{"id":29592,"date":"2025-05-26T08:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-album-debuts-at-number-one\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T08:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:59:29","slug":"morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-album-debuts-at-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/morgan-wallens-im-the-problem-album-debuts-at-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Wallen&#8217;s &#8216;I&#8217;m the Problem&#8217; Album Debuts at Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The country star\u2019s new LP earns the biggest chart numbers of the year<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/morgan-wallen\/\" id=\"auto-tag_morgan-wallen\" data-tag=\"morgan-wallen\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-review-1235341551\/\">I\u2019m the Problem<\/a> <\/em>bows at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. The country star\u2019s latest LP is also the year\u2019s biggest album debut to date, with 493,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the week ending May 22, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/morgan-wallen-im-the-problem-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235980643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billboard reports<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em> is Wallen\u2019s third Number One-debuting album, following 2023\u2019s <em>One Thing at a Time<\/em> and 2021\u2019s <em>Dangerous: The Double Album<\/em>. Both of those albums appear in the Top 20, with <em>One Thing at a Time<\/em> at Number Four and <em>Dangerous<\/em> slipping a spot to Number 12 in this week\u2019s chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOf <em>I\u2019m the Problem<\/em>\u2019s 493,000 album units earned for this week\u2019s albums chart, 357,000 are from album streams \u2014 the equivalent of 462.63 million on-demand official streams of the LP\u2019s 37 tracks, according to Luminate. It\u2019s the largest streaming week for any album in 2025 to date. With <em>I\u2019m the Problem <\/em>selling 133,000 copies in its first week, it also marks Wallen\u2019s biggest sales week ever, and the biggest sales week for any country album thus far in 2025. The last country album to have a bigger sales week was Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <em>Cowboy Carter<\/em>, which debuted with 168,000 copies sold the week it debuted in April 2024.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEight of the album\u2019s singles that preceded the LP\u2019s release made the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Six of the tracks became Top 10s, with \u201cLove Somebody\u201d bowing at Number One in November and the title track debuting at Number Two in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tElsewhere on the albums chart, SZA\u2019s chart-topping <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-sza-sos-review-1234642441\/\">SOS<\/a> <\/em>moves up a spot to Number Two, with 47,000 units earned. BTS member Jin\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/jin-echo-review-1235340976\/\">Echo<\/a><\/em> bows at Number Three, earning 43,000 units. Rounding out the Top Five is Wallen\u2019s aforementioned <em>One Thing at a Time<\/em>, which holds steady at Number Four and earned 42,000 units; and Kendrick Lamar\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/kendrick-lamar-gnx-review-1235179205\/\">GNX<\/a> <\/em>leaps from Number Seven to Number Five with 41,000 units earned.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country star\u2019s new LP earns the biggest chart numbers of the year Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m the Problem bows at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart. The country star\u2019s latest LP is also the year\u2019s biggest album debut to date, with 493,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the week ending May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshsites.download\/celenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}