Morgan Wallen sets sales records despite N-word controversy

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dumped by his record label, Big Loud, and radio stations banned his songs.But now he’s been bizarrely rewarded with an unexpected bump in album sales.According to the British pop newspaper NME, Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” now ranks as the first country-and-western long-player to enjoy seven weeks peaking on Billboard’s Top 200 sales chart.

Such a musical feat has not happened since 2016 when Drake’s “Views” spent seven weeks at the No. 1 perch.Maybe fans are buying into the crooner’s apology. “There are no excuses to use this type of language, ever,” said Wallen earlier last month. “I want to sincerely apologize for using the word.