(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 Motion Picture Soundtrack) and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side "She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (Live in Belgium 1989)
Released June 18, 1991
Format
Recorded March 1991
Genre
Length
  • 6:34 (album version)
  • 4:06 (single version)
Label A&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Robert "Mutt" Lange
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Only the Strong Survive"
(1987)		 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
(1991)		 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started"
(1991)
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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, featured on two albums simultaneously on its release, the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams' sixth album Waking Up the Neighbours (1991). The song was an enormous chart success internationally, particularly in the United Kingdom, where it spent sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart (the longest run of its kind in British chart history). It went on to sell more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it Adams' most successful song and one of the best-selling singles of all time.[2] Subsequently, the song has been covered by hundreds of singers and artists around the world.

Background

The musicians on the original recording are Adams on lead vocals and guitar, Bill Payne (piano), Mickey Curry (drums), Larry Klein (bass), Keith Scott (guitar) and Mutt Lange (keyboards and background vocals). Based on orchestral music by Kamen, the song was written in London, UK at the studio Adams was working at in 1990, and he and Lange wrote it in 45 minutes, recording it the following March and releasing it three months later.[3][4] The song is performed in the key of D ♭ major.

Music videos

The official music video for the song was directed by Julien Temple.[5] A video was also commissioned for a live version of the song, directed by Andy Morahan.[6]

Charts and certifications

In the United Kingdom, "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" has the longest unbroken run at number one, spending sixteen consecutive weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart from July to October 1991.[7]

It also spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and nine weeks atop the Canadian Singles Chart in Adams's native Canada.[1][8] Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1991.[9]

Adams, Kamen and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television,[10] and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards of 1992. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song but lost to "Beauty and the Beast".[11]

Fatima Mansions version

The Irish band Fatima Mansions released a heavily altered cover of the song as part of an NME tribute album in aid of the charity, the Spastics Society.[48] The single was a double A-side with the Manic Street Preachers' version of "Suicide Is Painless". The single entered the UK top ten in 1992,[48] and reached number 12 in the Republic of Ireland.[49] However, The Manic Street Preachers song received most of the UK radio airplay.[48][50]

Brandy version

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Brandy
from the album Never Say Never
Released September 28, 1999
Format
Recorded 1998
Genre
Length 4:06
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) David Foster
Brandy singles chronology
"U Don't Know Me"
(1998)		 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
(1999)		 "Never Say Never"
(2000)

American singer Brandy rerecorded "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" for the standard version of her second studio album Never Say Never (1998). Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the original song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar.

In 1999, her cover version was released as the album's final single on a double A-side with "U Don't Know Me" on the Oceanic music market, where it reached the top 30 of New Zealand's RIANZ singles chart.

Track listings

  • Australian CD single[51]
  1. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – 4:10
  2. "U Don't Know Me" – 4:29
  3. "Have You Ever?" (Soul Skank Remix) – 5:40

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes.[52]

Charts

Chart Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[53] 28

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs (20-11)". Archived from the original on September 13, 2008. Retrieved January 2, 2010. . Billboard.
  2. ↑ Pareles, Jon (March 8, 1994). "Review/Pop; Bryan Adams, More Mr. Nice Guy". The New York Times. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Wilde, John (September 12, 2015). "Bryan Adams: Everything I Do was at No 1 for four months... but I wrote it in 45 minutes". Daily Mail. MailOnline. Retrieved July 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Bryan Adams Songwriting Interview - Writing His Classic Hits". Songwriter Universe.
  5. ↑ Garcia, Alex S. "mvdbase.com - Bryan Adams - "(Everything I do) I do it for you [version 1: concept]"". Music Video DataBase. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ Garcia, Alex S. "mvdbase.com - Bryan Adams - "(Everything I do) I do it for you [version 2: live]"". Music Video DataBase. Retrieved November 2, 2015.
  7. ↑ "(Everything I do) I do it for you in Official Charts". Retrieved March 19, 2017.
  8. ↑ "RPM, Volume 54, August 31, 1991". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on January 23, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  9. ↑ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1991
  10. ↑ "1992 Grammy Awards". metrolyrics.com. Archived from the original on February 9, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ "The 64th Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". oscarguy.com. Archived from the original on January 24, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  12. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  13. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  14. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  15. ↑ "(Everything I do) I do it for you in Canadian Adult Contemporary Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
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  17. ↑ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
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  20. ↑ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  21. ↑ "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: A". Hit Parade Italia. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2012.
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  24. ↑ "Charts.nz – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Top 40 Singles.
  25. ↑ "Norwegiancharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". VG-lista.
  26. ↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
  27. ↑ "Swedishcharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Singles Top 100.
  28. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Swiss Singles Chart.
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  30. ↑ Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  31. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/music/bryan-adams/chart-history/hot-mainstream-rock-tracks/song/26938
  32. ↑ 1991 Australian Singles Chart aria.com (Retrieved February 10, 2016)
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  35. ↑ "Billboard Top 100 – 1991". Archived from the original on July 7, 2009. Retrieved September 15, 2009.
  36. ↑ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade – The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
  37. ↑ "Accreditation Awards". Australian Fun Countdowns. April 7, 2011. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  38. ↑ "Austrian single certifications – Bryan Adams – Everything I Do ..." (in German). IFPI Austria. Enter Bryan Adams in the field Interpret. Enter Everything I Do ... in the field Titel. Select single in the field Format. Click Suchen. 
  39. ↑ "Canadian single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". Music Canada.
  40. ↑ "French single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (in French). InfoDisc. Select BRYAN ADAMS and click OK. 
  41. ↑ "Les Singles en Or :". Infodisc.fr (in French). Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
  42. ↑ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Bryan Adams; '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie.
  43. ↑ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden.
  44. ↑ "British single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". British Phonographic Industry. Select singles in the Format field. Select Platinum in the Certification field. Enter (Everything I Do) I Do It For You in the search field and then press Enter.
  45. ↑ Myers, Justin (February 12, 2018). "These are the UK's 20 biggest selling love ballads of all time". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
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  47. ↑ Sandiford-Waller, Theda (November 9, 1996). "Hot 100 Singles Spotlight". Billboard. BPI Communications Inc. 108 (45): 83. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  48. 1 2 3 Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 196. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  49. ↑ "The Irish Charts". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 8 September 2014. Search by Artist: Fatima Mansions
  50. ↑ Nick Dale, "Fatima Mansions" in Peter Buckley (ed.) The Rough Guide To Rock.London; Rough Guides, 2003 ISBN 1843531054 (p. 364).
  51. ↑ "Brandy (2)– (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Australian CD Single)". Discogs. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
  52. ↑ Never Say Never (Media notes). Atlantic Records. 1998.
  53. ↑ "Charts.nz – Brandy – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
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