Morgan Wallen is still in the dog house.
The Grammy Awards are ignoring him despite his “One Thing at a Time” album selling 5 million copies since March.
Wallen was discovered using the “n” on a video two years ago. His fans didn’t care and kept buying his records. His “Dangerous Double Album” has sold 2 million copies in 2023. (Numbers are mostly from streaming equivalent.)
But the Grammys are not so forgiving — and neither is CBS. Wallen may have been welcomed back by his record company and agents, but the main music awards and the Tiffany network don’t want him on their air. He remains a pariah. A song he sang is nominated for Best Country Song, but Wallen himself is not nominated. (At least they didn’t punish the writers of “Last Night.”)
The incident happened on February 3, 2021, when Wallen was video’d on a front door camera, drunk, using the word to describe his friend. The video went viral instantly.
Wallen apologized, but apparently that’s not enough — not in cancel culture. You can’t imagine Black artists in the Grammy audience watching him perform. So it’s not going to happen — probably never. It’s just as well.
