Morgan Cole Wallen is an American country music singer from Sneedville, Tennessee. He competed in the sixth season of The Voice. After being eliminated in the playoffs of the sixth season, he signed to Panacea Records, releasing his debut extended play: Stand Alone (2015). Later in 2016, Wallen signed to Big Loud and later released his debut studio album: If I Know Me (2018). The album included four singles: "The Way I Talk", "Up Down" (featuring Florida Georgia Line), "Whiskey Glasses", and "Chasin' You". If I Know Me would reach the top-position on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart after a record-breaking 114 weeks.
Wallen's second studio album: Dangerous: The Double Album (2021) was an immediate commercial success, spending its first seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart. The album spent the three following weeks at number one, thus spending its first ten weeks atop the chart. Dangerous: The Double Album included four singles: "More Than My Hometown", "7 Summers", "Sand in My Boots", and "Wasted on You", as well as various promotional singles. Wallen's third studio album: One Thing at a Time (2023), spent its first 12 weeks atop the Billboard 200, and topped the Billboard 200 for seven more non-consecutive weeks throughout 2023 and 2024, thus spending 19 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart. All 36 tracks from the album charted on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, breaking the record set by Drake (27), Wallen additionally charted five tracks in the top-ten of the chart. The album spawned eight singles: "You Proof", "Thought You Should Know", "Last Night", the title track, "Everything I Love", "Thinkin' Bout Me", "Man Made a Bar" (featuring Eric Church), and "Cowgirls" (featuring Ernest). The single "Last Night" peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, marking Wallen's first number-one single on the respective chart, spent sixteen non-consecutive weeks atop the chart throughout 2023, and topped the 2023 year-end chart.
Wallen has received several accolades, including an Academy of Country Music Award, fourteen Billboard Music Awards, and won Entertainer of the Year at the 58th Annual Country Music Association Awards. Aside from his various accolades, Wallen holds multiple Billboard chart records, Wallen is the only artist to have two albums spend at-least 100 weeks in the top-ten of the Billboard 200, the only artist to have two (or even one) albums spend at-least 10 first-weeks atop the Billboard 200, the artist with the most weeks at number-one on the Top Country Albums chart (176), and his single "You Proof" is the longest-running Billboard Country Airplay number-one of all time, with ten non-consecutive weeks atop the chart.
