Defying Gravity (Keith Urban album)
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| Studio album by Keith Urban | ||||
| Released | 31 March 2009 | |||
| Recorded | 2008-09 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 48:17 | |||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
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Dann Huff Keith Urban |
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| Entertainment Weekly | B |
Defying Gravity is the sixth studio album by Australian country pop artist Keith Urban. It was released on March 31, 2009 on Capitol Nashville. This song included five singles, released between 2008 and 2010 respectively.
The album sold 171,000 copies in its first week of release. On 2 December 2009, the album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, but lost to Taylor Swift's Fearless.
The title Defying Gravity comes from the lyrics of "If Ever I Could Love" ("Your heart and mine tonight are defying gravity"), a phrase that Urban said "really defined the joyous, optimistic and uplifting spirit that seemed to show itself while making the album." The track "I'm In" was previously recorded by Radney Foster (as a duet with Abra Moore) on his 1998 album See What You Want to See and later by The Kinleys in 2000 from their album II. Both Foster's and The Kinleys' versions were singles.
"Sweet Thing", which Urban co-wrote with Monty Powell, is the album's lead-off single. It topped the Billboard country singles chart in March 2009. Urban and Powell also wrote the second single "Kiss a Girl", which peaked at number 3 that same year. "Only You Can Love Me This Way" was released in June 2009 as the album's third single and it went to number 1 as well. The fourth single, "'Til Summer Comes Around", was released in November 2009. Urban's rendition of "I'm In" was released as the album's fifth and final single in May 2010.
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