Eric Church

Eric Church (2012)

Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls , North Carolina ) is an American country singer and songwriter .

Career

Eric Church is from Granite Falls , North Carolina. At the age of 13 he wrote his first songs and taught himself to play the guitar. While at Appalachian State College , he performed with his brother and two friends as Mountain Boys in the western part of the state. After graduating with a degree in marketing, he moved to the country capital, Nashville. It took him a year there before he got a record deal.

Church first wrote songs for other musicians before releasing his first own album in 2006. Sinners Like Me was an instant hit, reaching the top 10 US country albums and producing three top 20 hits on the country song chart . Album and singles were also able to place themselves in the general charts.

Three years passed until his follow-up album Carolina . With 4th place in the country charts and 17th place in the official sales charts, he was able to build on the success of his debut. The album stayed on the Billboard 200 for 90 weeks and, like its predecessor, was awarded gold . The three singles were even more successful, all of which achieved middle placements in the Hot 100 , twice gold and once platinum.

Church then rose to the fore among country artists in 2011 with the album Chief . It peaked at number one on the country and sales charts and was his first platinum album. It was named Album of the Year at the CMA Awards . Five songs on the album hit the pop charts and two of them reached number one in the country charts. One of them, called Springsteen , went platinum 5 times.

In 2013 he released his first live album, which made it into the top five of the charts, before his fourth studio album The Outsiders followed the following year . It marked a departure from the simple country songs of the hit album and brought in elements of rock, funk and hip-hop. Although the album hit number one again , it fell short of the success of Chief and Give Me Back My Hometown was still the biggest hit with number four in the country charts and number 36 on the Hot 100. For this the album was also released in Australia and Great Britain and reached the charts in both countries.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2006	Sinners Like Me	-	-	US29 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country7 (65 weeks) Country
2009	Carolina	-	-	US17th platinum (90 weeks)US	Country4 (119 weeks) Country
2011	Chief	-	-	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (154 weeks)US	Country1 (163 weeks) Country
2014	The Outsiders	-	UK70 (1 week) UK	US1 × 2 Double platinum (102 weeks)US	Country1 (113 weeks) Country
2015	Mr. Misunderstood	-	-	US2 platinum (109 weeks)US	Country2 (153 weeks) Country
2018	Desperate Man	CH93 (1 week) CH	-	US5 gold (22 weeks)US	Country1 (51 weeks) Country

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2013	Caught in the Act	US5 (23 weeks) US	Country3 (54 weeks) Country	recorded in October 2012 at the Tivoli Theater in Chattanooga , Tennessee
2017	61 Days In Church	-	-

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2014	4 album collection	US71 (2 weeks) US	Country12 (15 weeks) Country	Box with the first four albums Sinners Like Me , Carolina , Chief and Caught in the Act

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2011	Caldwell County	US67 (1 week) US	Country13 (7 weeks) Country
2016	Mr. Misunderstood: On the Rocks, Live and (Mostly) Unplugged	US57 (2 weeks) US	Country4 (13 weeks) Country

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2006	How 'Bout You Sinners Like Me	US85 (4 weeks) US	Country14 (25 weeks) Country
	Two Pink Lines Sinners Like Me	-	Country19 (20 weeks) Country
2007	Guys Like Me Sinners Like Me	US99 platinum (2 weeks)US	Country17 (27 weeks) Country
	Sinners Like Me Sinners Like Me	US- gold US	Country51 (8 weeks) Country
2008	His Kind of Money (My Kind of Love) Caldwell County	-	Country45 (15 weeks) Country
2009	Love Your Love the Most Carolina	US63 platinum (16 weeks)US	Country10 (33 weeks) Country
	Hell on the Heart Carolina	US67 gold (12 weeks)US	Country10 (31 weeks) Country
2010	Smoke a Little Smoke Carolina	US78 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country16 (37 weeks) Country
2011	Homeboy Chief	US53 platinum (21 weeks)US	Country13 (25 weeks) Country
	Drink in My Hand Chief	US40 × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (26 weeks) Country
2012	Springsteen Chief	US19th × 5 Quintuple platinum (22 weeks)US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
	Creepin ' Chief	US56 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country10 (29 weeks) Country
2013	Like Jesus Does Chief	US59 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country13 (21 weeks) Country
	The Outsiders The Outsiders	US51 gold (7 weeks)US	Country6 (20 weeks) Country
2014	Give Me Back My Hometown The Outsiders	US36 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country4 (22 weeks) Country
	Cold One The Outsiders	US88 gold (6 weeks)US	Country20 (18 weeks) Country
	Talladega The Outsiders	US43 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country
2015	Like a Wrecking Ball The Outsiders	US51 × 2 Double platinum (22 weeks)US	Country6 (29 weeks) Country
	Mr. Misunderstood Mr. Misunderstood	US84 gold (5 weeks)US	Country15 (20 weeks) Country
2016	Record Year Mr. Misunderstood	US44 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (27 weeks) Country
	Kill a Word Mr. Misunderstood	US71 gold (15 weeks)US	Country9 (28 weeks) Country	feat. Rhiannon Giddens
2017	Round Here Buzz Mr. Misunderstood	US56 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country7 (41 weeks) Country
2018	Desperate Man Desperate Man	US68 (15 weeks) US	Country8 (22 weeks) Country
	Some of It Desperate Man	US43 gold (13 weeks)US	Country7 (26 weeks) Country
2019	Monsters	-	Country20 (... weeks) Country
2020	Stick That in Your Country Song	US92 (1 week) US	Country23 (... weeks) Country
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:
2014	A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young The Outsiders	US89 (1 week) US	Country24 (2 weeks) Country
	That's Damn Rock 'n' Roll The Outsiders	-	Country43 (2 weeks) Country	feat. Lzzy Hale
2018	Heart Like a Wheel Desperate Man	-	Country35 (2 weeks) Country

More songs (with awards)

• 2009: Carolina (US:gold)
• 2011: Over When It's Over (US:gold)

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2012	The Only Way I Know Night Train	US40 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country5 (22 weeks) Country	Jason Aldean feat. Eric Church & Luke Bryan
2015	Raise 'Em Up Fuse	US56 (14 weeks) US	Country8 (20 weeks) Country	Keith Urban feat. Eric Church
2016	Forever Country	US21 (4 weeks) US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	as part of "Artists of Then, Now & Forever"
2019	Does to Me What You See Is What You Get	US20 (19 weeks) US	Country4 (26 weeks) Country	Luke Combs feat. Eric Church

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Canada 2013: for the single Creepin ' 2013: for the single Smoke a Little Smoke 2014: for the single Homeboy 2014: for the single Like Jesus Does 2014: for the single Give Me Back My Hometown 2016: for the single record year 2017: for the single Mr. Misunderstood 2018: for the single Desperate Man

Platinum record  Canada 2012: for the album Chief 2013: for the single Drink in My Hand 2016: for the album The Outsiders 2 × platinum record  Canada 2013: for the single Springsteen

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

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	8 × gold8th	5 × platinum5	720,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	10 × gold10	32 × platinum32	37,000,000	riaa.com
All in all	18 × gold18th	37 × platinum37

swell

1. ↑ Review of The Outsiders (album) , Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Chart sources: CH UK US

Web links

• Official MySpace page
• official website (English)
• Eric Church at Allmusic (English)
• Entry at CMN