"Blue Ain't Your Color" is a song recorded by New Zealand-born Australian

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singer

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and written by

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, and Clint Lagerberg. It was released on 8 August 2016 as the fourth single from Urban's 2016 album '' Ripcord''. The song has been a big commercial and chart success. In the United States, it reached number one on the US '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts for 12 straight weeks in that position on the former. It also peaked at number 24 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "Blue Ain't Your Color" also received two Grammy nominations at the

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for Urban and

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for its songwriters. It also won both the CMA Award for Single of the Year and the American Music Award for Favorite Country Song in 2017. The song was even nominated for Single for the Year at the

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Content

"Blue Ain't Your Color" is about a male observing a lonely woman at a bar who is dissatisfied in her current relationship. This song is set in the key of

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and has a 6/8

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and a main chord pattern of G–Am–C–D–G.

Chart performance

In the US, "Blue Ain't Your Color" reached number one on the US Country Airplay chart and number one on the US Hot Country Songs chart, and remained there for twelve consecutive weeks at that spot until it was knocked off by " Better Man", performed by

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. ''Blue Ain't Your Color'' debuted at number 73 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and eventually reached its peak at number 24 on the chart. It became Urban's nineteenth top 40 hit on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, his seventh top 30 hit and first top 30 hit since "

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" in 2013. In June 2017, the song reached a million copies in sales. As of December 2017, the single has sold 1,163,000 copies in the US. On March 18, 2019 the single was certified quadruple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and streaming data of over four million units in the United States.

Music video

The music video was directed by motion picture director

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and premiered in September 2016. It shows Urban singing on the stage while a woman (played by

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) comes into the bar crying and playing the jukebox and dancing to the song.

Charts

Weekly charts

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Decade-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

Lyrics of this song
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