Everybody (Keith Urban song)

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"Everybody"
Single by Keith Urban
from the album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
Released September 18, 2007 (2007-09-18)
Format CD single
Genre Country
Length 5:23 (album version)
3:57 (single edit)
Label Capitol Nashville
Writer(s) Richard Marx, Keith Urban
Producer(s) Keith Urban, Dann Huff
Keith Urban singles chronology
"I Told You So"
(2007)
"Everybody"
(2007)
"You Look Good in My Shirt"
(2008)

"Everybody" is a song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban. It was released in September 2007 as the fourth and final single from his album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing. The song reached a peak of #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2008. It is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country.

Content

"Everybody" is a mid-tempo ballad which Urban co-wrote with Richard Marx. In the lyric, the male narrator addresses a female who is escaping her relationship ("And the only thing that you've ever known is to run") and trying to ask her to stay ("Everybody needs somebody sometimes").

Critical reception

Jordan Levin and Howard Cohen of The Miami Herald called the song "formulaic,"[1] and Keith Groller of The Morning Call said that it was "ultra-sappy." [2]

Music video

The music video was directed by Chris Hicky.

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[3]

String section

  • Carl Gorodetzky, Pam Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, Cathy Umstead, Cate Myer, Karen Winkelmann, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, David Angell – violins
  • Kris Wilkinson, Monisa Angell, Gary Vanosdale – violas
  • Larry Corbett, Carole Rabinowitz, Anthony LaMarchina – cellos

Chart positions

Chart (2007–2008) Peak
position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[4] 71
US Billboard Hot 100[5] 64
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[6] 5

Year-end charts

Chart (2008) Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)[7] 47

Cover versions

Richard Marx version

Richard Marx would later record his own version of the song and release it as the lead single from the European edition of his album Stories To Tell.

References

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  4. "Keith Urban – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Keith Urban. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
  5. "Keith Urban – Chart history" Billboard Hot 100 for Keith Urban. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
  6. "Keith Urban – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Keith Urban. Retrieved April 10, 2011.
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