(Everything I Do) I Do It for You

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"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"
Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side "She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (live)
Released June 1991
Format 7", CD single
Recorded March 1991
Genre Soft rock
Length 4:06 (radio edit)
6:33 (album edit)
Label A&M
Writer(s) Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Certification 3× Platinum (RIAA)
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)
Music video
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" on YouTube
Music sample
"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You"

"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a power ballad performed by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams and co-written with Michael Kamen and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, featured on the soundtrack album from the 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and on Adams' album Waking Up the Neighbours. It 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 in British chart history), seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and nine weeks atop the RPM singles chart in Canada.[1][2] It was a number one hit on many charts and sold 8 million copies worldwide, making it Adams' most successful song.[3]

Adams, Kamen and Lange won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television at the Grammy Awards of 1992,[4] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.[5] Subsequently, the song has been covered by numerous singers around the world.

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Charts and certifications [edit]

Peak positions [edit]

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[6] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[7] 1
Belgium (VRT Top 30 Flanders)[8] 1
Canada (RPM) 1
Denmark (IFPI) 1
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) 1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[9] 1
France (SNEP)[10] 1
Germany (Media Control AG)[11] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[12] 1
Italy (FIMI)[13] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[14] 1
New Zealand (RIANZ)[15] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[16] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[17] 1
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[18] 1
United Kingdom (The Official Charts Company)[19] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[20] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary[20] 1

End-of-year charts [edit]

End-of-year chart (1991) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[21] 1

End-of-decade charts [edit]

Chart (1990–1999) Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[22] 37

All-time charts [edit]

Chart Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[23] 16

Sales and certifications [edit]

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Australia (ARIA)[24] 2× Platinum 140,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[25] Platinum 30,000x
Canada (Music Canada)[26] 2× Platinum 200,000^
France (SNEP)[27] Gold 508,000[28]
Germany (BVMI)[29] Platinum 500,000^
Sweden (GLF)[30] Platinum 50,000x
United Kingdom (BPI)[31] 2× Platinum 1,720,000[32]
United States (RIAA)[33] 3× Platinum 3,000,000^
Total certified sales: 6,148,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Brandy version [edit]

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

American recording artist Brandy Norwood rerecorded "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" for the standard version of second studio album Never Say Never (1998). Producer David Foster reworked the arrangement of the original song, with Dean Parks playing the acoustic guitar. Synths were included to transform Adams's traditional rock popballad version into a contemporary R&B slow jam.[34]

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

Track listings [edit]

  • Australian CD single[34]
  1. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – 4:10
  2. "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)" – 4:29
  3. "Have You Ever?" (Soul Shank Remix) – 5:40

Credits and personnel [edit]

Credits are taken from Never Say Never liner notes.[35]

Charts [edit]

Chart Peak
position
New Zealand (RIANZ)[36] 28

References [edit]

  1. ^ "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs". bilboard.com. Archived from the original on 31 December 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 
  2. ^ "RPM, Volume 54, August 31, 1991". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 
  3. ^ "Radio 2 -Sold On Song - Top 100 - No.91". BBC. Retrieved 2009-07-29. 
  4. ^ "1992 Grammy Awards". metrolyrics.com. Archived from the original on 09 February 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 
  5. ^ "The 64th Academy Awards (1991) Nominees and Winners". oscarguy.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-01. 
  6. ^ "Australian-charts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Hung Medien.
  7. ^ "Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You – Austriancharts.at" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Hung Medien.
  8. ^ Belgian peak
  9. ^ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3. 
  10. ^ "Lescharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (in French). Les classement single. Hung Medien.
  11. ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet: Charts, News, Neuerscheinungen, Tickets, Genres, Genresuche, Genrelexikon, Künstler-Suche, Musik-Suche, Track-Suche, Ticket-Suche – musicline.de" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
  12. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  13. ^ Italian Chart (Retrieved May 30, 2008)
  14. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Bryan Adams search results" (in Dutch) Dutch Top 40. Stichting Nederlandse Top 40.
  15. ^ "Charts.org.nz – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Top 40 Singles. Hung Medien.
  16. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". VG-lista. Hung Medien.
  17. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You". Singles Top 60. Hung Medien.
  18. ^ "Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It for You – swisscharts.com". Swiss Singles Chart. Hung Medien.
  19. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved September 13, 2011)
  20. ^ a b Billboard Billboard.com (Retrieved April 10, 2008)
  21. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1991". Retrieved 2009-09-15. 
  22. ^ 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. 
  23. ^ "Billboard's All Time". Billboard. Archived from the original on 09 October 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-07. 
  24. ^ "Accreditation Awards". Australian Fun Countdowns. 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2012-06-05. 
  25. ^ "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
  26. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". Music Canada. 
  27. ^ "French single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (in French). InfoDisc.  Select BRYAN ADAMS and click OK
  28. ^ "Les Singles en Or :". Infodisc.fr (in French). Retrieved June 5, 2012. 
  29. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank (Bryan Adams; '(Everything I Do) I Do It For You')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. 
  30. ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 1987−1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. 
  31. ^ "British single certifications – Bryan Adams – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". British Phonographic Industry.  Enter (Everything I Do) I Do It For You in the field Search. Select Title in the field Search by. Select single in the field By Format. Click Go
  32. ^ Ami Sedghi (4 November 2012). "UK's million-selling singles: the full list". Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2012. 
  33. ^ "American single certifications – Adams, Bryan – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". Recording Industry Association of America.  If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH
  34. ^ a b "Brandy (2)– (Everything I Do) I Do It For You (Australian CD Single)". Discogs. Retrieved 2013-02-09. 
  35. ^ Never Say Never (Album notes). Atlantic Records. 1998.
  36. ^ "Charts.org.nz – Brandy – (Everything I Do) I Do It For You". Top 40 Singles. Hung Medien. Retrieved 2011-05-23.

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