Nation celebrity Keith Urban scored his 3rd US nation airplay No.1 from the Ripcord album — and the twenty first of his profession — when the soul-flavored “Blue Ain’t Your Color” crowned Billboard’s Nation Airplay chart dated January 14, 2017. The music used to be finishing a 20-week climb to the highest, because it prolonged its lengthy runs on the best of the Scorching Nation Songs and Nation Virtual Tune Gross sales charts to 9 weeks apiece.
Written by means of Steven Lee Olsen, Hillary Lindsey and Clint Lagerberg, it adopted the 2 earlier airplay chart-toppers scored by means of the New Zealander from Ripcord. Each “Smash On Me” and “Wasted Time” went to the summit, after opening unmarried “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” peaked at No.2 in 2015.
The Hit Purple/Capitol Nashville set used to be nominated for Highest Nation Album on the 59th annual Grammy Awards, which came about on February 12, 2017. Billboard reported that the album had bought 412,000 copies in america to that time in bodily gross sales, downloads and identical mixed devices from streaming. By means of the tip of 2017, that general had complicated to round 700,000. “Blue Ain’t Your Color” had mixed unit gross sales of 651,000 to the purpose the place it made the airplay summit, a bunch that had complicated to a whopping 1.8 million by means of overdue 2017.
The airplay favourite prolonged Urban’s span of No.1s on that chart to nearly 16 years. He first crowned it with “However for the Grace of God” in February, 2001, and “Color” took him into 6th position for many Nation Airplay No.1s, forward of Brooks & Dunn and Toby Keith, who’ve 20 each and every. Tim McGraw thus turned into the best-ever champion on that chart, with 29 No.1s.
Urban’s ultimate unmarried from Ripcord and the follow-up to “Blue Ain’t Your Color” used to be his collaboration with Carrie Underwood, “The Fighter,” which reached No.2 in each nation gross sales and airplay. He ended a hectic 2017 with the November liberate, debuted on the CMA Awards, of the empowerment anthem “Feminine.”
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