The Voice cut Morgan Wallen in the playoffs. His albums out-certify Carrie Underwood’s.

His albums out-certify every winner of the three shows

Big Loud announced the signing in August 2016. Dangerous: The Double Album came out in January 2021. In February 2021 Big Loud suspended his contract after a video showed him shouting a racial slur, and radio stations pulled his music. One Thing at a Time followed in 2023.

None of the 12 finalists of his season has a certified album. Josh Kaufman won it on Usher’s team.

Certified album units, release by release

One block per album or EP, sized by its RIAA certification. Tap or hover a block for its title.

Morgan Wallen26.5 million

Biggest block: Dangerous: The Double Album, 9 million

• Stand Alone (2015) · 500,000 certified units
• If I Know Me (2018) · 4 million certified units
• Dangerous: The Double Album (2021) · 9 million certified units
• One Thing at a Time (2023) · 9 million certified units
• I'm the Problem (2025) · 4 million certified units

Carrie Underwood23 million

Biggest block: Some Hearts, 9 million

• Some Hearts (2005) · 9 million certified units
• Carnival Ride (2007) · 4 million certified units
• Play On (2009) · 3 million certified units
• Blown Away (2012) · 3 million certified units
• Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014) · 1 million certified units
• Storyteller (2015) · 1 million certified units
• Cry Pretty (2018) · 1 million certified units
• My Gift (2020) · 500,000 certified units
• My Savior (2021) · 500,000 certified units

Kelly Clarkson12.5 million

Biggest block: Breakaway, 6 million

• Thankful (2003) · 2 million certified units
• Breakaway (2004) · 6 million certified units
• My December (2007) · 1 million certified units
• Stronger (2011) · 1 million certified units
• Greatest Hits – Chapter One (2012) · 500,000 certified units
• Wrapped in Red (2013) · 1 million certified units
• Piece by Piece (2015) · 500,000 certified units
• Meaning of Life (2017) · 500,000 certified units

No finalist draws more Wikipedia readers

From October 2025 to September 2026, Wallen’s Wikipedia article drew more views than the article of any finalist of American Idol, The Voice or The X Factor. Among the finalists, Christina Grimmie, third in his season, ranked third. She was shot and killed in 2016.

Readers come for any reason, music or not.

No chair turned for a future Idol winner

Maddie Poppe sang Dog Days Are Over in the blind auditions of season 10 in 2016, and no coach turned around. Two years later she won American Idol. Her runner-up, Caleb Lee Hutchinson, had also gone out in a Voice blind audition.

Songs, soundtracks and a label after the Battles and Knockouts

Nicolle Galyon and Fousheé went home in the Battles. Katherine Ho and Blessing Offor left in the Knockouts. Their later work reached listeners through other artists, a film and their own records.

Luke Combs got a rejection letter after his producer auditions

Luke Combs described his Voice audition in an interview reported by Wide Open Country in 2024. He said he passed rounds with the producers, then received a rejection letter, so he did not get to the televised show.

In 2022, Combs won the CMA Entertainer of the Year award. His album Fathers & Sons came out in June 2024.

Kane Brown chose a solo career when The X Factor proposed a group

Kane Brown told City Lifestyle that The X Factor wanted to put solo singers in a group. He chose to continue as a solo artist. He said he later signed some of those singers, as Restless Road, to his label venture with Sony.

Brown’s Worldwide Beautiful won the ACM Video of the Year award in 2021.