Billboard reports that his latest album sold 25,000 copies during the week ending Feb. 4, an increase of 102%, according to MRC Data. Billboard reported that that the album’s streaming numbers slightly increased by 3%, representing roughly 160 million on-demand streams. Song downloads from the album also went up by 67%.
From an AP news article. His sales and streams increased when this news came out
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
if this nips his career in the bud, i don't think it will hurt the label system much. some fans will be spurred to defend him or clamor for some kind of reconciliation, but many are already repulsed. the country audience isn't quite as hard-right as people sometimes presume.
― dyl, Thursday, February 4, 2021 12:16 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
keep trying to square this with all the country music fans i grew up with and what they post on facebook, but the numbers seem to back up my instincts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
I would wager that the great, great majority of people on both the left and the right don't even have the "can I still support this artist" argument with themselves and just like what they like
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 10 February 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
^^^ largely OTM
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
So... A portion of this money goes to me, since I wrote ‘Cover Me Up.’ I’ve decided to donate everything I’ve made so far from this album to the Nashville chapter of the @NAACP. Thanks for helping out a good cause, folks. https://t.co/Ch3FlDBmJf— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) February 10, 2021
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
Good on Isbell, seems like the right thing to do in this case. Just don’t tell Paul Ponzi.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:34 (three years ago) link
Pledged to donate $500,000 but Rolling Stone can’t find evidence he donated that much:
Nearly eight weeks after making these comments, however, it remains unclear if Wallen actually donated the entire amount he said he would. In a statement to Rolling Stone, BMAC — the only organization Wallen mentioned by name in his GMA interview — criticized the singer, saying they were “disappointed that Morgan has not used his platform to support any anti-racism endeavors.” While the group received some money from Wallen, they said the $500,000 number “seems exceptionally misleading.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/morgan-wallen-charity-1209084/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Yikes:
Lil Durk releases the video to his single “Broadway Girls” featuring Morgan Wallen. pic.twitter.com/w6P0d7uZKc— Rap Alert (@rapalert4) December 20, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
"Eminem featuring Elton John" - 2021
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
It's got the same ominous trap/twang as "Old Town Road" and unfortunately is stuck in my head after a few listens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpz4Ro5iD1Q
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:28 (two years ago) link
Billboard Hot 100: #14(new) Broadway Girls, @lildurk Feat. @MorganWallen.— chart data (@chartdata) December 28, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
Last night @opry you had a choice- either upset one guy and his “team,” or break the hearts of a legion of aspiring Black country artists. You chose wrong and I’m real sad for a lot of my friends today. Not surprised though. Just sad.— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) January 9, 2022
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
Wait so looking through the replies on that, someone is saying that "all about the Benjamins" is an anti-Semitic slur?
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 10 January 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Has that always been a thing or is this new? I don't remember ever hearing or seeing anything tied to that phrase that was claimed to be anti-Semitic (aside from recent political posturing against Ilhan Omar but I tied that to her criticizing Israel by invoking a money stereotype rather than the specifics of using the term "Benjamins" to reference $100 bills)
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 10 January 2022 14:33 (two years ago) link
I genuinely haven't heard that take until just now, be curious to know if this was a more widespread reading.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 10 January 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
It does seem sprung from the Fox/etc coverage of Omar's tweet. Otherwise it's Ben Franklin 100%.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
Never thought about it at all, but don't know the lyrics so looked it up and there's a line "You should do what we do, stack chips like Hebrews." Maybe that's what people mean? Apparently "Hebrews" has been (or is often?) edited out of the song?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:54 (two years ago) link
Indeed, "Hebrews" is cut out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c58ppLPJcQ
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
(lol of course "all about the Benjamins" exists outside of the Puffy song, that's just where my mind first went to, so it's a weird coincidence that there is an anti-semitic connection!)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 January 2022 14:59 (two years ago) link
morgan wallen’s thoughtless redemption tour is the nail in the coffin of me realizing these systems, and this town is really not for us.imma keep making my lil music in my attic, y’all can listen if you want. i don’t know that i’ll do this work forever.— Joy Oladokun (@joyoladokun) January 9, 2022
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
no thanks! @PLPMngnt pic.twitter.com/FqafaC7XgE— The Black Opry (@BlackOpry) January 10, 2022
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 02:42 (two years ago) link
I finally heard a Morgan Wallen song, ama
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
have you seen his hair
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
are you safe?
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
I have not seen his hair lately.
I am safe and extremely bemused.
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
how bad was it?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
was it about drinking?
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
The worst thing about it was how anonymous it was. I am admittedly not a pop country person but I didn’t identify anything about it that would merit Wallen’s elevation above every other semi-talented hack half-assembly churning out pop country bullshit. There was absolutely nothing remotely like the turns of phrase or presentation of the confessional that Taylor Swift brings to the table, for example; it was just country brostep nonsense that I’m struggling to actually remember because it was so aggressively uninteresting to me.
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
I am embarrassed and sorry that I was captured on tape.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
What if everytime a musician committed any infraction, their punishment was to have the Engineer pretend to hit record, and then release a blank CD on release day
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
In Wallen's case it would go platinum
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Pretty sure I've still never heard a Morgan Wallen song but perhaps the worst part of this, the worst song I've ever been subjected to, was making sure to name check the racist country bro in the country bro rap track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnujskEgHnY
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link
pull uphop outWalmartlate night
― alpine static, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
Christ, 31 of the top 50 songs on Spotify are by MW
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 5 March 2023 03:21 (one year ago) link
Makes sense, probably a similar percentage of the rest of the internet is racist, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 5 March 2023 04:21 (one year ago) link
another victim of cancel culture
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 5 March 2023 05:28 (one year ago) link
better not to look at this week’s Billboard Hot 100
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
Miranda Lambert's first co-write credit on a pop top ten single fwiw
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:22 (one year ago) link
I heard a Morgan Wallen song on a pop radio station this morning. I don't think I've ever heard them play a country song before.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
still waiting on j0rdan's thoughts on the new album
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Monday, 8 May 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
where i will defend the previous album as a more or less front to back classic, this one is overly long, to put it mildly. i'm completely baffled by i.e. how there is a song that references keith whitley, and then another song, and then after that a song called "keith whitley" that doesn't seem to be in conversation at all w/ the song that 4 mins previously was referencing keith whitley over and over. just blatant stuff like that where i'm like, c'mon now. but i guess as a commerce play it's working for them. all that being said there's still a group of 15-18 songs that, as compiled into a playlist, is one of the best albums of the year for me.
i find him uniquely believable even w/in country as a deliverer of songs about substance abuse, and basically every song on this album is about substance abuse. idk that's been resonating w/ me this year, i won't get too much into it. but he's got people writing a lot of really great songs for him & he is a masterful performer of a lot of that work... even down to something as granular as the way he sings the word "jack" on "you proof." songs like "one thing at a time," "tennessee numbers," "keith whitley," "neon star," "98 braves" ... not a lot of stuff out there in any genre hitting for me like that. i guess i've made peace w/ who he is as a person, we'll see how it plays out
― J0rdan S., Monday, 8 May 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
He seems to be trying to invoke whatever Keith Whitley represents for him -- this drunken angel who died too soon and too young -- but without the grace.
I liked about a third of the last album; this one just tired me out. "Tennessee Numbers" and "One Thing at a Time" totally work.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2023 18:23 (one year ago) link
Every Morgan Wallen song I’ve heard has been at best terrible
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
I didn't bother giving this one another listen after the initial download.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:29 (one year ago) link
jordan's post got me to listen to "you proof" - i like it!
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:51 (one year ago) link
The song I heard on pop radio was "Last Night." Makes sense--it has the same talk-singy quasi rap thing that you hear from the Jonas Brothers or any other male pop act these days.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:56 (one year ago) link
'last night' is crazy. amazing song. whoever wrote that put their foot in it
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:27 (one year ago) link
I absolutely hated “You Proof”
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
same
I don't think I've ever heard them play a country song before.
they hadn't played any dan + shay, florida georgia line (tbh the first time i heard "last night" i thought maybe it was them, lol), lady antebellum, gabby barrett or whatever?
quite a few country songs are being crossed over radio-wise rn actually. there's a kane brown ballad w/ his wife from not too long ago that's... eh. also some parmalee song that's extremely boring and undistinguished. and a luke combs cover of "fast car" that is competent but whose most interesting part is that the 'checkout girl' lyric is left unaltered.
― dyl, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
My primary thing, which I’ve purposely avoided spelling out given the rest of the context of this thread, is that this guy’s music is such absolute horseshit that I don’t understand why anyone posting here would give him the time of day after his well-documented racist outburst, given the political demographics of the posters in this thread.
― Marvel Puzzle Quest is my favorite gasm (DJP), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 12:41 (one year ago) link