Keith Urban enjoys good week
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Keith Urban enjoys good week

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 – Keith Urban's fourth studio album, "Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing," will top Billboard's Country Album Chart when it is released Thursday, Urban's second consecutive album to debut at number one thanks to sales of 267,227 copies, according to Soundscan. The disc was the third best selling CD in the country.

Sugarland's "Enjoy the Ride" debuted in second on the country charts and fourth on the overall charts with sales of about 210,000 units.

"Fan support for 'Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing' has been tremendous and these first week sales figures reflect that," said Bill Kennedy, VP Sales at Capitol Records Nashville. "This, along with Keith's third consecutive CMA Best Male Vocalist of the Year Award and the number one position for the most downloaded album at iTunes, underscores Keith's very solid place in the country music world."

Urban has been in rehabilitation for substance abuse.

The first single from the CD, "Once In A Lifetime," made chart history by debuting at number 17 on the Billboard Hot Country Song Chart, making it the highest debuting single in the 62-year history of that chart.

The second single, "Stupid Boy," was released to radio this week.


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CD review - THE SPEED OF NOW Part 1 It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...
CD review - Graffiti U It's telling how two songs on Keith Urban's "Graffiti U" album chug along to a reggae beat because pop rhythms and non-country elements are the obvious inspirations for this collection. Opener "Coming Home" may borrow (steal?) a guitar riff from Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," but this is where that country road begins and ends. Urban follows "Coming Home" with "Never Comin' Down," which is introduced with a funky bass line ...


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