Sweet Thing (Keith Urban song)

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"Sweet Thing"
Sweet Thing Keith Urban.jpg
Single by Keith Urban
from the album Defying Gravity
Released3 November 2008 (2008-11-03) [1]
Recorded2008
Studio Castle Recording Studios
Franklin, Tennessee, U.S. [1]
Genre Country
Length3:48
Label Capitol Nashville
Songwriter(s) Monty Powell, Keith Urban
Producer(s) Dann Huff, Keith Urban
Keith Urban singles chronology
"Start a Band"
(2008)
"Sweet Thing"
(2008)
"Kiss a Girl"
(2009)

"Sweet Thing" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released in November 2008 as the first single from his 2009 album Defying Gravity . The song became Urban's became tenth number one single on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It also peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. This song also went on to win his third Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2010. Urban wrote this song with Monty Powell.

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Content

"Sweet Thing" is an up-tempo country pop song in which the male narrator talks about his first dates with his lover together, including meeting "in the backyard under the cottonwood tree" and "kissin' on the porch swing", as well as the lover exiting the house through her bedroom window "while the world's sleeping." The lyrics were inspired by Urban's relationship with his Ford Mustang, which is seen in this song's music video. [2] Urban recorded the song at The Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, Tennessee. [1]

Music video

The official music video for "Sweet Thing" was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered on 19 January 2009. The video and was shot inside a barn in Spring Hill, Tennessee and many scenes were also shot in Lebanon, Tennessee including the diner and the '70s house. They originally were to shoot the video outside, but it was too rainy. So instead, they were forced to use the farm. The acting scenes were also shot in Spring Hill. The Ford Mustang seen in the barn is Urban's own.

This song appears in the video game Tap Tap Revenge 2 .

Chart performance

"Sweet Thing debuted at number 30 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Urban's nineteenth Top 40 country hit. For the chart week of 14 March 2009, the song became his tenth number one single. In addition, the song also reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. This was Urban's first Top 40 hit on the Pop chart since "Once in a Lifetime" and his first Top 30 on there since "You'll Think of Me".

Chart (2008–2009)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA Charts) [3] 96
Canada Country ( Billboard ) [4] 1
Canada (Canadian Hot 100) [5] 45
US Billboard Hot 100 [6] 30
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2009)Position
US Country Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 9

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [9] Platinum1,000,000Double-dagger-14-plain.png

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

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