The Story So Far (Keith Urban album)

The Story So Far is a greatest hits album released by Keith Urban in Australia in May 2012.

The Story So Far[1]
Greatest hits album by Keith Urban
Released	11 May 2012
Genre	Country
Length	80:50
Label	Capitol Nashville EMI Australia
Producer	Keith Urban Dann Huff
Keith Urban chronology
Get Closer (2010) The Story So Far[2] (2012) Fuse (2013)

Background

In October 2011, Keith Urban was announced as being a judge on the Australian version of The Voice.[3] The series commenced in April 2012 and, to coincide with this, an Australian and New Zealand only greatest hits compilation titled The Story So Far was released. It features 19 tracks from the Grammy Award and ARIA Award winning artist's albums Get Closer, Defying Gravity, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, Be Here and Golden Road.

It was released on 11 May 2012 and debuted at number one on the ARIA Charts and was the nineteenth biggest-selling album in Australia in 2012.[4]

Track listing

The Story So Far has 19 tracks.[5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Kiss a Girl"	Monty Powell Keith Urban	3:47
2.	"Long Hot Summer"	Richard Marx Urban	4:33
3.	"Somebody Like You" (radio remix)	John Shanks Urban	3:50
4.	"Making Memories of Us" (radio single edit)	Rodney Crowell	3:55
5.	"Days Go By"	Powell Urban	3:48
6.	"Put You in a Song"	Sarah Buxton Jedd Hughes Urban	3:40
7.	"Without You"	Dave Pahanish Joe West	3:56
8.	"You Look Good in My Shirt"	Tony Martin Mark Nesler Tom Shapiro	3:47
9.	"Stupid Boy"	Dave Berg Deanna Bryant Buxton	6:21
10.	"Once in a Lifetime" (radio edit)	Shanks Urban	4:11
11.	"Sweet Thing"	Powell Urban	3:50
12.	"You'll Think of Me" (single edit)	Darrell Brown Dennis Matkosky Ty Lacy	3:51
13.	"I Told You So" (single edit)	Urban	4:02
14.	"Only You Can Love Me This Way"	Steve McEwan John Reid	4:08
15.	"You're My Better Half" (single edit)	Shanks Urban	4:12
16.	"Tonight I Wanna Cry"	Powell Urban	4:19
17.	"For You"	Powell Urban	4:49
18.	"Raining on Sunday" (single edit)	Brown Radney Foster	3:54
19.	"Better Life"	Marx Urban	4:44
Total length:			80:50

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2012–14)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6]	1
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[7]	26

Year-end charts

Chart (2012)	Position
Australian Albums Chart[4]	19
Chart (2013)	Position
Australian Albums Chart[8]	74
Chart (2014)	Position
Australian Albums Chart[9]	94

Decade-end charts

Chart (2010-2019)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[10]	57
Australian Artist Albums (ARIA)[10]	8

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[11]	2× Platinum	140,000^^
^^shipments figures based on certification alone

References

• Cameron Adams (12 May 2012). "Keith Urban hits a high note with greatest hits album The Story So Far reaching No.1". Herald Sun. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
• "Keith Urban – The Story So Far (2012) Review". Retrieved 11 December 2013.
• "Keith Urban - The Story So Far". Retrieved 11 December 2013.

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3. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/tv-radio/delta-goodrem-and-keith-urban-to-star-in-the-voice/story-e6frf9ho-1226166208200
4. "End of Year Charts – ARIA Top 100 Albums 2012". ARIA Charts. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
5. http://www.sanity.com.au/products/2210574/Story_So_Far
6. "Australiancharts.com – Keith Urban – The Story So Far". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
7. "Charts.nz – Keith Urban – The Story So Far". Hung Medien. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
8. "End of Year Charts – ARIA Top 100 Albums 2013". ARIA Charts. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
9. "End of Year Charts – ARIA Top 100 Albums 2014". ARIA Charts. Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
10. "2019 ARIA End of Decade Albums Chart". January 2020. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
11. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2016 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2015.