Keith Urban Celebrates Best Sales Week Ever - Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing

Nashville, TN. (Capitol Records Nashville) -- Keith Urban�s critically hailed fourth studio album, Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing, will top Billboard�s Country Album Chart this week, Urban�s second consecutive album to debut at #1. Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing sales reached 267,227 copies, according to Soundscan, which also places Urban at #3 on Billboard�s Top 200 Album Chart.

“Fan support for Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing has been tremendous and these first week sales figures reflect that,” said Bill Kennedy, VP Sales at Capitol Records Nashville. “This, along with Keith�s 3rd consecutive CMA Best Male Vocalist of the Year Award and the #1 position for the most downloaded album at iTunes, underscores Keith�s very solid place in the country music world.”

Co-produced by Dann Huff and Urban, Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing, has received wide critical praise. “So far, Keith Urban shows no signs of running out of exhilarating ways to declare life is grand, or finding dizzyingly uplifting guitar riffs that echo that sentiment,” said The Associated Press. Billboard: “Few artists have the vision to see that country music isn�t simply defined by fiddles and steel guitar (although this album has both), and even fewer have the talent to fulfill that vision. Urban does.”

The first single from Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing, "Once In A Lifetime," made chart history by debuting at #17 on the Billboard Hot Country Song Chart. It marked the highest debuting single in the 62-year history of that chart.
The album�s second single, “Stupid Boy,” was released to radio this week.
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