"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.

Content

"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. It was written by all three members of Runaway June along with

Josh Kear Josh Kear is a Nashville-based songwriter signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing. In 2007, he cowrote Carrie Underwood’s hit "Before He Cheats" with Chris Tompkins. The song spent five weeks at the top of the charts. His song "Drinking Class", pe ...

and Hillary Lindsey.

Music video

The music video for the song premiered on March 1, 2019. Directed by

Peter Zavadil Peter Zavadil is an American music video director who works primarily in the field of country music. He has directed many music videos since the late 1990s. He has won the Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year twice from seven nomin ...

, 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.

Chart performance

"Buy My Own Drinks" debuted on the ''

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Country Airplay Country Airplay is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States since January 20, 1990. This chart lists the 60 most-listened-to records played on 150 mainstream country radio stations across the country as monitored ...

chart at number 59 on the chart dated October 6, 2018. 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. 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. It has sold 42,000 digital copies in the United States as of October 2019.

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References

{{authority control 2018 songs 2018 singles Runaway June songs Songs written by Josh Kear Songs written by Hillary Lindsey Song recordings produced by Dann Huff BBR Music Group singles