Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
Allmusic wrote that "if [the title track's] accompanying album isn't quite up to its standards, it's nevertheless the work of an accomplished writer who knows how to sculpt a song for a wide audience. If Buy Me a Boat can be faulted, it's because its diversity often plays like a demo tape, with Janson crafting songs for any possible contemporary country audience."[2]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, and No. 18 on the
Billboard 200, selling 18,536 copies in its first week.[3] The album has sold 117,100 copies in the US as of March 2017.[4]
^Buy Me a Boat (CD booklet). Chris Janson. Warner Bros. Records Nashville. 2015. 552159-2.{{
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
Allmusic wrote that "if [the title track's] accompanying album isn't quite up to its standards, it's nevertheless the work of an accomplished writer who knows how to sculpt a song for a wide audience. If Buy Me a Boat can be faulted, it's because its diversity often plays like a demo tape, with Janson crafting songs for any possible contemporary country audience."[2]
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, and No. 18 on the
Billboard 200, selling 18,536 copies in its first week.[3] The album has sold 117,100 copies in the US as of March 2017.[4]
^Buy Me a Boat (CD booklet). Chris Janson. Warner Bros. Records Nashville. 2015. 552159-2.{{
cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (
link)