topper in over 33 years, with seven of those reaching No. 1 in the 1970s.

Here is a song-by-song summary:

It’s notable that Shaboozey never sings the full title in “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” Nor do Stevie B, Rupert Holmes, John Denver, or any of the Chipmunks (Simon, Theodore, or… Alvin!) sing in their aforementioned hits.

Closing out the Hot 100 top 10, Chappell Roan makes his first appearance in the region as “Good Luck, Babe!” rises from No. 11 to No. 10. The song garnered 20.9 million streams (virtually even with the previous week), 16 million airplays (up 20%), and 15,000 sales (up 342%, earning it the distinction of being the chart’s biggest sales winner; 11,000 physical copies were shipped that week).

The song is a standalone single from the Missouri native, her latest album and first Billboard 200 entry. The rise and fall of a Midwestern princessreaches the top 5 of the charts. She co-wrote the song with Dan Nigro and Justin Tranter; the former (who produced it alone) adds his seventh top 10 as a writer, the previous six were recorded by Olivia Rodrigo, and the latter reaches her tenth.

“I Had Some Help” by Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen falls to No. 2 on the Hot 100 after six consecutive weeks without being at No. 1 since May. It dominates Radio Songs in its second week (79.7 million, up 4%) and the multimetric Songs of the Summer chart in its sixth week.

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” which dominated the Hot 100 in its debut week in May, holds onto the No. 3 spot. It tops the multimetric Hot Rap Songs chart for the eighth week and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for the sixth week.

Sabrina Carpenter’s “Espresso” holds at No. 4 on the Hot 100 after peaking at No. 3, and her “Please Please Please” drops to No. 5, two weeks after it became her first No. 1. Thanks to these two hits and Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” at No. 10, Island Records has three songs in the top 10 simultaneously for the first time under the label’s current organization within Universal Music Group (which began in early 2014).

Among Carpenter’s songs on the Hot 100, Tommy Richman’s “Million Dollar Baby” rises 6 to 5 after peaking at No. 2, leading the multimetric Hot R&B Songs chart for its 10th week.

Hozier’s “Too Sweet” holds at No. 7 on the Hot 100 after a week at No. 1 in April. It dominates the multimetric Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts for 14 weeks each and the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for 13 weeks.

Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things,” which once peaked at No. 2, repeats at No. 8 on the Hot 100, and Teddy Swim’s “Lose Control,” which held the top spot for one week in March, holds steady at No. 9.