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Traveller (Chris Stapleton album)

January 19, 2024

Traveller is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton. The album was produced by Dave Cobb and Stapleton, and was released on May 5, 2015, through Mercury Nashville.

Traveller
Studio album by
Chris Stapleton
ReleasedMay 5, 2015 (2015-05-05)
StudioRCA Studio A, Blackbird Studios in Nashville
Genre
Length63:04
LabelMercury Nashville
Producer
Chris Stapleton chronology
Traveller
(2015) 		From A Room: Volume 1
(2017)
Singles from Traveller
  1. "Traveller"
    Released: April 27, 2015
  2. "Nobody to Blame"
    Released: November 9, 2015
  3. "Parachute"
    Released: May 2, 2016[1]

Described by music publications as an old-school country, Southern rock record, Traveller received critical acclaim and earned Stapleton several awards. It was named Album of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards. Furthermore, it received a nomination at the 58th Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and a win for Best Country Album. The song "Traveller" also won Best Country Solo Performance. At the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards it won Album of the Year, with the song "Nobody to Blame" also winning Song of the Year. It won the Billboard Music Award for Top Country Album in 2016 and 2017.

Traveller reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart after the 2015 Country Music Association Awards, during which Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performed a well-received duet. The album has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and has sold over 2.6 million copies in the United States by November 2019.[2] It was eventually ranked by Billboard as the bestselling country album of the 2010s.[3] It generated three singles: "Traveller", "Nobody to Blame", and "Parachute". "Nobody to Blame" reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart.[4] The album track "Fire Away" was accompanied by a music video.[5] Though not released as a radio single, album track "Tennessee Whiskey" garnered popularity following its performance at the aforementioned CMA awards, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 20 on the Hot 100.[6][7]

Music and composition edit

I lost my dad in October 2013 and did a little bit of soul-searching. My wife was kind enough to buy me an old Jeep. We flew out to Phoenix and drove it all the way back to Nashville through the desert. I thought a lot about music and my dad, and the things that he would have liked that I should be doing. Out of that, I actually wrote the song 'Traveller' driving down Interstate 40 through New Mexico. That became the cornerstone for the record and wound up being the title track.

 — Stapleton speaking about his inspiration for the album during an interview with Billboard[8]

The album is an old-school country record mixed with Southern rock. Tracks on the album features electric guitar, mandolin, and acoustic guitar. "The Devil Named Music" exclaims the hard life on the road, while "Might As Well Get Stoned" features resignation lyrics.[9] Musically, "Sometimes I Cry" is a blues song,[9] "Nobody to Blame" a mid-tempo country rock track,[10] and "Fire Away" features a beat in a classic soul-ballad time signature.[11] "Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore" shrouds reflections about his father in the language of religious backsliding and was previously covered by Julie Roberts in 2013.[12] In an interview for Rolling Stone, Stapleton commented "If somebody tells me it sounds dated, I'd say that's great, as long as the date is 1978. My favorite things are from then."[9]

Stapleton wrote or co-wrote all but two of the album's 14 tracks. The album features a blues-influenced cover of David Allan Coe's single "Tennessee Whiskey", and Charlie Daniels' "Was It 26", written by Don Sampson.[9]

Commercial performance edit

The album debuted on the Top Country Albums chart at number two, and the Billboard 200 at number 14, selling 27,000 copies in the week ending May 10.[13]

Six months after the album was released, Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performed "Tennessee Whiskey" at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards where Traveller won Album of the Year.[14] Following the performance, sales for the album increased 6,000%[15] and it re-entered the Billboard 200 at number one after being absent from the chart since September, with 177,000 equivalent album units (153,000 in pure album sales). According to Billboard, the surge in sales is owed to how a mass audience discovered Stapleton on the November 4 CMA Awards broadcast. Traveller is also the first debut country album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 in over four years, with Clear as Day (2011) by Scotty McCreery being the last.[16] It became the first album to reenter the chart at number one. It remained at number one for a second week with 124,000 album-equivalent units, including 97,000 pure album sales.[17] The album track "Tennessee Whiskey" topped the Hot Country Songs chart,[18] and reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album sold 685,000 copies in the United States in 2015.[19] In February 2016, Traveller was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and double platinum in September.[20] It became the fourth best-selling album of 2016 in the nation, and the top selling country album, with 1.04 million copies sold that year.[19] The album surpassed the 2 million sales mark in the US in July 2017,[21] and it was the second best-selling country album of 2017 (after Stapleton's second album From A Room: Volume 1.[22] It hold the records for the most weeks atop the Americana/Folk Albums chart (81 in total as of August 2019).[23] It topped the Billboard Year-End Top Country Albums chart in 2016 and 2017.[24][25] It was certified quadruple platinum on July 24, 2019 for 4 million units in sales and streams.[20] As of March 2020, the album has accrued 4.3 million units in the country in total,[26] with 2.6 million copies in traditional album sales.[2]

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[27]
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk          [28]
AllMusic     [29]
Billboard     [12]
Digital JournalA[30]
Exclaim!9/10[31]
NPR(Favorable)[32]
The Daily Telegraph     [33]
Wall Street Journal(Favorable)[34]

Traveller received critical acclaim upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics, the album has received an average score of 85, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 6 reviews.[27] In a review for Billboard, editor Caitlin White gave the album four-out-of-five stars, describing Traveller as a "solemn album, the work of a man gripped by life's impermanence", noting "undercurrents of regret, loss and resignation" in songs like "Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore", "Nobody to Blame" and "Devil Named Music". About the record's sound direction, she commented "Stapleton's songs are both rhythmic and nuanced, perhaps a by-product of years spent writing for others. They feature a cast of characters that remain likable even as they rush headlong into pursuit of ruin, fortune or chance." White concluded "it's a triumphant debut, encapsulating the grit of life, turning it into a hell of a journey."[12] In Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis wrote "Stapleton's trenchant pen combines with his soul-drenched rasp of a voice for a moving exploration of the panoply of emotions in the human experience."[35]

Critics from Rolling Stone opined Traveller "encapsulates everything that makes him one of the most powerful and unique voices in country music today: gravelly, soulful and full of songs that ring like instant classics without ever resting too deeply in the past."[36] In their year-end summary they stated "every track goes straight for the emotional jugular and give a glimpse inside a wildly introspective mind."[37] Editor Owen R. Smith from The Seattle Times noted the instruments mandolin, banjo, pedal steel guitar "are all given room to shine, even when Stapleton dips his toe into some menacing country rock in "Nobody to Blame" or electrified bluesy swagger in "Might As Well Get Stoned.""[10]

Accolades edit

Publication List Rank Ref.
American Songwriter Top 50 Albums of 2015
1
[38]
Billboard 25 Best Albums of 2015
13
[39]
Brooklyn Magazine The Best of 2015
no order
[40]
The 20 Best Country Albums of 2015
2
[41]
Entertainment Weekly The 40 Best Albums of 2015
7
[42]
NPR 50 Favorite Albums of 2015
no order
[43]
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2015
21
[37]
40 Best Country Albums of 2015
3
[44]
Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2015
43
[45]

Awards edit

Track listing edit

All tracks are produced by Dave Cobb and Chris Stapleton.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Traveller"Chris Stapleton3:42
2."Fire Away"
  • Stapleton
  • Danny Green
4:04
3."Tennessee Whiskey"
4:53
4."Parachute"
4:13
5."Whiskey and You"
3:56
6."Nobody to Blame"
4:04
7."More of You"
  • Stapleton
  • Bowman
4:37
8."When the Stars Come Out"
4:16
9."Daddy Doesn't Pray Anymore"Stapleton4:09
10."Might as Well Get Stoned"
  • Stapleton
  • Jimmy Alan Stewart
  • Justin McGhee
4:37
11."Was It 26"Don Sampson4:49
12."The Devil Named Music"Stapleton6:07
13."Outlaw State of Mind"
5:37
14."Sometimes I Cry"
  • Stapleton
  • Clint Ingersoll
4:00
Total length:63:29

Personnel edit

Credits for Traveller adapted from AllMusic.[55]

Chart performance edit

Certifications edit

Certifications for Traveller
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[85] Gold 35,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[86] Gold 40,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[87] Gold 10,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[88] Gold 100,000‡
United States (RIAA)[20] 6× Platinum 6,000,000[26]

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history edit

List of release dates, showing region, edition, formats, label, and reference
Region Date Edition(s) Format(s) Label Ref.
Various May 5, 2015 Standard
Mercury Nashville [89]
United Kingdom March 4, 2016 Vinyl Decca [90]
United States May 26, 2015 Mercury Nashville [91]

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Traveller is the debut studio album by American singer songwriter Chris Stapleton The album was produced by Dave Cobb and Stapleton and was released on May 5 2015 through Mercury Nashville TravellerStudio album by Chris StapletonReleasedMay 5 2015 2015 05 05 StudioRCA Studio A Blackbird Studios in NashvilleGenreCountry rock country rock Southern rock soulLength63 04LabelMercury NashvilleProducerDave Cobb StapletonChris Stapleton chronologyTraveller 2015 From A Room Volume 1 2017 Singles from Traveller Traveller Released April 27 2015 Nobody to Blame Released November 9 2015 Parachute Released May 2 2016 1 Described by music publications as an old school country Southern rock record Traveller received critical acclaim and earned Stapleton several awards It was named Album of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards Furthermore it received a nomination at the 58th Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and a win for Best Country Album The song Traveller also won Best Country Solo Performance At the 2016 Academy of Country Music Awards it won Album of the Year with the song Nobody to Blame also winning Song of the Year It won the Billboard Music Award for Top Country Album in 2016 and 2017 Traveller reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart after the 2015 Country Music Association Awards during which Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performed a well received duet The album has been certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA and has sold over 2 6 million copies in the United States by November 2019 2 It was eventually ranked by Billboard as the bestselling country album of the 2010s 3 It generated three singles Traveller Nobody to Blame and Parachute Nobody to Blame reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart 4 The album track Fire Away was accompanied by a music video 5 Though not released as a radio single album track Tennessee Whiskey garnered popularity following its performance at the aforementioned CMA awards reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and number 20 on the Hot 100 6 7 Contents 1 Music and composition 2 Commercial performance 3 Critical reception 3 1 Accolades 4 Awards 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Chart performance 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Decade end charts 8 Certifications 9 Release history 10 References 11 External linksMusic and composition editI lost my dad in October 2013 and did a little bit of soul searching My wife was kind enough to buy me an old Jeep We flew out to Phoenix and drove it all the way back to Nashville through the desert I thought a lot about music and my dad and the things that he would have liked that I should be doing Out of that I actually wrote the song Traveller driving down Interstate 40 through New Mexico That became the cornerstone for the record and wound up being the title track Stapleton speaking about his inspiration for the album during an interview with Billboard 8 The album is an old school country record mixed with Southern rock Tracks on the album features electric guitar mandolin and acoustic guitar The Devil Named Music exclaims the hard life on the road while Might As Well Get Stoned features resignation lyrics 9 Musically Sometimes I Cry is a blues song 9 Nobody to Blame a mid tempo country rock track 10 and Fire Away features a beat in a classic soul ballad time signature 11 Daddy Doesn t Pray Anymore shrouds reflections about his father in the language of religious backsliding and was previously covered by Julie Roberts in 2013 12 In an interview for Rolling Stone Stapleton commented If somebody tells me it sounds dated I d say that s great as long as the date is 1978 My favorite things are from then 9 Stapleton wrote or co wrote all but two of the album s 14 tracks The album features a blues influenced cover of David Allan Coe s single Tennessee Whiskey and Charlie Daniels Was It 26 written by Don Sampson 9 Commercial performance editThe album debuted on the Top Country Albums chart at number two and the Billboard 200 at number 14 selling 27 000 copies in the week ending May 10 13 Six months after the album was released Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake performed Tennessee Whiskey at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards where Traveller won Album of the Year 14 Following the performance sales for the album increased 6 000 15 and it re entered the Billboard 200 at number one after being absent from the chart since September with 177 000 equivalent album units 153 000 in pure album sales According to Billboard the surge in sales is owed to how a mass audience discovered Stapleton on the November 4 CMA Awards broadcast Traveller is also the first debut country album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 in over four years with Clear as Day 2011 by Scotty McCreery being the last 16 It became the first album to reenter the chart at number one It remained at number one for a second week with 124 000 album equivalent units including 97 000 pure album sales 17 The album track Tennessee Whiskey topped the Hot Country Songs chart 18 and reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 The album sold 685 000 copies in the United States in 2015 19 In February 2016 Traveller was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA and double platinum in September 20 It became the fourth best selling album of 2016 in the nation and the top selling country album with 1 04 million copies sold that year 19 The album surpassed the 2 million sales mark in the US in July 2017 21 and it was the second best selling country album of 2017 after Stapleton s second album From A Room Volume 1 22 It hold the records for the most weeks atop the Americana Folk Albums chart 81 in total as of August 2019 23 It topped the Billboard Year End Top Country Albums chart in 2016 and 2017 24 25 It was certified quadruple platinum on July 24 2019 for 4 million units in sales and streams 20 As of March 2020 the album has accrued 4 3 million units in the country in total 26 with 2 6 million copies in traditional album sales 2 Critical reception editProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic85 100 27 Review scoresSourceRatingAbsolutePunk nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 28 AllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 29 Billboard nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 12 Digital JournalA 30 Exclaim 9 10 31 NPR Favorable 32 The Daily Telegraph nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 33 Wall Street Journal Favorable 34 Traveller received critical acclaim upon its release At Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from music critics the album has received an average score of 85 indicating universal acclaim based on 6 reviews 27 In a review for Billboard editor Caitlin White gave the album four out of five stars describing Traveller as a solemn album the work of a man gripped by life s impermanence noting undercurrents of regret loss and resignation in songs like Daddy Doesn t Pray Anymore Nobody to Blame and Devil Named Music About the record s sound direction she commented Stapleton s songs are both rhythmic and nuanced perhaps a by product of years spent writing for others They feature a cast of characters that remain likable even as they rush headlong into pursuit of ruin fortune or chance White concluded it s a triumphant debut encapsulating the grit of life turning it into a hell of a journey 12 In Los Angeles Times Randy Lewis wrote Stapleton s trenchant pen combines with his soul drenched rasp of a voice for a moving exploration of the panoply of emotions in the human experience 35 Critics from Rolling Stone opined Traveller encapsulates everything that makes him one of the most powerful and unique voices in country music today gravelly soulful and full of songs that ring like instant classics without ever resting too deeply in the past 36 In their year end summary they stated every track goes straight for the emotional jugular and give a glimpse inside a wildly introspective mind 37 Editor Owen R Smith from The Seattle Times noted the instruments mandolin banjo pedal steel guitar are all given room to shine even when Stapleton dips his toe into some menacing country rock in Nobody to Blame or electrified bluesy swagger in Might As Well Get Stoned 10 Accolades edit Publication List Rank Ref American Songwriter Top 50 Albums of 2015 1 38 Billboard 25 Best Albums of 2015 13 39 Brooklyn Magazine The Best of 2015 no order 40 The 20 Best Country Albums of 2015 2 41 Entertainment Weekly The 40 Best Albums of 2015 7 42 NPR 50 Favorite Albums of 2015 no order 43 Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2015 21 37 40 Best Country Albums of 2015 3 44 Stereogum The 50 Best Albums of 2015 43 45 Awards editYear Award Category Result Ref 2015 Country Music Association Awards Album of the Year Won 46 2016 Grammy Awards Album of the Year Nominated 47 Best Country Album WonAcademy of Country Music Awards Album of the Year 48 Billboard Music Awards Top Country Album 49 American Country Countdown Awards Album of the Year 50 Americana Music Honors amp Awards Album of the Year Nominated 51 American Music Awards Favorite Country Album 52 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards Country Album of the Year Won 53 Billboard Music Awards Top Country Album 54 Track listing editAll tracks are produced by Dave Cobb and Chris Stapleton No TitleWriter s Length1 Traveller Chris Stapleton3 422 Fire Away Stapleton Danny Green4 043 Tennessee Whiskey Dean Dillon Linda Hargrove4 534 Parachute Stapleton Jim Beavers4 135 Whiskey and You Stapleton Lee Thomas Miller3 566 Nobody to Blame Stapleton Barry Bales Ronnie Bowman4 047 More of You Stapleton Bowman4 378 When the Stars Come Out Stapleton Dan Wilson4 169 Daddy Doesn t Pray Anymore Stapleton4 0910 Might as Well Get Stoned Stapleton Jimmy Alan Stewart Justin McGhee4 3711 Was It 26 Don Sampson4 4912 The Devil Named Music Stapleton6 0713 Outlaw State of Mind Stapleton Bowman Jerry Salley5 3714 Sometimes I Cry Stapleton Clint Ingersoll4 00Total length 63 29Personnel editCredits for Traveller adapted from AllMusic 55 Musicians Dave Cobb acoustic guitar percussion J T Cure bass guitar upright bass Derek Mixon drums percussion Mickey Raphael harmonica Chris Stapleton acoustic guitar electric guitar mandolin lead vocals Morgane Stapleton background vocals Robby Turner pedal steel guitar Michael Webb Mellotron organ piano Technical personnel Steve Blackmon assistant Sorrel Brigman assistant Dave Cobb producer Becky Fluke photography Mary Hooper design Pete Lyman mastering Drew Long assistant Vance Powell engineer mixing Ed Spear assistant Chris Stapleton producer Shane Stern production coordinationChart performance editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for Traveller Chart 2015 2016 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 56 47Canadian Albums Billboard 57 4German Albums Offizielle Top 100 58 53New Zealand Albums RMNZ 59 13Scottish Albums OCC 60 93UK Albums OCC 61 67US Billboard 200 62 1US Folk Albums Billboard 63 1US Top Country Albums Billboard 64 1Weekly chart performance for Traveller Chart 2020 PeakpositionSwedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 65 43 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for Traveller Chart Year PositionUS Billboard 200 66 2015 68US Top Country Albums Billboard 67 9Canadian Albums Billboard 68 2016 14US Billboard 200 69 7US Top Country Albums Billboard 24 1Canadian Albums Billboard 70 2017 48US Billboard 200 71 19US Top Country Albums Billboard 25 1US Billboard 200 72 2018 34US Top Country Albums Billboard 73 4US Billboard 200 74 2019 49US Top Country Albums Billboard 75 4US Billboard 200 76 2020 67US Top Country Albums Billboard 77 5US Billboard 200 78 2021 57US Top Country Albums Billboard 79 7US Billboard 200 80 2022 47US Top Country Albums Billboard 81 6US Billboard 200 82 2023 53US Top Country Albums Billboard 83 13Decade end charts edit Decade end chart performance for Traveller Chart 2010 2019 PositionUS Billboard 200 84 17Certifications editCertifications for Traveller Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 85 Gold 35 000 Canada Music Canada 86 Gold 40 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 87 Gold 10 000 United Kingdom BPI 88 Gold 100 000 United States RIAA 20 6 Platinum 6 000 000 26 Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history editList of release dates showing region edition formats label and reference Region Date Edition s Format s Label Ref Various May 5 2015 Standard CD digital download Mercury Nashville 89 United Kingdom March 4 2016 Vinyl Decca 90 United States May 26 2015 Mercury Nashville 91 References edit Country Aircheck Issue 495 PDF Country Aircheck April 18 2016 Retrieved April 18 2016 a b Bjorke Matt March 10 2020 Top 10 Country Albums Pure Sales Chart March 9 2020 RoughStock Retrieved March 22 2020 Top Country Albums Decade End Billboard Greenwald Morgan March 26 2016 13 Things to Know About the Billboard Charts This Week Chris Stapleton Scores First Top 10 Hit amp More Billboard Retrieved March 26 2016 Freeman Jon February 29 2016 See Chris Stapleton s Harrowing Fire Away Video Rolling Stone Retrieved February 29 2016 Asker Jim November 10 2015 Chris Stapleton Travels to Top of Country Charts Without Strong Support From Radio Billboard Billboard Hot 100 November 28 2015 Billboard Dauphin Chuck April 30 2015 Chris Stapleton s Debut Album Traveller Inspired by Soul Searching Road Trip Billboard Prometheus Global Media Retrieved November 15 2015 a b c d Chris Stapleton on Why Stunning New Album Traveller Isn t for Kids Rolling Stone May 7 2015 Retrieved November 15 2015 a b Smit Owen R March 23 2017 Chris Stapleton brings back introspective old school country music The Seattle Times Retrieved April 15 2017 Leight Elias May 6 2016 Chris Stapleton Shows His Inner Stax Soul Man at Album Release Party In New York Live Review Billboard Retrieved April 30 2017 a b c White Caitlin May 12 2015 Country Songwriter Chris Stapleton Copes With Loss on Triumphant Solo Debut Album Review Billboard Prometheus Global Media Retrieved November 15 2015 Keith Caulfield and Gary Trust May 14 2015 Chris Stapleton Starts With Best Sales for a New Country Artist in 2015 Billboard Marissa R Moss November 4 2015 See Chris Stapleton and Justin Timberlake s Stunning CMA Awards Duet Rolling Stone 2015 Nielsen Music U S Report PDF Nielsen January 6 2016 Retrieved January 6 2016 Caulfield Keith November 8 2015 Chris Stapleton Soars to No 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart After CMAs Billboard Prometheus Global Media Retrieved November 9 2015 Caulfield Keith November 15 2015 Chris Stapleton Spends Second Week at No 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart Billboard Prometheus Global Media Retrieved November 15 2015 Asker Jim November 10 2015 Chris Stapleton Travels to Top of Country Charts Without Strong Support From Radio Billboard Retrieved April 15 2017 a b Grein Paul December 20 2016 The Top Selling Albums of 2016 Yahoo Music a b c American album certifications Chris Stapleton Traveller Recording Industry Association of America Caulfield Keith July 14 2017 Billboard 200 Chart Moves Chris Stapleton s Traveller Surpasses 2 Million in U S Sales Billboard Rau Nate January 4 2018 Revealed Country music s most listened to artists in 2017 Tennessean USA Today Asker Jim March 20 2018 Chris Stapleton Claims First Country Airplay Leader With Broken Halos Billboard Retrieved March 20 2018 a b Billboard Top Country Albums Year end Chart Billboard Retrieved December 8 2016 a b Billboard Top Country Albums Year end Chart Billboard Retrieved December 12 2017 a b Bjorke Matt March 9 2020 Country Music s Most Consumed Albums Chart March 9 2020 Roughstock Retrieved March 22 2020 a b Critic Reviews for Traveller Metacritic CBS Interactive Retrieved January 5 2016 Manning Craig Chris Stapleton Traveller Album Review AbsolutePunk Retrieved January 9 2016 Erlewine Stephen Thomas Traveller Chris Stapleton Songs Reviews Credits Awards AllMusic All Media Network Retrieved November 10 2015 Papadatos Markos November 8 2015 Review Chris Stapleton spell binding on Traveller studio album Digital Journal Retrieved December 21 2017 Henderson Stuart May 5 2015 Chris Stapleton Traveller Exclaim Retrieved December 11 2017 Powers Ann 26 April 2015 Review Chris Stapleton Traveller NPR NPR Retrieved January 9 2016 Chilton Martin 11 August 2015 Best Country Music Albums of 2015 The Daily Telegraph Retrieved January 14 2016 Fusilli Jim 4 May 2015 Traveller by Chris Stapleton Review Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Retrieved January 9 2016 Lewis Randy December 11 2015 Best of 2015 10 great albums in 2015 include works by Chris Stapleton Rhiannon Giddens Los Lobos and more Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 15 2017 Who Is Chris Stapleton 5 Things You Need to Know About the CMA King Rolling Stone November 5 2015 Retrieved April 15 2017 a b The 50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone December 1 2015 Retrieved December 1 2015 American 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December 2015 Retrieved December 10 2015 Watts Cindy 4 November 2015 CMA Awards Stapleton Little Big Town are winners The Tennessean Retrieved 5 November 2015 Grammys Taylor Swift Kendrick Lamar the Weeknd Lead Nominations Rolling Stone December 7 2015 Retrieved December 7 2015 Billboard Staff April 3 2016 ACM Awards 2016 See the Full List of Winners Billboard Retrieved April 3 2016 Billboard Staff May 22 2016 Billboard Music Awards 2016 Complete Winners List Billboard Retrieved May 24 2016 Billboard Staff May 1 2016 American Country Countdown Awards 2016 See the Winners List Billboard Retrieved May 1 2016 Americana Honors amp Awards Nominees Announced The Americana Music Association May 11 2016 AMAs 2016 See the Full List of Winners Billboard Retrieved November 21 2016 Thorpe Isha March 5 2017 Here s The Complete List Of iHeartAwards Winners iHeartRadio Archived from the original on April 9 2017 Retrieved March 5 2017 Here Is the Complete List of Winners From the 2017 Billboard Music Awards Billboard May 21 2017 Retrieved May 21 2017 Traveller on AllMusic AllMusic Retrieved January 17 2016 Australiancharts com Chris Stapleton Traveller Hung Medien Retrieved November 14 2015 Chris Stapleton Chart History Canadian Albums Billboard Retrieved November 10 2015 Longplay Chartverfolgung at Musicline in German Musicline de Phononet GmbH Retrieved November 14 2015 Charts nz Chris Stapleton Traveller Hung Medien Retrieved July 29 2023 Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved March 4 2016 Official Albums Chart Top 100 Official Charts Company Retrieved March 19 2016 Chris Stapleton Chart History Billboard 200 Billboard Retrieved November 10 2015 Chris Stapleton Chart History Top Americana Folk Albums Billboard Retrieved May 24 2016 Chris Stapleton Chart History Top Country Albums Billboard Retrieved November 10 2015 Veckolista Album vecka 13 Sverigetopplistan Retrieved March 28 2020 Billboard 200 Year end Chart Billboard Retrieved December 9 2015 Billboard Top Country Albums Year end Chart Billboard Retrieved December 9 2015 Top Canadian Albums Billboard 2 January 2013 Billboard 200 Year end Chart Billboard Retrieved December 8 2016 Top Canadian Albums Year End 2017 Billboard 2 January 2013 Retrieved December 15 2017 Top Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2017 Billboard 2 January 2013 Retrieved December 12 2017 Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2018 Billboard Retrieved December 5 2018 Top Country Albums Year End 2018 Billboard 2 January 2013 Retrieved June 20 2020 Top Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2019 Billboard Retrieved December 6 2019 Top Country Albums Year End 2019 Billboard Retrieved June 20 2020 Top Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2020 Billboard Retrieved December 4 2020 Top Country Albums Year End 2020 Billboard Retrieved December 17 2020 Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2021 Billboard Retrieved December 3 2021 Top Country Albums Year End 2021 Billboard Retrieved December 3 2021 Billboard 200 Albums Year End 2022 Billboard 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