Following our study into the best drinking songs, we compiled and analyzed 23,425 drinking playlists and the 2.5+ million tracks from these playlists to find out who your favorite artists are to party to.
Your Top Drinking Artists
Your favorite artist to drink to is Drake.
Besties Taylor Swift and Kanye West (!) also make up your top 10 drinking artists, along with country singer Zach Bryan and Bengali producer Pritam.
You can find the top 20 artists to party to below:
| Position | Artist | Party Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Drake | 27643 |
| 2 | Zach Bryan | 14493 |
| 3 | Kanye West | 14297 |
| 4 | Morgan Wallen | 14103 |
| 5 | Pritam | 13186 |
| 6 | Travis Scott | 11490 |
| 7 | Taylor Swift | 10827 |
| 8 | Rihanna | 10659 |
| 9 | Lil Baby | 9601 |
| 10 | 21 Savage | 9008 |
| 11 | Pitbull | 8166 |
| 12 | The Weeknd | 8143 |
| 13 | Future | 7975 |
| 14 | Luke Combs | 7833 |
| 15 | Kendrick Lamar | 7828 |
| 16 | Lil Uzi Vert | 7509 |
| 17 | Bad Bunny | 6576 |
| 18 | David Guetta | 6509 |
| 19 | Nicki Minaj | 6485 |
| 20 | Eminem | 6268 |
Top Drinking Artists 2024
We also looked into which artists were being added to party playlists in 2024.
Again, the most popular artist for drinking songs in 2024 is Drake.
Metro Boomin, Calvin Harris, J. Cole and Vishal-Shekhar are the four most popular artists in 2024 who are not in the top 20 party song artists overall.
David Guetta, Bad Bunny, Luke Combs and Eminem are the four most popular drinking artists who are not in 2024’s top picks.
| Position | Artist | Party Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Drake | 6002 |
| 2 | 21 Savage | 3955 |
| 3 | Travis Scott | 3339 |
| 4 | Kanye West | 3242 |
| 5 | Zach Bryan | 2987 |
| 6 | Morgan Wallen | 2261 |
| 7 | Rihanna | 2208 |
| 8 | Future | 2027 |
| 9 | Lil Baby | 1972 |
| 10 | Pitbull | 1601 |
| 11 | Taylor Swift | 1568 |
| 12 | The Weeknd | 1557 |
| 13 | Pritam | 1479 |
| 14 | Kendrick Lamar | 1427 |
| 15 | Lil Uzi Vert | 1266 |
| 16 | Nicki Minaj | 1250 |
| 17 | Metro Boomin | 1178 |
| 18 | Calvin Harris | 1100 |
| 19 | J. Cole | 1076 |
| 20 | Vishal-Shekhar | 1053 |
Our Favorite Drinking Songs By Artists
Here are our favorite drinking songs by some selected artists.
Drake
Our favorite Drake drinking song is Jimmy Cooks (feat. 21 Savage) which features in 787 party playlists.
You can find the top 10 Drake drinking songs below.
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Jimmy Cooks (feat. 21 Savage) | 787 |
| 2 | Knife Talk (with 21 Savage ft. Project Pat) | 614 |
| 3 | Rich Flex | 572 |
| 4 | Wants and Needs (feat. Lil Baby) | 554 |
| 5 | One Dance | 545 |
| 6 | Rich Baby Daddy (feat. Sexyy Red & SZA) | 515 |
| 7 | IDGAF (feat. Yeat) | 512 |
| 8 | Money In The Grave (Drake ft. Rick Ross) | 429 |
| 9 | Headlines | 419 |
| 10 | Passionfruit | 413 |
Taylor Swift
Our favorite Taylor Swift drinking song is Cruel Summer, which is featured in 265 party playlists.
You can find the top 10 Taylor Swift drinking songs in the table below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Cruel Summer | 265 |
| 2 | Don’t Blame Me | 147 |
| 3 | I Knew You Were Trouble. | 135 |
| 4 | Our Song | 135 |
| 5 | You Belong With Me | 123 |
| 6 | Anti-Hero | 123 |
| 7 | Look What You Made Me Do | 114 |
| 8 | …Ready For It? | 108 |
| 9 | Lover | 106 |
| 10 | August | 104 |
Pritam
Our favorite Pritam song to party to is Badtameez Dil, which is featured on 592 party playlists.
You can find Pritam’s top 10 party songs in the table below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Badtameez Dil | 592 |
| 2 | Balam Pichkari | 527 |
| 3 | Subha Hone Na De | 485 |
| 4 | Dilliwaali Girlfriend | 464 |
| 5 | Make Some Noise For The Desi Boyz | 420 |
| 6 | Mauja Hi Mauja | 389 |
| 7 | Afghan Jalebi (Film Version) | 303 |
| 8 | Party On My Mind | 299 |
| 9 | Character Dheela | 287 |
| 10 | Ghagra | 275 |
Bad Bunny
Our favorite Bad Bunny drinking song is Titi Me Pregunto which has 342 appearances in party playlists.
You can find our top 10 Bad Bunny drinking songs below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Titi Me Pregunto | 342 |
| 2 | Moscow Mule | 230 |
| 3 | Me Porto Bonito | 225 |
| 4 | MIA (feat. Drake) | 172 |
| 5 | Dakiti | 164 |
| 6 | Efecto | 160 |
| 7 | Ojitos Lindos | 156 |
| 8 | Party | 156 |
| 9 | Safaera | 153 |
| 10 | Monaco | 142 |
Rihanna
Our favorite Rihanna drinking song is S&M which is featured on 552 party playlists.
You can find our top 10 Rihanna drinking songs in the table below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | S&M | 593 |
| 2 | Only Girl (In The World) | 552 |
| 2 | Umbrella | 422 |
| 4 | Don’t Stop The Music | 409 |
| 5 | Pon de Replay | 400 |
| 6 | SOS | 352 |
| 7 | We Found Love | 346 |
| 8 | Don’t Stop The Music | 300 |
| 9 | Disturbia | 294 |
| 10 | Bitch Better Have My Money | 285 |
Beyonce
Beyonce is our 29th favorite artist to drink to with 4875 party playlist appearances.
Our favorite Beyonce drinking song is Crazy in Love which features on 641 party playlists.
You can see Beyonce’s top 10 drinking songs below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Crazy in Love (feat. Jay Z) | 641 |
| 2 | Drunk in Love (feat. Jay Z) | 314 |
| 2 | 7/11 | 181 |
| 4 | CUFF IT | 172 |
| 5 | Partition | 165 |
| 6 | Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | 142 |
| 7 | TEXAS HOLD ‘EM | 141 |
| 8 | Love On Top | 114 |
| 9 | Run the World (Girls) | 112 |
| 10 | Formation | 101 |
Zach Bryan
Our favorite Zach Bryan song to drink to is Open the Gate which features on 142 party playlists.
You can find the top 10 Zach Bryan drinking songs below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | Open the Gate | 142 |
| 2 | Fifth of May | 135 |
| 2 | All the Time | 131 |
| 4 | Tishomingo | 131 |
| 5 | Loom | 129 |
| 6 | Nine Ball | 128 |
| 7 | Highway Boys | 128 |
| 8 | Mine Again | 127 |
| 9 | If She Wants a Cowboy | 126 |
| 10 | Jamie (feat. Charles Wesley Godwin) | 125 |
The Weeknd
Our favorite The Weeknd drinking song is The Hills which appears on 419 party playlists.
You can find a table with the top 10 the Weeknd songs below:
| Position | Song Name | Playlist Appearances |
| 1 | The Hills | 419 |
| 2 | Starboy | 390 |
| 2 | Blinding Lights | 335 |
| 4 | Can’t Feel My Face | 263 |
| 5 | Party Monster | 224 |
| 6 | Popular (with Playboi Carti & Madonna) | 214 |
| 7 | I Was Never There | 197 |
| 8 | Save Your Tears | 184 |
| 9 | Reminder | 168 |
| 10 | Often | 167 |
Methodology
The research process for this study, and the collection of drinking songs analysis we have conducted 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.
