Keith Lionel Urban was born
October 26, 1967 in Australia. Urban's music
interest came early with success in local
singing contests and forming a band in his
early teens. At 15, Urban dropped out of
school to pursue his music. By the early
1990s, Urban had signed with EMI in Australia
and topped the Australian country charts with
4 singles. By the mid 1990s, Urban had moved
to the US to find success and formed the band
The Ranch after doing guitar
work for Brooks & Dunn.
By 1998, Urban decided to go solo and after
getting treatment for a cocaine problem he
began the journey toward topping the US
country charts.
Urban released Keith
Urban.
Urban hit the US Country charts
with "It's A Love Thing."
Urban hit the US Country charts
with "Your Everything" which became
his first Top 10 country hit.
Urban was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country New Artist.
Urban topped
the Billboard Hot Country Singles &
Tracks chart with "But For The Grace Of
God."
Urban hit the Top 10 country
charts with "Where The Blacktop
Ends."
Urban could be seen in Playgirl.
Keith
Urban was certified gold.
Urban topped
the Billboard Hot Country Singles &
Tracks chart with "Somebody Like
You."
Urban released Golden
Road.
# 163
Singles Artist of the Year
Urban hit the
Top 10 country charts with "Raining On
Sunday."
Golden
Road was certified platinum.
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart with
"Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me."
Urban topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Country
Singles & Tracks Artist and Top Hot
Country Singles & Tracks Artist - Male.
Keith
Urban was certified platinum.
Keith
Urban In The Ranch was reissued.
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart with
"You'll Think Of Me."
Urban released Be
Here.
Urban topped the Billboard Top
Country Albums chart with Be
Here.
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart with
"Days Go By."
Be
Here was certified platinum.
Urban won a Country Music
Association Award for Male Vocalist of the
Year
# 103
Singles Artist of the Year
Urban hit the Top 10 country
charts with "You're My Better
Half."
Urban was
nominated for 2 Grammy Awards for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("You'll Think Of Me") and Best Country Album (Be
Here).
Urban won 2 Academy of Country
Music Awards for Top Male Vocalist and Album
of the Year (Be
Here).
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart with
"Making Memories Of Us."
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Singles & Tracks chart with
"Better Life."
Urban hit the Top 10 country
chart with "Tonight I Wanna Cry."
The single "You'll Think Of Me" was certified
gold.
The single "Making Memories
Of Us" was certified gold.
On July 2nd, Urban performed in
London, England, as part of the worldwide Live
8 concerts. The mission of the
concerts was to raise awareness of the
on-going poverty in Africa and to pressure
the G8 leaders to take action by doubling
aid, canceling debt, and delivering trade
justice for Africa.
The single "Days Go
By" was certified gold.
Urban hit the Top 40 with "You'll Think Of Me."
Urban topped the Billboard
Year-End Charts as the Top Hot Country
Songs Artist - Male.
Urban hit the Top 10 country
chart with "Once In A Lifetime."
Urban won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("You'll Think Of Me").
Urban married actress Nicole
Kidman.
Urban entered the Betty Ford
Center in California to deal with his alcohol
abuse.
Urban released Love,
Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing.
Urban was
nominated for an American Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Urban topped the Billboard Top
Country Albums chart with Love,
Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing.
Love,
Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing was certified
platinum.
Urban hit the Top 10 country
chart with "Stupid Boy."
Urban finished his rehab program
at the Betty Ford Center.
Urban was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Once In A
Lifetime").
Urban hit the Top 10 country
chart with "I Told You So."
On July 7th, Urban performed at
the Live
Earth
concert in the US. The 7-continent concert
organized by Al Gore brought together over
100 artists to perform and raise the world's
awareness about the climate crisis and how to
make a difference to help the environment and
the world.
Urban released Greatest
Hits.
Greatest
Hits was certified gold.
Urban won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Stupid Boy").
Urban teamed up Nelly Furtado and featured on her
single "In God's Hands."
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Songs chart with "You Look Good
In My Shirt."
# 99
Singles Artist of the Year
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Songs chart helping out Brad
Paisley with "Start A
Band" from Paisley's LP Play.
Urban was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country
Collaboration with Vocals ("Let The Wind
Chase You" with Trisha Yearwood).
Urban performed at the ceremony.
Urban topped the Billboard Hot
Country Songs chart with "Sweet
Thing."
Urban released Defying
Gravity.
Urban won an Academy of Country
Music Award for Vocal Event of the Year
("Start A Band" with Brad
Paisley).
Urban topped the Billboard 200
LP chart for the first time, Top Country
Albums chart, and Top Digital Albums chart
with Defying
Gravity. The LP sold over 171,000
copies its first week of release in the US.
Urban topped the Billboard Top
Country Songs chart with "Only You Can
Love Me This Way."
Defying
Gravity was certified gold.
Urban won an Americann Music
Award for Favorite Country Male Artist.
Urban topped the Billboard 2009
Year-End Chart Toppers as the Top Country
Artist - Male (singles & albums), Top Hot
Country Songs Artist, and Top Hot Country
Songs Artist - Male.
Urban won a People's Choice
Award for Favorite Male Artist.
Urban won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("Sweet Thing"), and
was nominated for Best
Country Collaboration with Vocals
("Start A Band" with Brad
Paisley), Best Country Album (Defying
Gravity), and Best Music Video, Long Form (Love,
Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour Live).
Defying
Gravity was certified platinum.
Keith released Get
Closer.
Get
Closer was certified gold.
Keith won a Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal
Performance - Male ("'Til Summer Comes
Around").
Keith topped the Billboard
Country Singles chart with "Without
You."
Keith topped the Billboard Top
Country Songs chart with "Long Hot
Summer."
Keith underwent throat surgery.
Keith was nominated for a Golden
Globe Award for Best Original Song ("For
You").
Keith topped the Billboard Top
Country Songs chart with "You Gonna
Fly."
Keith joined the 12th season of American
Idol as a judge.
Keith could be heard on the Tim McGraw LP Two
Lanes Of Freedom on the track
"Highway Don't Care."
Keith released Fuse.
Keith topped the Billboard 200
LP chart and Country Albums chart with Fuse. The LP sold over
98,000 copies its first week of release in
the US.
Keith topped the Billboard
Country Songs chart with Miranda Lambert with "We Were
Us."
- December 6: Keith topped the
Billboard Country Songs chart with
"Somewhere In My Car."
- May 23: Keith topped the
Billboard Country Airplay chart with help
from Eric Church
"Raise 'Em Up."
- February 15: Keith was
nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best
Country Solo Performance ("John
Cougar, John Deere, John 3.16").
- March 12: Keith topped the
Billboard Country Airplay chart with
"Break On Me."
- July 9: Keith topped the
Billboard Country Airplay chart with
"Wasted Time."
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Keith Urban In The Ranch
Released: 1997 / February,
2004 (re-issue)
Tracks: "Walkin' The
Country" - "Homespun Love"
- "Just Some Love" - "Some
Days You Gotta Dance" - "My
Last Name" - "Desiree" -
"Freedom's Finally Mine" -
"Hank Don't Fail Me Now" -
"Tangled Up In Love" -
"Clutterbilly" - "Man Of
The House" - "Ghost In His
Guitar" - "Stuck In The
Middle" - "No One Ever
Asked" |
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Keith Urban
Released: October, 1999
US: 4x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 145
Tracks: "It's A Love
Thing" - "Where The Blacktop
Ends" - "But For The Grace Of
God" - "Your Everything" -
"I Wanna Be Your Man (Forever)"
- "A Little Luck Of Our Own" -
"You're The Only One" -
"If You Wanna Stay" -
"Don't Shut Me Out" - "Out
On My Own" -
"Rollercoaster" - "I
Thought You Knew" |
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Golden Road
Released: October, 2002
US: 3x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 11
Tracks: "Somebody
Like You" - "Who Wouldn't Want
To Be Me" - "Whenever I
Run" - "What About Me" -
"You'll Think Of Me" -
"Jeans On" - "You Look
Good In My Shirt" - "You're Not
Alone Tonight" - "You Won"
- "Song For Dad" -
"Rainin' On Sunday" -
"You're Not My Got" |
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Be Here
Released: September, 2004
US: 4x Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 3
Rolling Stone:
Tracks: "Days Go
By" - "Better Life" -
"Making Memories Of Us" -
"God's Been Good To Me" -
"The Hard Way" - "You're
My Better Half" - "I Could
Fly" - "Tonight I Wanna
Cry" - "She's Gotta Be" -
"Nobody Drinks Alone" -
"Country Comfort" - "Live
To Love Another Day" - "These
Are The Days" |
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Love, Pain & The
Whole Crazy Thing
Released: November, 2006
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 3
Rolling Stone:
Tracks: "Once In A
Lifetime" - "Shine" -
"I Told You So" - "I Can't
Stop Loving You" - "Won't Let
You Down" - "Faster Car" -
"Stupid Boy" - "Used To
The Pain" - "Raise The
Barn" - "God Made Woman" -
"Tu Compania" -
"Everybody" - "Got It
Right This Time" |
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Greatest Hits
Released: November, 2007
US: Platinum
Billboard
peak:
# 11
Tracks: "Romeo's
Tune" - "Got It Right This Time
(The Celebration)" - "I Told
You So" - "Stupid Boy" -
"Better Life" - "Making
Memories Of Us" - "Once In A
Lifetime" - "Tonight I Wanna
Cry" - "You're My Better
Half" - "Days Go By" -
"But For The Grace Of God" -
"you'll Thin Of Me" - "Who
Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" -
"Raining On Sunday" -
"Where The Blacktop Ends" -
"Your Everything" -
"Somebody Like You" -
"Everybody" |
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Defying Gravity
Released: March, 2009
Billboard
peak:
# 1
US: Platinum
Rolling Stone: - Entertainment
Weekly: B
Tracks: "Kiss A
Girl" - "If Ever I Could
Love" - "Sweet Thing" -
"'Til Summer Comes Around" -
"My Heart Is Open" - "Hit
The Ground Runnin'" - "Only You
Can Love Me This Way" -
"Standing Right In Front Of
You" - "Why's It Feel So
Long" - "I'm In" -
"Thank You" |
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Get Closer
Released: November, 2010
US: Platinum
Tracks: "Put You In
A Song" - "You Gonna Fly"
- "All For You" - "Long
Hot Summer" - "Without
You" - "Georgia Woods" -
"Right On Back To You" -
"Shut Out The Lights" |
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Fuse
Released: September 10,
2013
US: Platinum
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 1
Tracks: "Somewhere
In My Car" - "Even The Stars
Fall 4 U" - "Cop Car" -
"Shame" - "Good
Thing" - "We Were Us" -
"Love's Poster Child" -
"She's My 11" - "Come Back
To Me" - "Little Bit Of
Everything" - "Raise 'Em
Up" (with Eric Church) - "Heart
Like Mine" |
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Ripcord
Released: May 6, 2016
US: 2x Platinum
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 4
Tracks: "Gone
Tomorrow (Here Today)" - "John
Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16: -
"Wasted Time" - "Habit Of
You" - "Sun Don't Let Me
Down" - "Gettin' In The
Way" - "Blue Ain't Your
Color" - "The Fighter"
(featuring Carrie Underwood) -
"Break On Me" - "Boy Gets
A Truck" - "Your Body" -
"That Could Still Be Us" -
"Worry 'Bout Nothin'" |
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Graffiti U
Released: April 27, 2018
US: Gold
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 2
Tracks: "Coming
Home" (featuring Julia Michaels) -
"Never Comin Down" - "Same
Heart" - "My Wave" (Intro)
- "My Wave" (featuring Shy
Carter) - "Parallel Line" -
"Drop Top" (featuring Kassi
Ashton) - "Way Too Long" -
"Horses" (featuring Lindsay
Ell) - "Gemini" - "Texas
Time" (Intro) - "Texas
Time" - "Love The Way It Hurts
(So Good)" - "Female" -
"Steal My Thunder" |
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The Speed Of Now Part 1
Released: Septeber 18, 2020
US: Gold
Billboard
Top 200 LPs
peak: # 7
Tracks: "Out The
Cage" - "One Too Many" -
"Live With" -
"Superman" - "Change Your
Mind" - "Forever" -
"Say SOmething" - "Soul
Food" - "Ain't It Like A
Woman" - "With You" -
"Tumbleweed" - "God
Whispered Your Name' -
"Polaroid" - "Better Than
I Am" - "We Were" - We
Were" (featuring Eric Church) |
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High
Released: September 20,
2024
Tracks: "Blue
Sky" - "Straight Line" -
"Messed Up As Me" -
"Wildside" - "Go Home w
U" - "Chuck Taylors" -
"Daytona" - "Love Is
Hard" - "Heart Like A
Hometown" - "Laughin' All The
Way To The Drank" - "Dodge In A
Silverado" - "Break The
Chain" |
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