Dierks Bentley Shares Story Behind “Beers On Me,” Celebrates twenty first No. 1 Hit

by Cindy Watts

2h in the past

Dierks Bentley’s life is imitating artwork this week as his collaboration with HARDY and Breland, “Beers On Me,” turned his twenty first No. 1 hit. Now, he says, a spherical is on him.

“#BeersOnMe is #1 at nation radio at the moment… wow!” Bentley stated on social media. “Thanks to everybody who helped make this occur, to @breland (which… congrats in your first #1 dude ?) and @hardy for making this tune what it’s. Nation radio… I owe y’all a beer.”

HARDY replied: “THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDE”

Bentley co-wrote “Beers On Me” with Ashley Gorley, Luke Dick, Ross Copperman, Breland and Hardy from an concept that was sparked on a writers retreat in Colorado. Bentley, HARDY, Copperman and Dick deliberate to separate into teams and write songs however as an alternative opted to spend a number of days writing as one giant unit.

“I simply beloved the concept of (“Beers On Me”) as a result of that’s what I believed it’d be enjoyable to do for my followers,” Bentley instructed The Boot. “You get a ticket to the present, and then you definately additionally get a free beer coupon. I used to be going to pay for that out of my pocket, and so I used to be like, ‘That is such an ideal tune thought, let’s go together with this,’ we wrote it after which I had Hardy are available and sing on it.”

After he was again in Nashville, Bentley learn a narrative about Breland in another newspaper and was intrigued. He despatched Breland a textual content, and the singer arrived on the studio the following day. Bentley performed him the tune, together with the third verse that he wished him to sing, and Breland requested if he may rewrite it.

“We performed the observe time and again and he simply began pulling issues out of the air, laughing to himself, messing together with his hair and we’re like, ‘What’s he doing?’ and writing stuff on his telephone,” Bentley stated. “It was similar to watching a mad scientist, and 25 minutes later, he’s like, ‘Can I play you what I wrote?’ And he performs his verse. This isn’t a tune that’s going be within the Corridor of Fame, however what he wrote was so effectively written. I really feel like the remainder of us have been portray with six colours and he was utilizing a paint set that had 120 totally different colours to attract from.”

HARDY additionally took to Instagram to rejoice the success of “Beers On Me.”

“Thanks @dierksbentley. Thanks @breland. Thanks to the writers and everybody else concerned. And thanks nation radio! Number one child!” he wrote.

“Sick at all times keep in mind you strolling down the steps at that home in Colorado with the concept… cool to see it go to full fruition. Thanks dude!” Bentley replied.

Breland added: “You’re gonna have 100 by the point this experience is over. Glad to be part of one in every of em ??”

Breland is beside himself with pleasure, marveling on the velocity at which his profession took off.

“MY FIRST NUMBER ONE!!! ???” he wrote. “Thanks a lot to @dierksbentley and @hardy for believing in me and for all of the radio stations and nation music followers for blowing this one up. I moved to Nashville a bit of over a 12 months and a half in the past very a lot feeling like an outsider, however right here we’re with the #1 tune at Nation radio. Desires do come true ?? This time and this time solely, the “Beers on Me” ?

Bentley chimed in: “Yeah DUDE!! So completely happy for you (and me haha). Grateful to know you and to be buddies. I’ve loved watching your profession blow up. Maintain rocking.”