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MUSIC PEOPLE
NEWS
APRIL 2021 Volume 52 Number 4 Issue 614
Editor Duncan Warwick
Contributors David Allan , Janet Aspley , Donnie Ayers , Craig Baguley , Tony Byworth , Larry Delaney , Don Cusic , Julie Flaskett , Michael Hingston , Stan Hitchcock , Tony Ives , Spencer Leigh , John Lomax III , Adrian Peel , Paul Riley , Alex Rossi , Chris Smith , Tom Travis , Walt Trott , Jack Watkins New release consultant : Steve Tidbury
Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory
Photographers Patricia Presley , Barry Dixon , Billie McAleer
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MORGAN WALLEN STILL # 1
Morgan Wallen ’ s Dangerous : The Double Album continued to top the Billboard 200 album chart ( all genres ) as CMP went to press , notching up ten straight weeks in the top spot and making it the first album to spend its first 10 weeks at # 1 since 1987 .
It is also one of only four country albums ( defined as those that have charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart ) since the chart began to be published weekly in 1956 , the others being Garth Brooks ’ Ropin ’ The Wind , Billy Ray Cyrus ’ Some Gave All , and Taylor Swift ’ s Fearless . Wallen ’ s release is also the first album to spend its first ten weeks at # 1 on the Billboard 200 since Whitney Houston ’ s Whitney in 1987 .
As the initial outcry at Wallen ’ s use of a racial slur quietens , his continuing popularity has seen some radio stations from which he was previously dropped start to give in to pressure from listeners and fans and begin to play his music again . Here in the UK , Wallen has had a spin Chris Country although the artist ’ s name wasn ’ t announced .
One of the first stations to reinstate Morgan Wallen ’ s records was WMYL- FM in his hometown of Knoxville . Industry tip sheet Radio Ink reported that WMYL put Wallen back on after a survey of listeners conducted on the station ’ s Facebook page found that 92 % of those responding wanted to hear the singer again immediately . WMYL said it had more than 35,000 respondents to the poll .
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