Subsequent yr’s Grammys will probably be yet one more ceremony the place a blockbuster Morgan Wallen album won’t take residence any awards.
The nation music megastar declined to submit his bestselling “I’m the Drawback” for Grammy consideration, in line with Hits Day by day Double and Billboard, who first reported the information. The LP, that includes singles like “Love Any person” and “What I Need,” debuted in Might at No. 1 and has spent 11 weeks and counting atop the Billboard 200 album charts.
Wallen didn’t give a cause for declining to submit the LP. Regardless of being the largest up to date star in a commercially ascendant style, Wallen has at all times had a contentious relationship with Grammy voters.
A month after the 2021 launch of his second studio album, the huge hit “Harmful: The Double Album,” Wallen was filmed utilizing a racial slur and was briefly shunned by the music business. He later pleaded responsible to a misdemeanor in 2024 after throwing a chair off a rooftop bar in Nashville.
“I’ve touched base with Nashville regulation enforcement, my household, and the great individuals at Chief’s. I’m not happy with my habits, and I settle for duty,” he wrote on social media on the time. He extra not too long ago turned heads for a testy exit from the stage at a “Saturday Night time Stay” taping.
Whereas he shortly returned to promoting out stadiums and dominating pop and nation charts, his information by no means regained traction with Recording Academy voters, at the same time as nation music redoubled its important and standard acclaim lately. Wallen’s solely earlier nominations got here from his duet with Publish Malone, “I Had Some Assist.”
