{"id":201,"date":"2018-08-16T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morganwallen.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2018-08-16T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:51:31","slug":"morgan-wallen-doubles-down-on-platinum-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/morgan-wallen-doubles-down-on-platinum-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"MORGAN WALLEN DOUBLES DOWN ON PLATINUM CERTIFICATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195 aligncenter\" src=\"<?php echo site_url(); ?>\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/unnamed.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;&#8221; width=&#8221;1280&#8243; height=&#8221;852&#8243; \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>NASHVILLE, Tenn.<\/strong>\u00a0(Aug. 16, 2018) &#8211; <strong>Big Loud Records&#8217;<\/strong> newest star\u00a0<strong>MORGAN WALLEN<\/strong>\u00a0is celebrating a one-two punch of PLATINUM level certifications from the RIAA: as a songwriter on <strong>Jason Aldean\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>sultry #1 \u201cYou Make It Easy\u201d<\/strong> and as an artist on his summertime smash <strong>\u201cUp Down\u201d featuring Florida Georgia Line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Last week <strong>Wallen<\/strong> shared the stage with <strong>Aldean<\/strong>, alongisde <strong>\u201cYou Make It Easy\u201d<\/strong> co-writers <strong>Jordan Schmidt and FGL\u2019s Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard<\/strong>, in a \u201cfull circle moment\u201d to celebrate the song\u2019s swift ascent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Also last week, <strong>Wallen<\/strong> joined collaborators <strong>FGL<\/strong> for a surprise performance of <strong>\u201cUp Down\u201d<\/strong> on\u00a0<em>CMA Fest<\/em>.\u00a0<strong>In case you missed it, check out the high-energy clip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/0pw2jd\/gyt2d2\/cniv2gb\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">His first <strong>#1<\/strong> as an artist, <strong>\u201cUp Down\u201d<\/strong> is featured on <strong>Wallen\u2019s<\/strong> debut album\u00a0<strong><em>IF I KNOW ME<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>released\u00a0April 27. The \u201cimpressive piece of work\u201d (<em>Taste of Country<\/em>) is available now at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/0pw2jd\/gyt2d2\/sfjv2gb\">all digital retailers<\/a>. It also houses his latest single<strong> \u201cWhiskey Glasses,\u201d<\/strong> which is steadily making its way up the charts after being among the most added at Country radio its first week of release.\u00a0<em>Whiskey Riff\u00a0<\/em>calls the play-on-words tune \u201cclever, catchy and if you\u2019ve ever had to drink away a broken heart, you know exactly where he\u2019s coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The wildfire talent continues to bring crowds to their feet as support on <strong>Luke Bryan\u2019s WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY TOUR<\/strong> and has been tapped to join label mat<strong>e Jake Owen\u2019s LIFE\u2019S WHATCHA MAKE IT TOUR 2018<\/strong> b<strong>eginning\u00a0October 4,<\/strong> along with special guest David Lee Murphy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wallen<\/strong> will wow the audience in Syracuse, NY\u00a0tomorrow\u00a0(8\/17) before heading to Bristow, VA\u00a0Saturday(8\/18). He\u2019ll hit the stage at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on\u00a0August 25\u00a0for his tenth stadium stand on<strong> Bryan\u2019s<\/strong> XL &#8211; STADIUM SIZED dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morganwallen.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}