God Whispered Your Name

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"God Whispered Your Name"
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Single by Keith Urban
from the album The Speed of Now Part 1
Released27 February 2020 (2020-02-27)
Genre Country
Length3:53
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Keith Urban
  • Dan McCarroll
Keith Urban singles chronology
"We Were"
(2019)
"God Whispered Your Name"
(2020)
"Be a Light"
(2020)

"God Whispered Your Name" is a song recorded by New Zealand-Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 2 March 2020 as the second single from Urban's eleventh studio album The Speed of Now Part 1 .

Contents

Content

American Christian musician Chris August co-wrote the song with Shy Carter, Micah Carter, and James T. Slater. Urban co-produced with Dan McCarroll. [1] Of the song, Urban told Nash Country Daily, "absolutely spoke to me and tells my journey in such a profound way going through a season in life of being very lost and lonely and confused and not knowing how to get out of that". [2]

Jennifer Massaux directed the music video, which features Urban performing in a basement, from which he escapes to find a sunlit landscape. The basement scenes were filmed underneath a warehouse in Nashville, Tennessee, while the outside scenes were filmed in Lancaster, California. [3]

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2020)Peak
position
Australia Country Hot 50 (TMN) [4] 10
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [5] 65
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [6] 2
US Billboard Hot 100 [7] 60
US Country Airplay ( Billboard ) [8] 8
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [9] 13

Year-end charts

Chart (2020)Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard) [10] 25
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard) [11] 28

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [12] Gold500,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

Double-dagger-14-plain.png Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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