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{{Infobox song
| name          = Drinkaby
| cover         =
| alt           =
| type          = single
| artist        = [[Cole Swindell]]
| album         = [[Stereotype (album)|Stereotype]]
| released      = {{Start date|2023|1|30}}
| recorded      =
| studio        =
| genre         = [[Country music|Country]]
| length        = 3:04
| label         = [[Warner Records|Warner]]
| writer        = {{hlist|[[Jon Pardi]]|[[Hardy (singer)|Michael Hardy]]|[[Jordan Schmidt]]|Hunter Phelps}}
| producer      = [[Zach Crowell]]
| prev_title    = [[She Had Me at Heads Carolina]]
| prev_year     = 2022
| next_title    = Forever to Me
| next_year     = 2024
}}
"'''Drinkaby'''" is a song by American [[country music]] singer [[Cole Swindell]]. It was released on January 30, 2023 on the deluxe version of his fourth studio album ''[[Stereotype (album)|Stereotype]]'' and serves as the album's fourth single. It peaked at 13 in late 2023, which resulted in his second song to miss the top ten.
==Content==
"Drinkaby" was co-written by [[Jon Pardi]], [[Hardy (singer)|Michael Hardy]], [[Jordan Schmidt]], and Hunter Phelps. Swindell told the blog [[Taste of Country]] that he chose to record the song because he "pictured it being a show-opener". The title is a [[portmanteau]] of "drink" and "lullaby", referencing the narrator's attempts to "drink away heartbreak".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tasteofcountry.com/cole-swindell-drinkaby-lyrics/ | title=Song Secrets: Cole Swindell Says 'Drinkaby' Lyrics Describe a Heartbreak He Knows Well | publisher=[[Taste of Country]] | date=January 27, 2023 | accessdate=September 8, 2023 | author=Billy Dukes}}</ref> The song is included on ''Stereotype Broken'', a 2023 re-release of his 2022 studio album ''[[Stereotype (Cole Swindell album)|Stereotype]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tasteofcountry.com/cole-swindell-deluxe-album-stereotype-broken/ | title=Cole Swindell announces new deluxe album, ''Stereotype Broken'' | publisher=Taste of Country | date=January 31, 2023 | accessdate=September 8, 2023}}</ref>
==Chart performance==
===Weekly charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Weekly chart performance for "Drinkaby"
! scope="col"| Chart (2023)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcanadacountry|4|artist=Cole Swindell|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardbubbling100|3|artist=Cole Swindell|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcountryairplay|13|artist=Cole Swindell|rowheader=true}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboardcountrysongs|22|artist=Cole Swindell|rowheader=true}}
|}
===Year-end charts===
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ Year-end chart performance for "Drinkaby"
! scope="col"| Chart (2023)
! scope="col"| Position
|-
! scope="row"| US Country Airplay (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2023/country-airplay-songs|title=Country Airplay – Year-End 2023|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 22, 2023}}</ref>
| 43
|-
! scope="row"| US Hot Country Songs (''Billboard'')<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2023/hot-country-songs|title=Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2023|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=November 22, 2023}}</ref>
| 64
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Cole Swindell}}
[[Category:2023 songs]]
[[Category:2023 singles]]
[[Category:Cole Swindell songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Hardy (singer)]]
[[Category:Songs written by Jon Pardi]]
[[Category:Songs written by Jordan Schmidt]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Zach Crowell]]
[[Category:Warner Records singles]]