(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Original Soundtrack) and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side	"She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (live in Belgium 1989); "Cuts Like a Knife" (live in Belgium 1989);
Written	1990
Released	June 17, 1991
Recorded	March 1991
Studio	Battery, London
Genre	Soft rock;
Length	6:34 (album version); 4:06 (single/video version);
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Bryan Adams; Michael Kamen; Robert "Mutt" Lange;
Producer(s)	Robert "Mutt" Lange
Bryan Adams singles chronology
Music video
	"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" on YouTube
Audio sample
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"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams. Written by Adams, Michael Kamen, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, the power ballad was the lead single for both the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Adams's sixth studio album, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991). The single was released on June 17, 1991, by A&M and the accompanying music video was directed by Julien Temple.

The song was an enormous chart success internationally, reaching the number-one position on the music charts of at least nineteen countries, notable exceptions in the Western World being Italy (number three) and Spain (number four). It is particularly notable for its success in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart, the longest uninterrupted run ever on that chart as of 2024. It also topped the Europe-wide sales chart for eighteen continuous weeks. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100, which combines radio airplay and sales, for seven weeks, but stayed at number one for seventeen consecutive weeks on the sales-only chart.^[3] It went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams's most successful song, and one of the best-selling singles of all time.^[4] The song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world.

^ "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. June 15, 1991. p. 21.
^ "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs (20–11)". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2010.. Billboard.
^ Sandiford-Waller, Theda (November 9, 1996). "Hot 100 Singles Spotlight". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 45. BPI Communications Inc. p. 83. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
^ Pareles, Jon (March 8, 1994). "Review/Pop; Bryan Adams, More Mr. Nice Guy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2014.

[1] "New Releases: Singles". Music Week. June 15, 1991. p. 21.

[Billboard-2] "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs (20–11)". Billboard. Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2010.. Billboard.

[Sandiford-Waller_83-3] Sandiford-Waller, Theda (November 9, 1996). "Hot 100 Singles Spotlight". Billboard. Vol. 108, no. 45. BPI Communications Inc. p. 83. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved February 26, 2015.

[4] Pareles, Jon (March 8, 1994). "Review/Pop; Bryan Adams, More Mr. Nice Guy". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 26, 2015. Retrieved February 20, 2014.

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