Country Star Morgan Wallen Has Had the No. 1 Album for 10 Weeks — and the Industry Is Happy He’s Nowhere in Sight
Chris Willman Music WriterOn Tuesday, the “news” came out that Morgan Wallen would be playing his first live show since the controversy over his being caught saying the N-word on camera caused him to go into apologetic seclusion. There was just one problem: the so-called comeback show, at a country music festival in Kansas in late June, was actually announced last September, not this week, and sources say it’s highly unlikely he’ll fulfill the gig, as a guy with much bigger fish to fry right now than fulfilling a contractual obligation in Topeka.