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Country superstar Morgan Wallen will kick off his 2026 Still the Problem tour with two nights at U.S. Bank Stadium on April 10 and 11. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 7 through Axs. Fans who register at stilltheproblem.com by 10 p.m. Nov. 6 have access to a presale. Thomas Rhett, Gavin Adcock and Vincent Mason open the first night, with Hardy stepping in for Rhett on the second. Wallen, 32, emerged in 2014 as a contestant on the sixth season of “The Voice,” but was eliminated during the playoffs. He released his debut EP the following year and scored his first major hit with 2017’s “Up Down.” After releasing his debut album “If I Know Me” in 2018, Wallen hit the road and opened for Luke Bryan at Target Field that July. His sophomore effort, “Dangerous: The Double Album,” earned glowing reviews and was the biggest hit of any genre in 2021. Nearly every single he’s released has landed at either No. 1 or 2 on the country charts. And that’s a lot of singles, as he issued eight from 2023’s “One Thing at a Time” and seven (so far) from his fourth and most recent album “I’m the Problem.” Wallen’s biggest hits include “Whiskey Glasses,” “Chasin’ You,” “More Than My Hometown,” “Wasted on You” and “Last Night.” Wallen’s success has come with some controversy. In early 2021, the gossip website TMZ released a video showing Wallen using a racial epithet, just weeks after the release of “Dangerous.” He was arrested in 2020 after getting kicked out of Kid Rock’s Nashville bar, although the case was later dismissed. Last year, he was arrested again, this time for throwing a chair off the roof of Eric Church’s Nashville bar. In December, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to serve seven days in a DUI education center and two years of supervised probation. The upcoming shows will be Wallen’s fourth and fifth at the Vikings stadium. He opened for Church there in June 2022 and returned two years later as a headliner for two nights. Wallen will also tie Taylor Swift’s record of playing two consecutive USBS shows on two different tours. Garth Brooks and Metallica are the only other acts to headline two nights in a row.
