"(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" is a hugely successful song co-written and performed by Bryan Adams, featured on his 1991 album Waking up the Neighboursand on the soundtrack for the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1991). It was an enormous chart success internationally, sixteen consecutive weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart (the longest in British chart history), spending seven weeks at number one in the United States' BillboardHot 100, and nine weeks atop the RPMsingles chart in Canada.

The record 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.

The song ranked at #16 on Billboard's All Time Top 100.

The idea of a song to promote the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thievescame late in the making of the film. Michael Kamen, had originally wanted the song to be as if it were Maid Marian singing it to Robin Hood. He offered it to Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Lisa Stansfield but they all turned it down. David Kerschenbaum of Morgan Creek Records invited Adams – whom he had worked with in the early 1980s at A&M Records – to write the song based on the score from Kamen. Initially, Adams was to write the lyrics for another artist to perform, but it was decided that he should perform the song after writing it with Waking up the Neighboursproducer Mutt Lange. The pair recorded the song in Mayfair Studios in London.

Neither Kamen nor the film company were happy with the song and tried at length to have Adams change it due to Adams and Lange writing an entirely different melody to the theme, but Adams refused..

The song is credited to Adams, Lange, and Kamen, and is played over the film's credits. A&M Records were at first reluctant to have the song appear on the film soundtrack, which was released through Morgan Creek, but the success of the record benefited both companies.

"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 U.S. it topped the chart for seven weeks, selling three million singles, making it the second-best-selling song after "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, and 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 UK, it sold almost 1.53 million copies, making it the best selling single in the UK since "Band Aid" in 1984. The song broke the record for the most consecutiveweeks on top of the UK 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 Neighboursreceiving pre-order sales of 200,000.

Elsewhere in Europe, the song reached number one in Germany, Holland, 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 Neighboursthroughout Europe. The album went on to sell 15 million copies around the world due in part to the song but also due to other singles.

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.

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