Morgan Wallen Celebrates ‘I’m The Problem’ With London Release Show

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Morgan Wallen. Photo: David Forehand

Morgan Wallen celebrated his newest album release on May 28 with an intimate, sold-out album release show at the Roundhouse in London. With 2,000 tickets claimed in less than one minute, Wallen performed a 19-song, stripped down set.

Kicking off the night with the album’s title track, which is his most recent No. 1 single, Wallen sprinkled multi-platinum hits from his previous two albums throughout the set including Platinum-certified “Cowgirls,” double-Platinum “Sand In My Boots,” four times-Platinum “Cover Me Up,” six-times-Platinum “More Than My Hometown” and nine-times-Platinum “Whiskey Glasses.” Wallen concluded the night with his seven-times-Platinum single “Last Night.” Four songs from the newest record made their live show debut including “20 Cigarettes,” “Kiss Her In Front Of You,” “Eyes Are Closed” and “What I Want.”

Performing an early release from the album, “Superman,” Wallen shared the heartfelt story behind the song he penned for his son.

“I’ve been trying pretty much ever since he was born to write a song that was good enough to dedicate to him. I probably wrote 30 songs that weren’t good enough, so we scratched them,” Wallen shared. “Right before we were getting ready to turn in this record, we started writing this song. Usually once we write a song, I’ll get Charlie to send me the demo so I can listen to it on my way home. He sent this to me…The very first time I heard it back after writing it, I just broke down and was crying. And that’s the first time I had done that writing a song for my little boy. I figured if it touched me that way, hopefully it would touch a lot of you guys the same way.”

In celebration of his first U.K. No. 1 debut on the Official Charts, Wallen thanked fans by saying, “We’ve been trying to make a connection with you guys, and this is by no means a measure of all successes, but I think it says a lot; whenever I dropped One Thing At A Time, it debuted at No. 40 over here. I just dropped I’m the Problem, and thanks to you guys, it debuted at No. 1. I really appreciate every single one of y’all. I thank you for making me feel welcome in your country, and for having the same kind of love for country music and just music in general. It means a lot to me to be able to say what I just said.”

Wallen is set to kick off his “I’m The Problem Tour” in June and will make 20 stops with rotating support from Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett and Koe Wetzel as direct support with Gavin Adcock, Corey Kent, Ella Langley and Anne Wilson as first-of-three across select dates.

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