Morgan Wallen ‘s sophomore album Dangerous: The Double Album lays at the ninth consecutive week at No. … [+]
JOHN SHEARER
The sophomore album by Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The double album, spending the ninth week in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 card this week. The country singer is now holding the record for the biggest weeks at No. 1 from Drake’s Views spent 13 consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 2016, according to Account Board.
Dangerous to be one of four country records that have spent at least nine weeks on the Billboard 200 card since the card began publishing weekly in March 1956. Garth Brooks currently holds that record Ropin ‘the wind (18 weeks) followed by Billy Ray Cyrus’ Some of them all took (17 weeks) and Taylor Swift’s Without fear (11 weeks).
Succeeded Dangerous proving that Wallen cannot be fired despite being let down by his label and country radio. On Feb. 2, nearly a month after the record was released, TMZ released a video of Wallen saying racial slurs outside his Nashville home. Wallen’s record label, Big Loud, suspended his contract “forever” the next day while his recording producer, WME, put him down. The largest companies that made rural radio including iHeartMedia, Cumulus Media, Entercom and Beasley Media Group pulled Wallen music from their station playlists.
As previously reported, Wallen’s radio play fell more than 70% on Feb. 3 while sales of his music rose 339%. While this week’s sale was for Wallen’s Dangerous down 6% from last week, according to MRC Data the project was still earning 78,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. allowing the project to rule at the top of the chart for the ninth week.
Wallen has remained silent on social media since releasing an apology video on Feb. 10 where he urged fans not to defend him and that I was “wrong. ”
“It’s up to me to take ownership of this, and I fully accept any penalties that lie ahead,” he said in a video posted to social media. “The time I returned is just my job and the work I submitted. ”