"The Devil Named Music" exclaims the hard life on the road, while "Might As Well Get Stoned" features resignation lyrics. 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. [4] The song was also a top 10 hit in Australia and a #16 hit in the U.K..[5], Jones performed the song solo on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1985. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart After CMAs", "Chris Stapleton Spends Second Week at No. [9] 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. [14] The album track "Tennessee Whiskey" topped the Hot Country Songs chart,[15] and reached the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. [8] [11] Following the performance, sales for the album increased 6,000%[12] 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). "Nobody to Blame" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton. Cody Johnson - Nobody To Blame - Duration: 5:00. Described by music publications as an old-school country, Southern rock record, Traveller received critical acclaim and earned Stapleton several awards. [6] Musically, "Sometimes I Cry" is a blues song,[6] "Nobody to Blame" a mid-tempo country rock track,[7] and "Fire Away" features a beat in a classic soul-ballad time signature. We flew out to Phoenix and drove it all the way back to Nashville through the desert. It remained at number one for a second week with 124,000 album-equivalent units, including 97,000 pure album sales. 5:00. My favorite things are from then. [19] It hold the records for the most weeks atop the Americana/Folk Albums chart (81 in total as of August 2019). The album sold 685,000 copies in the United States in 2015. According to Billboard, the surge in sales is owed to how a mass audience discovered Stapleton on the November 4 CMA Awards broadcast. [16] In February 2016, Traveller was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and double platinum in September. It was named Album of the Year at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards. "Nobody to Blame" reached the top 10 on the Country Airplay chart. [20] It topped the Billboard Year-End Top Country Albums chart in 2016 and 2017. "[9] 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. "Nobody to Blame" won Song of the Year at the ACM Awards. The song was released in November 2015 as the singer's third single overall. Out of that, I actually wrote the song 'Traveller' driving down Interstate 40 through New Mexico. Nobody’s Lonely Tonight (Live From Jimmy Kimmel Live!) Top 5 Best Singer On Auditions America's Got Talent ALL TIME ... Top 10 Talent Recommended for you. The album is an old-school country record mixed with Southern rock.Tracks on the album features electric guitar, mandolin, and acoustic guitar. "[6], Stapleton wrote or co-wrote all but two of the album's 14 tracks. Traveller reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart after a duet performance by Stapleton and Justin Timberlake at the 2015 Country Music Association Awards. I lost my dad in October 2013 and did a little bit of soul-searching. 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. "No One Is to Blame" is a song by British musician Howard Jones. [3] The album track "Fire Away" was accompanied by a music video. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart", "Chris Stapleton Travels to Top of Country Charts Without Strong Support From Radio", "American album certifications – Chris Stapleton – Traveller", "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Chris Stapleton's 'Traveller' Surpasses 2 Million in U.S. [53], ^shipments figures based on certification alonesales+streaming figures based on certification alone. 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. [13] It became the first album to reenter the chart at number one. My wife was kind enough to buy me an old Jeep. 19:33. ""[35], Credits for Traveller adapted from AllMusic. 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. [1], Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1986 (U.S.), Billboard.com for US artist chart history, OfficialCharts.com for UK artist chart history, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No_One_Is_to_Blame&oldid=966741214, Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one singles, Pages using infobox song with unknown parameters, Articles needing additional references from June 2019, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, “No One Is to Blame (Extended Mix)” – 5:16, “No One Is to Blame (The Long Mix)” – 3:07, This page was last edited on 8 July 2020, at 22:31. The album was produced by Dave Cobb and Stapleton, and was released on May 5, 2015, through Mercury Nashville. The song, in its original version, can be found on his second studio album, Dream into Action, which was released in 1985.Following the success of the previous singles taken from the album, the original track for "No One Is to Blame" was re-recorded to give the song a more radio-friendly sound. "[32], 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. 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. [6], 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.[10]. [24] 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". It became Stapleton's first top 10 single on the US Country Airplay chart. The song "Traveller" also won Best Country Solo Performance. They feature a cast of characters that remain likable even as they rush headlong into pursuit of ruin, fortune or chance." "No One Is to Blame" is a song by British musician Howard Jones. 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.