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Morgan Wallen reaches a milestone: his debut album

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Morgan Wallen released his debut album Friday.

Morgan Wallen released his debut album Friday.

Morgan Wallen celebrated a milestone this weekend, releasing his debut album nearly two years after first cracking Billboard’s country music charts with an original.

The Season 6 graduate of The Voice dropped the 14-song “If I Know Me” on Friday.

And fans of Morgan will already know lots of the songs.

After all, the album features his first hit “The Way I Talk,” his current hit “Up Down” with Florida George Line and three other tunes from a self-titled EP released last year.

But that still leaves room for plenty of fresh material, such as the delightfully fun “Happy Hour,” which you can check out below.

Most impressive: Monday afternoon, more than three days after its release, the album was still number four on iTunes’ country albums chart.

“The album is kind of the complete journey for me these last three years,” Morgan, from Sneedville, Tenn., says in an interview with ET Live.

“I moved to Nashville in 2015, and there are songs on there from 2015. And there are some songs on there we finished the day the album had to be done. So it’s a full representation of me these last three years.”

Morgan says he planned to name the album “something off the wall that didn’t have anything to do with any of the songs.”

But the title track came along late in the process, and seemed to sum things up nicely.

And Morgan’s career as a country artist signed to Big Loud Records is progressing pretty nicely too.

“The Way I Talk” was a Top 40 country hit. “Up Down” is sitting at number 13 on the country airplay chart.

What’s more, Morgan co-wrote Jason Aldean’s current hit “You Make It Easy” along with Jordan Schmidt and his Florida George Line buddies Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley. That song is currently number two on the country singles chart.

Morgan was 20 when he auditioned for The Voice and advanced to the Top 20. Coincidentally, one of the songs he performed on the show was “Stay” by Florida Georgia Line.

He has dozens of tour dates set for this spring and summer, all of which you can check out on his website.

His message to fans on Facebook the day his album dropped: “To everyone who never made me feel crazy for chasing this crazy dream, this one’s for you.”




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