Twice as Nice: This Morgan Wallen Hit Is Now His Second 20-Week No. 1 on Hot Country Songs Chart

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He is the archetypal soloist with 2 20-week-plus leaders connected the tally, pursuing 2023's "Last Night."

Morgan Wallen adds different grounds to his already historical tally connected Billboard’s state charts. His collaboration with featured creator Tate McRae, “What I Want,” becomes conscionable the 10th rubric successful the past of the Hot Country Songs illustration (which dates to 1958 arsenic the genre’s singular songs survey) to walk astatine slightest 20 weeks astatine No. 1.

The feat connected the Oct. 11-dated survey makes Wallen the archetypal solo enactment with aggregate 20-week leaders, pursuing 2023’s “Last Night,” which topped the tally for 25 weeks. Only Florida Georgia Line antecedently met that people twice, with “Cruise” and “Meant to Be,” the second with Bebe Rexha.

Most Weeks astatine No. 1 connected Hot Country Songs:

50, “Meant to Be,” Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line, opening Dec. 16, 2017
45, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey, May 4, 2024
34, “Body Like a Back Road,” Sam Hunt, Feb. 25, 2018
27, “I Hope,” Gabby Barrett, July 25, 2020
25, “Last Night,” Morgan Wallen, Feb. 18, 2023
24, “Fancy Like,” Walker Hayes, July 24, 2021
24, “Cruise,” Florida Georgia Line, Dec. 22, 2012
21, “10,000 Hours,” Dan + Shay & Justin Bieber, Oct. 19, 2019
20, “What I Want,” Morgan Wallen feat. Tate McRae, May 31, 2025
20, “I Remember Everything,” Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves, Sept. 9, 2023

“What I Want” is from Wallen’s 37-song LP I’m the Problem, which debuted astatine No. 1 connected Top Country Albums successful May and has remained determination for 20 consecutive weeks. His earlier collections One Thing astatine a Time (2023) and Dangerous: The Double Album (2021) spent a combined 184 weeks astatine No. 1 and stay successful the apical five, astatine Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. The second acceptable dominated for a grounds 97 weeks.

Notably, “What I Want” has been promoted to popular radio, having reached No. 5 connected Adult Pop Airplay and No. 6 connected Pop Airplay. I’m the Problem, connected Mercury/Big Loud/Republic, has spun disconnected 4 No. 1s connected the Country Airplay chart, with latest azygous “I Got Better” aiming to marque it five, arsenic it rises to No. 3 connected the latest ranking.