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Tyler Childers shrugs genre lines, hits Billboard 200 at No. 7 with Snipe Hunter

Tyler Childers’ latest offering, Snipe Hunter, stirs more than a few debates among listeners, but the numbers speak louder than online squabbles. The album launches into the Billboard 200 at No. 7, charting the Kentucky songwriter’s highest debut to date.

On the Country albums chart, it lands squarely at No. 2—an impressive feat for a record that doesn’t toe the genre’s usual lines. Whatever side of the conversation one falls on, audiences are hitting play, repeatedly.