“Best Song Ever” is the lead single from One Direction’s third album, Midnight Memories, and served as the primary promotional single for the documentary film This Is Us. The song is featured at the end of the official full-length trailer for the film and plays during the end credits. The music video incorporates clips from the movie. Upon its release, the track debuted and peaked at #2 on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.[1] It is widely regarded as one of the band’s most recognizable and iconic songs and has been the closing performance for both the Where We Are Tour and the On the Road Again Tour.
Background[]
The song was first revealed via a short announcement video tweeted by Niall Horan on June 25, 2013.[2]The video confirmed that the song would be available to pre-order at midnight (GMT on June 25th). In the video, Liam Payne mentioned that the official movie trailer for This Is Us was going live in "about half and hour" and if you watched it you "might just catch a little snippet" of the song. Louis Tomlinson ended the video by saying "Hope you like it!"
Shortly after the success of the song, Fans of 1960s mod rock icons The Who demanded 1D to be sued for ripping off the intro of their song "Baba O' Riley". Pete Townsend, however, aid all they did was use the same 3 chords used by musicians since Chuck Berry and mentioned he and Roger Daltrey won't sue them. Some fans suggest that the song that One Direction was talking about in "Best Song Ever" was actually "Baba O' Riley" and that the song was actually a tribute to the iconic band, The Who.
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One Direction announce new single - "Best Song Ever"
The official release date was July 22, 2013 with the physical CD released on August 19th. The next day, June 26th, the song had gone to number 1 on iTunes in various countries such as the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Belgium and many more.
The official single cover was released through the use of the hashtag #BestSongEverCover' on Twitter on July 3, 2013, at 7 pm (GMT) [3]
The song was released accidentally by iTunes who downloaded it onto a users iPod as opposed to just pre-ordering it. The whole song leaked onto Tumbler and YouTube on July 17, 2013.
The radio premiere of the song was on July 19, 2013. The band did interviews and appeared on various radio shows July 19th, to promote it.
- Harry was on BBC Radio 1 (at 4pm); Virgin Radio (96 at 8pm).
- Niall was on 102.7 (On The Ryan Sea crest show on KISS FM at 4:30 pm) and NRK (In France at 3p m).
- Liam was on 99.7 (NOW Radio in the morning); 95.8 (Capital FM at 4 pm); 102.7 (On The Ryan Sea crest show on KISS FM at 4p m).
- Zayn appeared on In Demand Radio (from 8pm).
- Most radio stations played the song at around 4pm.
The official audio was posted on One Direction's VEVO channel following the interviews.
Lyrics[]
[Harry]
Maybe it's the way she walked (ow)
Straight into my heart and stole it
Through the doors and pass the guards (ow)
Just like she already owned it
[Zayn]
I said, "can you give it back to me?"
She said, "never in your wildest dreams"
[All]
And we danced all night to the best song ever
We knew every line
Now I can't remember
How it goes but I know
That I won't forget her
Cause we danced all night to the best song ever
I think it went oh, oh, oh
I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah
I think it goes...
[Liam]
Said her name was Georgia Rose (ow)
And her daddy was a dentist
[Harry]
Said I had a dirty mouth (I got a dirty mouth)
But she kissed me like she meant it
[Niall]
I said, "can I take you home with me?"
She said, "never in your wildest dreams"
[All]
And we danced all night to the best song ever
We knew every line
Now I can't remember
How it goes but I know
That I won't forget her
Cause we danced all night to the best song ever
I think it went oh, oh, oh
I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah
I think it goes...
[Louis]
You know, I know, you know I'll remember you
And I know, you know, I know you'll remember me
[Zayn]
And you know, I know, you know I'll remember you
(Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
And I know, you know, I hope you
(Oh, oh oh, yeah yeah, yeah)
Remember how we danced
(Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
How we danced
(Oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Harry]
1, 2... 1, 2, 3!
[All]
How we danced all night to the best song ever
We knew every line
Now I can't remember
How it goes but I know
That I won't forget her
Cause we danced all night to the best song ever
(We danced, we danced, it goes something like, yeah)
And we danced all night to the best song ever
We knew every line
Now I can't remember
How it goes but I know
That I won't forget her
Cause we danced all night to the best song ever (best song ever!)
I think it went oh, oh, oh
I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah
I think it goes...
[Zayn]
Best song ever
It was the best song ever
It was the best song ever
It was the best song ever
Music video[]
| Music Video | Information | |
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Released | July 22, 2013 |
| Length | 6:13 | |
| Director | Ben Winston | |
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| Filmed | June 12-13, 2013 | |
| Location | Miami, USA | |
| VEVO views | 521,765,884 (as of June 30, 2017) | |
On July 23, 2013 (the day after the video was released), VEVO tweeted that "Best Song Ever" had gathered 12.3 million views within 24 hours of its release. The video had held the record for "Most Views Within 24 Hours of Release". It was previously held by Miles Cyrus's "We Can't Stop" with 10.7 million views.[4] It was later again broken by Miley Cyrus with her video for "Wrecking Ball".
A behind the scenes video was released on July 30, 2013 and shows footage about the transformations of the boys into each of their characters and other extras.
One Direction - Best Song Ever (Behind The Scenes)
In the behind the scenes video Liam says, "The concept of the video is that we're in a Hollywood movie office and we've just been offered the film by some big shots." Harry completes by saying "We go in and they tell us all these ideas that we hate about how to make the film and at the end, we tell them how we want the film to be like."
Performances[]
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| Date | Event | Watch | Country |
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| August 11 | Teen Choice Awards | United States | |
| August 23 | The Today Show |
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| August 28 | America's Got Talent |
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Tracklisting[]
| Best Song Ever (from "This Is Us") - EP (July 22, 2013) | |||
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| Best Song Ever (from "This Is Us") - EP (July 22, 2013) | |||
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Trivia[]
- "Best Song Ever" is the fifth song by One Direction in the Just Dance (Series)[5], (Just Dance 2015 Gameplay).[6]
- The final part of the choreography is the same as in the official music video.[7]
References[]
- ↑ Billboard.com Best Song Ever debuts at No.2
- ↑ Twitter Niall's Tweet
- ↑ Twitter Artwork tweet from the official One Direction account
- ↑ Twitter One day VEVO record
- ↑ "Best Song Ever" - Just Dance 2015
- ↑ "Best Song Ever" - One Direction | Just Dance 2015: Gameplay
- ↑ "Best Song Ever" - One Direction | Just Dance 2015: Comparison