Posted on 03/15/2023 7:59:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Love him or loathe him, country music superstar Morgan Wallen has a dedicated following, and with the recent release of his new album, One Thing at a Time, his fans have made their devotion known. The album, which has a whopping 36 tracks, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 album charts, and Wallen set a record with every single one of the 36 tracks appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
To put it in perspective, the previous record holder, rapper Drake, placed 27 songs on the chart at once in 2018, while Taylor Swift had 26 songs on the chart at the same time in 2021. Even at the height of Beatlemania, the Fab Four only managed to put 14 songs on the Hot 100 at the same time in 1964, which was the record that stood for a long time.
Here’s how Wallen’s songs landed on the Hot 100 (thanks to Outkick for compiling the list so I didn’t have to):
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Mmmmm…. Nope.
I’ve heard the name before, but I have zero interest in hillbilly music. So I have never heard him sing. And have no plans to do so.
I wouldn’t say a minus 5, but it reminded me of nothing more than The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies. “Woo-hoo! I’m cool and deep because I’m self-aware that my drinking causes anger issues!” “Oh, and I can sing all gravelly and constipate-y like Nickelback!”
“Country Music is mostly an AMERICAN thing and outside of our shores, you hardly hear anyone wanting to listen to this genre of music.”
Except the Scots, the Aussies & the Kiwis.
—> and grew into what we now know as country music. I like it too!
That was certainly one strain that blended into country.
The Country Music Hall of Fame has an amazing exhibit detailing each genre that eventually blended into today’s country music.
That’s not my opinion. Except for the most obvious cases (Rod Stewart, Country Club), that’s straight from the artists’ mouths. Read Paul McCartney on Let it Be, or the Who on Baba O’Reilly, or Peter Gabriel on Don’t Give Up, or Pink Floyd on Wish You Were Here, or U2 on the entirety of the Joshua Tree.
There will always be some folks for whom the beginning and end of Country Music was one single conference outside Bristol, TN. It’s not that there is no other country music; it’s that the authenticity is measured, like Christians trying to follow the apostles, in how closely it captures the spirit of that intarnation incarnation. It’s the ever-so-slightly blasphemous Pentecost of the True American.
Thin Lizzy’s “Whisky in a Jar” is pretty good.
Never heard of him, but maybe nobody else is making country music this week.
I see what you did there.
I am very happy for Morgan. For those who actually follow country, the Leftists tried to "cancel" Morgan during the COVID nonsense because he went to bars without a mask and apparently uttered a politically incorrect word or two.
SNL dropped him from their show and many radio stations, including Sirius/XM, dropped him from their playlists a couple years back.
After that happened, the fans made Morgan's album "Dangerous" the top selling country album of the year and the woke radio industry could not deny his massive success.
His current album "One Thing At A Time" is having staggering success. Landing 36 songs on the Billboard HOT 100 is an incredible achievement, even if Billboard has changed the methodology of their charts quite a bit since the days of The Beatles. Back then, it was more about actual sales of physical records. These days, it's much more about streams and downloads as very few people purchase their music on physical media.
Lastly, I think Morgan's music is quite good, despite the haters here. "Thought You Should Know" is one of my favorites by him, which tells the story of him calling his mother back home, letting her know that things have finally started working out for him, so her prayers for him weren't wasted after all.
If it were Garth Brooks it would cover 36 albums.
Garth Brooks was the beginning of the end for Country music.
The country music you’re talking about is nothing like the derivative tripe on the radio (or wherever) today. I don’t compare Hank Williams et al to Morgan Wallen. First of all, music today has a thousand authors. I’m not guessing about this. With rare exception 5 to 10 people are credited as the songwriters of nearly every song out of Nashville today. Inspiration has been replaced with machine logic-like rote button pushing. Even the lyrics grab at the bottom for emotional flotsam. Yes, the Beatles loved country music. From Elvis to Buck Owens and everything in between. They and the others you named simply loved good music. Even Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) named Frank Sinatra as his template for phrasing the hardest of hard rock songs. True.
**And I have never heard of him.**
That makes at least two of us. But then, outside of the church house, I probably don’t listen to 5 minutes of music a week.
(I may hum a tune some during the day)
“We got both kinds - country and western!”
Don’t bet on it biggest money being made in music is on the older catalogues.
which is why the old stars have sold theirs for billions lately
Music is too fragmented.. just like TV
Most watched show in America today would likely have faced cancellation for the numbers they get today compared to 30 or 40 years ago
Hell there is a national broadcast “ network “ today that doesn’t T even manage 600k viewers total all day long..
How ‘Bout Ray Wiley Hubbard
Wallen is making “Progressive” heads explode. Used th *N* word and they tried to cancel him.
Ah! Success is the best revenge!
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