![]() It continues to break its own record each week, now at 104 weeks in counting. “There are 36 songs on this album because we just kept exploring with fresh lyrics, music and production ideas and these are the songs that felt right to me.”īillboard has noted that “Dangerous: The Double Album,” released in January 2021, set a record for the most months spent in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. ![]() “This record represents the last few years of my life, the highs and the lows,” Wallen further said in his statement. Wallen is getting a head start on drawing fans to the new project with the release tonight of three songs from the forthcoming project, “Last Night,” “Everything I Love” and “I Wrote the Book.” 1 for weeks, the sheer volume of the album may stand him a better chance at breaking further streaming records upon release. With the waning factor of CDs no longer imposing limitations on album length, Wallen has effectly said “Hold my beer” to Bryan by upping his next album’s total to 36.Īlthough Wallen hardly needs a hefty track list to likely debut and hold at No. ![]() But in country, where albums have typically still stayed in the 10-to-15-track range, Zach Bryan upped the ante with his 2022 breakthrough album “American Heartbreak,” which outdid the “Dangerous” count of 30 by including 34 songs. Usually it’s been hip-hop artists going high into the double-digits with their song counts, either because of skits or other interstitial material or because (conventional wisdom has it) they’re out to run up their stream counts. The release is not being subtitled “The Triple Album,” although it effectively counts as one, with its 36 tracks representing a boost over even the 30 that appeared on “Dangerous,” which counted as highly unusual for the country market at the time. Joey Moi returns as producer for the full set. Other notable Nashville names represented in the dozens of writing credits include Miranda Lambert, Ashley Gorley, Nicolle Galyon, Jessi Alexander, Travis Denning and Ryan Hurd. The new set is not overloaded with features, with only three of the tracks giving a fellow artist co-billing - “Man Made a Bar,” which features Eric Church, “In the Bible,” which spotlights frequent collaborator and hitmaker Hardy, and “Cowgirls,” which has a guest turn from another oft-used co-writer, Ernest. (Wallen has not previously shown much proclivity for anything that would count as alternative music, so whatever that amounts to with “One Thing” could count as a surprise.) 1 single on the R&B/hip-hop chart with “Broadway Girls,” his December 2021 collaboration with Lil Durk, and made headlines around that same time when he went on Black comedian Druski’s show and discussed his dream of collaborating with Kendrick Lamar. Wallen said in an announcement statement that the new collection “brings together the musical influences that have shaped me as an artist - country, alternative and hip-hop.” If that last genre seems at all surprising as an aspirational one, some will recall that the singer already had a No. The country superstar is following up 2021’s still-bestselling “Dangerous: The Double Album” with “One Thing at a Time” - a misnomer title if ever there was one, since he’ll be dropping 36 songs on fans on March 3 (counting a handful that have already been released as singles or teaser tracks). Morgan Wallen is set to return with his first full-length album since his previous release broke some all-time chart records… and first since he became arguably current music’s most polarizing figure as well as one of the biggest.
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