The album was released by Elektra/Curb Records in 1982 and reached number 4 on the BillboardTop Country Albums chart in January 1983.[2][3] The album has been Williams' most commercially successful album to date, having been certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA by 2003.[4] It has sold 3,410,700 copies in the US as of April 2017 in the SoundScan era when sales figure started to be tracked in 1991.[5]