Chief is the third studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 recording artist Eric Church

Eric Church

Kenneth Eric Church is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records in 2006, Church released his debut album Sinners Like Me that year...

. It was released on July 26, 2011, via EMI Nashville

Capitol Records Nashville

Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States-based record label located in Nashville Tennessee operating as part of the Capitol Music Group. Capitol Nashville was formerly known as Liberty Records from 1989 until 1995 when it was changed back to Capitol in 1993 Liberty opened a sister label...

. The album includes the singles "Homeboy", which peaked at number 13 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts, and "Drink in My Hand". On October 4, 2011 Chief was certified Gold by the RIAA having surpassed 500,000 records sold.

Track listing

Album

Chart (2011)	Peak position
Canadian Albums Chart Canadian Albums Chart The Canadian Albums Chart is the official album sales chart in Canada. It is compiled every Wednesday by U.S.-based music sales tracking company Nielsen Soundscan, and published every Thursday by Jam! Canoe and Billboard, along with its sister charts the Canadian Singles Chart and the Canadian BDS...	7
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	1
US Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Country Albums	1

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	US Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	CAN Canadian Hot 100 The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...
2011	"Homeboy Homeboy (Eric Church song) "Homeboy" is the title of a song co-written by Eric Church and Casey Beathard, and recorded by Church. It was released in March 2011 as the ninth single of his career, and the first from his third studio album, Chief.-Content:... "	13	53	—
	"Drink in My Hand Drink in My Hand "Drink in My Hand" is the title of a song co-written by Eric Church, Michael P. Heeney and Luke Laird, and recorded by Church. It was released in August 2011 as the tenth single of his career, and the second from his third studio album, Chief.... "A	11	40	52
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

• ^A Current single.

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