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"Stupid Boy"
Single by Keith Urban
from the album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
Released	December 5, 2006
Format	CD single, digital download
Genre	Country
Length	6:16 (album version) 3:46 (radio edit)
Label	Capitol
Writer(s)	Dave Berg Deanna Bryant Sarah Buxton
Producer	Dann Huff Keith Urban
Keith Urban singles chronology
"Once in a Lifetime" (2006) "Stupid Boy" (2006) "I Told You So" (2007)

"Stupid Boy" is a single recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban on his album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing. The song was co-written and originally recorded by Sarah Buxton, whose version can be found on her 2006 digital EP Almost My Record. Urban's rendition, the second single from the album, reached a peak of #3 on the U.S. country singles charts and won him a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.

Contents 1 Content 2 Personnel 3 Chart performance 4 References

[edit] Content

"Stupid Boy" is a mid-tempo ballad in which the male narrator looks back on a failed relationship, calling himself a "stupid boy" for having let himself ruin the relationship.

[edit] Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[1]

• Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Dann Huff – electric guitar
• Rami Jaffee – Hammond B-3 organ
• Tim Lauer – pump organ, harmonium, synthesizer
• Chris McHugh – drums
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• Keith Urban – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals

[edit] Chart performance

Urban's rendition reached #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, #43 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #60 on the Pop 100. It also won him a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2006.^[2]

Chart (2006-2007)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	3
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	43
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	60
Canadian Radio & Records Country Singles	1

Preceded by "It Just Comes Natural" by George Strait

Canadian Country Singles Chart number-one single February 9-February 16, 2007

Succeeded by "Beer in Mexico" by Kenny Chesney

[edit] References

v • d • e Keith Urban Studio albums Keith Urban (1991) · Keith Urban (1999) · Golden Road (2002) · Be Here (2004) · Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing (2006) · Defying Gravity (2009) Compilation albums Keith Urban in The Ranch (1997) · Days Go By (2005) · Greatest Hits: 18 Kids (2007) U.S. Singles "It's a Love Thing" · "Your Everything" · "But for the Grace of God" · "Where the Blacktop Ends" · "Somebody Like You" · "Raining on Sunday" · "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" · "You'll Think of Me" · "Days Go By" · "You're My Better Half" · "Making Memories of Us" · "Better Life" · "Tonight I Wanna Cry" · "Once in a Lifetime" · "Stupid Boy" · "I Told You So" · "Everybody" · "You Look Good in My Shirt" · "Sweet Thing" · "Kiss a Girl" · "Only You Can Love Me This Way" · "'Til Summer Comes Around" Guest singles "The Twelfth of Never" · "Funky Tonight" · "In God's Hands" · "Start a Band" Related articles Discography · Capitol Nashville · The Ranch

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