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’Til Summer Comes Around
Chart (2009–2010) Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[4] 74
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 58
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 3
"’Til Summer Comes Around" Content
The narrator compares a quiet boardwalk in the win-
tertime to his "empty broken heart," remembering the
times that he and his lover had at the carnival rides there
while the boardwalk was open in the summertime. As the
song progresses, it is revealed that he has remained in
the town for several years, waiting for her to return, as
promised, in the summer.[1] It is accompanied mostly by
electric guitar and organ.[2]
Music video
The music video, directed by Noble Jones, was released
on January 12, 2010. It won the Male Video of the Year
Single by Keith Urban Award at the 2010 CMT Music Awards. It debuted on
CMT’s Top Twenty Countdown at #12 on the week of Jan-
from the album Defying Gravity uary 22, 2010, and has since reached #3. It was filmed in
Released November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23) Santa Monica, CA.
Format Music download
Genre Country
Critical reception
Thom Jurek of Allmusic referred to the song as "haunt-
Length 5:31 (album version)
ing, nocturnal, and dreamily textured" in his review of
3:53 (single edit)
the album.[3] Bobby Peacock of Roughstock said that it
Label Capitol Records Nashville was "more substantial" than the album’s other three sin-
Writer(s) Monty Powell, Keith Urban
gles and "a standout even among his many great bal-
lads."[2] Chris Neal, reviewing the single for Country Week-
Producer Dann Huff, Keith Urban ly, gave it four-and-a-half stars out of five, saying, "The
Keith Urban singles chronology words paint a vivid picture of a setting that perfectly mir-
rors the narrator’s emotional state" and calling it "one of
"Only You Can Love Me "’Til Summer Comes
Til "I’m his best [singles] to date."[1]
This Way" Around"
Around In"
(2009) (2009) (2010)
Chart performance
"’Til Summer Comes Around is the title of a song record-
Til Around" "’Til Summer Comes Around" debuted at number 41 on
ed by Australian country music singer Keith Urban, co- the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts dated November
written by him and Monty Powell. It is the fourth single 28, 2009. Before the song’s release, a Keith Urban fan blog
release from his 2009 studio album Defying Gravity. The called Urban Country Blog had started a petition to re-
song debuted at #41 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs lease the song as a single.[1] It also debuted at number 92
charts in November 2009. on the Billboard Hot 100 and has peaked at number 58.
It reached a peak of number three on the Hot Country
Songs charts in 2010.
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Awards [4] "Keith Urban Album & Song Chart History"
Canadian Hot 100 for Keith Urban. Prometheus
The song won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Male Global Media. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
Country Vocal Performance on February 13, 2011.[7] [5] "Keith Urban Album & Song Chart History"
Billboard Hot 100 for Keith Urban. Prometheus
References [6]
Global Media. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
"Keith Urban Album & Song Chart History"
[1] ^ Neal, Chris (2009-12-14). "Reviews — Singles". Billboard Country Songs for Keith Urban.
Country Weekly 16 (44): 54. ISSN 1074-3235. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
[2] ^ Peacock, Bobby (2009-11-19). "Keith Urban — [7] Tucker, Ken (13 February 2011). "Lady Antebellum
"’Til Summer Comes Around"". Roughstock. Tops Grammys". Country Weekly.
http://www.roughstock.com/blog/keith-urban-til- http://www.countryweekly.com/
summer-comes-around-. Retrieved 20 November lady_antebellum_tops_grammys/news/5467.
2009. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
[3] Jurek, Thom. "Defying Gravity review". Allmusic.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1493837.
Retrieved 2009-11-20.
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