Morgan Wallen is not going to submit his album I’m the Problem for consideration at the 2026 Grammy Awards. Hits Daily Double and Billboard were first to report the news, and Wallen’s team confirmed to Pitchfork he is withholding the album and its singles from Grammys consideration.
Wallen is one of the most successful and populars artists operating in country and pop music. His debut album, If I Know Me, peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200, and his subsequent three records—Dangerous: The Double Album, One Thing at a Time, and I’m the Problem—have all gone to No. 1. Wallen also has four chart-topping singles: “Last Night,” “Love Somebody,” the Post Malone collaboration “I Had Some Help,” and “What I Want,” the latter of which is on I’m the Problem. He’s been nominated only twice, however, at the Grammys, and they’re both for his track with Malone.
Amid his commercial success, Wallen’s career has been dotted with controversies. Back in 2020, he was uninvited from Saturday Night Live after video surfaced of him violating then-necessary coronavirus protocols. The following year, a different leaked video showed Wallen using a racist, anti-Black slur, and he was subsequently suspended by his label, Big Loud Records. He was quietly reinstated by the label some months after the suspension.
Along with the personal situations, Wallen has twice been arrested since entering the public eye. In 2020, he was arrested and charged for public intoxication and disorderly conduct, but the case was ultimately dismissed. He was arrested again, in 2024, for allegedly throwing a chair from the roof of a downtown Nashville bar. The country musician eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless endangerment and was sentenced to two years of probation, to go along with spending seven days at a DUI education center.
