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In Exile, Morgan Wallen Tops Album Chart for a Fourth Week, With Real Impact of Scandal Yet to Be Seen
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It may have been a disastrous week for Morgan Wallen in most ways, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the album chart, where country’s newest superstar and, for now, its most famous pariah remains at No. 1 for a fourth consecutive week.
Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” remained on top of the Rolling Stone album chart with numbers that were both up and down. In the overall picture, it had 144,200 album-equivalent units for the week, an increase from 127,600 in its third week. But that reflected an uptick in sales even as the album trended downward in streams. Album sales were at 28,400 (up from 10,800 last week) and individual song sales came in at 55,500 (up from 33,000). However, its streaming numbers, at 135 million individual song streams, were down a bit, fro
Morgan Wallen Dropped by Agent WME After Racial Slur
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Wallen, whose new “Dangerous: The Double Album” release was about to have a fourth week at the top of the charts, saw his music yanked from major radio networks and streaming service playlists within hours of the video being published on TMZ on Tuesday night. Cumulus, which is especially powerful in the country radio sphere, sent out a directive to the program directors of all of its 400-plus stations with the header “MORGAN WALLEN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.” The message read: “Team, unfortunately country music star Morgan Wallen was captured on video Sunday evening using a racial slur. Effective immediately we request that all of Morgan Wallen’s music be removed from our playlists without exception. More to follow.” Notably, no mention was made of the ban being temporary or of waiting for
Posted By: Carina January 29, 2021 @ 8:12 am Carina Show Page
We all just thought Morgan Wallen was done releasing new music for now. He surprised fans last night when he released two bonus tracks for
Dangerous The Double Album plus the studio session of
Sand In My Boots.
The two bonus tracks are:
Bandaid on a Bullet Hole
This Side of a Dust Cloud
Sand In My Boots (The Dangerous Sessions)
Morgan Wallen s Dangerous: The Double Album Spends Its Second Week Atop Billboard 200
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Meanwhile, Why Don t We nabs their highest chart rank this week as the group s new album The Good Times and the Bad Ones debuts at No. 3 with 46,000 equivalent album units earned. Jan 25, 2021
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Morgan Wallen continues to rule Billboard 200 chart with his new album Dangerous: The Double Album . The set lands atop the chart for two consecutive weeks after earning 159,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending January 21, according to MRC Data.
Of the sum, 133,000 are in the form of SEA units which equals to 177.11 million on-demand streams of the album s songs. Meanwhile, album sales comprise 22,000 with TEA units comprising 4,000 of the number. The album also marks the first country album to spend two weeks in a row at No. 1 since