Riley Green released his new song "Think As You Drunk" on Thursday, a party-ready single Digital called a summer jam that blends a party vibe with a little bit of throwback spirit and even a brief Toby Keith appearance.
The release is arriving into an artist on the move. Billboard reports Green’s catalog has earned 5.9 billion on-demand official streams in the United States, that three of his recent singles — "You Look Like You Love Me," "Worst Way" and "Don’t Mind If I Do" — reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, and that he collected three trophies at the 2025 Country Music Association Awards before being voted People’s Sexiest Country Star Alive in November 2025 and winning music event of the year at the 2026 Academy of Country Music Awards.
Fans have already begun to notice. One commenter wrote, "This is really good." Another wrote, "I love the beat of this song and I got a feeling this is gonna be another number one." Those reactions land against the concrete milestones Billboard laid out: a string of chart-toppers and major award wins that give any new single a clear runway to radio and streaming playlists.
Green’s rise, Billboard noted, was not immediate. He spent years in Jacksonville, Ala., playing night gigs at a Mexican restaurant for $150 a week while working construction during the day, self-released two EPs, signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell in 2017 and joined Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment in 2018 before breaking through with the No. 1 singles that defined his recent run. "You Look Like You Love Me" arrived in June 2024; it was followed by "Worst Way," which came with a steamy video.
There’s a human story threaded through the career arc. Digital reported Green saying he does not get nervous going on stage anymore, a sharp contrast to an episode he described on the set of the series "Marshals," where he said his nerves were wrecked after a small personal scramble. "I locked my key in my room. Luckily, I had clothes on," Green said, recounting an awkward exchange: "We need to see your ID." When he realized he had left his identification in the room, he remembered saying, "I don’t have it. It’s in my room and it’s not going to [match] what’s on the room." His punchline was short: "So I sleep outside."
That anecdote illustrates a recurring tension in Green’s public life: a performer who reports being comfortable on stage yet admits an underlying anxiety about capitalizing on momentum. "The only thing I feel anxious about in my career is that I want to take every opportunity I’ve been given to get as much out of it as I can," he said, and added, "there’s no sense of ‘I can relax now.’ I’ve never felt that." The admission sits uneasily next to the line that he no longer gets nervous performing, and it underscores a practical pressure behind the new single: every release becomes a test of how far the current run can be stretched.
Musically, "Think As You Drunk" is being framed as summer-ready — a song built for radio and weekend playlists, with a nod to country’s past in its throwback flourishes and the brief Toby Keith cameo noted. That combination of modern beat and familiar touchpoints is precisely the formula that earlier singles used to push Green to No. 1 on Country Airplay and to the awards stage.
Given the streaming totals, the awards and the warm early fan reaction, "Think As You Drunk" is positioned to extend Riley Green’s commercial streak; fans in the comments already expect another chart push. The more consequential fact is not whether this single is catchy — it is — but whether it can translate that catchiness into the same measured commercial results his last three singles achieved. Based on the catalog metrics and industry wins Billboard reported, the sensible conclusion is that Green’s latest is likely to add to, not break, the momentum he’s built so far.
