Morgan Wallen dropped by booking agent

Wallen continues to lose backing

Morgan Wallen is still feeling the fall out for using a racial slur that was captured on video. His booking agent, WME, which secures public appearances and tour dates for the singer, has dropped the singer, according to Billboard who sourced an unnamed person familiar with the matter. WME has not commented on the matter.

Big Loud Records and Republic Records suspended Wallen’s record contract indefinitely on Wednesday (Feb 3rd), following video footage of using the “N” word and other profanities as he arrived home Sunday night (Jan 31st) after partying with friends.

Following the video, major radio chains, including iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media, have pulled his music from their rotations. CMT has also followed. The Country Music Association has removed any of his content from their platforms and the Academy of Country Music had deemed him ineligible for any upcoming awards shows.

The fallout comes as Morgan was set to capture the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 Album chart for the fourth consecutive week with his record-shattering Dangerous: The Double Album.

Breaking global debut records for most first-week streams and on-demand Alexa requests of any country album on Amazon Music, Wallen also had the No. 1 most added artist station across all genres on Pandora, among the top 10 highest streamed artists of the week, upon its early January 2021 release. Wallen demolished first day streaming records, becoming Spotify’s biggest all-time first day stream record for a country album and setting the record for the biggest first day and biggest first week for a country album of all-time at Apple Music in just two days.

Buddy Iahn
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