High (Keith Urban album)

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High
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Released20 September 2024
Studio
Length39:50
Label
Producer
Keith Urban chronology
The Speed of Now Part 1
(2020)
High
(2024)
Singles from High
  1. "Straight Line"
    Released: 21 January 2025
  2. "Messed Up as Me"
    Released: 1 March 2024
  3. "Go Home W U"
    Released: 3 May 2024
  4. "Wildside"
    Released: 28 June 2024

High is the twelfth studio album by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban. The album was released on 20 September 2024 via Hit Red and Capitol Records Nashville. [1]

Contents

Background

High marks Urban's first studio album since The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020). He began working on an album in 2022, tentatively titled 615, but ultimately scrapped the project. [2] Several of the songs from that project eventually made their way onto High, a 12-track set that he titled after the feeling of "euphoria" he felt during the creative process. [1] On the title, Urban said: "What makes you 'high' can mean whatever you want it to mean. It might be physical, spiritual, herbal, meditative, chemical, or musical, but it’s definitely a place of utopia." [3]

Urban wrote the album's opening interlude and co-wrote six of its tracks, and it features a collaboration with Lainey Wilson ("Go Home W U"). [1]

"Straight Line" was released as the album's lead single in February 2024. [4] It was followed by "Messed Up as Me", the first single promoted to country radio in the United States and Canada, in March 2024. [5] "Go Home W U" and "Wildside" were released as additional singles ahead of the album release. [3]

Track listing

High track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Blue Sky" Keith Urban  0:12
2."Straight Line"
  • Urban
  • Wells
3:46
3."Messed Up as Me"
3:16
4."Wildside"
  • Urban
  • Huff
2:47
5."Go Home W U" (with Lainey Wilson)
  • Urban
  • Sumser
  • Small
3:47
6."Chuck Taylors"
  • Urban
  • Flowers
  • McGill
  • Wells
  • Urban
  • Wells
3:34
7."Daytona"
  • Urban
  • Huff
2:58
8."Love Is Hard"
  • Urban
  • Cannata
2:52
9."Heart Like a Hometown"
  • Casey Brown
  • Matt Roy
  • Parker Welling
  • Urban
  • Huff
2:46
10."Laughin' All the Way to the Drank"
  • Urban
  • Elizondo
4:31
11."Dodge in a Silverado"
  • Thomas Archer
  • Ben Stennis
  • Michael Tyler
  • Urban
  • Huff
4:54
12."Break the Chain"
  • Urban
  • Scibilia
4:24
Total length:39:50

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Visuals

Charts

Accolades

Year-end lists
PublicationRankList
Rolling Stone 28The 30 Best Country Albums of 2024 [15]

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