After being banned from the airwaves by major radio chains for the better part of four months, Morgan Wallen has quietly slipped back onto the air at most country stations in the last two weeks, ev…
’s 160 reporting country stations reported playing a Wallen song at least once, while noting that some of those spins may have been on a syndicated show and not been indicative of a local programming decision.
The country superstar — who has the year’s biggest album in any genre with “Dangerous: The Double Album” — had disappeared from the nation’s airwaves almost entirely and instantaneously after TMZ aired video of him using the N-word in a drunken exchange among friends. But at radio, says one exec — who, like everyone contacted for this story, would not speak for attribution — “with reasonable signals coming from his world that he’s dealing with his challenges, it just felt like our point was made.”
When Big Loud will feel free to actively promote a new Wallen single at country radio remains an open question, with few expecting that to happen right away. Right now, all his radio play is for “recurrent” singles. By that measure, he’s doing well: Country Insider points out that his 2020 No. 1 single “Chasin’ You” was “the only recurrent among Mediabase’s Top 10 greatest spin gainers” last week, with 982 plays nationally.
That those records were being set even as Wallen was mired in scandal suggests that most fans were eager to brush his trangressions under the carpet, even as he issued a statement urging his followers not to defend him.
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