Released 21 September 2004 Length 56:20 Producer Dann HuffKeith Urban | Recorded 2004 Release date 21 September 2004 | |
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Nominations Grammy Award for Best Country Album, Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year Similar Golden Road, Defying Gravity, Love - Pain & the Whole Cr, Greatest Hits: 18 Kids, The Ranch | ||
Keith urban making memories of us lyrics
Be Here is the fourth studio album by New Zealand-born Australian country singer Keith Urban. It was released in the US on September 21, 2004 via Capitol Nashville. With four million copies sold, the album is not only Keith's best-selling album, but also one of the best-selling albums in America by an Australian artist.
Contents
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- Content
- Critical reception
- Commercial performance
- Artwork
- Singles
- Songs
- References
The album produced three number 1 singles on the Hot Country Songs chart with "Days Go By", "Making Memories of Us" and "Better Life", as well as the number 2 hits "You're My Better Half" and "Tonight I Wanna Cry". "Live to Love Another Day" also peaked at number 48 on the country charts without being released as a single.
Keith urban wins album of the year for be here acm awards 2005
Content
"Making Memories of Us", written by Rodney Crowell, was originally recorded by Tracy Byrd on his 2003 album The Truth About Men. It was also recorded by Crowell himself, along with his backing band The Notorious Cherry Bombs, on their 2004 self-titled album. Nine of the album's songs were written by Urban. Urban produced the tracks "God's Been Good to Me" and "Live to Love Another Day" himself, and then he co-produced the rest of the tracks with Dann Huff.
"Country Comfort" is a cover of a track from Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection.
Critical reception
The album has received positive reviews from Allmusic, BBC, Entertainment Weekly, and Rolling Stone. Three tracks from the album, "Days Go By", "Making Memories of Us", and "Tonight I Want to Cry" were included in an About.com ranking of Urban's top ten songs.
Be Here received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Country Album.
Commercial performance
The album was certified 4× Platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and remains as Urban's best-selling album to date, with sales of 3,639,000 copies in the United States, as of July 2009; it also reached number 8 on the Canadian album chart, number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart and number 3 on the Billboard 200.
Artwork
Two covers exist on this album. The first cover shipped with a color photograph of Urban sitting at a table at a coffee shop. This image is also featured on Urban's 2005 compilation album, Days Go By. The second cover, for the Australian release, shipped with a monochrome photograph of Urban driving a car.
Singles
Footnotes
Songs
1Days Go By3:48
2Better Life4:43
3Making Memories of Us4:11