Shaboozey talks about staying on top of the Hot 100 chart for so long with “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” his friendship with Morgan Wallen, loving new artist Medium Build and more backstage at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards.
Tetris Kelly
Hey, what’s up? It’s Tetris with Billboard News, hanging out with Shaboozey ahead of his first BBMAs performance. Man, you gotta be excited. What’s the vibe? What are you bringing to the BBMAs?
Shaboozey
Man it’s fun, man, hopefully a lot of country music, you know, lot of Western you know, a lot of vibes.
Tetris Kelly
I gotta be honest, I’m really proud of you. I remember meeting you actually at a BT party, and it was when your song was like, No.2, No.2, No.2. And you were like, Man, I hope I gotta, I gotta get to No.1. Like, now it happened. So tell me when it happened for you. How was that finally getting that accomplishment?
Shaboozey
The kind of things I was doing at the time were, like, just really cool things that I just never thought I’d be doing, and meeting a lot of people I never thought I would meet, you know, being able to do that BET awards, and Jay Kwan come out, and then, you know, just the week right after that moment we went No.1. It felt like, it felt like a full circle moment, you know, felt like a, like a movie, honestly.
Tetris Kelly
I mean, that was a full circle moment, but I’m sure you didn’t even know then, like, 15 weeks was about to happen. So tell me about 15 weeks at No.1. That’s crazy, bro.
Shaboozey
It’s crazy. You know, we do music and and especially being from like, a small town like me, you watch all these greats and all these, like, huge acts and people who have kind of, you know, matched those achievements or done more, and you’re just like, Man, I would love to be in those conversations and in those rankings. And it’s just, it’s great to be here. Honestly, yeah, I feel like we do something really special and something really different, and I put in a lot of time and a lot of work into just my music and my career, so just see it all kind of take off like this has been a blessing. Honestly, it’s been just just shows you just got to stay down, stay true to yourself, and keep working. Yeah, you can get anything.
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