"Put You in a Song" is a song written by Keith Urban

Keith Urban

Keith Lionel Urban is a New Zealand-born Australian, country music singer, songwriter and guitarist whose commercial success has been mainly in the United States and Australia. Urban was born in New Zealand and began his career in Australia at an early age...

, Jedd Hughes

Jedd Hughes

Jedd Hughes is a country musician born in Australia. Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music contest at the age of eight and began playing guitar from age nine, taking lessons from his father...

, and Sarah Buxton

Sarah Buxton

Sarah Buxton is an American country music artist, formerly signed to the independent Lyric Street Records...

, and recorded by Urban and released September 13, 2010. It serves as the lead-off single from his sixth American studio album, Get Closer

Get Closer (Keith Urban album)

Upon its release, Get Closer received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 7 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable...

, released on November 16, 2010.

Content

"Put You in a Song" is about a guy's desire to write a song about the girl he adores. According to Urban, it's about a "guy in love with the unattainable girl. And the idea that the only chance that this poor guy is ever going to have to get close to the object of his affection is to put her in a song...that way he'd be able to take her with him everywhere he goes...day and night."

Music video

The music video premiered on October 1, 2010 during CMT

CMT

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's Big New Music Weekend. It features footage of Keith Urban recording the song in a studio.

It debuted at #20 on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown

Top Twenty Countdown

Top 20 Countdown is a show on CMT.The show counts down the biggest videos in country music and was originally hosted by Lance Smith. Top Twenty Countdown airs every Friday at 11:00 a.m. and reruns on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Besides showing the biggest videos, Lance also shows...

 for the week of October 8, 2010.

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song a four-out-of-five star rating, citing it "a sing-a-long quality song that will no doubt rocket up the country radio charts." Leeann Ward of Country Universe gave the song a B+, concluding her review by comparing the sound to the tracks on Urban's 2004 album Be Here

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, and calling it "hopeful for the upcoming album."

Chart performance

"Put You in a Song" debuted at number 29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart for the week of October 2, 2010. It also debuted at number 82 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of October 2, 2010, and number 66 on the Canadian Hot 100

Canadian Hot 100

The Canadian Hot 100 is a music singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks songs in Canada. The chart debuted in the Billboard issue dated June 16, 2007 and was made available for the first time via their online services on June 7, 2007...

chart for the week of October 9, 2010.
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