Chris Willman Music WriterCountry star Morgan Wallen and 17-year-old pop upstart Olivia Rodrigo have gotten 2021 off to a blazing chart start, with respective bows atop the album and singles charts, respectively.Wallen’s sophomore effort, “Dangerous: The Double Album,” debuted on the Rolling Stone album chart with an even-better-than-expected 263,900 album units.
The biggest factor in that tally was 223 million song streams, easily setting a record for a country album in a single week.
Of course, one reason for that number was that there was more of Wallen to love — that is, the double-album format gave fans 30 new songs to stream.
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