12/29/2023 0 Comments Born for one thingThe album was named the number one album for 2023 in Billboard 's year-end album chart, making Wallen the first country artist to capture both the year-end number one positions for both album and single in the same year. Wallen also occupied five of the top 10 songs and achieved his first number-one song with " Last Night". In the week of the album's release, all 36 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record set by Drake in 2018 for most songs by an artist on the chart at one time, as well as the record for most debuts on the chart, with 27. The album has spent 16 weeks at number-one on the chart, surpassing Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti as the album with the most number one weeks this decade. Its 36 tracks earned a total of 498.28 million on-demand streams. It is Wallen's second consecutive US number-one album and marks the biggest week of 2023 for album units earned, and overall biggest week for a country album since Red (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift in November 2021. One Thing at a Time debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 dated March 18, 2023, with 501,000 album-equivalent units, including 111,500 pure album sales. Sodomsky felt that the title "seems to acknowledge that Wallen considers this a transitional moment" and concluded that "none of this leads to anything interesting enough to change how you think of Morgan Wallen". Sam Sodomsky of Pitchfork criticized the length, apparent ethos of "Wallen being true to only himself" while having 49 co-writers, and the tracks "covering the same thematic territory", although acknowledging there are occasional "minimalist rhythms" that "accentuate his gift for delivering tugging, bittersweet pop melodies" as well as "couplets clever enough to catch you off guard". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the album's "untrammeled sprawl means offers a little something for everybody", with "party songs, sad songs, songs that lift liberally from classic rock standards" as well as "songs about beer, songs about whiskey, and songs about wine". Paul Attard of Slant Magazine found One Thing at a Time to be "wildly uneven" with "little here that could be considered fresh by Wallen's standards", as "his music is typically concerned with one of three things: getting shitfaced, being lovesick, or Jesus" while still having several "production flourishes" that see Wallen "experimenting, if ever so slightly, with his sound". One Thing at a Time received mixed reviews from critics, with a score of 47 out of 100 based on six critics' reviews at review aggregator Metacritic. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores The cover photograph was taken at Wallen's grandfather's home in Sneedville, Tennessee. Billboard described the album as "genre-blending". In a statement released January 30, Wallen explained that the album "brings together the musical influences that have shaped as an artist – country, alternative and hip-hop" and the album ended up with 36 songs "because just kept exploring with fresh lyrics, music and production ideas and these are the songs that felt right" to him. Wallen embarked on the One Night at a Time Tour in support of the album on April 2023. The album received mixed reviews from critics, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 501,000 album-equivalent units, marking the biggest week for a country album by units since 2021. The announcement of the album came alongside the release of three more tracks-" Everything I Love", "I Wrote the Book", and " Last Night"-which became his first Billboard Hot 100 number one, staying atop for 16 weeks. A sampler containing three tracks from the album-"One Thing at a Time", "Days That End in Why" and "Tennessee Fan"-preceded the album in December 2022. It features 36 tracks, including the singles " You Proof", " Thought You Should Know", " Last Night", the title track, " Everything I Love", " Thinkin' Bout Me", " Man Made a Bar" and the promotional single " Don't Think Jesus", as well as collaborations with Eric Church, Hardy and Ernest. One Thing at a Time is the third studio album by American country music singer Morgan Wallen, released on March 3, 2023, through Big Loud Records.
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