Another Day, Another Record: Morgan Wallen Surpasses Jelly Roll, Accomplishes Something No Other Artist Has This Year

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In 2014, a then-unknown Morgan Wallen turned two big red chairs on season 6 of The Voice. Although the Sneedville, Tennessee native didn’t make it past the Playoff rounds, bigger things were in store. Four years later, Wallen released his debut record, If I Know Me, which spent a record-breaking 114 weeks climbing the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Earlier this month, the CMA’s reigning Entertainer of the Year, 32, dropped his fourth studio album, I’m the Problem. And a decade into his country music career, the “Whiskey Glasses” crooner is still breaking records.

Morgan Wallen Reaches This Milestone for the Third Time

For the seventh week in a row, “I’m the Problem”—the title track off Morgan Wallen’s latest album—tops Billboard’s Country Airplay chart. This is officially the year’s longest-running No. 1 song so far, eclipsing Jelly Roll’s “Liar.”

Additionally, “I’m the Problem” ties Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” for the longest reign since Nate Smith’s “World on Fire” spent 10 weeks at the top starting in December 2023. Coincidentally, “World on Fire” tied another Wallen hit, “You Proof,” for the most time at No. 1 since the chart began in January 1990.

The title track gives Wallen his third chart-topper to spend seven weeks or more at No. 1, following 2022’s “You Proof” and 2023’s “Last Night.”

Wallen first teased “I’m the Problem,” then titled “I Guess,” on social media in January 2024. The album hit the airwaves on May 16.

Joining Taylor Swift

Regardless of your personal preferences, Morgan Wallen and Taylor Swift simply are the music industry. These artists are doing things no one else has ever done—except each other.

This week, Wallen occupied 37 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. (For those counting, that’s every single track on his latest album, I’m the Problem.) Impressively, he tops his own record of 36 slots on the Hot 100, when every single track from his third album, One Thing at a Time, also charted.

Moreover, the “Cowgirls” singer joins Swift as the only two artists to ever claim 30 Hot 100 spots in the chart’s history. The “Anti-Hero” singer, 35, accomplished this feat just one year ago, when 32 songs from her album The Tortured Poets Department landed on the chart.

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