Country Billboard Chart News – May 31, 2025: Morgan Wallen Dominates

Country Billboard Chart News May 31, 2025

Morgan Wallen’s ‘Problem’ Overwhelms The Country Charts and tops the Billboard 200 & Billboard Hot 100

In Brief: Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 31, 2025) Starts Sun May 25, Ends Sat May 31, 2025

Billboard Country Charts (Chart issue week of May 31, 2025)

Country Album Chart ** No.1 (1 week) ** I’M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen

Hot Country Songs ** No.1 (1 week) ** “What I Want” Morgan Wallen Featuring Tate McRae

Country Airplay Chart ** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “I'm The Problem” Morgan Wallen

Country Digital Songs ** No.1 ** (2 weeks non-consecutive) “Hard Fought Hallelujah” Brandon Lake x Jelly Roll

Billboard 200 News

Morgan Wallen’s latest studio effort, I’m the Problem, debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 31) with the year’s biggest week for any album — 493,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 22, according to Luminate. It also easily lands the largest streaming week for any album in 2025.

Of I’m the Problem’s 493,000 first-week equivalent album units, streaming equivalent albums (SEA) units comprised 357,000 (equaling 462.63 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 37 tracks; it debuts at No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums), album sales comprised 133,000 (it debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales) and track equivalent albums (TEA) units comprised 3,000.

I’m the Problem captured 2025’s biggest week by equivalent album units earned. The last bigger week was the opening frame of Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department over a year ago. It bowed at No. 1 with 2.61 million units on the May 4, 2024-dated chart.

It’s the third No.1 for Wallen on the Billboard 200, following 2023’s ONE THING AT A TIME (19 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1) and 2021’s DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM (10 weeks at No. 1, all consecutive). The latter two titles both debuted at No. 1 and have never left the weekly top 50 of the chart. On the latest chart, ONE THING AT A TIME is a non-mover at No. 4 (42,000 equivalent album units; down 13%; making Wallen the only act with two concurrent albums in the weekly top five in 2025), while Dangerous shifts 11-12.

I’m the Problem was officially announced in mid-March and was preceded by eight charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100 over the past 10 months, all of which reached the top 20 of the ranking, including six top 10s (the most top 10s ever from an album prior to its release). Among them were the No. 1 “Love Somebody,” which debuted atop the list last November, and the album’s title track (No. 2 in February).

Meanwhile, Wallen claimed the top three spots on the Hot 100, with “What I Want” followed by “Just in Case” at No. 2 and “I’m the Problem” at No.3 – as he becomes the first artist that primarily records country music to have monopolized the top three in a single week over the chart’s 66-year history.

Billboard Hot 100 News

Morgan Wallen claimed a massive week on Billboard’s charts (dated May 31), as the country superstar breaks his own record for the most songs ever charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week. He sents a staggering 37 songs onto the latest chart, with all except for one from his new album, I’m the Problem.

Morgan Wallen’s “What I Want,” featuring Tate McRae, blasted in at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The collaboration between the country and pop stars – from Wallen’s new album, I’m the Problem, which soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 2025’s biggest week by equivalent album units – is Wallen’s fourth Hot 100 leader and McRae’s first. She surpasses her prior No. 3 best set by “Greedy” in January 2024. In March, McRae notched her first Billboard 200 No. 1 with So Close to What; she’s the first artist this year to lead both lists for the first time.

“What I Want,” on Mercury/Big Loud/Republic (with Wallen and McRae two of its six writers), becomes the 1,180th No. 1 in the Hot 100’s archives, and the 83rd to debut on top. It tallied 31.2 million official streams, 3.9 million radio airplay audience impressions and 2,000 sold in the United States in its first week of release (May 16-22).

Wallen previously topped the Hot 100 with “Love Somebody,” also on I’m the Problem, for a week upon its debut in November; as featured on Post Malone’s “I Had Some Help,” which bowed at No. 1 in May 2024 and led for six weeks; and with “Last Night,” for 16 weeks beginning in March 2023, before wrapping as the chart’s top hit that year.

Wallen boasted six songs in all in the latest Hot 100’s top 10, with “I Got Better” also debuting, at No. 7, and “Superman” flying 16-8 in its second week on the chart. He has now charted nine top 10s from I’m the Problem; only Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights (10 top 10s each) have yielded more, with Drake’s Certified Lover Boy also having generated nine.

Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” slid 4-9 on the Hot 100, following its record-tying 19 weeks at No. 1 beginning last July.  

             

Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart News

NICE ‘PROBLEM’ TO HAVE: Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem” (Mercury/ Republic/Big Loud) topped Country Airplay for a sixth total and consecutive week (31.7 million, down 1%). It became the third No.1 from his album of the same name ahead of its May16 release, following “Love Somebody” (three weeks in February) and “Lies Lies Lies” (one week, November). His latest single being promoted to country radio, “Just in Case,” rose 15-13 (14.8 million, up 8%). “I’m the Problem” is the third of Wallen’s 17 Country Airplay No. 1s to reign for six frames or more, after “You Proof,” which shares the record for the most time on top (10 weeks, 2022-23), and “Last Night” (eight weeks, 2023). Five total cuts from I’m the Problem are scaling Country Airplay, with the title track and “Just in Case” followed in the top40 by “I Ain’t Coming Back,” with Post Malone (43-32; 2.9 million, up 48%).

Singer-songwriter Josh Ross, 30, from Waterdown, Ontario, achieved his first top 10 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart as his first entry, “Single Again” (The Core/Universal Music Canada/Mercury Nashville), pushed 11-10 on the list dated May31. The song increased by 10% to 16.6 million impressions May16-22, according to Luminate. It’s from Ross’ eight-song set Complicated that arrived in March 2024. It hit No. 2 on the Canada Country chart last October, becoming the fifth of his six career-opening top 10s. Ross co-authored “Single Again” with Joe Fox and Brad Rempel, and Matt Geroux produced it. (Fellow Canadian Rempel is a member of the group High Valley, which has notched 20 top10s on Canada Country in 2012-24.) Notably, “Single Again” reached the Country Airplay top 10 in its 60th week on the chart, wrapping the third-longest trip to the tier since the survey launched in January 1990.

Billboard’s Country Chart News

No.1 Morgan Wallen I’M THE PROBLEM/ ”What I Want” (featuring Tate McRae): Wallen’s 37-song set blasted in atop Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart (dated May 31), as well as the all-genre Billboard 200. It grants the singer-songwriter from Sneedville, Tenn., his fourth and third leader, respectively.

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. The LP sold 133,000, marking his best career sales week. On the streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart, Wallen boasts 36 tracks, all from 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 his previous LP, One Thing at a Time, debuted at No. 1 on Top Country Albums and the Billboard 200.

Wallen recently debuted seven of the album's songs at his inaugural, self-curated and multi-genre Sand In My Boots Festival, including the title track “I'm The Problem;” the Grammy.com-praised “deceptively smooth-sounding” “Kick Myself;” “Don't We,” declared an “arena-ready track” by Billboard; “I'm A Little Crazy,” noted as “a gorgeous paranoiac ballad” by Washington Post; “I Got Better;” “Superman” and “Just In Case.”

Wallen's coinciding 2025 I'm The Problem Tour kicks off June 20 at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. The 20-show run will include stops in Seattle, Washington; Foxborough, Massachusetts; Toronto, Ontario and more. With a second stop added in Madison, Wisconsin, Wallen's appearances will mark the first time an artist has played two consecutive nights at Camp Randall Stadium.

A rotating lineup of guests including Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett and Koe Wetzel join in direct support with Gavin Adcock, Corey Kent, Ella Langley and Anne Wilson as first-of-three across select dates. Coupled with May's Sand In My Boots Festival and a special one-night-only album release celebration show on May 28 at Roundhouse in London, these 22 shows are the only place to see the superstar in 2025. 

Morgan Wallen's I'm The Problem Tracklist: SEE BLOG

Country Airplay

** No.1 (6 weeks) ** “I'm The Problem” Morgan Wallen 31.716 million audience (-0.274 million gain) / 9115 radio plays (+105 / 16 weeks on the chart

** Airpower/ Most Increased Audience ** No.17 “Backup Plan” Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs (+2.816 million gain)

** Hot Shot Debut ** No.55 “What I Want” Morgan Wallen featuring Tate McRae

Debut No.58 “Superman” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.60 “Burned Down Heaven” Chase McDaniel

Hot County Songs

** No.1 (1 week)/ Hot Shot Debut ** “What I Want” Morgan Wallen Featuring Tate McRae

** Streaming Gainer ** No.2 “Just In Case” Morgan Wallen

** Sales Gainer ** No.3 I'm The Problem Morgan Wallen

** Hot Shot Debut ** No.4 “I Got Better” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.8 “Cigarettes” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.9 “Kick Myself” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.10 “Eyes Are Closed” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.12 “Falling Apart” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.13 “Skoal, Chevy, And Browning” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.14 “TN” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.15 “Where'd That Girl Go” Morgan WallenDebut No.16 “Kiss Her In Front Of You” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.19 “If You Were Mine” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.20 “Missing” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.23 “Genesis” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.24 “Don't We” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.25 “Dark Til Daylight” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.26 “Interlude” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.27 “Number 3 And Number 7” Morgan Wallen Featuring Eric Church

Debut No.28 “Revelation” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.30 “Jack And Jill” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.31 “Come Back As A Redneck” Morgan Wallen Featuring HARDY

Debut No.33 “Miami” Morgan Wallen

** Airplay Gainer ** No.34 “Backup Plan” Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs

Debut No.35 “The Dealer” Morgan Wallen Featuring ERNEST

Debut No.36 “Leavin's The Least I Could Do” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.37 “Drinking Til It Does” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.38 “Nothin' Left” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.41 “LA Night” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.45 “Whiskey In Reverse” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.46 “Working Man's Song” Morgan Wallen

Debut No.48 “Crazy Eyes” Morgan Wallen

Country Aircheck MEDIABASE Chart

Congratulations to Morgan Wallen, Stacy Blythe, Tyler Waugh and the Big Loud promotion team on holding “I’m The Problem” at No. 1 for a second week. With an increase of 175 plays from last week, the song has tied for the fourth largest one-week play total in chart history, with 9,890. Songwriters are Ernest Keith Smith, Ryan Vojtesak, Grady Block, Jamie McLaughlin and Wallen.

Morgan Wallen with “I’m The Problem” (Big Loud) held at No.1 logging 9890 radio spins (+175), 38.818 million audience impressions (+0.526 million) with 32607 Total Points (+362) from 159 tracking stations (159 ADDS) for the published chart dated May 27, 2025 

Lainey Wilson’s “Somewhere Over Laredo” Is The Most Added

Kudos to Lee Adams and the Broken Bow crew on scoring 123 adds for “Somewhere Over Laredo” by Lainey Wilson. This is the third largest add week for a solo female in Mediabase history, behind only Carrie Underwood’s “Smoke Break” (145 in Aug. 2015)

Furthering its success, the track garnered over 1.16 million streams across platforms in the first 24 hours of its release, earning Wilson her biggest first day of streaming to date. The song is from the new deluxe version of Wilson’s award-winning album, Whirlwind, which will be released August 22 via BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville in celebration of the record’s one-year anniversary (pre-order/pre-save/pre-add here). In addition to Whirlwind’s original 14 songs, the extended edition will feature five additional tracks: “Somewhere Over Laredo,” “Bell Bottoms Up,” “King Ranch, King George, King James,” “Yesterday, All Day, Every Day” and “Peace, Love and Cowboys.”

Already receiving widespread attention, Wilson performed “Somewhere Over Laredo” live for the first time at the 2025 American Music Awards earlier this week and appeared on CBS Mornings to discuss the new track, while Billboard praised, “one of her most commanding, dynamic vocal performances to date, crescendo-ing from a soft-focus, tender vocal, before gradually reaching into her upper register for powerful moments that heighten the song’s emotional acuity”. 

Photo credit: CeCe Dawson

May 27, 2025 The Weeks ADDS

Artist/Title (Label)          TW       Historic

LAINEY WILSON/Somewhere Over Laredo (Broken Bow)       123       123

GAVIN ADCOCK/Never Call Again (Warner/WMN)           18         18

BLAKE SHELTON/Stay Country Or Die Tryin' (Wheelhouse)        16         80

S. MCCREERY f/HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH/Bottle Rockets (Triple Tigers)         15         125

WARREN ZEIDERS/Relapse (Warner/WEA)       10         58

PRESTON COOPER/Weak (Valory)       10         66

DASHA/Not At This Party (Warner/WMN)            7          80

DYLAN SCOTT/What He'll Never 

Have (Curb)    6          84

BRETT YOUNG/Drink With You (Nashville Harbor)         5          88

HUDSON WESTBROOK/House Again (River House/Warner/WAR)          5          86

RUSSELL DICKERSON/Happen To Me (Triple Tigers)    5          154

Billboard Hot 100

TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )
1 New 1 What I Want ‒ Morgan Wallen Featuring Tate McRae ( 1 )
2 11 9 Just In Case ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 2 )
3 6 16 I'm The Problem ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 2 )
4 2 15 Ordinary ‒ Alex Warren ( 2 )
5 1 26 Luther ‒ Kendrick Lamar & SZA ( 1 )
6 3 40 Die With A Smile ‒ Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars ( 1 )
7 New 1 I Got Better ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 7 )
8 16 2 Superman ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 8 )
9 4 58 A Bar Song (Tipsy) ‒ Shaboozey ( 1 )
10 18 31 Love Somebody ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
15 25 5 I Ain't Coming Back ‒ Morgan Wallen Featuring Post Malone ( 8 )
19 13 54 I Had Some Help ‒ Post Malone Featuring Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
20 New 1 20 Cigarettes ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 20 )
21 New 1 Kick Myself ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 21 )
22 New 1 Eyes Are Closed ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 22 )
23 19 7 All The Way ‒ BigXthaPlug Featuring Bailey Zimmerman ( 4 )
25 New 1 Falling Apart ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 25 )
29 New 1 Skoal, Chevy, And Browning ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 29 )
31 New 1 TN ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 31 )
32 New 1 Where'd That Girl Go ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 32 )
34 New 1 Kiss Her In Front Of You ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 34 )
35 29 19 Worst Way ‒ Riley Green ( 29 )
39 33 17 Sports Car ‒ Tate McRae ( 16 )
40 52 9 I'm A Little Crazy ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 17 )
41 New 1 If You Were Mine ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 41 )
42 New 1 Missing ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 42 )
44 35 16 Weren't For The Wind ‒ Ella Langley ( 35 )
45 68 21 Smile ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 4 )
46 New 1 Genesis ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 46 )
48 New 1 Don't We ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 48 )
50 New 1 Dark Til Daylight ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 50 )
51 New 1 Interlude ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 51 )
52 New 1 Number 3 And Number 7 ‒ Morgan Wallen Featuring Eric Church ( 52 )
54 New 1 Revelation ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 54 )
55 38 26 Squabble Up ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )
56 39 37 Am I Okay? ‒ Megan Moroney ( 39 )
60 New 1 Jack And Jill ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 60 )
63 New 1 Come Back As A Redneck ‒ Morgan Wallen Featuring HARDY ( 63 )
64 48 26 Good News ‒ Shaboozey ( 34 )
65 New 1 Miami ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 65 )
68 50 3 Backup Plan ‒ Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs ( 36 )
69 New 1 The Dealer ‒ Morgan Wallen Featuring ERNEST ( 69 )
70 New 1 Leavin's The Least I Could Do ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 70 )
72 New 1 Drinking Til It Does ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 72 )
73 New 1 Nothin' Left ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 73 ))
78 53 24 Indigo ‒ Sam Barber Featuring Avery Anna ( 40 )
79 New 1 LA Night ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 79 )
80 67 14 Hard Fought Hallelujah ‒ Brandon Lake X Jelly Roll ( 40 )
81 62 4 After All The Bars Are Closed ‒ Thomas Rhett ( 62 )
82 64 4 Amen ‒ Shaboozey & Jelly Roll ( 64 )
83 New 1 Whiskey In Reverse ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 83 )
84 New 1 Working Man's Song ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 84 ))
88 New 1 Crazy Eyes ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 88 )
92 78 11 Backseat Driver ‒ Kane Brown ( 67 )
93 84 6 Whiskey Drink ‒ Jason Aldean ( 83 )

The Billboard 200

TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )

1 New 1 I'm The Problem ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )

2 3 128 SOS ‒ SZA ( 1 )

3 New 1 Echo ‒ Jin ( 3 )

4 4 116 One Thing At A Time ‒ Morgan Wallen ( 1 )

5 7 26 GNX ‒ Kendrick Lamar ( 1 )

Top Album Sales

Week of May 31, 2025
TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )
1 NEW 1 I'm The Problem - Morgan Wallen ( 1 ) 

Top Country Albums

Week of May 31, 2025

TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak )
1 NEW 1 I'm The Problem - Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
2 1 116 One Thing At A Time - Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
3 2 228 Dangerous: The Double Album - Morgan Wallen ( 1 )
4 3 51 Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going - Shaboozey ( 2 )
5 4 40 F-1 Trillion - Post Malone ( 1 )