SHABOOZEY Is Burning Up!

THE SINGER'S LIFE WAS TURNED TOPSY-TURVY BY 'A BAR SONG (TIPSY)'- AND HE'S JUST GETTING WARMED UP by

- RACHEL DESANTIS

Shaboozey has just returned to his 6’3” vertical form after spending the past few minutes posing horizontal on a pool float, basking in the Hollywood Hills sun for his People cover. The country star is taking a breather when, suddenly, he’s surprised with a chocolate cake celebrating his milestone 30th birthday three days earlier—not that he’s making a big deal of it. “I’m not a huge birthday person, but I was able to see my family, and that was really special. I hadn’t seen them in probably a year,” says the singer, whose breakthrough 2024 kept him busier than most. “I’m definitely proud of how my 20s turned out. The way my career is, the way I am, the name—it just shows anything’s possible. My whole life is literally just a pinch-me moment.”

Pinch him all you want, but this isn’t a dream Shaboozey will be waking up from anytime soon. More than a year after its April 2024 release, his smash hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is still sitting pretty at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it already set the record for longest-running No. 1 song of all time by a solo artist. Featuring an interpolation of J-Kwon’s 2004 hit “Tipsy,” the genre-defying earworm has proved to be lightning in a bottle and earned Shaboozey five nominations at the 2025 Grammy Awards. On his rise to the top, he also scored a coveted invite to the Met Gala, not one but two features on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, hot-ticket festival gigs at Coachella and Glastonbury, and a Super Bowl ad appearance.

“I want to outdo what I did last year. I want to outdo this song,” says Shaboozey, fully focused on the future. “You'll drive yourself crazy trying to compare or compete, but I want to continue to make music that people know across the world.”