Morgan Wallen Notches Fifth Country Airplay No. 1 From ‘I’m the Problem’ With ‘I Got Better’

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Plus, Lainey Wilson's "Somewhere Over Laredo" hits the apical 10.

Morgan Wallen delivers his 19th vocation No. 1 connected Billboard’s Country Airplay illustration arsenic “I Got Better” rises 2 spots to apical the Oct. 25-dated survey, up 13% to 32.7 cardinal assemblage impressions Oct. 10-16, according to Luminate.

The Joey Moi-produced azygous — with 7 cowriters including Wallen, Ernest, HARDY and Blake Pendergrass — becomes the 5th No. 1 from Wallen’s medium I’m the Problem, released successful May. One much chart-topper from the acceptable and he’d lucifer the six from his 2023 LP, One Thing astatine a Time, which remains tied for the one-album record (discounting deluxe editions) with Luke Bryan’s 2015 Kill the Lights.

Boosting the illustration of “I Got Better,” its official video premiered Oct. 1.

I’m the Problem has led Billboard’s Top Country Albums illustration for its archetypal 21 weeks, followed astatine Nos. 2 and 3, respectively, connected the Oct. 18-dated ranking by One Thing astatine a Time and Wallen’s 2021 release, Dangerous: The Double Album. Together, the 3 projects signifier 1 of the astir formidable runs successful modern state euphony history, combining for 205 weeks astatine No. 1 (with a grounds 97 frames astatine the acme belonging to Dangerous).

Before topping Country Airplay, “I Got Better” completed a full-format sweep, hitting No. 1 connected the Oct. 18 Hot Country Songs illustration acknowledgment to 13.2 cardinal authoritative U.S. streams, 31 cardinal successful vigor assemblage and 1,000 sold. The triumph gave I’m the Problem 4 leaders connected the list, equaling the output of One Thing astatine a Time.

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Lainey Wilson breaks into the Country Airplay apical 10 (12-10) with “Somewhere Over Laredo” rising 9% to 16 cardinal successful audience. The song, which interpolates “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the iconic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, is her ninth apical 10. It’s from the September deluxe variation of her 2024 album, Whirlwind.