Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (stylized as Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing) is the fifth studio album by Australian
country music singer
Keith Urban. It is his fourth album release in the United States, and his fifth for
Capitol Nashville. The album was issued on 7 November 2006. It includes four singles with "
Once in a Lifetime", "
Stupid Boy", "
I Told You So" and "
Everybody", all of which were Top 10 hits on the Billboard country charts. The album has been certified Platinum by the
RIAA,
CRIA, and
ARIA. Urban produced the album with
Dann Huff except for "Tu Compañía" and "Got It Right This Time", which Urban produced by himself. It won at the 2007 ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album.
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On the US BillboardHot Country Songs chart dated 2 September 2006, this album's lead-off single "Once in a Lifetime" debuted at number 17, making it the highest-debuting country single in the 62-year history of the Billboard country music charts at the time. This record was later broken in 2007 by
Kenny Chesney's "
Don't Blink" (which debuted at number 16 on the same chart), and then again by
Garth Brooks' "
More Than a Memory" (which debuted at number 1). "Once in a Lifetime" went on to peak at number 6 on the country charts. The other three singles released from this album are "Stupid Boy", "I Told You So", and "Everybody", which went to numbers 3, 2, and 5 individually, making this Urban's first American album to not produce a single number one hit on the country charts. "Raise the Barn", a duet with
Ronnie Dunn of
Brooks & Dunn, was written in response to
Hurricane Katrina.[2]
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Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (stylized as Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing) is the fifth studio album by Australian
country music singer
Keith Urban. It is his fourth album release in the United States, and his fifth for
Capitol Nashville. The album was issued on 7 November 2006. It includes four singles with "
Once in a Lifetime", "
Stupid Boy", "
I Told You So" and "
Everybody", all of which were Top 10 hits on the Billboard country charts. The album has been certified Platinum by the
RIAA,
CRIA, and
ARIA. Urban produced the album with
Dann Huff except for "Tu Compañía" and "Got It Right This Time", which Urban produced by himself. It won at the 2007 ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album.
Content
On the US BillboardHot Country Songs chart dated 2 September 2006, this album's lead-off single "Once in a Lifetime" debuted at number 17, making it the highest-debuting country single in the 62-year history of the Billboard country music charts at the time. This record was later broken in 2007 by
Kenny Chesney's "
Don't Blink" (which debuted at number 16 on the same chart), and then again by
Garth Brooks' "
More Than a Memory" (which debuted at number 1). "Once in a Lifetime" went on to peak at number 6 on the country charts. The other three singles released from this album are "Stupid Boy", "I Told You So", and "Everybody", which went to numbers 3, 2, and 5 individually, making this Urban's first American album to not produce a single number one hit on the country charts. "Raise the Barn", a duet with
Ronnie Dunn of
Brooks & Dunn, was written in response to
Hurricane Katrina.[2]
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abLove, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (CD). Keith Urban. Capitol Records. 2006. 77087.{{
cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (
link)