Drinks After Work

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Drinks After Work
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 29, 2013 (2013-10-29)
Genre Country
Length32:23
Label Show Dog-Universal Music
Producer Toby Keith
Toby Keith chronology
Hope on the Rocks
(2012)
Drinks After Work
(2013)
35 MPH Town
(2015)
Singles from Drinks After Work
  1. "Drinks After Work"
    Released: June 25, 2013
  2. "Shut Up and Hold On"
    Released: November 18, 2013
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Drinks After Work is the seventeenth studio album by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released on October 29, 2013 by Show Dog-Universal Music. [2] Keith wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's new tracks. [3] A deluxe edition was also released with three bonus tracks. [4]

Contents

Commercial performance

In its first week of release, the album debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200, selling 35,000 copies. [5] As of September 2015, the album has sold 140,000 copies in the U.S. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Shut Up and Hold On" Toby Keith, Bobby Pinson 2:55
2."Drinks After Work" Luke Laird, Barry Dean, Natalie Hemby 3:32
3."Before We Knew They Were Good"Keith, Pinson, Rivers Rutherford 2:56
4."Little Miss Tear Stain"Keith, Scotty Emerick 3:02
5."The Other Side of Him"Keith, Pinson4:01
6."Last Living Cowboy"Keith, Emerick2:54
7."Show Me What You're Workin' With"Keith, Rutherford3:14
8."Whole Lot More Than That"Keith, Pinson2:38
9."I'll Probably Be Out Fishin'"Keith, Emerick3:08
10."Hard Way to Make an Easy Living"Keith, Pinson4:03
Total length:32:23
Deluxe edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
11."Call a Marine"Keith, Pinson3:16
12."Chuckie's Gone"Keith3:07
13."Margaritaville" (with Sammy Hagar) Jimmy Buffett 4:55

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. [7]

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2013–14)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [8] 37
US Billboard 200 [9] 7
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [10] 3

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [11] 69
Chart (2014)Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [12] 59

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