After announcing last week that his upcoming fourth studio album, I’m The Problem, was “officially done,” Morgan Wallen revealed the released date for the project on Thursday morning (March 20). The news came via an Instagram post featuring footage of the singer in the studio with the title track playing as a hand sketches his profile for the cover of the LP due out on May 16.

The album’s release will coincide with the singer’s upcoming Sand in My Boots Festival in Gulf Shores, AL on May 16-18.

“I have been a problem, for sure, and I’ve got no problem admitting that,” Wallen said in a statement. “But there are other sides to me as well. I’ve spent the last 11 months really trying to figure out, ‘Do I still want to be the problem? Is it time to move past that phase in my life?’ I think it probably is, and this might be the last time I get a chance to honestly say it.”

According to a release, Wallen spent nearly a year writing and honing the tracklist on a farm outside of Nashville with his crew of collaborators that includes producers Joey Moi and Charlie Handsome, boiling down the sessions into a collection that combines “Wallen’s country, cross and dirt-rock influences” while also taking inventory of “where he’s been and where he’s headed — and not shying away from the past.”

The street date reveal set up fans for the release of two news songs on Thursday night, the previously teased contemplative ballad “Just in Case,” written by Wallen, John Byron, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Ryan Vojtesak, Josh Thompson, Blake Pendergrass and Alex Bak and world-gone-mad serenade “I’m a Little Crazy.” The latter was written by Michael Hardy, Smith Ahnquist, Hunter Phelps and Jameson Rodgers, with both songs produced by Moi, with Handsome co-producing “Just in Case.”

I’m the Problem is the follow-up to Wallen’s hit LPs 2021’s Dangerous: The Double Album — which spent 10 weeks atop the all-genre Billboard 200 album chart — and 2023’s One Thing at a Time, which spent 19 total weeks at the top of the chart. In the run-up to the release, Wallen has previewed several songs, including the Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Love Somebody,” as well as “Lies Lies Lies,” “Smile” and the title track; at press time the full track listing for the album has not yet been announced.

Wallen will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on March 29 along with host Oscar-winning Anora star Mikey Madison.

Check out Wallen’s album announce video below.