Getting back to the latest installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ we arrive at this week’s #7, where Morgan Wallen sits with the title track of his upcoming fourth album, I’m the Problem.
This is the fourth single from the album, which comes out this Friday. All four have reached the top ten, with one hitting #1 and one (this one) hitting #2. Suffice it to say, this album is going to be big.
Closing out this installment of ‘What the Kids are Listening To,’ I have to jump over Billie Eilish at #13 (her great ‘Birds of a Feather‘ has already been featured on the blog) and land on yet another Morgan Wallen track — his third of the past two weeks.
‘Cowgirls’ is the eighth single from Wallen’s blockbuster 2023 album One Thing at a Time. All eight made it to the Top 20, and four made it to the Top 10. This one peaked at #12.
At #12 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 we have the second appearance of Morgan Wallen. His ‘Lies Lies Lies’ peaked at #7 before falling out of the Top Ten. It says a lot about the recent surge in country music on this chart that this song’s performance could be viewed as a bit of a disappointment.
‘Lies Lies Lies’ is the first single from an upcoming Wallen album. It’s a traditional booze-soaked heartbreak song dressed up in the modern production that has made Wallen a major crossover success.
In the #2 slot of this week’s Billboard Hot 100 is ‘I Had Some Help,’ a duet by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen. This song spent six weeks at #1 before being dethroned by Shaboozey, making it the year’s longest-running chart-topper so far.
Country music is really hitting its stride on the charts when one country song replaces another. The influx of more contemporary artists and sounds into the genre has been a recipe for crossover success.
It’s Morgan Wallen again at #22 on the year-end Billboard chart. I guess that’s to be expected for a guy who put 36 tracks on the Hot 100 with one album release.
His fourth track on the list (so far) is ‘Thought You Should Know,’ a tribute to his mother written with Miranda Lambert and Nicolle Galyon. It’s a little galling to me that Lambert can make it to #7 on the Hot 100 as a co-writer of this song but has barely sniffed the Top 20 with her own brilliant work.
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