A channel devoted to the music of Morgan Wallen is coming to SiriusXM as part of the build-up to his upcoming LP I‘m the Problem, which arrives May 16. Morgan Wallen Radio will be available on channel 57 and the SiriusXM app through the end of May, and spotlight music from the Tennessee country singer’s career along with new commentary, stories from Wallen, and some of his favorite songs by other artists.
I’m the Problem will run in a loop all weekend after it drops on May 16, pausing occasionally for stories about the album by Wallen, and updates from fans recorded at the singer’s Nashville bar, This Bar & Kitchen Tennessee.
I’m the Problem was produced by Charlie Handsome and Joey Moi, and features collaborations with Tate McRae, Eric Church, Hardy, Ernest, and Post Malone. It’s the follow-up to his 2023 LP One Thing at a Time, which contained the massive hits “Everything I Love”, “I Wrote the Book”, and “Last Night.” That album spent 19 weeks at No. 1, breaking a record that Garth Brooks set in 1991 for the longest-running country LP on the top of the Billboard 200.
The success of One Thing at a Time turned Wallen into a stadium act. He kicks off his next tour June 20 at NRG Stadium in Houston. It wraps up Sept. 13 at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta. Along the way, he’ll be joined by special guests Koe Wetzel, Corey Kent, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Gavin Adcock, Anne Wilson, and Thomas Rhett.
On March 29, Wallen appeared on Saturday Night Live to perform “I’m the Problem” and “Just the Case” from the upcoming record. At the end of the show, he made an odd exit while the cameras were still rolling, and skipped the afterparty. Later that night, he posted an image of his private plane and wrote “Get me to God’s country.”
“It’s definitely a spike in the norm,” longtime SNL cast member Kenan Thompson told Entertainment Weekly. “We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about? The ‘God’s country’ of it all is strange because it’s like, what are you trying to say? You trying to say that we are not in God’s country? We’re not all in God’s country? We’re not all under God’s umbrella? That’s not necessarily my favorite.”
Wallen himself has yet to explain what happened that night. But he did start selling “Get Me to God’s Country” t-shirts on his official website.
