Wallen’s fans have clearly been devoted to him, even as his mullet-framed face has become a dart board target for criticism of the music industry’s troubled history with race, particularly in the country genre. Since it came out, “Dangerous” - which contains 30 songs, with three more on a “bonus” version - has had the equivalent of just over one million sales in the United States, including 1.1 billion streams. Last week, “Dangerous” had the equivalent of 89,000 sales in the United States, including 111 million streams and 7,000 copies sold as a complete package, according to MRC Data, Billboard’s tracking arm. 1 over all, but not in their first seven weeks out.) (Other big country albums, like Garth Brooks’s “Ropin’ the Wind,” from 1991, and Billy Ray Cyrus’s “Some Gave All,” from 1992, have racked up more weeks at No. 1 in the 64-year history of the Billboard 200, the magazine’s flagship album chart. “Dangerous” is also the only country LP to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1, the longest consecutive run at the top by any album since Drake’s “Views” five years ago. “Dangerous” has now logged seven weeks at No.
But Wallen made another apology video, and fans continued to stream his music. He was quickly rebuked by the industry, with his songs removed from radio and streaming playlists and his record company saying that it had “suspended” his contract. 1 on Billboard’s album chart and has held strong ever since - even after a video emerged in early February showing him using a racial slur. He made an apology video and was welcomed back to “S.N.L.” in December. Journalists portrayed him as a charming newcomer with a bit of a bad-boy streak: In October he was booked to perform on “Saturday Night Live” but that invitation was revoked after images circulated on social media showing him cavorting maskless in an Alabama bar. A former contestant on “The Voice,” Wallen has an aw-shucks appeal and a musical approach that is based in traditional country songwriting but, like much of contemporary Nashville, also borrows from pop and hip-hop production techniques, like the use of electronic drum loops. 8, and it became an instant streaming hit. “Dangerous,” Wallen’s second album, was released on Jan. 1, back in 1993, Billboard reported.Is Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” the most popular country LP in decades, or just the beneficiary of weak competition? The reign of “SOS” also marks the longest run atop the album chart for an R&B release since Usher’s “Confessions” in 2004 Janet Jackson’s “Janet.” was the last R&B album by a woman to spend its first six weeks at No. (The country singer Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” scored 10 straight weeks at No. 1 in the last decade-plus are Adele and Taylor Swift, placing SZA, 33, in elite company. But, according to Billboard, the only female artists to achieve at least six consecutive weeks at No. The last album to achieve at least six straight weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart was the soundtrack to Disney’s “Encanto,” which notched eight in early 2022.
Those numbers put the album just shy of one million in equivalent sales, which combine purchases and streams, in its first six weeks of release.
Holding nearly steady in listener activity for the last three weeks - down only four percent week over week - “SOS” had the equivalent of 119,000 sales in the United States, including 160 million streams for its songs, according to the tracking service Luminate. For the sixth consecutive week, “SOS,” the second album by the frank-talking R&B singer-songwriter SZA, tops the Billboard album chart, matching the streak of Adele’s latest release, “30,” in late 2021 and early 2022.
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