What’s Next for Morgan Wallen? The Country Music Industry Considers His Future… and Its Own

Morgan Wallen remains on top of the charts.

Vince Gill spoke out about diversity in country music as well as the scandal surrounding Morgan Wallen that started a conversation about racism within the genre.  The 21-time Grammy winner spoke with "CBS This Morning" about the current state of country music and the perception by many that it is only for a conservative audience and has a reputation of being unwelcoming to those who don't fall under that category.  "Most people perceive that country music is extremely conservative and I'm not

Chris Willman Music WriterCountry stars Luke Combs and Maren Morris took on the elephant in the room in a joint interview for the annual Country Radio Seminar conference Wednesday, address perceptions of racism and a lack of diversity in the genre that have gone from behind-the-scenes Nashville discussions to the talk of the nation in the wake of the Morgan Wallen N-word scandal two weeks ago.Although Morris has been the most outspoken of the two on these issues prior to their Q&A, it may be

Morgan Wallen has secured the No.1 album for America for the fifth week running, despite the emergence of a recent video which sees him using a racial slur.The country star has faced strong consequences since the clip surfaced, with his label Big Loud dropping him and radio stations removing his music from their playlists.Despite this, he has maintained a strong chart position – with album and song sales surging at the same time that his radio play and playlist inclusions continue to fall.As

Morgan Wallen remains at No. 1.

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TMZ, Entercom — which owns 235 radio stations, 20 of which are country music stations — has no plans to reinstate Morgan's music to their playlists, despite his current LP, "Dangerous: The Double Album," sitting atop the all-genre Billboard 200 chart. Similarly, Emmis Communications said its popular country music station in Indianapolis has no plans to bring Morgan back into its song rotation for the time being. On Feb.

Morgan Wallen on his latest album,. Amid Wallen's racial slur controversy, the LP has topped the Billboard 200 charts for four weeks straight.

Morgan Wallen on his latest album,. Amid Wallen's racial slur controversy, the LP has topped the Billboard 200 charts for four weeks straight.

It’s been just over a week since Morgan Wallen was caught dropping the N-word — and now the axed country music star, who is no stranger to bad press, has taken to his Instagram to break his silence on the damning video. Publishing a five minute “update from me” on Wednesday, the 27-year-old acknowledged:

Jimmie Allen is open to forgiveness. The country star is one of the genre's most prominent Black artists and took to Twitter on Saturday to discuss "forgiveness" after Morgan Wallen's N-word controversy.

On his side. Morgan Wallen’s sister Ashlyne Wallen came to his defense after he was caught on video using the N-word.

th Academy of Country Music Awards cycle,” a statement from the Academy reads.“The Academy does not condone or support intolerance or behavior that doesn’t align with our commitment and dedication to diversity and inclusion.”The ACM, which hosts the smaller of country music’s two major awards shows behind November’s Country Music Association Awards, also announced that it would remove all of Wallen’s digital content from its website.

Chris Willman Music WriterWith Morgan Wallen’s name being anathema for the moment in the country music industry, it’s not surprising that the biggest star of the moment would be dropped from any performance slot that might have been scheduled for April’s Academy of Country Music Awards telecast.

Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton and Kelsea Ballerini are just three of the top country stars speaking out after Morgan Wallen was caught saying the N-word in a video.

Morgan Wallen has been suspended indefinitely from his label. After the 27-year-old country singer was caught on video using the N-word and other inappropriate language, his label, as well as country radio stations and playlists, are taking action. Big Loud Records announced the news on Twitter Wednesday.

Morgan Wallen, the top-selling country music star and former The Voice contestant who was dropped by Saturday Night Live from an appearance last October when video surfaced of him partying without a face mask, is apologizing again, this time for a video that likely will have a harsher impact on his career: In a video shot by a neighbor, Wallen is seen outside his Nashville home shouting the N-word.