Greatest Hits: 18 Kids

Greatest hits album by

Keith Urban

Released

20 November 2007 (as 18 Kids)
19 August 2008 (as 19 Kids)

Genre

Country

Length

75:26 (18 Kids)
79:21 (19 Kids)

Label

Capitol Nashville

Producer

Keith Urban chronology

Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
(2006)

Greatest Hits: 18 Kids
(2007)

Defying Gravity
(2009)

Singles from Greatest Hits: 19 Kids

"You Look Good in My Shirt"
Released: 17 June 2008

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Slant Magazine	^[2]

Greatest Hits: 18 Kids (known as Greatest Hits: 19 Kids on the reissue) is a greatest hits album by Keith Urban, released on 20 November 2007 by Capitol Nashville.^[3] It contains 16 of Urban's hits as well as two new songs. Two versions of the album were released: a regular edition and a special edition; the second disc includes 12 music videos.^[4] Both versions use the radio edits of Urban's songs, except for "Stupid Boy" and "Somebody Like You". Also included is a cover of Steve Forbert's 1980 single "Romeo's Tune" and a re-recording of the non-single "Got It Right This Time", from his 2006 album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing.

The album debuted at number 11 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling at least 117,000 copies in its first week.^[5] It received a Gold certification from both the RIAA and CRIA. It has sold 1,208,700 copies in the U.S. as of April 2017.^[6]

YouTube Encyclopedic

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Transcription

Re-issue

The album was re-released as Greatest Hits: 19 Kids on 19 August 2008 to include a newly recorded version of "You Look Good in My Shirt".^[7] This song was originally recorded on his 2002 album Golden Road, and the newly recorded version was issued as a single in June 2008.

Track listing

Original release as *Greatest Hits: 18 Kids*
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Romeo's Tune"	Steve Forbert	previously unreleased	3:47
2.	"Got It Right This Time (The Celebration)"	Keith Urban	previously unreleased	4:44
3.	"I Told You So" (radio edit; featuring string arrangements by David Campbell)	Urban	Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	4:02
4.	"Stupid Boy"	Sarah Buxton Deanna Bryant Dave Berg	Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	6:21
5.	"Better Life"	Richard Marx Urban	Be Here	4:43
6.	"Making Memories of Us" (radio edit)	Rodney Crowell	Be Here	3:56
7.	"Once in a Lifetime" (radio edit; featuring string arrangements by David Campbell)	John Shanks Urban	Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	4:11
8.	"Tonight I Wanna Cry"	Monty Powell Urban	Be Here	4:19
9.	"You're My Better Half" (radio edit)	Shanks Urban	Be Here	3:59
10.	"Days Go By"	Powell Urban	Be Here	3:49
11.	"But for the Grace of God" (radio edit)	Charlotte Caffey Urban Jane Wiedlin	Keith Urban	3:44
12.	"You'll Think of Me" (single version)	Darrell Brown Ty Lacy Dennis Matkosky	Golden Road	3:51
13.	"Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" (single version)	Powell Urban	Golden Road	3:41
14.	"Raining on Sunday" (radio edit)	Brown Radney Foster	Golden Road	3:54
15.	"Where the Blacktop Ends" (radio edit)	Allen Shamblin Steve Wariner	Keith Urban	3:06
16.	"Your Everything" (radio edit)	Chris Lindsey Bob Regan	Keith Urban	3:59
17.	"Somebody Like You"	Shanks Urban	Golden Road	5:23
18.	"Everybody" (radio edit)	Marx Urban	Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing	3:57
Total length:				75:21

*Greatest Hits: 19 Kids* re-release
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
19.	"You Look Good in My Shirt"	Tony Martin Mark Nesler Tom Shapiro	3:55
Total length:			79:21

Special edition DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Told You So"	4:26
2.	"Stupid Boy"	6:14
3.	"Once in a Lifetime"	4:26
4.	"Tonight I Wanna Cry"	4:18
5.	"Better Life"	5:11
6.	"Making Memories of Us"	4:05
7.	"You're My Better Half"	4:11
8.	"Days Go By"	3:48
9.	"You'll Think of Me"	4:49
10.	"Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me"	4:41
11.	"Raining on Sunday"	4:44
12.	"Somebody Like You"	4:00

Personnel

Romeo's Tune

Tom Bukovac - electric guitar
Perry Coleman - background vocals
Jerry Flowers - background vocals
Dann Huff - acoustic guitar
Charlie Judge - keyboards
Chris McHugh - drums
Steve Nathan - piano, B-3 organ
Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar
Keith Urban - lead vocals, background vocals, electric guitar, ganjo

Got It Right This Time (The Celebration)

Tom Bukovac - electric guitar
Jerry Flowers - background vocals
Dann Huff - electric guitar, background vocals
Charlie Judge - keyboards
Chris McHugh - drums
Steve Nathan - B-3 organ
Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar
Keith Urban - Fender Rhodes, piano, electric guitar, slide guitar solo, lead vocals, background vocals

You Look Good in My Shirt

Dann Huff - electric guitar
Charlie Judge - keyboards
Chris McHugh - drums
Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar
Russell Terrell - background vocals
Keith Urban - electric guitar, lead vocals, background vocals

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[8]	7
Australian Country Albums (ARIA)^[9]	2
Canadian Albums (Billboard)^[10]	10
US Billboard 200^[11]	11
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[12]	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2008)	Position
US Billboard 200^[13]	58
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[14]	11
Chart (2009)	Position
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[15]	63

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	CAN
2008	"You Look Good in My Shirt"	1	44	54

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)^[16]	3× Platinum	210,000^‡
Canada (Music Canada)^[17]	Platinum	100,000^{^}
United States (RIAA)^[18]	Platinum	1,208,700^[6]
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Jurek, Thom. "Greatest Hits review". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
^ Keefe, Jonathan (24 November 2007). "Keith Urban: Greatest Hits". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
^ "Keith Urban Pounds the Pavement". Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
^ "Greatest Hits (Special Edition)". Archived from the original on 24 November 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
^ Katie Hasty, "'Oprah' Visit Helps Groban Soar To No. 1", Billboard.com, 28 November 2007.
^ ^a ^b Bjorke, Matt (18 April 2017). "Top Country Catalog Album Sales Chart: April 18, 2017". Roughstock.
^ Keith Urban Adds New "Shirt" to Greatest Hits
^ "Australiancharts.com – Keith Urban – Greatest Hits - 18 Kids". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Top 20 Country Chart - Australian Record Industry Association". Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2009". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2021 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^ "Canadian album certifications – Keith Urban – Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
^ "American album certifications – Keith Urban – Greatest Hits-18 Kids". Recording Industry Association of America.

v t e Keith Urban
Discography
Studio albums	Keith Urban (1999) Golden Road (2002) Be Here (2004) Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (2006) Defying Gravity (2009) Get Closer (2010) Fuse (2013) Ripcord (2016) Graffiti U (2018) The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020)
Compilation albums	Days Go By (2005) Greatest Hits: 18 Kids (2007) iTunes Originals (2009) The Story So Far (2012)
Other albums	Keith Urban (1991) In The Ranch (1997/2004)
Concert tours	Verizon VIP Tour (2009) Get Closer 2011 World Tour (2011) Light the Fuse Tour (2013–14) Raise 'Em Up Tour (2014) Ripcord World Tour (2016) The Speed of Now World Tour (2022)
Related articles	The Ranch Nicole Kidman

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