Chris Stapleton’s 2015 album Traveller continues to discover new heights. A decade after its launch, Billboard has introduced that Traveller is primary on their High Nation Albums of the twenty first Century chart. The rating is predicated on report efficiency on the weekly High Nation Albums chart from the beginning of 2000 by means of the tip of 2024. Different albums rating inside the high 10 embrace Taylor Swift’s Fearless and Sam Hunt’s Montavello.
Since its launch in Could 2015, Traveller has spent a whopping 525 weeks on their High Nation Albums chart. The one different album to achieve the five hundred week milestone within the chart’s historical past is Willie Nelson’s 1978 report Stardust.
On high of its success on nation charts, Traveller additionally spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 after the 2015 Nation Music Affiliation Awards, the place Stapleton carried out a duet of the now mega-hit “Tennessee Whiskey” with Justin Timberlake. Traveller was named Album of the Yr on the similar award ceremony.
The report was moreover nominated for Album of the Yr on the 58th Grammy Awards, the place it received Greatest Nation Album. Stapleton additionally took residence the Grammy for Greatest Nation Solo Efficiency that night time for the album’s title monitor.
The album was successful with critics too; Rolling Stone praised upon its launch that the report “encapsulates everything that makes [Stapleton] 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.”
The genesis for the album’s creation was a significant transformation in Stapleton’s life. As he informed Billboard: “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.”
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