Morgan Wallen's 'I'm the Problem' Album Bows at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Year's Biggest Debut
It's the country star's third No. 1. Plus: Jin's "Echo" arrives in the top five.
Morgan Wallen's latest studio effort, I'm the Problem, debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated May 31) with the year's biggest week for any album — 493,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the week ending May 22, according to Luminate. It also easily lands the largest streaming week for any album in 2025.
It's the third No. 1 for Wallen on the Billboard 200, following 2023's One Thing at a Time (19 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1) and 2021's Dangerous: The Double Album (10 weeks at No. 1, all consecutive). The latter two titles both debuted at No. 1 and have never left the weekly top 50 of the chart. On the latest chart, One Thing at a Time is a non-mover at No. 4 (making Wallen the only act with two concurrent albums in the weekly top five in 2025), while Dangerous shifts 11-12.
I'm the Problem was officially announced in mid-March, and was preceded by eight charting songs on the Billboard Hot 100 over the past 10 months, all of which reached the top 20 of the ranking, including six top 10s (the most top 10s ever from an album prior to its release). Among them were the No. 1 "Love Somebody," which debuted atop the list last November, and the album's title track (No. 2 in February).
Also in the latest Billboard 200 top 10, Jin notches his highest-charting effort as Echo launches at No. 3. The BTS member previously hit the top 10 as a soloist with Happy (No. 4) in 2024.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new May 31, 2025-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard's website on May 28, one day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. on May 26. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae's 'What I Want' Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Wallen earns his fourth Hot 100 No. 1, and McRae her first.
Morgan Wallen's "What I Want," featuring Tate McRae, blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The collaboration between the country and pop stars – from Wallen's new album, I'm the Problem, which soars in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 2025's biggest week by equivalent album units – is Wallen's fourth Hot 100 leader and McRae's first. She surpasses her prior No. 3 best set by "Greedy" in January 2024. In March, McRae notched her first Billboard 200 No. 1 with So Close to What; she's the first artist this year to lead both lists for the first time.
Wallen previously topped the Hot 100 with "Love Somebody," also on I'm the Problem, for a week upon its debut in November; as featured on Post Malone's "I Had Some Help," which bowed at No. 1 in May 2024 and led for six weeks; and with "Last Night," for 16 weeks beginning in March 2023, before wrapping as the chart's top hit that year.
Wallen boasts six songs in all in the latest Hot 100's top 10, with "I Got Better" also debuting, at No. 7, and "Superman" flying 16-8 in its second week on the chart. He has now charted nine top 10s from I'm the Problem; only Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department and Midnights (10 top 10s each) have yielded more, with Drake's Certified Lover Boy also having generated nine.
Meanwhile, Wallen claims the top three spots on the Hot 100, with "What I Want" followed by "Just in Case" at No. 2 and "I'm the Problem" at No. 3 – as he becomes the first artist that primarily records country music to have monopolized the top three in a single week over the chart's 66-year history.
Browse the full rundown of this week's top 10 below.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated May 31, 2025) will update on Billboard.com tomorrow, May 28 (a day later than usual due to the Memorial Day holiday May 26). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
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