Keith Urban announced today that his eighth studio album will be called Ripcord. Speculation surrounding the details of the release began back in June when Urban put out “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” billed as the first song from the forthcoming album – which became his 19th No. 1. It not only set an historic country radio mark for the highest one-week spin count and point total on Country Aircheck/Mediabase, it extended Urban’s lead as the artist with the most consecutive top 10 songs on Billboard’s Country Airplay Chart, a streak that started in August of 2000.
Just this past week Urban released the melodic, mid-tempo ballad “Break On Me,” the second single from Ripcord. The song debuted as the #1 most added single at country radio.
You can catch Keith perform on The 49th Annual CMA Awards with John Mellencamp live on November 4th at 8pm ET on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. There’s no word on what song the two will perform together, but Mellencamp’s moniker, John Cougar, is actually referenced in Urban’s latest chart-topper, “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.”
Audio / Keith Urban talks about why particular songs make his albums.
DownloadKeith Urban (songs that make the record) OC: …I’ve forgotten. :47
“I gravitate towards songs for some diverse reasons and they end up being very diverse because of that. I don’t know. I get with people I love and collaborate and have fun and certain things come out of that some work, some don’t. And the ones that work hopefully constitute the record. I wish it were that simple…I just try and keep it organic and spontaneous and have songs that we’ve recorded hopefully stay resonating with me and some that you know, you record a song and that a month later they don’t sort of hit me the same way and I gotta let ’em go or redo them, and I have no problem dismantling a song and doing it again and or just letting it go. So, I wish I knew how to make records but every time I get in the studio it seems like I’ve forgotten.”
