If Blue Aint Your Color if Blue Aint Your Color Keith Urban
| "Blue Ain't Your Color" | ||||
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| Single by Keith Urban | ||||
| from the album Ripcord | ||||
| Released | 8 August 2016 (2016-08-08) | |||
| Recorded | 2016 | |||
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| Length | 3:50 | |||
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"Blue Ain't Your Color" is a song recorded by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban and written by Steven Lee Olsen, Hillary Lindsey, and Clint Lagerberg. It was released on 8 August 2016 as the fourth single from Urban's 2016 album Ripcord.
The song has been a big commercial and chart success. In the United States, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts for 12 straight weeks in that position on the former.[1] It also peaked at number 24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Blue Ain't Your Color" also received two Grammy nominations at the 59th Grammy Awards – Best Country Solo Performance for Urban and Best Country Song for its songwriters. It also won both the CMA Award for Single of the Year and the American Music Award for Favorite Country Song in 2017. The song was even nominated for Single for the Year at the 52nd Academy of Country Music Awards.
Content [edit]
"Blue Ain't Your Color" is about a male observing a lonely woman at a bar who is dissatisfied in her current relationship. This song is set in the key of G major and has a 6/8 time signature and a main chord pattern of G–Am–C–D–G.[2]
Chart performance [edit]
In the US, "Blue Ain't Your Color" reached number one on the US Country Airplay chart and number one on the US Hot Country Songs chart, and remained there for twelve consecutive weeks at that spot until it was knocked off by "Better Man", performed by Little Big Town.[3]
Blue Ain't Your Color debuted at number 73 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and eventually reached its peak at number 24 on the chart.[4] It became Urban's nineteenth top 40 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, his seventh top 30 hit and first top 30 hit since "We Were Us" in 2013. In June 2017, the song reached a million copies in sales.[5] As of December 2017, the single has sold 1,163,000 copies in the US.[6] On March 18, 2019 the single was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and streaming data of over four million units in the United States.[7]
Music video [edit]
The music video was directed by motion picture director Carter Smith and premiered in September 2016. It shows Urban singing on the stage while a woman (played by Amber Valletta) comes into the bar crying and playing the jukebox and dancing to the song.[8]
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "Keith Urban's "Blue Ain't Your Color" Remains #1 On Hot Country Songs; Little Big Town's "Better Man" Top 5". Headline Planet. 13 December 2016.
- ^ "'Blue Ain't Your Color' sheet music". musicnotes.com . Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban's "Blue Ain't Your Color" Reaches #1 On Hot Country Songs". Headline Planet. 7 November 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban – Chart history – Billboard". Archived from the original on 2018-05-04. Retrieved 2017-04-20 .
- ^ Bjorke, Matt (June 11, 2017). "Top 30 Digital Country Singles Sales Chart: July 11, 2017". Roughstock.
- ^ Bjorke, Matt (December 19, 2017). "Top 30 Digital Singles Chart: December 19, 2017". Roughstock . Retrieved December 22, 2017.
- ^ "RIAA Certifications - Keith Urban". Retrieved March 1, 2020.
- ^ "CMT : Videos : Keith Urban : Blue Ain't Your Color". Country Music Television. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved May 13, 2017.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2016". Billboard . Retrieved April 26, 2020.
- ^ "Adult Contemporary Songs – Year-End 2017". Billboard . Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ^ "Country Airplay Songs – Year-End 2017". Billboard . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2017". Billboard . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ "Decade-End Charts: Hot Country Songs". Billboard . Retrieved January 5, 2020.
- ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2021 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
- ^ "Canadian single certifications – Keith Urban – Blue Ain't Your Color". Music Canada. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
- ^ "American single certifications – Keith Urban – Blue Ain't Your Color". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved October 25, 2021.
External links [edit]
- Lyrics of this song
- Keith Urban - Blue Ain't Your Color on YouTube
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ain%27t_Your_Color
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