It All Started with a Beer

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"It All Started with a Beer"
ItAllStartedwithaBeer.jpg
Single by Frankie Ballard
from the album El Rio
ReleasedNovember 16, 2015 (2015-11-16)
Genre Country
Length
  • 4:19 (album version)
  • 3:57 (single version)
Label Warner Bros. Nashville
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Marshall Altman
Frankie Ballard singles chronology
"Young & Crazy"
(2015)
"It All Started with a Beer"
(2015)
"Cigarette"
(2016)

"It All Started with a Beer" is a song recorded by American country music artist Frankie Ballard. It was released in November 2015 as the first single from Ballard's third studio album, El Rio . [1] The song was written by Jaren Johnston, Neil Mason and Jeremy Stover. [2]

Contents

Music video

The music video was directed by Marcel and premiered in March 2016. [3]

Charts

The song has sold 212,500 copies in the United States as of July 2016. [4]

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