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==Reception== The album debuted at number-one on the Australian [[ARIA Albums Chart]] on 7 June 2004 with sales of 25,885 copies, knocking ''[[Under My Skin (Avril Lavigne album)|Under My Skin]]'' by [[Avril Lavigne]] off the top spot.<ref name="ARIACharts">[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040606140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20040607-0000/issue745.pdf "ARIA Report: Issue 745 β 7 June 2004"]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. ''[[ARIA Charts]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> It was certified [[platinum album|platinum]] by [[Australian Recording Industry Association|ARIA]] on its first week and also topped the Australian Country Chart, knocking her previous album off number-one. The album went to spend five weeks at number-one being knocked off to number five by ''[[For All You've Done]]'' by [[Hillsong Church]] and it spent thirty-six weeks in the top fifty, re-entering five times. ''Wayward Angel'' spent fifty-four weeks in the albums top one hundred, certified triple platinum by ARIA,<ref name="ARIAacred05">[http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2005.htm "ARIA Charts β Accreditations β 2005 Albums"]. ''[[ARIA Charts]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> was the twentieth highest selling album in Australia for 2004<ref name="ARIA2004">[http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-albums-2004.htm "ARIA Charts β End Of Year Charts β Top 100 Albums 2004"]. ''[[ARIA Charts]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> and the eighty-second highest selling album in Australia for 2005.<ref name="ARIA2005">[http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-end-of-year-charts-top-100-albums-2004.htm "ARIA Charts β End Of Year Charts β Top 100 Albums 2005"]. ''[[ARIA Charts]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> The album failed to chart on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] but peaked at number thirty-one of the [[Top Country Albums]] spending eight weeks in the charts.<ref name="billboard">{{cite news | url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2005-02-05/country-albums | title=Wayward Angel β Chart Listing For The Week Of Feb 05 2005 | date=5 February 2005 | work=Billboard | accessdate=10 October 2007 }}</ref> [[AllMusic]] stated that Chambers "manages the not-unremarkable accomplishment of splitting the difference between [[Emmylou Harris]]'s crystalline purity and [[Lucinda Williams]]'s rough-hewn emotional honesty".<ref name="Allmusic">[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r699322|pure_url=yes}} "Mark Deming review on Wayward Angel"]. ''[[Allmusic]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> They also state that her "songwriting is no less remarkable, and connects in much the same way, chronicling matters of the heart and soul in a manner that achieves a genuine and unaffected beauty with just a dash of the truthful messiness that comes with being human". ===Accolades=== The album and its tracks received four [[ARIA Award]] nominations. All of the ARIA Awards were at [[ARIA Music Awards of 2004|the 2004 awards]]:<ref name="ARIA Awards">[http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2004 "18th Annual ARIA Awards"]. ''[[ARIA Awards]]''. Retrieved 10 October 2007.</ref> *Album of the Year β awarded to ''[[Get Born]]'' by [[Jet (band)|Jet]] *Best Female Artist β won *Best Country Album β won *Best Cover Art" β awarded to ''[[The Dissociatives (album)|The Dissociatives]]'' by [[the Dissociatives]] The album and its tracks received two [[APRA Awards (Australia)|APRA Award]] nominations. All of the APRA Awards were at the 2005 awards: *"Most Performed Country Work" (Like a River) β won. *"Most Performed Country Work" (Hollywood) β awarded to "Like a River" by herself.
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