What is the magic formula of Morgan Wallen? Was it always going to be this big? Did he just take a short detour into hell?

Could any person depending on the good will of the public get where Morgan Wallen is after that “incident,” and after a short time be magically raised up by his fans forcing the business to revisit him?

It wasn’t the industry, it was clearly his fans/supporters. By the thousands they bought his music, and kept his album, “Dangerous,” at #1. At some point he could not be ignored. Now, there’s a long awaited new album, “One Thing At A Time,” and you just knew it would be huge.

The facts: Billboard #1 Top 200 all genre, Billboard #1 Hot 100, five of his songs in the Hot 100 top 10. Also #1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and #1 on Billboard Country Songs. And there’s the streaming charts, too! A handful of acts -- one handful -- have ever done what Wallen did this week.

A Garth Brooks-like/Taylor Swift-like event happened on Friday, March 3rd, as more than 19,000 fans of Morgan Wallen broke Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena attendance record. They had to stand in a line, in the rain at times, at The Bridgestone box office to get ...

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When an artist puts out a new creation, it’s an exciting thing. Morgan Wallen put out three new songs, gave the album title and listed the more than 30 tracks for his next project, due in March. The three songs were put on YouTube, a lyric video and it’s off ...

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