Keith Urban Celebrates No. 1 Hit ‘Break on Me’ in Nashville

The ballad is the 20th No. 1 song for Urban and also marks the 36th consecutive Top Ten single on the charts, which shows Urban’s versatility and talent within his craft.

Written by Kelly Brickey
Keith Urban Celebrates No. 1 Hit ‘Break on Me’ in Nashville

Four singles deep into his current album, Ripcord, Keith Urban and crew celebrated the No. 1 honor for his single, “Break on Me,” on Monday (8/22) in Nashville.

The ballad is the 20th No. 1 song for Urban and also marks the 36th consecutive Top Ten single on the charts, which shows Urban’s versatility and talent within his craft. The country hitmaker was joined at the party by the song’s writers, Ross Copperman and Jon Nite, as well as the producer, Nathan Chapman.

Urban talked about the emotional ties he had to the track and why he instantly decided he wanted to take it and make it his own for his record. He knew he could connect to the song on a deeper level and related to it in a personal way beyond just what the lyrics said.

“For me, I feel like that was a song I wish I’d written,” Urban said as he addressed the crowd. “That’s the feeling I got when I heard ‘You’ll Think of Me’ for the first time, ‘Making Memories of Us,’ some of those songs that have become such an important part of my catalogue.”

While acknowledging that the song really hit his heart after the passing of both his father and his wife’s father, Urban felt the track was beyond worthy of becoming that powerful song for everyone to lean on in trying times.

“You can tell it’s written in truth and then it gets to go through all these speakers to people, and they get to feel that same truth. But it really has to come from the song that’s written not out of quota, but from here,” he explained, pointing at his heart.

It wasn’t all solemn energy at the party, though. Nite thanked his fellow friends on stage for writing a “sissy song” with him and making it come to life in full.

“Break on Me” was the second single released from Urban’s record, Ripcord, which was followed up by smash hit, “Wasted Time,” and more recently the seductive “Blue Ain’t Your Color.”