We Were Us

2013 single by Keith Urban with Miranda Lambert

"We Were Us"

Single by Keith Urban with Miranda Lambert

from the album Fuse

Released

16 September 2013 (2013-09-16)

Recorded

2013

Genre

Country

Length

3:11

Label

Hit Red
Capitol Nashville

Songwriter(s)

Nicolle Galyon
Jimmy Robbins
Jon Nite

Producer(s)

Keith Urban
Nathan Chapman^[1]

Keith Urban singles chronology

"Shame"
(2013)

"We Were Us"
(2013)

"Cop Car"
(2014)

Miranda Lambert singles chronology

"All Kinds of Kinds"
(2013)

"We Were Us"
(2013)

"Automatic"
(2014)

"We Were Us" is a song written by Nicolle Galyon, Jimmy Robbins, and Jon Nite and recorded by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban as a duet with American country music singer Miranda Lambert. It was released in September 2013 as the second international single and third overall from Urban's 2013 album Fuse.

Content

The song is the narrators' reminiscence of lost love. Lambert sings the first verse, Urban sings the second verse, and both sing the choruses and bridge together. The song is set in the key of D major with a vocal range of A₃–A₅.^[2]

Critical reception

Giving it 4 out of 5 stars, Matt Bjorke of Roughstock compared its theme favorably to "Springsteen" by Eric Church, and praised the blending of Urban's and Lambert's voices, although he criticized the production as "a bit too busy and loud".^[3]

"We Were Us" won Musical Event of the Year at the 2014 CMA Awards.^[4]

Personnel

From liner notes to Fuse:^[5]

Nathan Chapman — drum programming, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Miranda Lambert — vocals
Keith Urban — vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ganjo

Music video

The music video was directed by Reid Long and Becky Fluke and premiered in November 2013.^[6]

Commercial performance

The song debuted at number 49 on Country Airplay for the week ending 21 September 2013. The next week, it climbed to number 29, while debuting at 24 on Hot Country Songs.^[7] Its chart run has overlapped with Lambert's single "All Kinds of Kinds", the fifth from her album Four the Record. The song has sold 566,000 copies in the US as of January 2014.^[8] This would be Keith's last top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 until "Blue Ain't Your Color" in 2016.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2013–2014)	Peak position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^[9]	25
Canada Country (Billboard)^[10]	2
US Billboard Hot 100^[11]	26
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[12]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[13]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)	Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[14]	57
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[15]	62

Chart (2014)	Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[16]	72
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[17]	64

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)^[18]	Gold	40,000^*
United States (RIAA)^[19]	Platinum	1,000,000^‡
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

^ Roland, Tom (5 September 2013). "Keith Urban Lights a Creative Fire With 'Fuse'". Billboard. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
^ "'We Were Us' sheet music". MusicNotes.com. 19 November 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
^ Bjorke, Matt (19 September 2013). "Single Review: Keith Urban & Miranda Lambert - We Were Us". Roughstock. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
^ "Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban + Miranda Lambert Are Early 2014 CMA Awards Winners". Taste of Country. November 5, 2014. Retrieved November 5, 2014.
^ Fuse (Deluxe Edition) (CD booklet). Keith Urban. Capitol Records Nashville/Hit Red Records. 2013. B0019113-02.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^ "CMT : Videos : Keith Urban : We Were Us". Country Music Television. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
^ Jessen, Wade (19 September 2013). "Keith Urban's 'Fuse' Ignites On Country Charts". Billboard. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
^ Conaway, Alanna (2013-01-24). "Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles - January 22, 2014: Eric Church, Blake Shelton, Cole Swindell, Cassadee Pope, Scotty McCreery Tops". Roughstock.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Country Airplay)". Billboard.
^ "Keith Urban Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
^ "Best of 2013: Country Airplay". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
^ "Best of 2013: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
^ "Billboard Country Update for December 15, 2014" (PDF). Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 15, 2014. p. 17. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
^ "Best of 2014: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2014. Retrieved December 9, 2014.
^ "Canadian single certifications – Keith Urban – We Were Us". Music Canada. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
^ "American single certifications – Keith Urban – We Were Us". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 21, 2015.

Keith Urban singles

Discography

Keith Urban

"It's a Love Thing"
"Your Everything"
"But for the Grace of God"
"Where the Blacktop Ends"

Golden Road

Be Here

Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing

"Once in a Lifetime"
"Stupid Boy"
"I Told You So"
"Everybody"

Greatest Hits: 19 Kids

"You Look Good in My Shirt"

Defying Gravity

Get Closer

"Put You in a Song"
"Without You"
"Long Hot Summer"
"You Gonna Fly"

Fuse

"Little Bit of Everything"
"Shame"
"We Were Us"
"Cop Car"
"Somewhere in My Car"
"Raise 'Em Up"

Ripcord

"John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16"
"Break on Me"
"Wasted Time"
"Blue Ain't Your Color"
"The Fighter"

Graffiti U

"Female"
"Parallel Line"
"Coming Home"
"Never Comin Down"

The Speed of Now Part 1

"We Were"
"God Whispered Your Name"
"Polaroid"
"Superman"
"Change Your Mind"
"One Too Many"

TBA

"Wild Hearts"
"Nightfalls"
"Brown Eyes Baby"
"Street Called Main"
"Straight Line"
"Messed Up as Me"

Collaborative songs

Other songs

"Arms of Mary"
"For You"

v t e Miranda Lambert singles
Kerosene	"Me and Charlie Talking" "Bring Me Down" "Kerosene" "New Strings"
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	"Famous in a Small Town" "Gunpowder & Lead" "More Like Her"
Revolution	"Dead Flowers" "White Liar" "The House That Built Me" "Only Prettier" "Heart Like Mine"
Four the Record	"Baggage Claim" "Over You" "Fastest Girl in Town" "Mama's Broken Heart" "All Kinds of Kinds"
Platinum	"Automatic" "Somethin' Bad" "Little Red Wagon" "Smokin' and Drinkin'"
The Weight of These Wings	"Vice" "We Should Be Friends" "Tin Man"
Wildcard	"It All Comes Out in the Wash" "Bluebird" "Settling Down"
Palomino	"If I Was a Cowboy"
Other singles	"Forever Country" "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" "Space in My Heart"
Featured singles	"Coal Miner's Daughter" "Boys 'Round Here" "We Were Us" "Drowns the Whiskey"

v t e CMA Musical Event of the Year
1988-1990	"Trio" (1988) "There's a Tear in My Beer" (1989) "'Til a Tear Becomes a Rose" (1990)
1991-2000	"Restless" (1991) "This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time)" (1992) "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair" (1993) "Does He Love You" (1994) "Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart" (1995) "I Will Always Love You" (1996) "It's Your Love" (1997) "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (1998) "My Kind of Woman/My Kind of Man" (1999) "Murder on Music Row" (2000)
2001-2010	"Too Country" (2001) "Mendocino County Line" (2002) "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" (2003) "Whiskey Lullaby" (2004) "Good News, Bad News" (2005) "When I Get Where I'm Going" (2006) "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" (2007) "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" (2008) "Start a Band" (2009) "Hillbilly Bone" (2010)
2011-2020	"Don't You Wanna Stay" (2011) "Feel Like a Rock Star" (2012) "Highway Don't Care" (2013) "We Were Us" (2014) "Raise 'Em Up" (2015) "Different for Girls" (2016) "Funny How Time Slips Away" (2017) "Everything's Gonna Be Alright" (2018) "Old Town Road" (2019) "I Hope You're Happy Now" (2020)
2021-present	"Half of My Hometown" (2021) “Never Wanted to Be That Girl” (2022) "Wait in the Truck" (2023)