Urban leads charts with "Fuse"
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 – Keith Urban lit up the cash register because "Fuse" is the best selling disc in the U.S. Urban edged out the Weeknd's "Kiss Land."
Urban sold 98,000 units of his disc, 3,000 more than the Weeknd.
Urban's sales no doubt were helped by performances on the Today show, The View and Late Show with David Letterman.
Despite leading the charts, the numbers were far less than his last disc, "Get Closer" in 2010. That release started with 162,000 units sold. In fact, the numbers were the worst for Urban since "Golden Road" in 2002 sold 67,000 units.
Luke Bryan was fourth with "Crash My Party," selling 53,000 units, down 22 percent.
Sheryl Crow debuted at seven with "Feels Like Home," her first country disc. Crow sold 36,000 units.
The charts will officially out on Thursday.
More news for Keith Urban
- 06/28/24: Urban goes "High"
- 05/17/24: Urban gets "Messed Up" on The Voice
- 05/06/24: Urben gets HIGH in Vegas
- 05/03/24: Urban looks to "GO HOME W U"
- 02/29/24: Urban releases "Messed Up As Me" on Friday
- 09/07/23: Urban, Gill, Bentley, Ballerini play All for the Hall
- 08/03/23: Urban, Brooks, Murphy to join Nashville Songwriters Hall
- 11/18/22: Urban drops "Street Called Main" video
CD reviews for Keith Urban
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. ...
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 ...
Even though Keith Urban's single, "Wasted Time," borrows more than a little sonic sensibility from electronic music, there's still an upfront banjo solo. And this is how it's always been with Urban. He may play the part of the guitar hero at times, and even revealed his eclectic musical knowledge as a judge on American Idol, but Urban will always be a country boy at heart. And boyish good looks and talent have taken this country boy far, too.
The wonderfully titled ...
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