Keith Urban photo courtesy of Capitol Nashville.
The final 2009 edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown premieres on Friday, and host Nan Kelley will hit the rewind button to play back some of the show’s best moments from the last 12 months, including interviews with Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts and Lady Antebellum.
For all of those artists, it’s been an incredible year, and that’s particularly true for Keith who calls 2009 “pure magic.” He won several awards, earned three hits off his album Defying Gravity and hit the road with a world tour that ends this weekend in Australia. That leaves him in a perfect location as he and wife Nicole Kidman spend the holidays with their families and with daughter Sunday Rose, who’s 17 months old.
“It’s a great phase for her,” Keith says. She’s “really sort of coming alive and communicative. Kix Brooks said, ‘Is she in the raccoon phase?’ I said, ‘What’s that?’ he said, ‘You know, just pulling every drawer, pulling everything out.’ ‘Yeah, she’s in the raccoon phase.’”
Others who’ll be featured in Top 20 flashback segments include Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.
Top 20 Country Countdown counts down the week’s top country videos from No. 20 to No. 1 as voted by viewers on each week on GACTV.com. A new countdown premieres every Friday at 8 p.m. ET on GAC and airs again Saturdays at 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ET; Sundays at 1 p.m. ET; and Mondays at 10 a.m. ET. Viewers can vote for their favorite videos, as well as purchase Top 20 artists’ albums and ringtones at GACTV.com.
Click here to preview each song on our Top 20 list and download the ones you want from Amazon MP3!
THIS WEEK’S CHART:
1. Carrie Underwood “Cowboy Casanova”
2. Taylor Swift “Fifteen”
3. Kellie Pickler “Didn’t You Know How Much I Loved You”
4. Miranda Lambert “White Liar”
5. Lady Antebellum “Need You Now”
6. Blake Shelton featuring Trace Adkins “Hillbilly Bone”
7. Reba McEntire “Consider Me Gone”
8. Toby Keith “Cryin’ For Me”
9. Trace Adkins “All I Ask For Anymore”
10. Luke Bryan “Do I”
11. Josh Turner “Why Don’t We Just Dance”
12. Keith Urban “Only You Can Love Me This Way”
13. Bucky Covington “Gotta Be Somebody”
14. Tim McGraw “Southern Voice”
15. Chris Young “Gettin’ You Home”
16. Jason Aldean “The Truth”
17. George Strait “Living For The Night”
18. Martina McBride “I Just Call You Mine”
19. Billy Currington “That’s How Country Boys Roll”
20. Jimmy Wayne “Sara Smile”
GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown is taking a short break over the holidays! Keep voting daily for your favorite videos and we’ll be back with an all-new show on Friday, January 8, 2010!
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Wonderful that Keith is loving his life, God has greatly blessed him! ,with a very beautiful wife, inside and out, and a special gift in the addition of their darling daughter, Sunday. As a huge fan of Keith's music I can not wait for the "games to begin" this year… I am going to at least 5 festivals, and Houston Rodeo and All For the Hall in Oct….. whoot whoot nothing better than Keith Urban concerts! So get to work on the new album Mr Urban… can hardly wait for more songs to put on my ipod
God bless you Keith and your family. 
that is so cool keith and nicole
Keith Urban is so cute. I hope Keith, Nicole, and Sunday Rose have a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
I'm absolutely overjoyed re: the Kidman/Urban marriage +++ Baby Sunday Rose! I knew as soon as I first heard of their engagement that she had finnaly found the perfect man for her! That they're both from the same country just sweetens it for the new family. Nothing like having someone who understands where you come from, not to mention have family there, what could be better? Hope both know they are much beloved n the USA. May they have a BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND EQUALLY BLESSED, SAFE & HAPPY NEW YEAR IN 2010
Notice best interviews no Swift.
I got this in a email:
Hello and thank you for your email.
There will be no Top 20 the weeks of 12/21 & 12/28.
Voting will cease from 12/21 to 12/31.
Thanks for watching GAC and have a great holiday!
Best regards, Scripps Networks Customer Service
Now you are saying we keep voting?
Please clarify on this!
Dont you know by now they are screwed up.
what a cutie!
Raccoon phase!! That is too cute. Never heard that before. I remember my daughter being in it though!! Merry Christmas Keith, Nicole, & Sunday!