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"Sweet Thing" is a country pop song co-written by Keith Urban and Monty Powell, released in November 2008 as the first single from his album *Defying Gravity*. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, marking Urban's tenth solo number-one hit, and peaked at number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100. It won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2010. The lyrics describe early dates, including meeting under a cottonwood tree and kissing on a porch swing, with scenes of the lover escaping through her bedroom window. Urban recorded the song at The Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, Tennessee.

The music video, directed by Trey Fanjoy, was shot in a barn in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and other locations like Lebanon, due to rain forcing indoor filming. It features Urban's own Ford Mustang. The song appears in the video game *Tap Tap Revenge 2*. Charting details show it debuted at number 30 on the country chart, becoming Urban's nineteenth Top 40 hit, and reached number 30 on the Hot 100, his first Top 40 pop success since "Once in a Lifetime."