Morgan Wallen to reach #1 on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 next week

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All 36 tracks are projected to chart on next week’s Billboard Hot 100 (10 tracks in the top 15). This will make him the first artist ever to simultaneously chart 30 or more songs in a single week.

• Morgan Wallen's third studio album, One Thing at a Time, to open north of 492k(114,469 in traditional album sales), the biggest debut of the year and the biggest since Taylor Swift’s Midnights. The album now ranks in the Top 5 all-time-biggest streaming weeks with 470m+ streams. source

• One Thing at a Time has the largest week of the year, by units, of any album; the largest streaming week of 2023 for any album and the biggest streaming week ever for a country album. source

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People really don't care about racism huh

[hijadeputa 4,050]

Who is this?

[Petie Estie 5,648]

1 minute ago, hijadeputa said:

Who is this?

a guy who said the N word in 2021 in some recording and then did the usual celebrity apology/donation and "i'll learn" thing and he literally never lost any fans so it's just really awkward because it reveals country music's issues. But overall it's not really a him problem. It's a country music/culture problem. 

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I do not support what he said, but I do not think it is fair to suggest that due to something said in the past, a person cannot grow or apologies and efforts to make up for that are not sincere.

[monstertoronto 11,358]

3 minutes ago, Agunimon said:

I do not support what he said, but I do not think it is fair to suggest that due to something said in the past, a person cannot grow or apologies and efforts to make up for that are not sincere.

I agree with what you’re saying, but his massive success seemed to come right after the “scandal”. It almost felt like racist America chose to buy that album to support him BECAUSE he had said something racist. 

[Levine 23,901]

5 minutes ago, Agunimon said:

I do not support what he said, but I do not think it is fair to suggest that due to something said in the past, a person cannot grow or apologies and efforts to make up for that are not sincere.

A person above you said 2021, "in the past" you make it sounds like it was 20 years ago when this singer (?) was a kid. 

[Levine 23,901]

1 minute ago, monstertoronto said:

I agree with what you’re saying, but his massive success seemed to come right after the “scandal”. It almost felt like racist America chose to buy that album to support him BECAUSE he had said something racist. 

It is exactly like this. Even in Italy if you are fascist and racist you have fans and support and artists who don't support those horror are getting dragged on daily basis.

[NCgaga 4,345]

But seriously what do you want from him? He said it, he apologized. He donated money. He hasn’t said anything racist since. He identified the issue, apologized, tried to help the community, changed, and moved on. What more can a human being do? 
 

When people on this site make a mistake, which we all do a human beings; do we want forgiveness and opportunity to learn and grow? Or do we want to be outcast from society and never have the chance to make it right? I really don’t understand this side of our culture. You guys expect to never lend someone a second chance, yet if you make a mistake, you expect the forgiveness and the opportunity to make Right. Why is this hypocrisy here? 

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3 minutes ago, monstertoronto said:

I agree with what you’re saying, but his massive success seemed to come right after the “scandal”.

he was already successful in the US before this scandal. his last album debuted with 265k→159k (2nd week)→130k(3rd week) and then the scandal happened and his album sales increased by 14 percent.

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31 minutes ago, NCgaga said:

But seriously what do you want from him? He said it, he apologized. He donated money. He hasn’t said anything racist since. He identified the issue, apologized, tried to help the community, changed, and moved on. What more can a human being do? 
 

When people on this site make a mistake, which we all do a human beings; do we want forgiveness and opportunity to learn and grow? Or do we want to be outcast from society and never have the chance to make it right? I really don’t understand this side of our culture. You guys expect to never lend someone a second chance, yet if you make a mistake, you expect the forgiveness and the opportunity to make Right. Why is this hypocrisy here? 

I think there is definitely something to explore with this for sure. I don’t know everything though, so not going to say much. But I just wanted to tell you I think you’ve got validity in this point 

[Fanta 5,019]

I knew never to use the N word since I was a child, I knew it was bad and not to be said - period. I will forever look at a grown ass white man sideways for choosing to use this word, especially at his big age and in the current social and political climate. This is of course also factoring in that it is a racist and disgusting word.

Also, did he ‘change’ and ‘learn’ because he wanted to, or because he was dragged? If his apology was not for you, it certainly isn’t for you to choose when and how to accept and move on from it either. 

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1 hour ago, monstertoronto said:

I agree with what you’re saying, but his massive success seemed to come right after the “scandal”. It almost felt like racist America chose to buy that album to support him BECAUSE he had said something racist. 

This is fair, but his first album topped the country charts and was #10 on billboard and his follow up that was released before the scandal was also #1 on billboard.

20 minutes ago, Fanta said:

If his apology was not for you, it certainly isn’t for you to choose when and how to accept and move on from it either.

Absolutely! I fully agree with this. And yet, the people who are angry the most are the white gays inserting themselves into an issue. At least from what I can see on any tweet or social media post. 

[monstertoronto 11,358]

2 hours ago, Teletubby said:

he was already successful in the US before this scandal. his last album debuted with 265k→159k (2nd week)→130k(3rd week) and then the scandal happened and his album sales increased by 14 percent.

Not saying he wasn’t successful before, but an increase of 14% AFTER the scandal does show a weirdly positive response by his fans to his racist remarks. And after that it showed unusual longevity. 

[StrawberryBlond 15,418]

Gotta be honest, I'd never heard of the guy until his racism scandal. I know, country music is so niche and as a non-American, there's very few country artists that I know of or care about but I know more than the average international non-country fan. I can name a lot of current country artists but I'd never heard of him. It was the scandal that informed me of his existence and his success has got even bigger since. Suddenly, it's like, he's this big deal. His album was released just under a month before the incriminating video came out. Ordinarily, that would have resulted in a massive drop in sales, it would have been the worst possible scenario for a new album's roll-out. But it remained at #1 for 10 weeks, was in the top 10 for months and to date, it's sold over 4 million SPS in the US alone. He had one top ten single before his scandal - he's gained another 3 post-scandal. It's like this scandal MADE his career. I've still never heard a single song of his. It's all very strange. It's almost industry plant stuff.