Meanwhile, Wallen’s 30-track album, Dangerous: the double album, is spending its third week in first place on the Billboard chart 200.
The move to WME comes at a time when Wallen was seen as the next potential world star. He headed up small select dates, including a 2018 date in Chattanooga, Tennessee’s The Signal, which sold out with 1,480 tickets, according to the Billboard Boxscore, but built his audience primarily as an opening act for artists, including Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean.
During the pandemic, his popularity grew as much as the success of his radio and streaming flourished, that his team was planning a North American tour as the main attraction for the end of 2021-22, which would more than triple the size of the venues that he used to play pandemic.
There were also plans to take Wallen, who had already played in Australia, on his first tour of Europe. He ran out of London’s opening dates scheduled for May last year, which were selected for the pandemic.
This summer, Wallen is scheduled to open for Luke Bryan, honoring a commitment from last summer, when Bryan’s tour was postponed. Bryan’s representative did not immediately respond if Wallen was still on the tour, as long as possible. Likewise, Wallen was on the 2020 accounts for Stagecoach, Bonnaroo and Country Jam and was expected to move on to the 2021 lineups (Stagecoach 2021 has already been postponed).
Assisted by Dave Brooks.