When Keith Urban heads out on the road this year for his Summer tour, he will have the full support of the Grammy Awards behind him. The New Zealand born country singer was the winner for the third time in six years in the Best Male Country Vocal Performance category.

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His hit song “Sweet Thing” won the award on the 2010 show, his previous winners were for “Stupid Boy” in 2008, and for “You”ll Think Of Me” from the 2006 Grammys. He is offering the chance to meet him as he tours across the globe if you join the Monkeyville club and enter the contest on his website.

Keith Urban’s current album “Defying Gravity” was his first album to reach #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart, and shows how popular he is when it reached the top position. The CD is well on it’s way to selling over 1 million copies by the end of the year.

So far Keith has booked all of the top country Fairs and Festivals for 2010, and he has yet to name his opening act, but you can guess it will be a top, up and coming band. He had Taylor Swift on his last tour, and you know she will not be available for him this year, as she heads out on her own after having the top selling year of any country performer ever in 2009.

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After coming off her award as the Entertainer of the Year at the Country Music Awards, Taylor Swift has more awards to put into her trophy case after winning the top prize in the Artist of the Year category.

Taylor was also awarded the favorite female artist award for Country and Rock/Pop. The teen sensation also captured the top position for the favorite adult contemporary artist which is kind of a surprise, even though her hit single “White Horse” was a favorite among her older fans, this is usually given to the top selling performer outside of the normal pop music crowd.

Her Fearless album was voted favorite country album. Unfortunately the 19 year old country songwriter was in England getting ready for her performance at the sold out Wembley Stadium. Taylor was waiting for results of the awards show and was able to make live quick speeches as the night went along.

Keith Urban, performed his song “Kiss A Girl” and was named as the favorite male country artist, Carrie Underwood also performed her current hit “Cowboy Casanova” and was a crowd favorite.

Rascal Flatts won the favorite country band or duo award. The band thanked everyone after they took the stage for the fourth time in four years as the winner for this category.

Gloriana was named as the breakthrough artist of the year after all the critics assumed Lady Gaga would win.

This goes to show you the popularity of current group of top country artists, and the ability they have to crossover into the mainstream music award shows.

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Things are going well for the top Country Songwriter Keith Urban, and he is now on tour with a supporting cast that includes – Taylor Swift, before the top country song performer heads out on her first tour as a headliner. You can include his current Top 20 Country Song hit - Kiss A Girl - and the fact that the singer from Australia had his new album – Defying Gravity – climb to #1 this year, and his hit song – Sweet Thing was the No. 1 top country single for awhile in 2009.

Keith Urban has turned into a sort of pop cult star when he married movie star Nicole Kidman, and the couple seems to make news wherever and whatever they do. It is tough for Keith to stay out of the public eye, and as long as he continues to produce #1 top country songs, he will be in demand.

Reba McEntire will be singing her new single “Strange” in Las Vegas at the ACM awards on April 5. Reba also is the Master of Ceremonies for the star studded event, and will have to juggle her duties as M.C. and Performer. The release of her new album is not expected to late summer, but once you hear Strange, you can understand why Reba did not waste her time in getting it out, and the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on ACM Award night is about as perfect an outlet to perform a new song.

The Academy has released some early winners, and has named the
Brad Paisley Video – Waiting On A Women, that he had done with Andy Griffith, as the Country Video of the Year award winner, and also that the Brad Paisley and Keith Urban duet that they performed together – Start A Band, won the Vocal Event of the Year award.

Reba McEntire’s Music will be coming from a different label, she recently signed with The Valory Music Company, the sister label to Big Machine Records, and they will be releasing her new album in the summer.

It seems that everyone is taking their turn at the top of the coveted
Top 20 Country Songs chart lately, and now it is time for Keith Urban. The current hit song by the Australian country singer is “Sweet Thing”, and you can assume he is singing about his lovely actress wife Nicole Kidman.

Keith has a busy year scheduled for 2009 that includes the release of his new album Defying Gravity, and of course a tour goes along with any new release and will start in May, here is a list of the cities and dates for the summer tour, and he also is part of a tribute for George Strait as the ACM Artist of the Decade on April 6 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The singer may even pick up a few of his own trophys from the country awards show…………..

Here is the top country song from Keith Urban – Sweet Thing