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Morgan Wallen at the Big House: Country star lines up pair of shows at Michigan Stadium

Adam Graham, The Detroit News on

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DETROIT — After last month's record-breaking inaugural concert at Michigan Stadium, country superstar Morgan Wallen will become the second artist to play the Big House when he double dips the country's largest football stadium on July 24 and 25, the artist's team announced Thursday.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 7, and presale registration is open now at the tour's website, stilltheproblem.com.

Wallen will be joined by Thomas Rhett at the July 24 show and Hardy on July 25. Hudson Westbrook and Blake Whiten will support both concerts, which are part of his 21-date "Still the Problem" tour.

The tour kicks off with a pair of shows at Minneapolis' U.S. Bank Stadium April 10-11 and wraps Aug. 1 at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field, and also includes stops at University of Alabama's Saban Field at Bryant-Denny Stadium (April 18) and University of Florida's Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (May 15-16).

A portion of every ticket sold will benefit the singer's Morgan Wallen Foundation, which supports music and athletic programs for youths and helps provide communities with access to essentials in times of crisis, according to a tour release.

Wallen, 32, released his fourth studio album, "I'm the Problem," in May. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's album sales chart and spent 12 nonconsecutive weeks at the top of the chart. The album features the single "What I Want," a duet with Tate McRae, which spent one week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

Last month, Zach Bryan became the first artist to play a concert at Michigan Stadium, setting a record for the highest attended ticketed concert in U.S. history with 112,408 fans. That show was set up in-the-round, with the stage at the center of the field; it is unclear whether Wallen will utilize a similar format and challenge the attendance record or go with a more traditional end stage configuration.

 

Thursday's concert announcement was teased on University of Michigan's social media channels on Wednesday. On X, Michigan Athletics posted a picture of a football featuring Wallen's logo wearing a U-M jersey on Michigan Stadium's 50-yard-line.

Online, some fans were quick to point out a post Wallen made on his Instagram Stories following Michigan's National Championship win in 2024, featuring a maize colored asterisk against a blue background, a likely allusion to the team's sign-stealing scandal.

The Tennessee native is no stranger to scandal, and his rise to country music superstardom has been dotted with controversies, including an incident where he was seen on camera using a racial slur and an April 2024 arrest after he allegedly tossed a chair off a roof at a Nashville bar.

He has successfully weathered those storms and gone on to become one of the music industry's biggest stars and top concert draws, and he's notched several songs with more than 1 billion streams on Spotify.

Wallen's last area concerts were a pair of sold-out shows at Ford Field in June 2023.


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