"Buy My Own Drinks" | ||||
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Single by Runaway June | ||||
from the album Blue Roses | ||||
Released | August 20, 2018 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:26 | |||
Label | Wheelhouse | |||
Songwriter(s) | Naomi Cooke, Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsey, Hannah Mullholand, Jennifer Wayne | |||
Producer(s) | Dann Huff | |||
Runaway June singles chronology | ||||
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"Buy My Own Drinks" is a song recorded by American country music group Runaway June. It was released as a single in August 2018, and served as the second single from their self-titled EP and lead-off single to Blue Roses, their full-length debut album, both released via Wheelhouse. [1] [2]
"Buy My Own Drinks" is an uptempo "ebullient female anthem" about a woman who goes out for drinks following the end of a relationship and celebrates how she doesn't need a man. [3] It was written by all three members of Runaway June along with Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey. [4]
The music video for the song premiered on March 1, 2019. [5] Directed by Peter Zavadil, it features the 3 members of the group as bartenders at a local bar, as well as younger versions of themselves reenacting each member's dreams if they weren't a singer: an artist, a dog groomer, and a bouncer.
"Buy My Own Drinks" debuted on the Billboard Country Airplay chart at number 59 on the chart dated October 6, 2018. [6] It reached the top 10 of the chart in September 2019, making it the first time a female group or trio had done so since SHeDAISY's " Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing" in 2005, fourteen years prior. It reached a peak of #8 later that month. [7] It also became the group's first chart single on the Billboard Hot 100, debuting at number 90 for the chart dated August 24, 2019. [8]
It has sold 42,000 digital copies in the United States as of October 2019. [9]
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States ( RIAA) [16] | Gold | 500,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. |