Morgan Wallen's ‘I'm the Problem' & ‘What I Want' With Tate McRae Launch Atop Billboard's Country Charts
In its first week (May 16-22), I'm the Problem earned 493,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate — the biggest week by that metric of 2025.
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I'm the Problem (on Big Loud/Mercury/Republic) sold 133,000, marking Wallen's best career sales week, inclusive of a personal-best vinyl sales frame of 48,000. The set's sales were helped by its availability on vinyl across five variants. (One Thing at a Time wasn't released on vinyl until its fourth week on sale.)
On the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart, Wallen boasts 37 tracks — the entirety of I'm the Problem — as he breaks his own record for the largest one-week share of the survey, surpassing the 35 that he logged on the March 18, 2023, chart when One Thing at a Time debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200.
'What I Want,' featuring pop star Tate McRae, Wallen's first collaboration with a female artist, rockets in atop Hot Country Songs, marking his 11th chart-topper and record-extending eighth No. 1 arrival.
As for the 21-year-old McRae from Calgary, Alberta, she scores her first Hot Country Songs No. 1 with her rookie entry in the genre. 'What I Want' launches with 31.2 million official U.S. streams, 3.9 million airplay audience impressions and 2,000 sold. As previously reported, the collaboration roars in at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
With five debuts in the Hot County Songs top 10, I'm the Problem has generated 13 top 10s (including three leaders), the most top 10s ever from a single album. Wallen infuses the entire top 10 on the May 31 chart, also a first, besting the nine that he logged on March 18, 2023.
Below 'What I Want' (which is being promoted to pop and adult radio), 'Just in Case,' Wallen's current single at country radio, hops 3-2 on Hot Country Songs, rebounding to its best rank. The rest of his top 10 monopoly: 'I'm the Problem' (2-3, following a week at No. 1 in February); 'I Got Better' (No. 4, debut); 'Superman' (No. 5, where it flew in a week earlier); 'Love Somebody' (6-6, after a week at No. 1 last November); 'I Ain't Coming Back,' featuring Post Malone (8-7, after hitting No. 3); '20 Cigarettes' (No. 8, debut); 'Kick Myself' (No. 9, debut); and 'Eyes Are Closed' (No. 10, debut).
Wallen ups his career top 10 total on Hot Country Songs to 40. Dating to his first week in the tier, on the chart dated May 12, 2018, with 'Up Down' (featuring Florida Georgia Line), his 40 top 10s are almost twice the amount of runner-up Luke Combs (21 in that span).
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