Dangerous: The Double Album

Dangerous: The Double Album
Studio album by Morgan Wallen
Released	January 8, 2021 (2021-01-08)
Recorded	2018–2020
Genre	Country
Length	96:53
Label	Big Loud Republic
Producer	Joey Moi Jacob Durrett Charlie Handsome Matt Dragstrem Dave Cohen
Morgan Wallen chronology
If I Know Me (2018) Dangerous: The Double Album (2021)
Singles from Dangerous: The Double Album
"More Than My Hometown" Released: May 27, 2020 "7 Summers" Released: August 14, 2020

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Pitchfork	6.9/10
Rolling Stone

Dangerous: The Double Album is the second studio album by American country music singer Morgan Wallen. The double album was released on January 8, 2021 via Big Loud Records and Republic Records on CD, vinyl, and digital download. The production on the album was handled by Joey Moi, Jacob Durrett, Charlie Handsome, Matt Dragstrem and Dave Cohen.

Dangerous was preceded by the release of two singles: "More Than My Hometown", and "7 Summers"; and six promotional singles: "Cover Me Up", "This Bar", "Heartless" (Wallen Album Mix)", "Somebody's Problem", "Still Goin' Down", and "Livin' the Dream". The album also received generally positive reviews from music critics and was a commercial success. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units in its first week.

Background

Wallen stated:

"The 'double album' idea started off as just a joke between me and my manager because we had accumulated so many songs over the past couple of years. Then quarantine hit, and we realized it might actually be possible to have enough time to make it happen. I also ended up writing quite a few more songs during the quarantine with some of my good buddies. I also wanted the songs to speak to multiple phases of life and have multiple different sounds based on my influences and based on what I enjoy."

Shortly before the release of the album, several CDs were erroneously put up for sale at certain Walmart locations in the United States. This prompted several consumers to leak clips of unreleased songs, to which Wallen responded by saying "If anyone’s gonna leak my music, it should be me" and releasing "leaks" of unreleased songs himself. He also urged his fans to buy the physical release at Target instead, adding: "I don’t shop at Walmart anyway. I also gave Target two extra songs, so if you’re going to buy my album physically, go to Target, baby".

Walmart responded to the issue with this statement provided to the Rolling Stone:

"We are deeply apologetic to Morgan for this unfortunate situation. We appreciate Morgan as an artist and understand his frustration and disappointment. We have protocols in place to help ensure new albums are not sold before the release date, yet in this instance his album made its way to the shelf in a handful of stores early. We’re actively removing any albums remaining on the shelves in those stores to hold until the official release date, and taking additional precautionary measures for the future."

Critical reception

Owen Myers of Pitchfork complimented Wallen's vocals and songwriting alongside writing that "among the album’s 30 tracks there are few skips." Jonathan Bernstein of Rolling Stone felt the opposite, calling the record "part album, part playlist, part content dump" and that "Wallen does not always seem up to the heavy task of pumping fresh life into well-worn topics." Writing for Stereogum, Chris DeVille wrote that though "Wallen’s look is old-fashioned, his sound is thoroughly, sometimes maddeningly current" and called the record "a massive leap from his debut" while adding "if the tracklist feels excessive, it also doesn’t have a lot of weak spots" and that "the guy seems capable of becoming Garth Brooks for a new generation." Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that Wallen "leaves ample room for musical variety" and called the record "modern Nashville studio product, aimed for radio playlists and, eventually, big concert spaces."

Chris Richards, writing for The Washington Post, opined that the album "feels about 19 songs too long" and that "time never seems to be moving fast enough [on it]." Dan DeLuca of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the album "gets tiresome fast" and called it "overstuffed with radio-ready cliche," but did recognize Wallen's overall talent. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "the sheer variety proves Wallen can indeed convincingly sing just about any modern country style" and felt that the album weaved between "harder country and softer pop."

Commercial performance

Dangerous: The Double Album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and US Top Country Albums charts, earning 265,000 album-equivalent units (including 74,000 copies as pure album sales) in its first week, according to MRC Data. This became Wallen's first US number one debut and his second on the latter. The album also accumulated a total of 240.18 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs, becoming the largest streaming week ever for a country album. This more than doubles the record set by Luke Combs's What You See Is What You Get. In its second week, the album remained at number one on the chart, earning an additional 159,000 units making it the first country album to spend two weeks at number one since Chris Stapleton's Traveller in 2015 and the first country set to spend two weeks at number one since Luke Bryan's Kill The Lights that year. It spent a third week at number one selling 130,000 units in its third week.

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sand in My Boots"	Ashley Gorley Hardy Josh Osborne	3:22
2.	"Wasted on You"	Morgan Wallen Ernest K. Smith Josh Thompson Ryan Vojtesak	2:58
3.	"Somebody's Problem"	Wallen Rodney Clawson Jacob Durrett Smith	2:41
4.	"More Surprised Than Me"	Ben Burgess Lee Thomas Miller Niko Moon	2:37
5.	"865"	John Byron Blake Pendergrass	3:10
6.	"Warning"	Gorley Smith Vojtesak	2:36
7.	"Neon Eyes"	Wallen Burgess Mark Holman	3:46
8.	"Outlaw" (featuring Ben Burgess)	Burgess Patrick Davis Josh Kerr Jordan Reynolds	3:49
9.	"Whiskey'd My Way"	Matt Dragstrem Josh Miller Thomas Rhett Thompson	3:00
10.	"Wonderin' 'bout the Wind"	Wallen Smith	3:02
11.	"Your Bartender"	Rhett Akins Dragstrem Rhett Thompson	3:05
12.	"Only Thing That's Gone" (featuring Chris Stapleton)	Wallen Dragstrem Chase McGill Thompson	3:16
13.	"Cover Me Up"	Jason Isbell	4:53
14.	"7 Summers"	Wallen Shane McAnally Osborne	3:30
15.	"More Than My Hometown"	Wallen Hardy Smith Vojtesak	3:36
Total length:			49:21

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Still Goin' Down"	Wallen Hardy Vojtesak	3:06
2.	"Rednecks, Red Letters, Red Dirt"	Dragstrem McGill Thompson	3:05
3.	"Dangerous"	Wallen Smith	2:27
4.	"Beer Don't"	Wallen Hardy Jake Mitchell	3:16
5.	"Blame It on Me"	Gorley Smith Vojtesak	2:42
6.	"Somethin' Country"	Wallen Hardy Daniel Ross Smith	2:52
7.	"This Bar"	Wallen Hardy Jackson Morgan Jake Scott Smith Vojtesak	3:05
8.	"Country Ass Shit"	Wallen McGill Jordan Schmidt	3:06
9.	"Whatcha Think of Country Now"	Dallas Davidson Devin Dawson Kyle Fishman Holman Justin Wilson	3:02
10.	"Me on Whiskey"	Clawson Holman Smith	3:30
11.	"Need a Boat"	Wallen Dragstrem Hillary Lindsey	3:05
12.	"Silverado for Sale"	Davidson Marv Green Ben Hayslip	3:44
13.	"Heartless" (Wallen Album Mix)	Wallen Henry Agincourt Allen Ryan Hurd Thomas Wesley Pentz Smith Vojtesak	2:49
14.	"Livin' the Dream"	Wallen Burgess Durrett Hardy	3:59
15.	"Quittin' Time"	Eric Church Luke Laird Thompson	3:44
Total length:			47:32

Target bonus tracks

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"This Side of a Dust Cloud"	Wallen Dragstrem McGill Thompson	3:20
2.	"Bandaid on a Bullet Hole"	Wallen Durrett Gorley	3:54

Bonus edition

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sand in My Boots (The Dangerous Sessions)"	Gorley Hardy Osborne	3:17

Notes

• "Country Ass Shit" is stylized as "Country A$$ Shit".
• All tracks produced by Joey Moi.
• "Wasted on You" and "Bandaid on a Bullet Hole" feature co-production by Jacob Durrett.
• "Warning" features co-production by Charlie Handsome.
• "Your Bartender" features co-production by Matt Dragstrem.
• "Cover Me Up" features co-production by Dave Cohen.

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.

• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
• Ben Burgess – duet vocals on "Outlaw"
• Dave Cohen – Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards
• Matt Dragstrem – programming
• Jacob Durrett – programming
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Charlie Handsome – programming
• Wes Hightower – background vocals
• Mark Holman – programming
• Jake Mitchell – programming
• Joey Moi – electric guitar, programming, background vocals
• Niko Moon – programming
• Jerry Roe – drums, percussion
• Daniel Ross – programming
• Ernest K. Smith – background vocals
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Chris Stapleton – duet vocals on "Only Thing That's Gone"
• Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, banjo, dobro, mandolin
• Ilya Toshinsky – acoustic guitar
• Morgan Wallen – lead vocals, background vocals
• Derek Wells – accordion, electric guitar

Charts

Chart performance for Dangerous: The Double Album

Chart (2021)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	2
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)	1
Canadian Albums (Billboard)	1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)	27
Scottish Albums (OCC)	60
UK Albums (OCC)	77
UK Country Albums (OCC)	1
US Billboard 200	1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)	1

Release history

Release formats for Dangerous: The Double Album

Country	Date	Format	Label	Ref.
Canada	January 8, 2020	CD LP digital download streaming	Big Loud Republic Records Universal Music Canada
Various			Big Loud Republic Records