The mashup of rap and nation is a profitable system: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Track (Tipsy)” has matched a Billboard document set by Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cryus’ “Previous City Highway.”
“A Bar Track” is spending its nineteenth week on prime of the Billboard Scorching 100 chart and ties “Previous City Highway” because the longest-running No. 1 music within the chart’s 66-year historical past. Lil Nas X and Cyrus reached the feat in 2019 and gained two Grammys for the collaboration.
Shaboozey’s anthem, which samples J-Kwon’s 2004 hit “Tipsy,” can also be spending its twenty third week on prime of Billboard’s Scorching nation songs chart. The music is nominated for 3 Grammys, together with music of the 12 months, greatest nation music and greatest nation solo efficiency. “A Bar Track” was nominated for single of the 12 months eventually week’s CMA Awards however misplaced to Chris Stapleton’s “White Horse,” and Shaboozey misplaced new artist of the 12 months to Megan Moroney, which shocked social media.
Shaboozey’s different Grammy nominations embody greatest new artist and greatest melodic rap efficiency for “Spaghetti,” certainly one of his two collaborations on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter. That album gave the 29-year-old a lift after it was launched in March, and his streaming and social media numbers jumped to new heights. His music finally changed Beyoncé’s “Texas Maintain ‘Em” on the nation charts, marking the primary time that two consecutive Black artists held the No. 1 spot on the nation charts in Billboard historical past.
“It’s been fairly nice for [Beyoncé] to place loads of eyes on me at one time. Her with the ability to put a light-weight on me at the moment interval helped my roll-out. She helped amplify what I used to be already doing on this area, and it’s actually wonderful [coming from] someone that’s actually influential [and a] historic determine,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter in June. “It’s cool to see how far nation music has reached since Beyoncé did her venture. It’s cool to see the music attain everywhere in the world.”
