Morgan Wallen Crowned Billboard’s Best Artist of 2025, Becomes RIAA’s Most Certified Country Star Ever

With record-breaking certifications, chart dominance, and a new stadium tour ahead, Morgan Wallen caps 2025 by redefining success in country music.

Billboard recently named Morgan Wallen the best artist of 2025, and as the year draws to a close, Wallen keeps pushing the boundaries. With 239.5 million certified singles (including solo and joint releases) and 26 million albums, the musician was recently declared the RIAA's most certified country artist of all time. He overtakes Luke Combs, who was crowned the highest certified country artist of all time by the RIAA earlier this year.

In terms of solo titles, Wallen tops only Drake and Taylor Swift to become the third top-certified artist across all genres. Also, Wallen is the number. 2 solo artist across all genres with a digital singles certification.

RIAA CEO Mitch Glazier said, "Morgan Wallen's rise has been nothing short of remarkable." a path driven by strong fan network, numerous creative partnerships, and partnerships with Republic Records and Big Loud. As Morgan and his team focus on the next level, congratulations on reaching this new height.

I'm the Problem, Wallen's fourth studio album, was released earlier this year. In just seven months, the album has received four Platinum certifications, while 22 of its thirty-seven tracks have received Gold or higher certification. All of the songs from Wallen's earlier albums, Dangerous: The Double Album and If I Know Me (including the extra version), are RIAA certified

Morgan Wallen now has five tracks that are Diamond-certified or higher, including "Last Night," "Wasted on You," "Whiskey Glasses," "Chasin' You," and the recently Diamond-certified "Heartless," his 2019 partnership with Diplo. Dangerous: One Thing at a Time and The Double Album have both received a 9x Platinum certification.

Wallen's 23-show stadium tour, Still the Problem Tour, will begin on April 10 and run for two nights at Minneapolis' US Bank Stadium.