Hold My Beer (Aaron Pritchett song)

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"Hold My Beer"
Single by Aaron Pritchett
from the album Big Wheel
Released2006 (2006)
Genre
Length4:10
Label
  • OPM
Songwriter(s)
Aaron Pritchett singles chronology
"Big Wheel"
(2006)
"Hold My Beer"
(2006)
"Warm Safe Place"
(2006)
Music video
"Hold My Beer" on YouTube

"Hold My Beer" is a song recorded by Canadian country music artist Aaron Pritchett. The song was the second single off his fourth studio album Big Wheel . Pritchett co-wrote the song with Deric Ruttan and Mitch Merrett. [1] The three writers won "Songwriter(s) of the Year" at the 2007 Canadian Country Music Awards for the song. [2]

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Background and content

Pritchett and his co-writers were in a songwriting session when he uttered the phrase "hold my beer", which he stated "just popped into" his head. [3] They wrote the song as "a joke", not initially intending to record it. [4] Neither Pritchett nor his co-writers expected the song to achieve any success. [5]

The primary lyrics of the chorus are "Hold my beer, while I kiss your girlfriend. 'Cause she needs a real man / Not a boy like you". [3] Years after the song's release, Pritchett remarked that it is like a "nursery rhyme, an earworm," as "it gets stuck in your head and you never forget it". [3]

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryResultRef
2006British Columbia Country Music AssociationVideo of the YearWon [6]
2007 Canadian Country Music Association SOCAN Songwriter(s) of the YearWon [7]

Commercial performance

"Hold My Beer" reached a peak of number nine on the Billboard Canada Country chart dated August 26, 2006, marking Pritchett's fourth top ten hit. [8] The song peaked after onky six weeks on the chart, while it charted for 22 weeks in total. [8] On August 24, 2017, the song became Pritchett's first single to be certified Gold by Music Canada. [9]

Music video

The official music video for "Hold My Beer" was directed by Stephano Barberis, and features footage of Pritchett performing the song, in addition to showing several people at a bar. [6] [10]

Charts

Chart performance for "Hold My Beer"
Chart (2006)Peak
position
Canada Country (Billboard) [8] 9

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [9] Gold40,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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