Morgan Wallen Named RIAA’s Highest Certified Country Artist of All Time: ‘Reshaping Modern Music’

Morgan Wallen was recently named Billboard‘s and Billboard Canada's top artist of 2025, and he continuing to cap off the year with more milestones. The musician has just been named as the RIAA’s highest certified country artist of all time, with 239.5 million certified singles (inclusive of solo and collaborations) and 26 million albums. Wallen also becomes the third most-certified artist in all genres, succeeding only Drake and Taylor Swift in solo titles. Wallen is also the No. 2 digital singles-certified solo artist of all genres. Those accolades come seven years after he earned his first RIAA Gold certifications for “The Way I Talk” and “Up Down” in 2018, and “Whiskey Glasses” in 2019 (the song is 13x RIAA Platinum certified).

“Morgan Wallen’s rise has been nothing short of remarkable,” RIAA chairman/CEO Mitch Glazier said in a statement. “A trajectory powered through deep fan connection, multiple creative collaborations and partnerships with Big Loud and Republic Records. Less than a decade after earning his first Gold singles, he has officially become the highest RIAA certified Country artist with 265.5M units, including credits on five Diamond-certified or higher singles! The sheer volume of streams behind this achievement speaks to how actively audiences continue to show up and his sustained journey reshaping modern music. Congratulations on this new height as Morgan and his team set their sights on the next.”

Earlier this year, Wallen released his fourth studio album, I’m The Problem, and just seven months after its release, the album has been certified 4x Platinum, while 22 of the album’s 37 songs have been certified Gold or higher. Every song on Wallen’s previous albums — If I Know Me and Dangerous: The Double Album (inclusive of the bonus version) — is RIAA certified.

Now, Wallen has five singles that are Diamond-certified or higher, including the newly Diamond-certified “Heartless,” his 2019 collab with Diplo, as well as “Last Night,” “Wasted on You,” “Whiskey Glasses” and “Chasin’ You.” Dangerous: The Double Album and One Thing at a Time are also now each certified 9x Platinum.

Next year, Wallen will launch his Still the Problem Tour, a 23-show stadium tour that will begin April 10 with two nights at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.