Breaking News: Shaboozey Felt ‘Directionless’ Before He Broke Records with ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy).’ Now ‘I Want to Outdo This Song’….see more

Shaboozey has just returned to his 6´3˝ vertical form after spending the past few minutes posing horizontal on a pool float, basking in the Hollywood Hills sun for his PEOPLE cover.

The country star is taking a breather when, suddenly, he’s surprised with a chocolate cake celebrating his milestone 30th birthday three days earlier — not that he’s making a big deal of it.

“I’m not a huge birthday person, but I was able to see my family, and that was really special. I hadn’t seen them in probably a year,” says the singer, whose breakthrough 2024 kept him busier than most. “I’m definitely proud of how my 20s turned out.

The way my career is, the way I am, the name — it just shows anything’s possible. My whole life is literally just a pinch-me moment.” Pinch him all you want, but this isn’t a dream Shaboozey will be waking up from anytime soon.

More than a year after its April 2024 release, his smash hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is still sitting pretty at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it already set the record for longest-running No 1 songs of all time by a solo artist.

“I want to outdo what I did last year. I want to outdo this song,” says Shaboozey, fully focused on the future.

“You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to compare or compete, but I want to continue to make music that people know across the world.”