{"id":1166801,"date":"2021-12-28T20:34:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166801"},"modified":"2021-12-28T20:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T01:34:57","slug":"country-star-morgan-wallen-has-best-selling-album-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/country-star-morgan-wallen-has-best-selling-album-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Star Morgan Wallen Has Best-Selling Album of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcountry-star-morgan-wallen-has-best-selling-album-of-2021%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/morganwallen6-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Despite having been nearly completely&nbsp;blacklisted from the country music scene over his use of a racial slur, Morgan Wallen had the best-selling album of 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showbiz411.com\/2021\/12\/27\/album-sales-2021-morgan-wallen-was-number-1-adele-down-82-from-2015-fleetwood-mac-41-year-old-smash-hit\">outperforming<\/a> the likes of Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, and Drake.<\/p>\n<p>Wallen was pulled from various platforms in February after a video showed him using the N-word to refer to a white person during a drunken night out with friends. After Cumulus Media pulled the singer\u2019s music, the company demanded that its 400-plus stations remove Wallen from their playlists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>SiriusXM, Pandora, CMT, iHeartRadio, and many others followed Cumulus Media to blacklist Wallen\u2019s music. The singer was also disqualified from playing at the Country Music Awards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CW7BJhRrQSL\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m embarrassed and sorry,\u201d Wallen said. \u201cI used an unacceptable and inappropriate racial slur that I wish I could take back. There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever. I want to sincerely apologize for using the word. I promise to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the de-platforming of his career, Wallen\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/08\/entertainment\/morgan-wallen-record-sales\/index.html\">music sales continued to soar<\/a>&nbsp;with his latest album, \u201cDangerous: The Double Album,\u201d spending&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/9543993\/morgan-wallen-dangerous-tops-billboard-200-10-weeks\/\">10 weeks<\/a>&nbsp;at the top of the Billboard 200 chart. According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/12\/28\/morgan-wallen-has-best-selling-album-despite-n-word-rant\/\">New York Post<\/a>,<\/em> Morgan Wallen\u2019s sales trend continued throughout 2021 to earn him the top spot of best-selling album.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wallen\u2019s latest anthology, \u201cDangerous: The Double Album,\u201d sold over 3 million copies. It eclipsed Rodrigo\u2019s highly acclaimed \u201cSour\u201d EP, which did 2.6 million in sales, and Drake\u2019s commendable \u201cCertified Lover Boy\u201d compilation, which moved 1.8 million units, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/hitsdailydouble.com\/news&amp;id=329710&amp;title=THE-BIGGEST-ALBUMS-OF-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">music analytics provider<\/a>&nbsp;MRC Data.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSand in My Boots\u201d strummer\u2019s guitar-centric grooves even bested Adele\u2019s critically esteemed \u201c30\u201d album, which raked in a shocking 1.4 million in sales.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/11\/16\/country-star-morgan-wallen-announces-8-month-comeback-tour\/\">Wallen announced <\/a>he would be embarking on an eight-month comeback tour in 46 cities around the country. The tour will begin on February 3, 2022,&nbsp;in Evansville, Indiana, and conclude on September 24 at&nbsp;L.A.\u2019s Staples Center.<\/p>\n<p>In April, after two months of silence, the musician thanked his fans for all their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have felt a lot of love lately from so many people I haven\u2019t gotten to know yet,\u201d Wallen said in the note. \u201cI know my corner hasn\u2019t been the most popular one to stand in recently, but many of you did anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3vRJHQVfxf\">pic.twitter.com\/3vRJHQVfxf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 morgan wallen (@MorganWallen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorganWallen\/status\/1382091857874845696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having been nearly completely\u00a0blacklisted from the country music scene over his use of a racial slur, Morgan Wallen had the best-selling album of 2021, outperforming the likes of Adele, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}