Leaked Jail Call Reportedly Shows Rapper Young Thug Admitting To Buying Streams To Try To Beat Morgan Wallen On The Charts

Hard to beat Morgan Wallen on the charts these days.

Along with being the most-played artist on country radio so far this year, the most-played artist on TouchTunes throughout 2025 and the first artist ever to spend at least 10 weeks at #1 with three consecutive albums (I’m The Problem, One Thing At A Time, and Dangerous: The Double Album), Morgan has just spent his 43rd week at #1 on the Billboard album chart. The “Last Night” singer has now spent the second-most weeks atop the chart this century, passing Adele’s 40 weeks. He is now second only to Taylor Swift, who owns a staggering 86 weeks at #1.

It’s no wonder artists are pulling out all the stops to try to knock him off. In fact, leaked audio shows the extent to which artists are willing to go to try to dethrone Morgan from the top of the charts.

In a leaked jail call from 2023, rapper Young Thug can be heard discussing paying for streams to try to beat Morgan Wallen on the charts.

After being told that Morgan was going to do “100,000” units a week no matter what, Young Thug (whose real name is Jeffrey Lamar Williams II) can be heard on the call questioning why they didn’t ask Morgan to be on his record:

“Why the f–k didn’t we think to put him on the album?”

And Thug then asks the person on the other end if he still has a “plug,” referring to someone who can use bots to generate fake streams for his 2023 album Business Is Business, which dropped on June 23 and peaked at #2 on the Hot 200 album chart – while the top spot was occupied by Morgan’s album One Thing At A Time.

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Young Thug finds out his album might lose to Morgan Wallen so he asked for bots #youngthug #thug #gunna #morganwallen #fyp

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Ironically, Young Thug is credited as a writer “180 (Lifestyle),” a song that was featured on One Thing At A Time, which samples the song “Lifestyle” by Rich Gang, Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan.

But the leaked call also brings to the forefront what has been a pretty open secret in the music industry: Using fake streams to boost an album’s performance in order to move it up the charts.

It’s not exactly a secret that the charts are easily manipulated, and that labels who pour millions and millions of dollars into these albums will even include the purchase of bot streams into their budget to try to boost the album on the charts.

It’s yet another reason that you can’t really put too much stock into the charts these days, especially in the era of streaming. Somebody listening to all 36 songs on Morgan’s album counts for twice as much as one listen of another album that only has half the songs, and when you can simply pay for fake streams, a lot of the data ends up being meaningless.

Now, it would be an outlier and look really suspicious if an unknown artist suddenly outstreamed Morgan Wallen or some other massive superstar, so obviously there are limits to the manipulation. An album’s streaming numbers have to be at least somewhat believable, even if they’re inflated.

But apparently even the fake streams for Young Thug weren’t enough to push his album past Morgan Wallen.The post Leaked Jail Call Reportedly Shows Rapper Young Thug Admitting To Buying Streams To Try To Beat Morgan Wallen On The Charts first appeared on Whiskey Riff.