Alice in Chains' 1995 Album with Layne Staley Soars 9,400% in Sales After Vinyl Reissue

Jacqueline Burt CoteSun, February 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM UTC

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It's a tragic fact that many of the most iconic musicians of the '90s are no longer with us, as fans know all too well. From Kurt Cobain to Chris Cornell to Scott Weiland to Mark Lanegan and so many others, the music world is still mourning so many losses.

Another rocker on that unfortunate list: Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, who died in 2002. But his music lives on — in fact, the band's last album recorded with Staley is back on the charts.

As Forbes reported, Alice in Chains' self-titled third album, released in 1995, hit multiple Billboard charts for the first time this week, due to a dramatic sales increase after the album's long-awaited vinyl reissue. In fact, the record almost hit #1 in America on the highly competitive Vinyl Albums chart...but landed at #2, behind the Stranger Things 5 soundtrack.

A massive spike in sales fueled the ascent of the album (often referred to as Three-Legged Dog or The Dog Album due to the tripod canine featured on the cover). Per data from Luminate, sales grew by a whopping 9,400% from one frame to the next following the reissue. This is the band's fifth top 10 on the Vinyl Albums chart, along with Dirt and the Jar of Flies EP, which both hit #1, as well as Rainier Fog and the Sap EP, which came in #3 and #8, respectively.

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Jerry Cantrell called the third Alice in Chains album 'sad'

In a 2018 interview with Vice, guitarist Jerry Cantrell reflected on Alice in Chains and how Staley's addiction struggles influenced the material.

There’s a sadness to that record — it’s the sound of a band falling apart," he said. "It was our last studio record [to that point]. It’s a beautiful record, but it’s sad, too. It’s a little more exploratory, a little bit more meandering. It’s not as crafted as the rest of our records were."

"I didn’t know that it would be the last one, but you could feel that if something didn’t change we wouldn’t be lasting too much longer," Cantrell added. "That’s just the honest truth of it. And it turned out to be right, unfortunately."

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