Morgan Wallen's New Album - ‘I'm the Problem’: Everything We Know So Far

When ‘Smile’ arrived as a surprise single on New Year's Eve alongside a cinematic music video that we suspect contains a few cryptic clues, it felt like an announcement about Morgan Wallen's highly anticipated fourth studio album was imminent.

Then, on January 24th, the news we'd been anxiously awaiting finally dropped, with Morgan Wallen confirming the title of his new album, I'm the Problem. The title-track - which seems to be the same song Wallen teased more than a year ago, that was speculatively named ‘I Guess’ - will be made available on Friday, January 31st.

A sprawling I'm the Problem Tour has been unveiled in tandem with the album and title-track news, with Wallen headlining stadiums in Texas, California, Florida and more. He'll be joined by a top-tier cast of artists: Brooks & Dunn, Miranda Lambert, Thomas Rhett, Koe Wetzel, Anne Wilson, Ella Langley, Corey Kent and Gavin Adcock.

Wallen continues to tease that he's hard at work on his next record, sharing a photo from what appears to be a recording session in mid-January with the caption, ‘Locked in’. In his I'm the Problem Instagram post, he explained that he's still finalising the project.

Alongside ‘I'm the Problem‘ and ’Smile’, Morgan Wallen's new project is expected to feature the already-released singles, ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ and ‘Love Somebody’, as well as previously teased fan-favourites ’Redneck’ and - most recently - ‘Since You Got Gone’.

‘Redneck’ was mysteriously deleted from Wallen's Instagram page in recent weeks, leaving followers concerned he might no longer be planning on releasing the song as part of his next album. However, the Sneedville megastar did the same with a few social media snippets ahead of his previous record, One Thing At A Time, so it seems there's still hope for this track, which finds the ‘Thought You Should Know’ crooner hoping that a sleek, city-based man he meets in traffic will be reborn in the sticks, so he can learn to appreciate the beauty of rural living.

Expectations are high following the chart-dominating and record-breaking success of his 2023 project, One Thing At A Time, which was Spotify's most-streamed album of the year.

Some details are still under wraps, but as we put forward in our prediction piece at the start of 2025, we have a theory that Morgan Wallen is planning to drop his new album on April 4th, 2025. A few fans hypothesised that the project may be called Dark Til Daylight, due to this being the name of the fictional talk-show in the ‘Smile’ video, but the title has since been confirmed as I'm the Problem. There is, however, an unreleased song registered on the ASCAP repertory that's been penned by a couple of Wallen's go-to collaborators, Rocky Block, who co-write ‘Smile’, and Chris Tompkins, who worked on ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, along with prolific country songsmith, Jimmy Robbins. As a result, we imagine ‘Dark Til Daylight’ could be one of the tracks on the forthcoming record.

While there's no official release date just yet, it's undoubtedly exciting that 2025 is officially the year we get a new album from Morgan Wallen, with the ‘Last Night’ chart-topper tending to space each record apart by around two years. While this is a little longer than some artists, Wallen more than makes up for it with his lengthy tracklists, and we're hoping we have another 30+ songs to look forward to this year.

2023's One Thing At A Time arrived on March 3rd - or rather, 3/3 - with a lot of the branding around the rollout billing the project as ‘March 3, Wallen 3’. The ‘Everything I Love’ hitmaker has a penchant for releasing new music on special dates, with ‘Smile’ dropping on New Year's Eve, the spiritually-themed ’Don't Think Jesus’ coming out around Easter and his sweet ode to his mom, ’Thought You Should Know’, being made available on Mother's Day. Therefore, we reckon Morgan Wallen might be plotting to release his fourth album on April 4th - 4/4 - this year.

What's more, this would be timed relatively well for his inaugural Sand in My Boots Festival 2025, which is lined up for mid-May, giving Wallen a slew of brand new tracks to debut during his momentous headline set at the Gulf Shores extravaganza.

There have been some rumours regarding potential features on Wallen's next project. In early 2023, fans began speculating that Morgan Wallen has a duet with Lainey Wilson up his sleeve, after Morgan wrote ‘I guess Country's Cool Now’ on his Instagram stories. Many eagle-eyed followers have taken that to be a reference to Lainey's own song, ‘Country's Cool Again’, and her 2024 tour of the same name.

During Morgan's Kansas City tour-stop in August 2024, he brought out Lainey for a spellbinding duet of ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, again fuelling suspicions they have a collaboration on the way.

In September 2023, Morgan was again stoking the flames of speculation regarding new music, when the ‘You Proof’ singer-songwriter captioned an Instagram post with what looks like a set of lyrics from an unreleased song, “You thought the grass was greener, now you’re in the weeds / You always were your own worst enemy”.

One thing is for sure, Morgan Wallen has more eyes and ears focussed on him than ever before. Following the colossal all-genre success of ‘Last Night’, ‘I Had Some Help’ with Post Malone and latterly ‘Love Somebody’, a blockbuster world tour and link-ups with the likes of Drake, Lil Durk and Moneybagg Yo, this is shaping up to be the album that officially cements Wallen's status as a modern-day crossover titan.

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