We compiled and analyzed 23,425 drinking playlists and the 2.5+ million tracks from these playlists to create the definitive ranking of the best and most popular drinking songs:
Key Findings
- Our favorite party song of all time is Yeah! By Usher. This is featured on 0.5% of party playlists.
- 21 Savage takes 3 of the top 10 drinking songs of 2024 – Redum taking the #1 spot, Nee-Nah at #9, and Glock in My Lap at #10
- Our favorite artist to party to by a mile is Drake. Drake had twice the number of featured tracks on party playlists as the next highest artist, Zach Bryan.
- Our favorite drinking songs from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are all by AC/DC (Highway To Hell for the 1970s, Back In Black for the 1980s and Thunderstruck for the 1990s).
- The 2000s was the most popular decade for drinking songs, beating out the 2010s.
Your favorite drinking song is Yeah! by Usher which, in fairness, is an absolute banger (Peace up, A-Town down).
Yeah! is featured in 1191 party playlists on Spotify.
The table below shows your 20 favorite drinking songs:
| Song Name | Artist | Number of Party Playlist Appearances |
| Yeah! (feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris) | Usher | 1191 |
| Low (feat. T-Pain) | Flo Rida | 1076 |
| Give Me Everything (feat. Nayer) | Pitbull | 950 |
| No Hands (feat. Roscoe Dash & Wale) | Waka Flocka Flame | 937 |
| Time of Our Lives | Pitbull | 875 |
| Hips Don’t Lie (feat. Wyclef Jean) | Shakira | 826 |
| Temperature | Sean Paul | 788 |
| Jimmy Cooks (feat. 21 Savage) | Drake | 787 |
| DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love (feat. Pitbull) | Usher | 771 |
| Promiscuous | Nelly Furtado | 768 |
| Ric Flair Drip (with Metro Boomin) | Offset | 767 |
| Tennessee Whiskey | Chris Stapleton | 759 |
| SICKO MODE | Travis Scott | 747 |
| goosebumps | Travis Scott | 736 |
| Whiskey Glasses | Morgan Wallen | 704 |
| FE!N (feat. Playboi Carti) | Travis Scott | 689 |
| Heartless | Kanye West | 686 |
| HUMBLE. | Kendrick Lamar | 672 |
| fukumean | Gunna | 669 |
| Glock In My Lap | 21 Savage | 668 |
We put together a Spotify Playlist of your top 100 favorite drinking songs. You can find it below:
If you want to get the playlist on your phone then search: “Ultimate party playlist by Flask & Barrel”.
What Are the Most Popular Drinking Songs Right Now (2024)
We looked at the songs that people were adding to party playlists in 2024 to see what the current most popular drinking songs are right now.
The most popular drinking song right now is redrum by 21 Savage. This song has been added to 604 party playlists in 2024.
You can see the top 10 drinking songs of 2024 in the table below:
| Song Title | Artist | 2024 Playlist Appearances |
| redrum | 21 Savage | 604 |
| FE!N | Travis Scott feat Playboi Carti | 394 |
| Rich Baby Daddy | Drake (feat. Sexyy Red & SZA) | 317 |
| Yeah! | Usher feat Lil Jon & Ludacris | 276 |
| Murder On the Dancefloor | Sophie Ellis Bextor | 261 |
| Lovin On Me | Jack Harlow | 239 |
| Bandit | John Toliver | 236 |
| Whatever She Wants | Bryson Tiller | 223 |
| Nee-Nah | 21 Savage, Travis Scott & Metro Boomin | 219 |
| Glock in My Lap | 21 Savage | 215 |
Which Artist Creates the Best Drinking Songs?
Your favorite artist to drink to is Drake. Drake’s songs were featured 27,643 times in party playlists.
Country singer Zach Bryan was the second most popular artist, with rapper Kanye West rounding out three
Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Indian producer Pritam also appeared in your 10 artists.
You can see the top twenty artists, and the number of times their songs appeared in party playlists below:
- Drake: 27,643 appearances
- Zach Bryan: 14,493 appearances
- Kanye West: 14,297 appearances
- Morgan Wallen: 14,103 appearances
- Pritam: 13,186 appearances
- Travis Scott: 11,490 appearances
- Taylor Swift: 10,827 appearances
- Rihanna: 10,659 appearances
- Lil Baby: 9601 appearances
- 21 Savage: 9008 appearances
- Pitbull: 8166 appearances
- The Weeknd: 8143 appearances
- Future: 7975 appearances
- Luke Combs: 7873 appearances
- Kendrick Lamar: 7828 appearances
- Lil Uzi Vert: 7509 appearances
- Bad Bunny: 6576 appearances
- David Guetta: 6509 appearances
- Nicki Minaj: 6268 appearances
- Eminem: 6268 appearances
Our favorite music to party to is hip hop. We found 70,429 hip hop tracks on party playlists.
You can see the seven most popular genres of music to party to below:
- Hip Hop: 70,249 tracks
- Classic Rock: 41,902 tracks
- Indipop: 41,458 tracks
- Country: 35,281 tracks
- Indie/alternative: 15,629 tracks
- Latin: 914 tracks
- Kpop: 238 tracks
If you’d like to see the most popular tracks and artists in each of these genres, you can check out our study into the best drinking songs by genre <add relevant internal link>.
Favorite Drinking Songs by Decade Released
The most popular decade for drinking songs was the 2000s, with 176,652 songs released in this decade on people’s party playlists.
The 2020s have 93,090 songs in party playlists. Since we are less than halfway through the decade it’s going to be a close call to see whether the 2020s will overtake the 2000s come the end of the decade.
You can find the number of drinking songs in each decade below
- 1960s: 7,294 songs
- 1970s: 30,888 songs
- 1980s: 22,941 songs
- 1990s: 19,657 songs
- 2000s: 176,652 songs
- 2010s: 118,740 songs
- 2020s: 93,090 songs
Our favorite drinking song of the 1960s is Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival. This song is in 411 drinking playlists.
The top 10 drinking songs of the 1960s are:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Fortunate Son | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 411 |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Van Morrison | 365 |
| Paint it, Black | The Rolling Stones | 234 |
| Bad Moon Rising | Creedence Clearwater Revival | 229 |
| All Along the Watchtower | Jimi Hendrix | 224 |
| Sweet Caroline | Neil Diamond | 220 |
| Ain’t No Mountain High Enough | Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell | 210 |
| For What It’s Worth | Buffalo Springfield | 189 |
| Satisfaction | The Rolling Stones | 178 |
| Whole Lotta Love | Led Zeppelin | 177 |
Our favorite drinking song from the 1970s is AC/DC’s Highway to Hell which is in 477 drinking playlists.
You can see the top 10 drinking songs from the 1970s below:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Highway to Hell | AC/DC | 477 |
| Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 470 |
| Hotel California | Eagles | 430 |
| Dreams | Fleetwood Mac | 410 |
| Free Bird | Lynyrd Skynrd | 350 |
| More Than a Feeling | Boston | 341 |
| Dancing Queen | ABBA | 341 |
| T.N.T. | AC/DC | 307 |
| The Chain | Fleetwood Mac | 303 |
| Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) | ABBA | 302 |
Our Favorite drinking song of the 1980s in AC/DC’s Back in Black which is featured in 447 playlists.
You can find the top 10 drinking songs of the 1980s below:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Back In Black | AC/DC | 447 |
| You Shook Me All Night Long | AC/DC | 393 |
| I Wanna Dance With Somebody Who Loves Me | Whitney Houston | 384 |
| Don’t Stop Believin’ | Jourtney | 380 |
| Africa | Toto | 379 |
| Take On Me | a-ha | 365 |
| Everybody Wants to Rule the World | Tears For Fears | 342 |
| Livin’ On A Prayer | Bon Jovi | 325 |
| Summer of ‘69 | Bryan Adams | 310 |
| Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Eurythmics | 306 |
Our favorite drinking song of the 1990s is AC/DC’s Thunderstruck which is featured in 521 playlists.
The 1990s was the first decade where we saw a lot of popular hip hop party songs, with The Notorious B.I.G., Dr Dre and Ice Cube all featuring in the top ten.
You can see the top 10 drinking songs of the 1990s below:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Thunderstruck | AC/DC | 521 |
| No Scrubs | TLC | 432 |
| Hypnotize | The Notorious B.I.G. | 380 |
| Wannabe | Spice Girls | 378 |
| Still D.R.E. | Dr Dre | 375 |
| Everlong | Foo Fighters | 367 |
| It Was A Good Day | Ice Cube | 352 |
| Dust On The Bottle | David Lee Murphy | 335 |
| Big Poppa | The Notorious B.I.G. | 326 |
| Under The Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers | 313 |
Our favorite drinking song of the 2000s is Yeah! By Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris which is featured on 1191 party playlists.
You can find the top 10 drinking songs of the 2000s below:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Yeah! | Usher feat Lil Jon & Ludacris | 1191 |
| Low | Flo Rida feat T-Pain | 1076 |
| Hips Don’t Lie | Shakira feat Wyclef Jean | 826 |
| Temperature | Sean Paul | 788 |
| Promiscuous | Nelly Furtado | 768 |
| Heartless | Kanye West | 686 |
| Sexyback | Justin Timberlake feat Timbaland | 653 |
| Ms. Jackson | Outkast | 627 |
| Get Low | Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz | 620 |
| Gold Digger | Kanye West | 605 |
Our favorite drinking song of the 2010s is Pitbull and Nayer’s Give Me Everything which is on 950 drinking playlists.
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Give Me Everything | Pitbull feat Nayer | 950 |
| No Hands (feat. Roscoe Dash & Wale) | Wacka Flocka Flame | 937 |
| Time of Our Lives | Pitbull | 875 |
| DJ Got Us Falling in Love | Usher feat Pitbull | 771 |
| Ric Flair Drip | Offset and Metro Boomin | 767 |
| Tennessee Whiskey | Chris Stapleton | 759 |
| SICKO MODE | Travis Scott | 747 |
| Goosebumps | Travis Scott | 736 |
| Whiskey Glasses | Morgan Wallen | 704 |
| HUMBLE. | Kendrick Lamar | 673 |
Our favorite drinking song of the 2020s is Drake and 21 Savage’s Jimmy Cooks which is featured in 787 party playlists.
You can find the top 10 drinking songs of the 2020s below:
| Song Title | Artist | Playlist Appearances |
| Jimmy Cooks | Drake feat 21 Savage | 787 |
| FE!N | Travis Scott feat Playboi Carti | 689 |
| fukumean | Gunna | 669 |
| Glock In My Lap | 21 Savage | 668 |
| Runnin | 21 Savage | 623 |
| Knife Talk | Drake with 21 Savage feat Project Pat | 614 |
| redrum | 21 Savage | 612 |
| Rich Flex | Drake | 572 |
| Wants and Needs | Drake feat Lil Baby | 554 |
| Wasted on You | Morgan Wallen | 554 |
Methodology
The research process for this study on the best drinking songs according to Spotify data consisted of the following steps:
- Playlist Identification: The research team created a list of over 700 queries targeting playlists with titles indicating they were “drinking” or “party” playlists. This was done through manual research to identify common playlist naming patterns and appending relevant terms related to alcohol, drinks, genres, and sub-genres.
- Data Collection: The Spotify Web API was used to retrieve playlists for each of the 700+ queries. This resulted in a dataset of 23,425 unique drinking/party playlists.
- Data Cleaning and Tagging: The playlist dataset was de-duplicated, and the research team manually reviewed the playlist names to identify any terms or phrases indicating the playlist’s genre or drinking/party focus. Each song was then tagged with the relevant genre and drinking/party playlist information.
- Song Analysis: The cleaned and tagged dataset contained 2,549,879 tracks from the 23,425 drinking/party playlists, which equated to 745,409 unique songs. For each song, the following data points were analyzed:
- Overall Drinking Song Popularity: The total number of drinking/party playlists the song appeared in.
- 2024 Drinking Song Popularity: The number of drinking/party playlists the song was added to in 2024.
- Drinking Song Popularity by Genre: The total number of genre and sub-genre tags associated with the song, allowing for ranking by total genre tags.
- Favorite Drinking Songs by Decade: The total number of drinking/party playlist appearances for songs released in each decade from the 1960s to the 2020s.
- Reporting: The research findings, including key insights, top songs, artists, genres, and drinking song trends by decade, were compiled and presented in the final report.
This in-depth playlist and song-level analysis, allowed the research team to derive meaningful insights from the Spotify playlist data to identify the best drinking songs according to user preferences.
