Traveller
by Chris Stapleton
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Chris Stapleton bestography
Traveller is ranked as the best album by Chris Stapleton.
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Traveller track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Traveller rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2015 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 95 Music Albums of 2015 | 89/95 | 0 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | Top 13 Music Albums of 2015 | 2/13 | 5 |
| 2026 | adbrack1988 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 59/100 | 8 |
| 2026 | ReelBigToph | Top 99 Music Albums of 2015 | 17/99 | 4 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Country/Bluegrass | 21/100 | - |
| 2026 | sunnydhamm | Top 37 Music Albums of 2015 | 32/37 | 1 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2015 | 12/50 | - |
| 2026 |  Mauce | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 89/100 | 12 |
| 2026 | zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 41/100 | 12 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 120 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 574 | |||
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Traveller ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/06/2026 20:05 | Proto | 4,291 | 33/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2026 07:04 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,613 | 70/100 |
| ! | 04/29/2026 02:05 | oilnoilnoilnoil | 275 | 77/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.4/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.8.
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Forum mentions
Romanelli 10/13/2024 01:41 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)
CharlieBarley 07/30/2024 23:41 in Working My Way Through The BEA Overall Chart
pedro1976 05/18/2024 16:57 in What album are you listening to right now?Traveller comments
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2016 Grammys. The winner was 1989 by Taylor Swift (Edited)
I can detect an artist for miles and miles away, unlike many other fake and capitalist musicians, Chris Stapleton manages to create and maintain the essence that a true artist must have. Fantastic record, wonderful songs!
Yeah definitely quite the debut from a not exactly unseasoned songwriter, doesn't really break any rules or do anything particulary new with the genre, but just really strong traditional-country vibes all around. The slightly more bluesy, jam-session style of the album's ending trifecta of songs give off a nice live feel, and a lot of promise for what may be to come next go-around.
zdwyatt 11/06/2015 20:49 | #152601 | TOP COMMENT
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A good, but not great, debut from a veteran songwriter. There's a raw energy to his live performances that gets lost here. However, this is one of the strongest country releases this year and, if nothing else, I am happy to see it getting so much attention in Nashville.
samistake2ice 08/24/2015 19:44 | #148425 | TOP COMMENT
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This is a really, really solid debut album from an established Nashville songwriter. The issue is, I think I want to like it more than I actually do.
This album is a step in the right direction in terms of steering the "main stream country music" ship back around. It contains powerful vocals, traditional outlaw instrumentation, even videos surfacing of Bill Murray, fist in the air, enthusiastically singing along. Most importantly the album doesn't feel the need to marginalize, in an effort reach the populous.
Still, there is something that doesn't quite resonate with me, and I fail to ever really connect emotionally. I'd have to do a little research, but I'm sure Stapleton broke the record for most whiskey references in a single album. I think that shallow subject matter, while it makes for a couple good songs, is the reason the album feels a little one dimensional.
That being said, i like the album for what it is, and its head and shoulders above the majority of its contemporaries. There are some really good tracks like "Daddy Doesn't Pray" and "The Devil Named Music" but "Fire Away" is in contention for one of my favorite songs of the year.
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