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'''''One Thing at a Time''''' is the third studio album by American ] singer ], released on March 3, 2023, through ].<ref name="MMM">{{cite web|url=https://musicmayhemmagazine.com/morgan-wallen-announces-36-track-album-one-thing-at-a-time-featuring-duets-with-eric-church-hardy-ernest/|title=Morgan Wallen Announces 36-Track Album 'One Thing At A Time' Featuring Duets With Eric Church, Hardy & Ernest|website=Music Mayhem Magazine|last=Wendowski|first=Andrew|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> It features 36 tracks, including the singles "]", "]", "]", ] and the promotional single "]", as well as collaborations with ], ] and ]. A sampler containing three tracks from the album—"One Thing at a Time", "Days That End in Why" and "Tennessee Fan"—preceded the album in December 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://countrynow.com/breaking-morgan-wallen-announces-new-album-one-thing-at-a-time/|title=Breaking: Morgan Wallen Announces New Album, 'One Thing At A Time'|website=Country Now|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> The announcement of the album came alongside the release of three more tracks— "]", "I Wrote the Book", and "]"— which became his first ] number one, staying atop for 15 weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://substreammagazine.com/2023/01/morgan-wallen-one-thing-news-album/|title=Morgan Wallen announces new album + to share 3 new songs|website=Substream Magazine|last=White|first=Logan|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> '''''One Thing at a Time''''' is the third studio album by American ] singer ], released on March 3, 2023, through ].<ref name="MMM">{{cite web|url=https://musicmayhemmagazine.com/morgan-wallen-announces-36-track-album-one-thing-at-a-time-featuring-duets-with-eric-church-hardy-ernest/|title=Morgan Wallen Announces 36-Track Album 'One Thing At A Time' Featuring Duets With Eric Church, Hardy & Ernest|website=Music Mayhem Magazine|last=Wendowski|first=Andrew|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> It features 36 tracks, including the singles "]", "]", "]", ] and the promotional single "]", as well as collaborations with ], ] and ]. A sampler containing three tracks from the album—"One Thing at a Time", "Days That End in Why" and "Tennessee Fan"—preceded the album in December 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://countrynow.com/breaking-morgan-wallen-announces-new-album-one-thing-at-a-time/|title=Breaking: Morgan Wallen Announces New Album, 'One Thing At A Time'|website=Country Now|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref> The announcement of the album came alongside the release of three more tracks— "]", "I Wrote the Book", and "]"— which became his first ] number one, staying atop for 16 weeks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://substreammagazine.com/2023/01/morgan-wallen-one-thing-news-album/|title=Morgan Wallen announces new album + to share 3 new songs|website=Substream Magazine|last=White|first=Logan|date=January 30, 2023|access-date=January 31, 2023}}</ref>


The album received mixed reviews from critics, and debuted at number one on the US ] with 501,000 ]s, marking the biggest week for a country album by units since 2021. Wallen will embark on the One Night at a Time Tour in support of the album from April 2023.<ref name="MMM"/> The album received mixed reviews from critics, and debuted at number one on the US ] with 501,000 ]s, marking the biggest week for a country album by units since 2021. Wallen will embark on the One Night at a Time Tour in support of the album from April 2023.<ref name="MMM"/>

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2023 studio album by Morgan Wallen
One Thing at a Time
Studio album by Morgan Wallen
ReleasedMarch 3, 2023 (2023-03-03)
GenreCountry pop
Length111:36
Label
Producer
Morgan Wallen chronology
Dangerous: The Double Album
(2021) 		One Thing at a Time
(2023)
Singles from One Thing at a Time
  1. "You Proof"
    Released: July 18, 2022
  2. "Thought You Should Know"
    Released: November 7, 2022
  3. "Last Night"
    Released: February 6, 2023
  4. "One Thing at a Time"
    Released: March 13, 2023
  5. "Everything I Love"
    Released: June 26, 2023

One Thing at a Time is the third studio album by American country music singer Morgan Wallen, released on March 3, 2023, through Big Loud Records. It features 36 tracks, including the singles "You Proof", "Thought You Should Know", "Last Night", the title track and the promotional single "Don't Think Jesus", as well as collaborations with Eric Church, Hardy and Ernest. A sampler containing three tracks from the album—"One Thing at a Time", "Days That End in Why" and "Tennessee Fan"—preceded the album in December 2022. The announcement of the album came alongside the release of three more tracks— "Everything I Love", "I Wrote the Book", and "Last Night"— which became his first Billboard Hot 100 number one, staying atop for 16 weeks.

The album received mixed reviews from critics, and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 501,000 album-equivalent units, marking the biggest week for a country album by units since 2021. Wallen will embark on the One Night at a Time Tour in support of the album from April 2023.

Background

In a statement released January 30, Wallen explained that the album "brings together the musical influences that have shaped as an artist – country, alternative and hip-hop" and the album ended up with 36 songs "because just kept exploring with fresh lyrics, music and production ideas and these are the songs that felt right" to him. Billboard described the album as "genre-blending".

The cover photograph was taken at Wallen's grandfather's home in Sneedville, Tennessee.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic47/100
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Pitchfork4.1/10
Slant Magazine

One Thing at a Time received mixed reviews from critics, with a score of 47 out of 100 based on five critics' reviews at review aggregator Metacritic. Paul Attard of Slant Magazine found One Thing at a Time to be "wildly uneven" with "little here that could be considered fresh by Wallen's standards", as "his music is typically concerned with one of three things: getting shitfaced, being lovesick, or Jesus" while still having several "production flourishes" that see Wallen "experimenting, if ever so slightly, with his sound".

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the album's "untrammeled sprawl means offers a little something for everybody", with "party songs, sad songs, songs that lift liberally from classic rock standards" as well as "songs about beer, songs about whiskey, and songs about wine". Sam Sodomsky of Pitchfork criticized the length, apparent ethos of "Wallen being true to only himself" while having 49 co-writers, and the tracks "covering the same thematic territory", although acknowledging there are occasional "minimalist rhythms" that "accentuate his gift for delivering tugging, bittersweet pop melodies" as well as "couplets clever enough to catch you off guard". Sodomsky felt that the title "seems to acknowledge that Wallen considers this a transitional moment" and concluded that "none of this leads to anything interesting enough to change how you think of Morgan Wallen".

Commercial performance

One Thing at a Time debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 dated March 18, 2023, with 501,000 album-equivalent units, including 111,500 pure album sales. It is Wallen's second consecutive US number-one album and marks the biggest week of 2023 for album units earned, and overall biggest week for a country album since Red (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift in November 2021. Its 36 tracks earned a total of 498.28 million on-demand streams. The album has spent 15 weeks at number-one on the chart, surpassing Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti as the album with the most number one weeks this decade.

In the week of the album's release, all 36 tracks entered the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record set by Drake in 2018 for most songs by an artist on the chart at one time, as well as the record for most debuts on the chart, with 27. Wallen also occupied five of the top 10 songs and achieved his first number-one song with "Last Night".

Track listing

One Thing at a Time track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Born with a Beer in My Hand"3:07
2."Last Night"2:43
3."Everything I Love"3:05
4."Man Made a Bar" (featuring Eric Church)3:09
5."Devil Don't Know"3:24
6."One Thing at a Time"
  • Gorley
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
  • Wallen
3:26
7."'98 Braves"
  • Byron
  • Josh Miller
  • Travis Wood
2:58
8."Ain't That Some"
  • Chris LaCorte
  • Chase McGill
  • Miller
  • Blake Pendergrass
2:37
9."I Wrote the Book"
  • Wallen
  • Hardy
  • Cameron Montgomery
3:00
10."Tennessee Numbers"
  • Jordan Minton
  • Pendergrass
  • Wood
3:45
11."Hope That's True"
  • Wallen
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
3:05
12."Whiskey Friends"3:24
13."Sunrise"
  • Byron
  • Pendergrass
3:01
14."Keith Whitley"
  • Thomas Archer
  • Brad Clawson
  • Mullins
3:07
15."In the Bible" (featuring Hardy)
  • Byron
  • Jeff Garrison
  • Jon Hall
  • Ben Johnson
  • Geoffrey Warburton
3:14
16."You Proof"
  • Wallen
  • Gorley
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
2:36
17."Thought You Should Know"3:34
18."F150-50"3:10
19."Neon Star (Country Boy Lullaby)"
  • Wallen
  • Smith
  • Thompson
  • Vojtesak
2:51
20."I Deserve a Drink"3:24
21."Wine into Water"3:43
22."Me + All Your Reasons"
  • Wallen
  • Gorley
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
2:53
23."Tennessee Fan"
  • Wallen
  • Gorley
  • Hardy
  • Mark Holman
3:18
24."Money on Me"
  • Michael Lotten
  • Pendergrass
  • Matt Roy
2:55
25."Thinkin' Bout Me"
  • Byron
  • Gorley
  • Taylor Phillips
  • Vojtesak
2:56
26."Single Than She Was"
  • Byron
  • Johnson
  • Vojtesak
2:40
27."Days That End in Why"
  • Byron
  • Pendergrass
  • Driver Williams
2:41
28."Last Drive Down Main"3:13
29."Me to Me"
  • Wallen
  • Gorley
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
2:18
30."Don't Think Jesus"3:44
31."180 (Lifestyle)"3:07
32."Had It"3:18
33."Cowgirls" (featuring Ernest)
  • Block
  • Gorley
  • James Maddocks
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
3:01
34."Good Girl Gone Missin'"
  • Wallen
  • Gorley
  • Maddocks
  • Smith
  • Vojtesak
2:54
35."Outlook"3:13
36."Dying Man"
  • Johnson
  • Pendergrass
  • Thompson
3:02
Total length:111:36

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

  • Morgan Wallen – vocals
  • Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (tracks 1–15, 17–29, 31–34, 36), ukulele (2), mandolin (4, 7, 8, 14, 15, 20, 23, 28–30, 33, 36), banjo (8), Dobro (11), bouzouki (36)
  • Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar (1, 3–5, 7–15, 17–24, 26–33, 35, 36)
  • Jerry Roe – drums (1, 3–8, 10–12, 14–24, 26–32, 34–36), percussion (1–7, 9, 11, 15, 17–19, 23–25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 34–36)
  • Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
  • Derek Wells – electric guitar (1, 3, 11)
  • Dave Cohen – keyboards (all tracks), Hammond B3 organ (17, 30, 35)
  • Zach Abend – programming (1)
  • Charlie Handsome – programming (2, 16, 25, 31, 34), electric guitar (3, 25)
  • Wes Hightower – background vocals (3, 14, 15, 28, 33)
  • Dan Dugmore – steel guitar (4, 10, 14, 20, 36)
  • Eric Church – vocals (4)
  • Todd Lombardo – acoustic guitar (5, 16, 27, 30, 35), mandolin (17, 30)
  • Paul Franklin – steel guitar (5, 7, 17, 30, 32)
  • Mark Hill – bass guitar (6)
  • Jacob Durrett – programming (8, 9, 13, 19, 31, 33)
  • Cameron Montgomery – programming (9)
  • Hardy – vocals (15)
  • Ben Stennis – programming (18)
  • Dominic Frost – electric guitar (23, 29)
  • Ernest – vocals (33)
  • James Maddocks – programming (34)
  • Ashlyne Wallen – background vocals (35)

Technical

  • Joey Moi – production, mixing
  • Charlie Handsome – co-production (2, 16, 25, 34)
  • Jacob Durrett – co-production (9, 13, 19, 31, 33)
  • Cameron Montgomery – co-production (9)
  • Ted Jensen – mastering (1–5, 7–22, 24–26, 28–36)
  • Justin Shturtz – mastering (6, 23, 27)
  • Josh Ditty – engineering, editing (all tracks); co-mixing (3, 35)
  • Elvind Mordland – editing (all tracks), co-mixing (1, 26)
  • Ryan Yount – editing, engineering assistance
  • Scott Cooke – editing
  • Steve Cordray – engineering assistance (1, 14, 18, 20, 28)
  • Joey Stanca – engineering assistance (2, 3, 8–10, 12, 21, 23, 26, 29, 33, 36)
  • Sean Badum – engineering assistance (4, 5, 7, 13, 15–17, 19, 22, 25, 27, 30, 31, 35)
  • Lucas Glenney-Tegtmeier – engineering assistance (6, 11)
  • Ally Gecewicz – production coordination

Charts

Chart performance for One Thing at a Time
Chart (2023) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) 1
Australian Country Albums (ARIA) 1
Canadian Albums (Billboard) 1
Irish Albums (OCC) 18
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 1
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) 9
Scottish Albums (OCC) 30
UK Albums (OCC) 40
UK Country Albums (OCC) 1
US Billboard 200 1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 1

Certifications

Certifications for One Thing at a Time
Region Certification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) Platinum 15,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

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