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6 January 2021
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30 tracks
Dangerous: The Double Album is the second studio album by country music singer Morgan Wallen. The album also received positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.
The double album was released on January 8, 2021 via Big Loud Records and Republic Records on CD, vinyl, and digital download. The production on the album was handled by Joey Moi, Jacob Durrett, Charlie Handsome, Matt Dragstrem and Dave Cohen. It also features guest appearances by Chris Stapleton and Ben Burgess.
Dangerous was preceded by the release of two singles: "More Than My Hometown", and "7 Summers"; and six promotional singles: "Cover Me Up", "This Bar", "Heartless" (Wallen Album Mix)", "Somebody's Problem", "Still Goin' Down", and "Livin' the Dream".
Wallen stated: "The 'double album' idea started off as just a joke between me and my manager because we had accumulated so many songs over the past couple of years. Then quarantine hit, and we realized it might actually be possible to have enough time to make it happen. I also ended up writing quite a few more songs during the quarantine with some of my good buddies. I also wanted the songs to speak to multiple phases of life and have multiple different sounds based on my influences and based on what I enjoy."
Shortly before the release of the album, several CDs were erroneously put up for sale at certain Walmart locations in the United States. This prompted several consumers to leak clips of unreleased songs, to which Wallen responded by saying "If anyone’s gonna leak my music, it should be me" and releasing "leaks" of unreleased songs himself. He also urged his fans to buy the physical release at Target instead, adding: "I don’t shop at Walmart anyway. I also gave Target two extra songs, so if you’re going to buy my album physically, go to Target, baby".
Walmart responded to the issue with this statement provided to the Rolling Stone: "We are deeply apologetic to Morgan for this unfortunate situation. We appreciate Morgan as an artist and understand his frustration and disappointment. We have protocols in place to help ensure new albums are not sold before the release date, yet in this instance his album made its way to the shelf in a handful of stores early. We're actively removing any albums remaining on the shelves in those stores to hold until the official release date, and taking additional precautionary measures for the future."
Dangerous: The Double Album debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units (including 74,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week, according to MRC Data. This became Wallen's first US #1 debut and his second on the latter. The album also accumulated a total of 240.18 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, becoming the largest streaming week ever for a country album. This more than doubles the record set by Luke Combs's What You See Is What You Get. In its second week, the album remained at #1 on the chart, earning an additional 159,000 units making it the first country album to spend two weeks at #1 since Chris Stapleton's Traveller in 2015 and the first country set to spend its first two weeks at #1 since Luke Bryan's Kill the Lights that year. In its third week, the album remained at #1 on the chart, earning 130,000 more units. In its fourth week, the album remained at #1 on the chart, earning 149,000 units. It received a 14 percent increase from the previous week, despite the nationwide removal of Wallen's music throughout radio stations in the United States following his use of a racial slur outside of his Nashville home on February 2, 2021. It concurrently became the first country album to spend its first four weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart since Shania Twain's Up! did so in January 2003. In addition, it later extended its run with a fifth and sixth week at the top, marking the longest run atop the charts for a country album since The Chase in 1992. The album eventually spent a total of ten weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 and ended up becoming the best selling album for the first half of 2021. As of September 2021, the album has earned 2,539,000 album-equivalent units and has sold 267,000 copies in the United States.
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