"
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a song by Canadian singer and 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 studio solo 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 in British chart history), 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.
Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1991. It was a number one hit on many charts and 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.