Shaboozey Celebrates ‘A Bar Tune (Tipsy)’ Going No. 1 on Billboard Sizzling 100

How’s the view from the highest of the charts, Shaboozey?

The multi-genre musician, 29, achieved his first-ever No. 1 hit on the Billboard Sizzling 100 with “A Bar Tune (Tipsy),” his breakout smash that not too long ago topped the publication’s Sizzling Nation Songs chart — making him the second-ever Black artist to achieve the best slot on each charts following Beyoncé with “Texas Maintain ‘Em.”

“WE DID IT YALL. WE NO. 1. I LOVE Y’ALL,” wrote the Virginia-born singer/rapper on social media following the newest chart’s launch on July 8. “HAPPY A BAR SONG DAY. TAKE A DOUBLE SHOT OF WHISKEY 4 ME!”

Launched in April, “A Bar Tune (Tipsy)” seems on Shaboozey’s newest album, The place I’ve Been, Is not The place I am Going. The country-pop observe, which interpolates J-Kwon’s 2004 hit “Tipsy,” has since reached No. 1 in a number of international locations across the globe.

After first garnering recognition in 2018 with the Duckwrth collaboration “Begin a Riot” from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack, the performer discovered much more eyes on his profession after that includes on two songs from Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album earlier this yr: “Spaghettii” and “Candy / Honey / Buckiin’.”

“I have been doing music for such a very long time, I’ve put numerous time and years into it,” Shaboozey — whose first album, Woman Wrangler, was launched in 2018 — informed PEOPLE in a latest interview. “I put a lot into it that I really feel prefer it’s simply cool to see it working. All people hopes it really works. To see it really working, it’s unreal.”

“It looks like a dream” he added. “It looks like I am undoubtedly going to get up sooner or later and be like, ‘Rattling, that s— was a dream?’”

Elsewhere within the interview, Shaboozey spoke about transforming J-Kwon’s “Tipsy” for his breakthrough hit. “All people’s heard ‘Tipsy.’ I believe each single individual. And everyone undoubtedly goes to the bar. Going to the bar after which getting drunk, getting tipsy after which going to the membership — it’s doing the identical factor,” he mentioned.

“Music transcends like that. It is cool to see everybody is aware of that tune and everybody is aware of this one, so there’s just a little little bit of commonality there that folks like ingesting and partying,” added Shaboozey.

“You by no means know. You may’t know. You simply put out these songs [hoping] that consistency will get you there,” continued the star of his tune’s success. “It is about making the tune and the way the individuals react to it. It is cool to simply see it really work out that means.”