Morgan Wallen, a popular country music singer and songwriter, went viral over the weekend after videos started circulating of him flipping a piano during a Denver performance.
show the country singer walking up to the piano during his Friday night concert at Empower Field and .
Morgan Wallen flips piano over technical difficulties during his show.
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“Just sing it a capella, this piano ain’t working,” Wallen is heard saying to the crowd in one video . He then appeared to finish the song — “Sand in My Boots” — unaccompanied before flipping the piano.
It’s unclear what technical difficulties Wallen was referring to, but the tipping prompted mixed reactions on social media.
“Just shows how much he puts into his shows,” one fan commented on a . “He wants everything to be perfect.”
“Flip it again. HE DONT NEED NO PIANO. He CAN sing! 👏,” another wrote in the .
Others were not as impressed.
“I can’t stand him why would he do that,” .
“He keeps getting worse and worse,” .
The country singer bounced back for night two with a new piano ready to go, according to videos from his second performance at the Denver stadium.
“Let’s see if this piano works tonight,” , referring to the technical difficulties that led to the previous night’s incident.
The two Denver concerts were part of Wallen’s Still the Problem Tour, an extension of his 2025 I’m the Problem Tour.
Born and raised in Tennessee, the two-time Grammy nominee is one of the biggest names in contemporary popular music, loved for his earworm hooks and distinctive combination of bro country, dirt-rock and certain hallmarks of hip-hop. His 2023 album “One Thing at a Time” broke Garth Brooks’ record for longest-running No. 1 country album, and his 2025 album “I’m The Problem” spent 12 weeks at No. 1.
Wallen’s career has been marked by several other controversies, including a 2020 arrest on public intoxication and disorderly conduct charges after being kicked out of Kid Rock’s bar in downtown Nashville. In 2021, , he was disqualified or limited from several award shows and received no Grammy nominations for his massively popular “Dangerous: The Double Album.”
Wallen when he threw a chair off a Nashville honky-tonk bar roof in 2024, nearly hitting two police officers. Wallen pleaded guilty in December 2024 to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment and was sentenced to seven days in a DUI education center and two years of supervised probation.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
