Morgan Cole Wallen is an American country and country pop singer from Sneedville, Tennessee. In 2014, he competed in the sixth season of The Voice. After being eliminated in the playoffs, he signed to Panacea Records and released his debut extended play Stand Alone (2015). Later in 2016, Wallen signed to Big Loud to release his second extended play The Way I Talk (2016). His debut studio album If I Know Me (2018) included four singles: "The Way I Talk", "Up Down" (featuring Florida Georgia Line), "Whiskey Glasses", and "Chasin' You". If I Know Me, after a record-breaking 114 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, reached No. 1.
Wallen's second studio album Dangerous: The Double Album (2021) was an immediate commercial success, becoming the first country album to spend its first seven weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart. The album spent the three following weeks at number one, thus spending its first ten weeks atop the chart.