"Without You" is a song written by Joe West and Dave Pahanish, and recorded by New Zealand country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist 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...

 for his 2010 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...

. It was released as the second single from the album in 2011, and has since reached #1 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

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 charts.

The song is not to be confused with "Without You," a song Urban recorded on his Australian 1991 album.

Background

Urban described the song as his "life story" and considered it "an amazing song that [he] would have never allowed [himself] to write."

Critical reception

Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song five stars out of five, citing it a song that "suits Keith Urban and his life with wife Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman

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." Blake Boldt of the 9513 gave the song a "thumbs down," stating that Urban is "at his best when exploring heart's aches and pains," and saying that it "lacks the excitement of past hits."

Chart performance

"Without You" debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts for the week of February 19, 2011. It also debuted at number 95 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of March 26, 2011.
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Chart (2011)	Peak position