RS Charts: Morgan Wallen s Dangerous Holds at Number One Despite Racial Slur
Wallen spends sixth week atop the RS 200, tying a chart record set by Taylor Swift
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Dangerous: The Double Album spent its sixth consecutive week at Number One on the
Rolling StoneTop 200 Albums chart, earning 7,800 sales and more than 95 million streams. Wallen’s six-week run at Number One matched the
RS 200 record set last year by Taylor Swift’s
Folklore.
Dangerous fell steeply for the first time since
TMZreleased a video of Wallen using a racial slur. After the clip hit the internet,
Dangerous earned more than 137,000 album-equivalent units in each of the next two weeks. But on the latest chart, the singer’s weekly total fell to 86,900 units.
The past year has been rough on the touring industry, but as the year comes to a close there is some hope for independent music venues across the country with the the passage of the Save Our Stages Act that will provide financial aid to venues during the current shutdown. Getting to this point was no easy task, and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is voicing his heartfelt thanks to those who helped convince politicians this act needed to be taken.
Shortly after the pandemic started, many of the independent music venues across the country saw the pending financial crisis that would come with an extended shutdown and banded together to form the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA). Together, they rallied music lovers to write their state politicians seeking assistance as it became apparent that large gathering events such as concerts would be among the last to return and the extended down period could see the permanent shuttering of many venues without financial aid.
Foo Fighters recently announced a February release for their tenth album
Medicine at Midnight though revealing early in 2020 that they had completed the effort. So why the delay? Like many acts, it had to do with the ongoing pandemic.
Speaking with New York s Q104.3 (as heard below), frontman Dave Grohl offered some insight on the thought process concerning the release. We started writing this record almost two years ago a year and a half ago. We were writing it while we were still on tour. We moved into this funky old house in my neighborhood; built a studio in the upstairs bedroom; recorded the drums in the living room; the guitars were in the bedroom. I did the vocals in the bathroom next to the toilet. We started [recording] this, I think, in maybe September last year, and we were finished by January, February. We were totally done mixed, mastered, ready to go. Artwork was done; t-shirts were being made; equipment was on the trucks we were good to go. And then everythin