Chris Stapleton

Stapleton (2017)

Chris Stapleton (born April 15, 1978 in Lexington , Kentucky ; full name Christopher Alvin Stapleton ) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist and five-time Grammy Award winner.

Career

Chris Stapleton grew up in the Kentucky countryside in the village of Staffordsville. At the age of 23 he went to Nashville to start a career as a country musician. At first he was only under contract as a songwriter. Over the years he developed into a very successful songwriter, he wrote for many well-known musicians such as George Strait , Kenny Chesney , Luke Bryan and Tim McGraw . Even Adele made a recording of his song If It Hadn't Been for Love as a bonus track in 2011 .

He had his first success as a musician in 2008 with the bluegrass band The SteelDrivers . Their debut album with the band name as the title was successful in the bluegrass and country charts and they received a Grammy nomination for the song Blue Side of the Mountain . Before the release of a second album, however, Stapleton left the band and formed a southern rock band with the Jompson Brothers . However, it only lasted three years and he began a solo career after that. With his debut single What Are You Listening To? he had a minor radio success with the country stations in 2013.

In 2015 his solo debut album Traveler was released . Despite critical acclaim, the great commercial success initially failed to materialize. 14th place in the official album charts was the best place in the spring. It was only when Stapleton surprisingly became the big winner at the CMA Awards and was awarded not only the prize for the best album, but also the best newcomer and the best singer, that the country fans immediately became successful. The album rose to number 1 on both the country and the official charts, selling over two million copies ( double platinum ). The single Tennessee Whiskey was also a million-seller and a country number one hit. Seven other singles also made it into the country charts. He was nominated four times at the 2016 Grammy Awards , including in the Album of the Year category . He eventually won two country awards for the album and the single Traveler .

Also in 2018 he was the most successful country musician at the Grammys. With the album From A Room (Volume 1) and the songs Either Way and Broken Halos , he won three of the four awards in the country division.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	CH	UK	US	Country
2015	Traveler	DE53 (3 weeks) DE	-	UK67 silver (1 week)UK	US1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (… Where.)US	Country1 (... week) Country	Grammy (Country)
2017	From A Room: Volume 1	-	CH29 (1 week) CH	UK22 (1 week) UK	US2 platinum (… Where.)US	Country1 (139 weeks) Country
	From A Room: Volume 2	-	CH62 (1 week) CH	UK89 (1 week) UK	US2 gold (45 weeks)US	Country1 (77 weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	US	Country
2015	Traveler Traveler	-	US87 gold (1 week)US	Country17 (19 weeks) Country	Author: C. Stapleton Grammy (Country)
	Tennessee Whiskey Traveler	-	US20th × 7 Seven times platinum (6 weeks)US	Country1 (27 weeks) Country	Authors: D. Dillon, Linda Hargrove
	Nobody to Blame Traveler	-	US68 platinum (15 weeks)US	Country13 (25 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, B. Bales, R. Bowman
2016	Parachute Traveler	-	US78 platinum (5 weeks)US	Country12 (40 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, J. Beavers
2017	Last Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning	-	-	Country37 (2 weeks) Country	Authors: GP Nunn, D. Sioux Farar
	Second One to Know From A Room: Volume 1	-	-	Country37 (2 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, M. Henderson
	Either Way From A Room: Volume 1	-	US89 (2 weeks) US	Country17 (11 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, Tim James, K. Marvel
	Broken Halos From A Room: Volume 1	-	US45 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country13 (53 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, M. Henderson
	Scarecrow In The Garden From A Room: Volume 2	-	-	Country47 (1 week) Country
	Tryin 'To Untangle My Mind From A Room: Volume 2	-	-	Country45 (2 weeks) Country
2018	Millionaire From A Room: Volume 2	-	US47 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country4 (61 weeks) Country	Authors: K. Welch
2019	Blow No.6 Collaborations Project	DE93 (2 weeks) DE	US60 (2 weeks) US	-	First published: July 5, 2019 with Ed Sheeran & Bruno Mars
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2015	Whiskey and You Traveler	-	US- gold US	Country35 (12 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, LT Miller
	Fire Away Traveler	-	US- × 2 Double platinum US	Country25 (20 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, D. Green
	Outlaw State of Mind Traveler	-	US- gold US	Country45 (1 week) Country	from the soundtrack of the film Hell or High Water Author: C. Stapleton
	Might As Well Get Stoned Traveler	-	-	Country44 (1 week) Country
2017	I Was Wrong From A Room: Volume 1	-	-	Country41 (2 weeks) Country	Authors: C. Stapleton, C. Wiseman
	Midnight Train To Memphis From A Room: Volume 2	-	-	Country43 (1 week) Country

As a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2018	Say Something Man of the Woods	DE9 gold (20 weeks)DE	AT9 (20 weeks) AT	CH6th platinum (26 weeks)CH	UK9 platinum (19 weeks)UK	US9 (16 weeks) US	Justin Timberlake feat. Chris Stapleton

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2020: for the single Tennessee Whiskey Golden record  Belgium 2018: for the single Say Something  France 2018: for the single Say Something  Canada 2016: for the album Traveler 2016: for the single Tennessee Whiskey 2016: for the single Nobody to Blame 2017: for the single Parachute 2017: for the album From A Room: Volume 1 2017: for the single Broken Halos 2017: for the single Blow  New Zealand 2018: for the single Say Something  United States 2020: for the single What Are You Listening To? 2020: for the single When The Stars Come Out

Platinum record  Denmark 2019: for the single Say Something  Italy 2019: for the single Say Something 2 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single Say Something  Canada 2018: for the single Say Something  Poland 2019: for the single Say Something

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	2 × platinum2	140,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	gold1	-	15,000	ultratop.be
Denmark (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	90,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	-	gold1	-	200,000	musikindustrie.de
France (SNEP)	-	gold1	-	100,000	snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	-	-	platinum1	50,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	7 × gold7th	2 × platinum2	440,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	gold1	-	15,000	nztop40.co.nz
Poland (ZPAV)	-	-	2 × platinum2	40,000	bestsellery.zpav.pl
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	20,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	-	5 × gold5	19 × platinum19th	21,500,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × silver2	-	platinum1	860,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	2 × silver2	16 × gold16	29 × platinum29

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1. ↑ Database of the CMA Awards ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US (Billboard)

Web links

• Official Homepage (English)
• Chris Stapleton at Allmusic (English)