Chart Performance and 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 by Avril Lavigne off the top spot. It was certified platinum by 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, was the twentieth highest selling album in Australia for 2004 and the eighty-second highest selling album in Australia for 2005. The album failed to chart on the Billboard 200 but peaked at number thirty-one of the Top Country Albums spending eight weeks in the charts.
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". 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".
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