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For the song by The Ready Set, see Give Me Your Hand (Best Song Ever).
"Best Song Ever"
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"Best Song Ever" is a song recorded by British boy band One Direction. It was released on 22 July 2013 by Syco and Columbia as the lead single off the group's third studio album Midnight Memories. Written by Wayne Hector, John Ryan, Julian Bunetta and Ed Drewett[2] and produced by Bunetta, the song was recorded in 2013 and runs for 3 minutes and 21 seconds. It was announced by One Direction in a video uploaded to their YouTube channel on 25 June 2013.[3] The trailer for This Is Us was released thirty minutes after the video was uploaded, and included a short preview of the song.[4] The song became available for pre-order on iTunes on 26 June.

Critical response

"Best Song Ever" received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Amy Sciaretto of PopCrush awarded the song 3 and a half out of 5 stars, stating that "the first 20 seconds and intro of the song" were likely an "intentional homage" to The Who's "Baba O'Riley", however that the rest of the song was "signature 1D".

Click Music reacted negatively to the song, giving it 1 and a half stars out of 5, describing it as "tiresome" and called the song's writers "creatively barren", accusing them of plagiarism of The Who's "Baba O'Riley". It also called the song a representation of "the laziest, most mind-numbing trends in modern pop".[5]

Sciaretto went on to call the song "flirty, fluffy, and fun", dubbing the track an "anthemic" and "cute", however stated that the song was not as catchy as their previous singles "Live While We're Young" and "Kiss You" and that it wasn't their best work.[6] Popdust's Samantha Martin stated that the song did not "live up to its titular goal", and that some of the song's lyrics were contradicting. Martin described the song as a youthful "celebration", stating it was "definitely for the kids" and stated it wasn't their best work, however nonetheless described the song as "fantastically catchy" and praised Zayn Malik's "falsetto shriek" at the end of the song and compared the song's use of the name Georgia Rose to The Beatles.[7]

Live performances

The group performed the song live for the first time on 30 July 2013 at the SAP center in San Jose, California during their Take Me Home Tour concert. The song was added to the setlist of the concert to all proceeding shows of the American leg. The groups first televised performance of the single was at the 2013 Teen Choice Awards on 11 August 2013. The group also performed the song, along with some of their other hits, on the Today Show on 23 August 2013 and on America's Got Talent on 28 August 2013.

Track listings

CD single[8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Best Song Ever"
  • Hector
  • Ryan
  • Bunetta
  • Drewett
3:22
2."Last First Kiss" (Live Version from the Motion Picture One Direction: This Is Us)Albin Nedler, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Rami Yacoub, Cark Falk, Savan Kotecha, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson 
Maxi single[9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Best Song Ever"
  • Hector
  • Ryan
  • Bunetta
  • Drewett
3:22
2."Best Song Ever" (Jump Smokers Remix)
  • Hector
  • Ryan
  • Bunetta
  • Drewett
3:08
3."Best Song Ever" (Westfunk & Steve Smart Remix)
  • Hector
  • Ryan
  • Bunetta
  • Drewett
 
4."Last First Kiss" (Live Version from the Motion Picture One Direction: This Is Us)  

Charts and certifications

Release history

Country Date Format Label
France[44] 22 July 2013 Digital download Sony
Germany[45]
Italy[46]
United Kingdom[47] Syco
United States[48] Columbia
United States[49] 23 July 2013 Mainstream radio
Germany[50] 16 August 2013 Maxi single Sony
France[51] 19 August 2013
United Kingdom[52] Syco
United States[8] 20 August 2013 CD single Columbia
Japan[53] 21 August 2013 Maxi single Sony
Italy[54] 27 August 2013

Awards

"Best Song Ever" won the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Song of the Summer.

Year Cerenomy Award Result
2013 MTV Video Music Awards Best Song of Summer Won
Rockbjörnen Best International Song Nominated
World Music Awards World's Best Song Pending
World's Best Video

Music video

The music video was released on the band's Vevo channel on 22 July 2013. The video features the band going into an office in Hollywood, talking to two executives (portrayed by Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson) after being led in by the sexy assistant (Zayn Malik). Marcel the marketing guy (Harry Styles) shows the band pictures of them in ridiculous outfits and even has an effete chorographer named Leeroy (Liam Payne) make up ridiculous dance moves for them. Insulted, the band erupt into the song and start creating havoc by throwing around things in the office. They then run into a main work building and vandalize it much to the chagrin of the workers. The video ends as they nail a poster to the wall and Zayn graffiti's it with the words "This is Us" to promote the movie. The video broke the VEVO 24 hour record with 12.3 million views but the record was then reclaimed with Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball", which garnered 19.3 million views.[55]

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