Keith Urban

Keith Urban during a concert in Sydney March 2007

Keith Urban (born October 26, 1967 in Whangarei , New Zealand ; actually Keith Lionel Urbahn ) is a New Zealand- Australian singer , songwriter and guitarist . He is a crossover - Musicians in the areas Country and pop music .

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Keith Urban performs the Duck Walk at a concert in late 2007

He grew up in Caboolture , part of the Greater Metropolitan Region of Brisbane in Queensland , Australia, where he lived temporarily on a farm with his parents, who immigrated from New Zealand. He came into contact with country music at an early age and won a talent show at the age of eight. When he was twelve he played in clubs with a band.

In 1990 Keith Urban signed a recording deal in his home country and released his first solo album. In 1992 the musician moved to Nashville , Tennessee and made connections in the music industry. In 1997 he produced an album with the band The Ranch . His breakthrough came in 2000 with the solo album Keith Urban . He won the 2001 Horizon Award from the Country Music Association and the Top New Male Vocalist Award from the Academy of Country Music, and was nominated for a Grammy for his guitar playing . Keith Urban's style of music is a mix of country, rock and pop music. He plays acoustic guitar to traditional country melodies, rock solos on the electric guitar or banjo . The album Golden Road was released in 2002 and sold two million times in the US. Be Here followed in 2004.

On June 25, 2006, Urban married the American- Australian actress Nicole Kidman in a suburb of Sydney . Their first child was born on July 7, 2008 in Nashville. A second daughter was born on December 28, 2010 in Nashville. It had been carried out with the help of a surrogate mother . Because of alcohol problems, Urban went on a voluntary detox in October 2006. In 2007 he went on tour again, where he performed on July 7, 2007 with Alicia Keys at the Live Earth concert in New York City . On May 15, 2011, Keith Urban received a star on Nashville's Music City Walk of Fame; on April 21, 2012 he was accepted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry .

Urban was a jury member and coach on the Australian singing talent show The Voice , which aired on Nine Network , from April to June 2012 for the first season . Urban participated alongside Mariah Carey , Nicki Minaj and Randall Darius Jackson in the twelfth season of American Idol as a juror. In 2014, he also took part in the 13th season of American Idol as a juror alongside Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1997	The ranch	-	-	-	-	-	Country34 (20 weeks) Country
1999	Keith Urban	-	-	-	-	US145 platinum (7 weeks)US	Country17 (89 weeks) Country
2002	Golden Road	-	-	-	-	US11 × 3 Triple platinum (111 weeks)US	Country2 (111 weeks) Country
2004	Be Here	-	-	-	-	US3 × 4 Quadruple platinum (78 weeks)US	Country1 (104 weeks) Country
2006	Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing	DE32 (6 weeks) DE	AT23 (4 weeks) AT	CH52 (3 weeks) CH	UK73 (2 weeks) UK	US3 platinum (54 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country
2009	Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US1 platinum (72 weeks)US	Country1 (78 weeks) Country
2010	Get Closer	-	-	-	-	US7th platinum (23 weeks)US	Country2 (78 weeks) Country
2013	Fuse	-	-	-	-	US1 platinum (29 weeks)US	Country1 (91 weeks) Country
2016	Ripcord	-	-	-	-	US4th platinum (116 weeks)US	Country1 (136 weeks) Country
2018	Graffiti u	-	-	-	-	US2 gold (19 weeks)US	Country1 (27 weeks) Country

More studio albums

• 1991: Keith Urban

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2005	Days Go By	DE58 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	UK40 silver (6 weeks)UK	-	-
2007	Greatest hits	-	-	-	-	US11 platinum (63 weeks)US	Country4 (78 weeks) Country
2009	iTunes Originals	-	-	-	-	US153 (1 week) US	Country23 (2 weeks) Country
2012	The story so far	-	-	-	-	-	-

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
1999	It's a Love Thing Keith Urban	-	-	-	-	-	Country18 (25 weeks) Country
2000	Your Everything Keith Urban	-	-	-	-	US51 (14 weeks) US	Country4 (34 weeks) Country
	But for the Grace of God Keith Urban	-	-	-	-	US37 (5 weeks) US	Country1 (30 weeks) Country
2001	Where the Blacktop Ends Keith Urban	-	-	-	-	US35 (20 weeks) US	Country3 (27 weeks) Country
2002	Somebody Like You (1) Golden Road	DE42 (2 weeks) DE	AT47 (2 weeks) AT	CH50 (1 week) CH	-	US23 × 2 Double platinum (14 weeks)US	Country1 (41 weeks) Country
2003	Raining on Sunday Golden Road	-	-	-	-	US38 (19 weeks) US	Country3 (30 weeks) Country
	Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me Golden Road	-	-	-	-	US30 (5 weeks) US	Country1 (33 weeks) Country
2004	You'll Think of Me Golden Road	-	-	-	UK88 (1 week) UK	US24 × 2 Double platinum (12 weeks)US	Country1 (28 weeks) Country
	Days Go By Be Here	DE58 (3 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US31 platinum (13 weeks)US	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
	You're My Better Half Be Here	-	-	-	-	US33 gold (18 weeks)US	Country2 (22 weeks) Country
2005	Making Memories of Us Be Here	-	-	-	-	US34 platinum (15 weeks)US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
	Better Life Be Here	-	-	-	-	US44 gold (20 weeks)US	Country1 (22 weeks) Country
	Tonight I Wanna Cry Be Here	-	-	-	-	US36 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (23 weeks) Country
2006	Once In A Lifetime Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	DE66 (4 weeks) DE	-	CH92 (1 week) CH	-	US31 gold (14 weeks)US	Country6 (20 weeks) Country
	Stupid Boy Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	-	-	-	-	US43 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (20 weeks) Country
2007	I Told You So Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	-	-	-	-	US48 gold (11 weeks)US	Country2 (20 weeks) Country
	Everybody Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	-	-	-	-	US64 (9 weeks) US	Country5 (23 weeks) Country
2008	You Look Good in My Shirt Greatest Hits: 19 Kids	-	-	-	-	US44 gold (17 weeks)US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country	In 2004 as album track by Golden Road already at number 60
	Sweet Thing Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US30th platinum (16 weeks)US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
2009	Kiss a Girl Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US16 platinum (7 weeks)US	Country3 (17 weeks) Country
	Only You Can Love Me This Way Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US34 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country1 (19 weeks) Country
	'Til Summer Comes Around Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US58 gold (8 weeks)US	Country3 (23 weeks) Country
2010	I'm In Defying Gravity	-	-	-	-	US60 (12 weeks) US	Country2 (19 weeks) Country
	Put You in a Song Get Closer	-	-	-	-	US53 gold (20 weeks)US	Country2 (22 weeks) Country
2011	Without You Get Closer	-	-	-	-	US52 gold (19 weeks)US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country
	Long Hot Summer Get Closer	-	-	-	-	US45 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country
	You gonna fly get closer	-	-	-	-	US54 gold (2 weeks)US	Country1 (21 weeks) Country
2012	For You Act of Valor: The Album	-	-	-	-	US55 gold (11 weeks)US	Country6 (23 weeks) Country
2013	Little Bit of Everything Fuse	-	-	-	-	US33 gold (20 weeks)US	Country6 (21 weeks) Country
	We Were Us Fuse	-	-	-	-	US26th platinum (4 weeks)US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country	with Miranda Lambert
2014	Cop car fuse	-	-	-	-	US41 platinum (10 weeks)US	Country4 (21 weeks) Country
	Somewhere in My Car Fuse	-	-	-	-	US49 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country3 (26 weeks) Country
2015	Raise 'Em Up Fuse	-	-	-	-	US56 gold (14 weeks)US	Country8 (20 weeks) Country	with Eric Church
	John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 Ripcord	-	-	-	-	US40 platinum (8 weeks)US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country
	Break on Me Ripcord	-	-	-	-	US54 gold (9 weeks)US	Country6 (21 weeks) Country
2016	Wasted time ripcord	-	-	-	-	US51 gold (11 weeks)US	Country4 (23 weeks) Country
	Blue Ain't Your Color Ripcord	-	-	-	-	US24 × 2 Double platinum (21 weeks)US	Country1 (31 weeks) Country
2017	The Fighter Ripcord	-	-	-	-	US38 × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)US	Country2 (33 weeks) Country	feat. Carrie Underwood
	Female Graffiti U	-	-	-	-	US69 gold (5 weeks)US	Country11 (20 weeks) Country
2018	Parallel Line Graffiti U	-	-	-	-	US- gold US	Country25 (13 weeks) Country
	Coming Home Graffiti U	-	-	-	-	US50 (7 weeks) US	Country11 (21 weeks) Country	feat. Julia Michaels
	Never Comin 'Down Graffiti U	-	-	-	-	-	Country30 (20 weeks) Country
2019	We were	-	-	-	-	US65 (15 weeks) US	Country8 (... weeks) Country
	I'll be your Santa Tonight	-	-	-	-	-	Country32 (... weeks) Country
2020	God Whispered Your Name	-	-	-	-	US60 (... weeks) US	Country13 (... weeks) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2005	Live to Love Another Day Be Here	-	-	-	-	-	Country48 (14 weeks) Country
2013	Even the Stars Fall 4 U Fuse	-	-	-	-	-	Country49 (1 week) Country
2014	Good thing fuse	-	-	-	-	-	Country50 (1 week) Country
2019	Burden fuse	-	-	-	-	-	Country38 (1 week) Country

⁽¹⁾ Somebody Like You hit the charts in German-speaking countries in 2014 after it was sung by a candidate on The Voice of Germany

More singles

• 1990: I Never Work on a Sunday
• 1991: Only You
• 1991: Got It Bad
• 2006: These Are the Days
• 2007: Used to the Pain
• 2013: Shame

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)						Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US	Country
2001	America the Beautiful	-	-	-	-	-	Country58 (6 weeks) Country	with various artists
2008	Start a band play	-	-	-	-	US55 (16 weeks) US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country	with Brad Paisley
2010	Blue sky	-	-	-	-	-	Country38 (15 weeks) Country	with Emily West
	Lean on Me Hope for Haiti Now	-	AT45 (1 week) AT	-	-	US47 (1 week) US	-	with Sheryl Crow & Kid Rock
2013	Highway Don't Care Two Lanes of Freedom	-	-	-	-	US22nd × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country4 (31 weeks) Country	with Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift
2016	Forever Country	-	-	-	-	US21 (4 weeks) US	Country1 (18 weeks) Country	with Artists of Then, Now & Forever
2020	Be a light	-	-	-	-	US57 (... weeks) US	Country11 (... weeks) Country	Thomas Rhett feat. Reba McEntire , Hillary Scott , Chris Tomlin & Keith Urban

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2012: for the album Keith Urban 2012: for the single Somebody Love You 2018: for the album Graffiti U  Canada 2010: for the album Get Closer 2014: for the album Fuse 2014: for the single We Were Us 2016: for the single Wasted Time 2016: for the single Blue Ain't Your Color 2020: for the single God Whispered Your Name

Platinum record  Australia 2004: for the album Golden Road 2006: for the album Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing 2010: for the album Defying Gravity 2012: for the album Get Closer 2014: for the album Fuse 2018: for the single parallel line  Canada 2005: for the video album Video Hits 2006: for the album Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing 2009: for the album Greatest Hits 2009: for the video album Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing 2009: for the album Defying Gravity 2016: for the single John Cougar, John Deere, John 2017: for the album Ripcord 2017: for the single The Fighter  United States 2005: for the video album Video Hits

2 × platinum record  Australia 2011: for the album Greatest Hits: 18 Kids 2016: for the video album Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing 2016: for the album The Story So Far 2017: for the album Ripcord  Canada 2006: for the album Be Here 2006: for the video album Livin 'Right Now 2007: for the album Golden Road  United States 2007: for the video album Livin 'Right Now 3 × platinum record  Australia 2012: for the album Be Here 2019: for the single The Fighter 5 × platinum record  Australia 2013: for the video album Livin 'Right Now

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	3 × gold3	25 × platinum25th	1,470,000	aria.com.au
Canada (MC)	-	6 × gold6th	14 × platinum14th	1,370,000	musiccanada.com
United States (RIAA)	-	17 × gold17th	39 × platinum39	44,800,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	-	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	26 × gold26th	78 × platinum78

The most important awards

1983 - CCMA Junior Male Vocalist
1990 - CMAA Star Maker Award
1991 - CMAA Golden Guitar / Best New Talent
1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Male Vocalist
1992 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
1997 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
1998 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
2001 - CMAA Golden Guitar Instrumentalist
2001 - ACM Top New Male Vocalist
2001 - CMA Horizon Award
2001 - ARIA Outstanding Achievement Award
2001 - VMA Male Vocalist Award
2001 - Mo Australian Show Business Ambassador of the Year
2003 - ARIA Country Album of the Year (Golden Road)
2003 - Country Weekly Fan Favorite Award for Favorite New Artist
2003 - BMI Song of the Year Category for "Somebody Like You"
2003 - TCMA Video Clip of the Year - "Somebody Like You"
2004 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
2004 - FCMA Best Foreign Music
2005 - CMT Music Awards Video of the Year - "Days Go By"
2005 - ACM Album of the Year - "Be Here"
2005 - ACM Top Male Vocalist
2005 - CMA International Artist of the Year
2005 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
2005 - CMA Entertainer of the Year
2006 - CMA Male Vocalist of the Year
2008 - Grammy "Best Male Country Vocal Performance"
2009 - American Music Awards Category Country - Favorite Male Artist
2009 - Grammy Award for "Best Male Country Vocal Performance "for Sweet Thing
2010 - People's Choice Award Category Favorite Male Artist
2011 - Grammy Award for" Best Male Country Vocal Performance "for Til Summer Comes Around

Individual evidence

1. ^ Spiegel Online: Nicole Kidman gives birth to daughter
2. ↑ CMN: Keith Urban and Bill Anderson on the Music City Walk of Fame . Retrieved May 7, 2011.
3. ↑ http://www.opry.com/artists/u/Urban_Keith.html
4. ^ Urban Juror in American Idol Season 12, English
5. ^ Urban Juror in American Idol Season 13, English
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} chart sources:
   • Keith Urban in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
   • Keith Urban in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
   • Keith Urban in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Keith Urban in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Keith Urban in the US charts of Billboard magazine

Web links

Commons : Keith Urban  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Keith Urban Website engl.
• Artist portrait by Keith Urban