Bryan Adams expects his UK chart record to be broken.
The 65-year-old singer’s 1991 track (Everything I Do) I Do It For You topped the UK Singles Chart for a record 16 consecutive weeks that year but he believes he will be surpassed by another artist eventually – after Drake came close with One Dance in 2016, a track that remained at the summit for 15 weeks.
Speaking to Classic Pop magazine, Bryan said: “Oh, sure it can. I mean there’s been people that are already close.”
Asked if he finds it special to still hold the record, he said: “Hmmm, that is amazing and long may it be so, but the reality is something will eventually knock it off.”
Bryan admits that he didn’t think the track – which featured in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – would be such a big hit, although record producer Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange felt otherwise.
The Summer of ’69 rocker said: “I had no idea, but I knew that Mutt did, because I remember him pulling into the studio one day and he said, ‘You know what? This song really has an international melody’, and those words stuck with me because he was so right. There wasn’t a country in the world that didn’t play that song afterwards.
“When he was producing it, he was thinking global. Hats off to both Mutt and Michael Kamen, because they’re the ones that were really the geniuses behind it.”
Bryan’s new album Roll With The Punches will be released next month and he explained how the record’s title track came about.
The Canadian singer said of his creative process: “The tap doesn’t necessarily go off. Then one day something will happen, like Roll With The Punches will come together, and that becomes the cornerstone song for an album. You know it right away, as soon as you get that particular song.
“It’s happened to me umpteen times on records. In fact, every album has one sort of signature (track), and I thought, ‘Oh yeah, that’s the beginning of a record.’
“So, then you have your direction. And then you also have songs that you demoed prior to that, which you might need to rethink in order to bring them into that same energy space.”