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Morgan Wallen Named Billboard’s Top Artist Of 2025
Pure dominance.
It’s safe to say that 2025 will go down in history as the year of Morgan Wallen. While there’s no denying he’s been nothing short of a powerhouse since the start of the decade, namely scoring huge numbers from the likes of Dangerous: The Double Album and namely One Thing At A Time, which contained 2023’s top song of the year, “Last Night,” among other massive hits, 2025 has proven to be his best year to date.
Last week, Wallen topped the list of plenty of different year-end lists. Beyond his placement as iHeart Radio’s Top Country Artist of 2025, he also scored the most-listened-to album on Apple Music globally, the #1 most-listened-to album in the U.S. on Spotify and the Top Country Album on Billboard’s year-end chart.
And today, he completed his unfathomably successful year by being named Billboard’s #1 all-genre artist of 2025, beating out the likes of Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Super Bowl halftime show headliner, Bad Bunny, and more. With his placement as the Top Artist of 2025, he is the first country artist to secure the #1 spot since Swift in 2009 and just the second male country artist to ever be crowned Top Artist since Garth Brooks flew to the top with back-to-back wins in 1992 and 1993.
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Of course, Wallen has the success of I’m The Problem to thank for his Top Artist of 2025 win. Upon its release (and the weeks following), I’m The Problem broke Wallen’s previously set record of most songs charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week (37). Additionally, he became the first artist ever to spend at least 10 weeks atop the all-genre Billboard’s 200 chart with three consecutive albums and even skyrocketed all the way up to eight-most weeks spent on the chart by any artist in its history. Recently, he also became the first solo act in history to score multiple 20-week #1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart with “What I Want” featuring Tate McRae.
Additionally, Wallen charted the most songs out of any artist in 2025 on Billboard’s all-genre Hot 100 chart with a staggering 41 separate entries. Among these 41 songs include nine Top 10 hits, including the likes of his all-genre #1 with McRae, “What I Want,” as well as “I’m The Problem,” “Just In Case” and “I Got Better.”
Unfortunately for the Sneedville native, he would fall just short of the #1 album of 2025 with I’m The Problem, sitting at #2 behind Swift’s mammoth Life A Show Girl, which was undoubtedly boosted by her continued chart-gaming through subsequent re-releases of the record through different variants on physical media such as vinyl records.
In addition to his Top Artist of 2025 win, the “Whiskey Glasses would also take home over a dozen other #1 spots on Billboard’s year-end charts, including Top Male Artist, Top Country Artist, #1 Hot 100 Artist, #1 Hot 100 Male, Top Billboard 200 Male and more.
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A full list of Wallen’s #1 Billboard spots are as follows:
Top Artist
Top Male Artist
Top Country Artist
Top Country Male
Top Billboard 200 Male
Top Streaming Albums Artist
#1 Hot 100 Artist
#1 Hot 100 Male
#1 Digital Songs Sales Chart Artist
#1 Streaming Songs Artist
#1 Hot Country Songs Artist
#1 Country Airplay Artist
#1 Country Digital Songs Sales Artist
#1 Country Streaming Songs Artist
#1 Top Country Albums
#1 Billboard Candian Hot 100 Artist
#1 Streaming Album (I’m The Problem)
#1 Country Album (I’m The Problem)
#1 Canadian Album (I’m The Problem)
As always, you can love or hate Wallen, his musical output and his off-stage shenanigans. However, you can never deny the sheer staying power and success he’s experienced over the course of the decade. Taking a look at the staggering amount of top spots he’s taken not only in country music but in all-genre charts as well, it’s becoming more and more apparent that the “20 Cigarettes” singer has becoming nothing short of a phenomenon. It’s likely we’ll never see another artist with such an undeniable chokehold over the genre and its charts quite the way Wallen has, and with his first-career Top Artist of the Year win, there will be some uncomfortable conversations to be had about his placement among the most successful artists in the genre’s history.The post Morgan Wallen Named Billboard’s Top Artist Of 2025 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.