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Keith Urban celebrated his most recent #1 hit single, “Blue Ain’t Your Color” with songwriters: Clint Lagerberg, Hillary Lindsey, and Steven Lee Olsen recently at Nashville’s The Basement East to a packed crowd of friends, family, and music industry.
Urban dubbed this song “the sexiest” song he has had to date.
Watch the clip below as he discusses “Blue Ain’t Your Color” with the songwriters from the #1 party:
Pictured (l-r): Producer Dann Huff, songwriter Steven Lee Olsen, Keith Urban, songwriters Hillary Lindsey and Clint Lagerberg. Photo credir: Ed Rode
Music Row friends and family packed The Basement East to celebrate the team behind the ACM Awards Song of the Year nominated Keith Urban hit single, “Blue Ain’t Your Color.” The tune marked eighteenth chart-topper for songwriter Hillary Lindsey and the second for co-writer Clint Lagerberg, while songwriter-artist Steven Lee Olsen celebrated his very first #1 song. Lindsey is also nominated for the ACM’s Songwriter of the Year award, while Urban is up for ACM awards in four additional categories: Entertainer, Male Vocalist, Album and Single of the Year.
Pictured: (L-R): BMI’s Jody Williams, ASCAP’s Mike Sistad, BMG’s Sara Knabe, ASCAP songwriter Greg Wells, BMI artist Keith Urban, SESAC songwriter JHart, SESAC’s Shannon Hatch and Universal’s Kent Earls. (Photo by John Russell.)
Friends, family and music industry executives took the #1 party for BMI artist Keith Urban’s “Wasted Time” to new heights, celebrating his 21st #1 hit on the rooftop of the Westin Hotel. Written with SESAC writer JHart and ASCAP’s Greg Wells, the track is the third single from Keith’s incredible ninth studio album Ripcord. The trio of writers treated party attendees to a special performance of the song, inviting audience members to sing along. Presentations followed, and UMG’s Mike Dungan honored Keith with the “Impaler Award,” a small trophy awarded to those artists on the roster who hit the top of the charts. Both JHart and Greg, who are more well-known for their pop singles, were celebrating their first country chart-toppers, and commented on the unique atmosphere of Nashville’s country music scene. Keith is about to embark on an international tour, hitting New Zealand and Australia before Christmas.
Keith Urban’s eighth studio album RIPCORD has debuted at #1 in the United States, Canada and Australia, marking the second consecutive time that the four-time Grammy Award winner has achieved that historic milestone, something that no other male Country artist has done. It is also Urban’s 5th #1 album.
Keith Urban plays free concert in downtown Nashville to huge crowd to celebrate new album, “RipCord”.
Keith Urban treated Music City to the ultimate lunch break on Monday afternoon, when he performed a free outdoor concert at the Bridgestone Arena Plaza in downtown Nashville. Continue Reading →
The Country Radio Broadcasters have announced Keith Urban as the recipient of the 2016 CRS Artist Humanitarian Award, to be presented during the opening ceremonies of Country Radio Seminar on Feb. 8, 2016. Last year’s Artist Humanitarian Award recipient, Lady Antebellum, will be on hand to present Urban with this year’s award.
Our thoughts and prayers are with
and family due to the passing of his dad, Robert Urban.
“I’ve been deeply touched by the outpouring of love and support that Nic and I, and our family, have received since my Dad’s passing on Saturday night. His long battle with cancer is now over and he is finally at peace. My Dad’s love of country music and America set me on my life’s journey, and shaped so much of who I am today. Thank you to everyone who has kept us all in your thoughts and prayers.”–Keith Urban
Pictured L to R are: Jeffrey Steele, Jaren Johnston, UMG president Mike Dungan, Keith Urban, and Tom Douglas.
On Wednesday, September 16th, BMI hosted the #1 celebration for “Raise ‘Em Up” at The Sutler in Nashville. Continue Reading →
Keith Urban’s FUSE is one of the four-time Grammy Award winner’s most successful album releases to date. It marked the only time in history that a male Country artist had captured the #1 all-genre album chart simultaneously in the U.S., Canada and Australia, spawned four #1 songs, including Urban’s 18th #1 “Raise ‘Em Up,” extended his historic streak of Top 10 singles to thirty-three and garnered nearly two dozen Award nominations from around the globe.
