Best of You

For the Kenny Thomas song, see The Best of You.
"Best of You"
Standard artwork
Single by Foo Fighters
from the album In Your Honor
ReleasedMay 30, 2005 (2005-05-30)
RecordedJanuary–March 2005
Genre
Length4:16
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Have It All"
(2003) 		"Best of You"
(2005) 		"DOA"
(2005)
Music video
"Best of You" on YouTube

"Best of You" is a song by American rock band Foo Fighters, released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album, In Your Honor (2005). Dave Grohl notes that the song was written following appearances at 2004 American presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign trail and is "about breaking away from the things that confine you".[3] The song holds the band's highest chart peak in the U.S. (number 18), the UK (number four), and Australia (number five), and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The song won the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. It also topped Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for four weeks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for seven weeks. Following the band's performance at Live Earth, the song again entered the UK charts at number 38.

In September 2023, for the 35th anniversary of Hot Modern Rock Tracks (which by then had been renamed to Alternative Airplay),[4] Billboard ranked "Best of You" at number 91 on its list of the 100 most successful songs in the chart's history.[5]

  1. ^ O'Brien, Jon (September 18, 2017). "The 10 Best Foo Fighters Songs". Paste. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  2. ^ Loudwire Staff (October 2, 2020). "The 66 Best Hard Rock Songs of the 21st Century". Loudwire. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
  3. ^ Kerrang! Legends: Foo Fighters pg. 114
  4. ^ Rutherford, Kevin (September 7, 2023). "Alternative Airplay Chart's 35th Anniversary: Foo Fighters Remain No. 1 Act, 'Monsters' New Top Song". Billboard. Retrieved November 29, 2023.
  5. ^ "Greatest of All Time Alternative Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on October 6, 2023. Retrieved November 29, 2023.