Keith Urban Defies Gravity New CD “Defying Gravity" #1 on Billboard Top 200 AND Country Album Charts

Keith Urban’s fifth studio release, “Defying Gravity,” debuted this week at #1 on both Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Album Charts and at #4 on the Canadian Top 200 Albums Chart.  It marks Urban’s 3rd consecutive #1 Country CD (“Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing” and “Be Here”) and his first #1 on the Billboard Top 200 outpacing “Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing” and “Be Here”, which both debuted at #3. 

“It’s an incredible feeling to have a #1 record,” said Urban. “But equally moving is knowing that this particular record, that comes from such a joyous, loving and hopeful place, is connecting with so many people."  

“Defying Gravity” has already produced Urban’s 14th #1 song, “Sweet Thing”.   The CD’s second single “Kiss A Girl,” which Urban performed on the Academy of Country Music Awards earlier this week, has already cracked the Top 10 at radio in Canada, in only 4 weeks. 

Later this month Urban will begin rehearsals for his “Escape Together World Tour” Together with KC Masterpiece® and Kingsford® sponsored by Verizon.  The tour, which will kick off in Connecticut on May 7th and touch down in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, London and Toronto in the early fall, will have one support act for each concert including Taylor Swift, Sugarland, Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean, Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town and the legendary Glen Campbell. 

For more official Keith Urban news and tour information go to www.keithurban.net.

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