Get Closer (Keith Urban album)
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| Studio album by Keith Urban | ||||
| Released | 16 November 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||
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| Length | 33:38 (standard edition) 74:21 (deluxe edition) |
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| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
| Producer |
Dann Huff Keith Urban Chris McHugh (live tracks) |
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| Allmusic |   |
| The Boston Globe | (favorable) |
| Country Weekly | |
| Entertainment Weekly | (B) |
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| Roughstock | |
| Slant Magazine | |
| The Washington Post | (favorable) |
Get Closer is the seventh studio album by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released 16 November 2010 on Capitol Nashville. It produced three singles between 2010 and 2011, all of which went to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. This was Keith's first album not to go Platinum. It is also Keith's first album not to have a Top 40 hit on the pop chart.
The lead single, "Put You in a Song", was co-written by Keith Urban along with fellow artists Sarah Buxton (who co-wrote Urban's 2006 single "Stupid Boy") and Jedd Hughes. From October 26 (Urban's 43rd birthday) to November 9, 2010, one track from the album was released to the US iTunes Store each week (a trend Urban's previous album Defying Gravity followed). Those songs were "Without You", "Long Hot Summer", and "You Gonna Fly" respectively. These three songs (beginning with "Long Hot Summer") were released to the Australian iTunes store on October 22, October 29, and November 5, 2010. The full album was released on November 12 in Australia.
"Without You", "Long Hot Summer", and "You Gonna Fly" were all released as the album's second, third, and fourth singles in 2011 and they all reached number one on the country charts. Urban co-produced the studio tracks with Dann Huff, and the live bonus tracks with Chris McHugh.
Before the album's release, Urban announced a contest in which fans vote for which photo to be the album cover. On October 11, 2010, the official album cover was revealed; it depicts Urban sitting in front of a bed with his guitar beside him.
The album debuted at number seven on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number two on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums, selling 162,000 copies its first week of release. As of August 4, 2013, the album has sold 743,000 copies in the US.
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