(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 and Waking Up the Neighbours
B-side	"She's Only Happy When She's Dancing" (live)
Released	10 June 1991
Format	7", CD single
Recorded	March 1991
Genre	Soft rock
Length	6:33
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Producer	Robert John "Mutt" Lange
Certification	3x 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 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. It was a number one hit on several charts, making it Bryan Adams' most successful song.

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, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Subsequently, the song has been covered by numerous singers around the world.

Chart performance

"I Do It for You" was the last of three songs added to Waking up the Neighbours. The album benefited from the success of the lead single; the song proved to be a hit throughout the world. In all, it topped the charts in thirty countries, becoming the best-selling song of 1991 and one of the best-selling singles of all time.

In the United States, it topped the chart for seven weeks and sold three million singles, making it America's second-best-selling song up to that point (after USA for Africa's "We Are the World"). It also broke the record for longest run at number one on the Hot 100 Single Sales, becoming the best-selling single in America for 17 weeks.

In the United Kingdom, it sold almost 1.53 million copies, making it the best selling single in Britain since Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984. The song broke the record for the most consecutive weeks on top of the British charts, with 16 weeks at number one from 7 July 1991 (holding Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" at number two for six consecutive weeks). The previous record-holder, "Rose Marie" by Slim Whitman, had been top of the charts for 11 weeks in 1955. (The single did not break the record for the most weeks at number one on the UK charts, held by the 1953 Frankie Laine song "I Believe" which spent 18 non-consecutive weeks at number one.) The success of the single led to Waking up the Neighbours receiving pre-order sales of 200,000. The single sold 10 million copies around the world.

Elsewhere in Europe, the song reached number one in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, France, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The success of the single led to pre-order sales of a million for Waking up the Neighbours throughout Europe. The album went on to sell 16 million copies around the world due in part to the song but also due to other singles.

Charts

Peak positions

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australia ARIA Singles Chart	1
Austrian Singles Chart	1
Belgian Singles Chart	1
Canadian Singles Chart	1
Danish Singles Chart	1
Dutch Singles Chart	1
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles	1
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)	1
French Singles Chart	1
German Singles Chart	1
Irish Singles Chart	1
Italian Singles Chart	1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart	1
Norwegian Singles Chart	1
Polish Singles Chart	1
Swedish Singles Chart	1
Swiss Singles Chart	1
UK Singles Chart	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary	1

Certifications

Country	Certification
United States	3× Platinum

End of year charts

End of year chart (1991)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
World	1

End of decade charts

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

All-Time charts

Chart	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	16

Brandy version

"I Do It for You"
Single by Brandy
from the album Never Say Never
B-side	"U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)"
Released	September 28, 1999 (New Zealand)
Format	CD single
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)

In 1998, American R&B singer Brandy re-recorded the song for her second studio album Never Say Never (1998). A year later, 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 New Zealand music market, where it reached the top 30 on the RIANZ singles chart.

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single-releases of "I Do It for You".

1. "I Do It for You"
2. "U Don't Know Me (Like U Used To)"
3. "Have You Ever?" (Soul Shank remix)

Charts

Chart	Peak position
New Zealand (RIANZ)	28

Covers

• The Fatima Mansions, Ruby Trax - The NME's Roaring Forty, 1992. Charted at #7 in the UK as a double A-side charity record with Manic Street Preachers "Suicide is Painless (Theme From M*A*S*H)", which was also on the same album.

• Hank Marvin, Into The Light, 1992.
• Henry Mancini, As Time Goes By and Other Classic Movie Love Songs, RCA, 1992.
• Roger Whittaker, I Will Always Love You And Other Hits from The Movies, 1994.
• Michael Chapdelaine, Guitar By Moonlight, Time/Life Music, 1997.
• Engelbert Humperdinck, Meisterstucke, 1998.
• Zamfir, Love Themes from The Movies, Excelsior Records, 1998.
• Brandy and Faith Hill VH-1 Divas Live from New York's Beacon Theatre, 1999.
• King's Singers, Circle of Life, RCA, 1999.
• New Found Glory, From the Screen to Your Stereo, MCA Records, 2000.
• Cliff Richard, The Countdown Concert, 2000.
• Stan Bush, Wedding Collection Vol 2, Dominion Records, 2000.
• Acker Bilk, All The Hits Plus More. Dressed To Kill Records, 2001.
• Double You, Mixdown 2004 - MC Mario. Sony International, 2004.
• James Last and Richard Clayderman. The Very Best [Disc 3]. Disky Records, 2004.
• Kenny G and LeAnn Rimes, At Last...The Duets Album, Arista Records, 2004.
• T.G. Sheppard, Greatest Songs, Curb Records, 2004.
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Love Songs, Vol. 2, Fabulous Records, 2004.
• Byron Lee & The Dragonaires, Soft Lee, Vol. 8, VP Records, 2004.
• Guy Sebastian, Australian Idol, 2004.
• Gob Bluth and Franklin Delano Bluth, Franklin Comes Alive, 2004.
• Linda Davis, "I Have Arrived", 2004.
• Razz Tazz, Razz Tazz, Tsud Productions, 2006.
• Clay Aiken, A Thousand Different Ways, RCA, 2006.
• Neal Schon, Voice, 2001.
• Katherine Jenkins, Serenade, UCJ Music, 2006.
• Danny Saucedo, Felicia Brandström, Swedish Idol 2006.
• The Wombats, Moving to New York, 14th Floor, 2006.
• Nate & Jim, Babylon, 2008
• Cidia e Dan (Brazilian Romantic duo) 2008
• Seth MacFarlane (performing as Stewie Griffin), "Ocean's Three and a Half," Family Guy, 2009.
• Anoop Desai, American Idol, 2009
• Linda Eder, Soundtrack, 2009
• Ryan Kelly, Celtic Thunder:It's Entertainment,2010

Foreign language versions

• Spanish: Bryan Adams, 1992.
• Italian: Katherine Jenkins, 2006.
• Spanish: Yuridia, Lo Que Hago Lo Hago Por Ti, 2006.

Notable Performances

• Kyla: The "R&B Princess of the Philippines" performed the song at the variety show, Party Pilipinas

External links

• Allmusic.com article on Waking Up The Neighbours

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