Beer for My Horses

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"Beer for My Horses"
Beer for my horses single cover.png
Single by Toby Keith and Willie Nelson
from the album Unleashed
B-side "Rock You Baby"
ReleasedApril 7, 2003
Recorded2002
Genre Country
Length3:24(album version)
3:31 ( Greatest Hits 2 version)
Label DreamWorks Records 450785
Songwriter(s) Scotty Emerick
Toby Keith
Producer(s) James Stroud
Toby Keith
Toby Keith singles chronology
"Rock You Baby"
(2003)
"Beer for My Horses"
(2003)
"I Love This Bar"
(2003)
Chart (2003)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 1
US Billboard Hot 100 [11] 22

Year-end charts

Chart (2003)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [12] 2

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [13] 3× Platinum3,000,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Other

A film adaptation of the song entered production in mid-2008, [14] and was released on August 8, 2008. [15]

The song is available as downloadable content for the game Rock Band.

References

  1. "CMT : Music Video : Beer for My Horses : Toby Keith". CMT. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  2. "38th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards Nominees | Billboard". billboard.com. 4 March 2003. Retrieved 2014-03-22.
  3. "Toby Keith and Willie Nelson Win Video Of The Year "Beer For My Horses" - ACM Awards 2004". YouTube . 15 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-05.
  4. Justin Baragona (March 18, 2021). "GOP Rep. Extols Lynchings During Hearing on Anti-Asian American Violence". The Daily Beast.
  5. David Covucci (March 19, 2021). "Congressman mistakes Toby Keith's 'Beer for my Horses' as ancient Texas saying". Daily Dot.
  6. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Unleashed review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
  7. Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1993-06-12. ISSN   0006-2510.
  8. Grein, Paul (April 16, 2014). "Chart Watch: "Happy" tops 4M". Yahoo! Music . Yahoo!.
  9. Bjorke, Matt (January 24, 2017). "Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report: January 24, 2017". Roughstock.
  10. "Toby Keith Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  11. "Toby Keith Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  12. "Best of 2003: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2003. Retrieved July 13, 2012.
  13. "American single certifications – Toby Keith – Beer For My Horses". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved October 16, 2024.
  14. "Toby Keith stars in "Beer for My Horses" movie". September 9, 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
  15. "Beer for My Horses". IMDb .