"Wasted Time" is a song co-written and recorded by New Zealand-born Australian

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Keith Urban Keith Lionel Urban ( né Urbahn; 26 October 1967) is an Australian and American country singer, songwriter and guitarist. Recognised with four Grammy Awards, he has also received 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, including the Jim Reeves Int ...

. It was released on 4 April 2016 as the third single from his 2016 album '' Ripcord''. The song was written by Urban,

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James Abrahart James John "JHart" Abrahart Jr. (born 12 June 1988) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer and arranger, based in Los Angeles. Signed by Mike Caren to Artist Publishing Group in 2013, he has been nominated for several Grammy Awards an ...

Promotion

Ahead of the release of the song, as his final performance on ''

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'', the show on which Urban has been a judge since 2012, he sang "Wasted Time", playing the "ganjocaster", a combination between a banjo and electric guitar built by his former bandmate Brian Nutter. Urban also performed the song at the 51st

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playing the banjo and earned a standing ovation from the crowd.

Chart performance

"Wasted Time" reached its peak at number four on the US

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chart and number 51 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The song also topped the US

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chart in its thirteenth week, making this song Urban's twentieth number one on this chart and stayed atop the chart for a second consecutive week. As of August 2016, it has sold 269,000 copies in the US On February 24, 2017, the single was certified

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by the

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(RIAA) for combined sales and streaming data of over 500,000 units in the United States.

Music video

The music video was directed by John Urbano and premiered in April 2016.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

References

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