Tyler Childers Album Sales Revealed, Sets Rupp Benefit Stream
The new triple album from Tyler Childers Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? debuts at the highest mark for the Kentucky-based artist on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, but fails to top the Billboard Country Albums chart, or best his top debut sales peak set by his previous major studio release, 2019’s Country Squire.
Released on September 30th, Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven sold an estimated 27,000 total units in combined physical sales, downloads, and streaming equivalents, with about 16,000 in pure physical sales, and roughly 11,000 in streaming equivalents. Despite being helped out by having three albums and 24 total tracks in the set, Take My Hounds to Heaven comes in with 5,000 less units sold than the 32,000 albums the 9-song, single disc Country Squire sold in its first week.
Nonetheless, these numbers put Tyler Childers at #8 on the Billboard 200 chart, where Country Squire ended up at #12. Tyler Childers also ends up at #3 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, just behind Zach Bryan’s 32-song American Heartbreak at #2 with 28,000 total units this week, and Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album with 46,000 total units.
Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? also comes in at #2 on the Billboard Americana/Folk chart, right behind Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak, as well as #3 in pure album sales across all genres, as well as #5 in vinyl sales.
Also continuing to chart well is Tyler’s 2017 album Purgatory, which comes in this week at #13 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. A perennial album in country, Purgatory was Certified Platinum by the RIAA on August 9th.
On Tuesday, October 11th, Tyler Childers will appear with Chris Stapleton and Dwight Yoakam at the Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky as part of the Kentucky Rising benefit, raising money for those affected by the historic flooding in Kentucky on July 28th that caused millions of dollars of damage, and left 39 people dead.
Though the benefit tickets sold out almost immediately, the event will be live streamed on Tuesday night via Veeps, with tickets available for $19.99.
October 10, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
While not on the ticket, I hope to see Cole Chaney and Ian Noe get the spotlight for a few minutes. I wonder if they will bring on some others for a song or two?
October 12, 2022 @ 4:48 am
More talk of Cole & Ian!!!!
October 10, 2022 @ 8:24 pm
Great album and nice to see he looks happy and almost like a whole new person. Can’t wait to finally see him live.
October 10, 2022 @ 9:38 pm
So his sales were actually 9000, since each disc in a set counts as one sale (3 disc set = 3 units sold)? That’s how Garth Brooks juiced his numbers with all the silly boxsets he’s released. I remember when 9000 units wouldn’t get you anywhere near the Top 200 on Billboard.
October 10, 2022 @ 10:36 pm
If I was in the Tyler Childers camp, I would have to look at these numbers as a slight disappointment. I’m sure they’ll say that sales don’t matter, but you always like to see an artist build on sales numbers, especially when they’re still (relatively) new. Asking $60 for the vinyl set, and $25 for the CD, you were going to weed out some fans in the physical sales department. Sure, years ago these numbers would look paltry. But it’s not years ago. People consume their music through streaming these days. Where they had to hope to make up ground was in streaming numbers with 24 tracks. That’s how Morgan Wallen and Zach Bryan continue to dominate. But the streaming numbers weren’t terribly impressive.
Still, having the 3rd best selling album in country, and the 8th best in all of music is not bad at all. Most artist would kill for that, and it’s better than a lot of mainstream artists debut at. But what I’m interested to see is where “Take My Hounds” is next week. There is a very good chance the album falls beneath “Purgatory” in sales, which then sort of exposes Tyler Childers as a popular album, not a popular artist. The reviews have been mixed, and I think Childers is at a crossroads.
October 10, 2022 @ 10:54 pm
I still say Triune God is worth the 60 bucks, if it got the attention of just one soul
October 11, 2022 @ 6:50 am
Is this right? It seems like such an odd way to compute sales. Like, if a band puts their album on a 45, and it requires two discs, sales count double?
October 11, 2022 @ 8:31 am
Unless rules have changed very recently, this is a misconception. The RIAA counts individual discs as separate for certification purposes, but Billboard only counts the set as one sale.
“However, SoundScan doesn’t not double-count a two-disc set, or even a box set. With SoundScan, one sale is one sale. It doesn’t matter if it’s a suitcase full of 20 discs inside: it still counts as one sale.”
Ironically, that’s why many believe Garth Brooks got a raw deal with his Ultimate Collection set in 2016. Even though Billboard only counts a box set as 1 sale, it still requires that the price-per-disc exceeds $3.49. Since he sold 10 discs for 30 bucks, he wasn’t able to chart at #1 on the Billboard 200.
October 11, 2022 @ 1:30 pm
The rules haven’t changed. I’ve worked in the music business for decades, and this is how it has been done for longer than that. Each disc in a set is counted as one unit sold. That’s why Brooks released so many goofy boxsets of repackaged material and discounted them. It wasn’t about making money as much as it was boosting his sales numbers. It’s smoke and mirrors.
October 10, 2022 @ 10:13 pm
Go get ’em, Ty.
October 11, 2022 @ 4:35 am
I would be fine going the rest of my life never hearing Whitehouse Rd again
October 11, 2022 @ 8:54 am
Amen.
October 11, 2022 @ 7:06 am
I have Red Barn and Purgatory on vinyl, and have streamed Country Squire at least a dozen times. I have yet to listen to this one even once.
October 11, 2022 @ 4:07 pm
Well you’re missing out on some good music, so it’s your loss. Lots of good songs on a great sounding album.
October 11, 2022 @ 7:31 pm
It there were 5 versions of each song…then I’d listen.
October 11, 2022 @ 7:09 am
There are some great songs on this album for sure. But it doesn’t feel like its greater than the sum of its parts. I think it shows with the album sales
October 11, 2022 @ 7:25 pm
Its definitely growing on me! Thank you Tyler childers….
October 11, 2022 @ 7:54 pm
What are the sales numbers for other country artists?
October 12, 2022 @ 1:21 pm
That’s a pretty broad question, But for context, Ashley McBryde’s new album released on the same week (and is significantly better than Tyler’s), didn’t crack the Top 25.
October 12, 2022 @ 3:02 pm
Trigger,
That is interesting about Ashley’s album. It is “kind of” her “Pilgrim – aka Marty Stuart” album and I was hoping for better. Maybe it will catch on.
For Tyler, I think this album will eventually result in a cult following and be viewed better into the future than now. Don’t know that I have anything to base this on other than a gut feel.
October 12, 2022 @ 3:10 pm
Just got my official numbers this week. Ashley McBryde’s album debuted at #69 and sold 3,700 copies. Pretty embarrassing if you ask me.
We’ll have to see about the Tyler Childers record. Where it ends up next week I think will be a big tell. There are a lot of people praising it, but will they continue to listen and buy it? There are also a lot of people not just swearing off the record, but swearing off Tyler Childers because they feel slighted, not from the material, just more the packaging, pricing, and approach.
October 13, 2022 @ 8:40 am
Yeah, disappointing for Ashley. Hope the Opry kiss-of-death bypasses her.
October 13, 2022 @ 10:35 am
Childers is a pure artist atleast as much as possible. Sure numbers means something you have to turn a profit to keep the trains running. Having said that he deeply feels and connects with the music he brings to his audience and it comes across that way. Cudos to him and other artist that don’t sale their soul for a bump in the charts. It’s that music that will remain and live in our hearts .