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Country Radio Quickly Removing Morgan Wallen From Playlists After Racial Slur

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  1. Melody Bot Feb 3, 2021
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    Morgan Wallen, who has had the number one album in the country the past few weeks, is being removed from country radio and various high-profile playlists after using a racial slur over the weekend.

    Said one figure in country radio who did not want to comment for attribution: “Morgan Wallen appears in virtually every half-hour of music across 4000 stations across America right now. How’d you like to get that message at midnight, that you have to take him out of the music blocks you already set up for Wednesday? If anybody has other songs they’ve been wanting to hear in the morning, they may get to hear them tomorrow.”

    DSPs also appeared to be taking action. As of late Tuesday night, Wallen, who has been called the biggest out-of-the-box streaming success in country music history, did not appear anywhere among the dozens of photos or track listings or playlists on the home page of Apple Music Country, where observers said he had been featured earlier in the day. And his songs were no longer anywhere to be seen in Spotify’s list of 50 top Hot Country songs.

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  2. Zip It Chris Feb 3, 2021
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    Be kind; everyone is on their own journey.

    Not surprising at all...unfortunately
     
  3. TJ Wells Feb 3, 2021
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    But I thought SNL said he was sorry and he was doing better?
     
  4. transrebel59 Feb 3, 2021
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    This dude is doing everything he can to tank his career.
     
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  6. smowashere Feb 3, 2021
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    Good. Fuck him.
     
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  7. Phil507 Feb 3, 2021
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    Really shows how much people's true selves come out when they're super drunk.
     
  8. zachmacD Feb 3, 2021
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    What a dumbass
     
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  9. TJ Wells Feb 3, 2021
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    When I'm super drunk I sing mid 2000s emo really loudly and fall asleep with my shoes on, I think I like that true self.
     
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  10. Drew Beringer Feb 3, 2021
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    good
     
  11. somethingwitty Feb 3, 2021
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    Goto the CMT FB page and look at the comments under their note saying they’re removing Morgan from the channel...

    I’d say 95% of the comments are in support of Morgan...that tells me EVERYTHING I need to know about country music and it’s fanbase.
     
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  12. MattNCheeze Feb 3, 2021
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    They'll send him to rebhab and he'll have a Gospel record out in 3 years.
     
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  13. xenoabe Feb 3, 2021
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    I'd say it depends on the corner of country you're looking at. Not sure you fully consider them country but guys like Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, and several other Nashville country-ish artists I follow are the opposite of this.

    I would agree that way too large of the 'country' contingent, especially bro country, is very problematic with this type of thing. Hell, unfortunately, many of them are my own family.
     
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  15. ALT/MSC/FAN Feb 3, 2021
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    It's chaos. Be kind. Prestigious

    Good
     
  16. irthesteve Feb 3, 2021
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    His label dropped him
     
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  17. transrebel59 Feb 3, 2021
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    Correct me if I'm wrong - but I believe being suspended and being dropped are different. Sounds like "We're gonna wait for this to blow over."
     
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  18. irthesteve Feb 3, 2021
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    possibly true, I am not entirely sure. A quick google search says that contracts being suspended and terminated are "closely related" but I'm no lawyer, so who knows
     
  19. somethingwitty Feb 3, 2021
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    How long until his team finds a way to appeal to the “American patriots” and claim he’s a victim of PC cancel culture?
     
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  20. transrebel59 Feb 3, 2021
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    I think I'm just cynical and assume that a label won't act appropriately to a massive artist
     
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  21. DaysHaveNoNumbers Feb 3, 2021
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    You're absolutely correct at the number of comments in support (which is sad), but I think we have to be careful lumping country music and its entire fanbase into this situation. I do think the comment section on Facebook is a toxic wasteland, but that's a whole other topic.
     
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  22. billyboatman Feb 3, 2021
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    Being or saying racist things isn’t cool.
     
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  24. irthesteve Feb 3, 2021
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    thread worth reading:
     
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  25. irthesteve Feb 3, 2021
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  26. doyouhas? Feb 3, 2021
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    They won’t have to do a thing. People who have never heard of him will go out of their way to buy his album just because he’s racist.
     
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  27. AMC Feb 3, 2021
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    For a second I was like how does this guy know me so well? Lol
     
  28. Former Planets Feb 4, 2021
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    Aaaachem!

    How about I’m outside of your WIN-DOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
     
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