Once again in America, racist behavior has no conqueences. In fact, in Morgan Wallen’s case racism appears to have been very good for album sales.
Country music’s nearly industry-wide ban of Morgan Wallen has proven totally ineffective as his “Dangerous: The Double Album” tops the Billboard 200 chart for the 10th consecutive week.
After Wallen was caught yelling racial epitaphs on a security cam, Spotify, Apple Music, virtually every broadcast radio chain and other media outlets were quick to drop his music.
But now, Dangerous is the first album to spend its first 10 weeks at No.1 since Whitney Houston’s Whitney in 1987.
Billboard says that the only other album that spent its first 10 weeks at No.1 was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life in 1976 -1977.
Despite the supposed “industry-wide ban”, Morgan Wallen is also the best-selling artist of 2021 with both the most Spotify streams and the biggest album sales.
