"You're the Best" is a song performed by Joe Esposito

Joe Esposito (singer)

Joe Esposito is a Grammy winning American singer/songwriter whose career spans from the 1970s to the present day. Esposito's songs have been recorded by Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Labelle, and Stephen Stills and others.-Biography:...

 and written by Bill Conti

Bill Conti

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 and Allee Willis

Allee Willis

Allee Willis is an American songwriter, artist, set designer, multimedia artist, writer, collector and director.-Overview:...

, which came to prominence as the music to the All-Valley Karate Championships montage in the 1984 movie The Karate Kid in which the protagonist, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio

Ralph Macchio

Ralph George Macchio is an American actor, best known for his roles as Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series, Bill Gambini in My Cousin Vinny, and Johnny Cade in The Outsiders. He is also known to American television audiences for his season five recurring role as Jeremy Andretti on the...

), proves a surprisingly formidable contender.

Background

Responding to years of criticism of "You're the Best" on the radio, Esposito called in to the Adam Carolla

Adam Carolla

Adam Carolla is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor. He currently hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast on the ACE Broadcasting Network...

 Show on April 9, 2008. The criticism was that the lyric "History repeats itself" was inappropriate because it was played during Larusso's first All-Valley Tournament in The Karate Kid. Esposito then revealed that the song was originally intended for the Rocky III

Rocky III

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soundtrack but was replaced by "Eye of the Tiger

Eye of the Tiger

"Eye of the Tiger" is a single by American rock band Survivor, from their third album Eye of the Tiger. It was released as a single on May 29, 1982, the same year as the album. It was written at the request of actor Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen's "Another One Bites...

." It was subsequently also turned down for the Flashdance

Flashdance

Another song used in the film, "Maniac", was also nominated for an Academy Award. It was written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky, and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac. The lyrics about a killer on the loose were rewritten so that it could be used in Flashdance...

soundtrack in favor of "Maniac

Maniac (song)

"Maniac" is a synthpop song performed by Michael Sembello. The song was used in the 1983 film Flashdance and was inspired by the 1980 horror film Maniac.The film Maniac was about a serial killer who stalks his victims in New York City...

" by Michael Sembello

Michael Sembello

Michael Sembello is an American musician and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Career:Sembello was born and raised in Philadelphia. He studied with jazz great Pat Martino and began his career as a professional musician by becoming a session musician, working increasingly with...

. Karate Kid director John Avildsen liked the song so much he used it in the movie.

Animated television

• South Park
  South Park
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  , Episode 905, "The Losing Edge
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  "The Losing Edge" is the fifth episode of the ninth season of the American animated series South Park. It originally aired April 6, 2005.-Plot:...
  
  "
• Futurama
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  , Episode 54, "30% Iron Chef"
• Homestar Runner
  Homestar Runner
  Homestar Runner is a Flash animated Internet cartoon. It mixes surreal humor with references to retro pop culture, notably video games, classic television, and popular music.The cartoons are nominally centered on the title character, Homestar Runner...
  
  , the Strong Bad Email "montage"
• Regular Show
  Regular Show
  Regular Show is an American animated television series created by J. G. Quintel...
  
  , Episode 4, "Death Punchies"
• Back at the Barnyard
  Back at the Barnyard
  Back at the Barnyard is a Nickelodeon CGI animated show that is a spin-off of the 2006 film Barnyard. The debut series premiered on September 29, 2007 on Nickelodeon. The show is produced by Omation Animation Studio, in association with Nickelodeon Animation Studios. The show mainly features pop...
  
  , Episode 52a, "Mission: Save Bigfoot"

Live-action television

• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an American television sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. New episodes continue to air on FX, with reruns playing on Comedy Central, general broadcast syndication, and WGN America—the first-ever cable-to-cable syndication deal for a sitcom...
  
  , Episode 205, "$100 Baby" and Episode 604, "Mac's Big Break"
• Rob & Big
  Rob & Big
  Rob & Big is an American reality television series that follows the lives of professional skateboarder/actor/producer Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin...
  
  , Season 1, Episode 4
• Reaper
  Reaper (TV series)
  Reaper is an American television series that focuses on Sam Oliver, a "reaper" who works for the Devil by retrieving souls that have escaped from Hell.The series originally ran on the CW from September 25, 2007 to May 26, 2009....
  
  , Season 2, Episode 1, "Episode IV: A New Hope"
• Greek
  Greek (TV series)
  Greek is an American comedy-drama television series, which follows students of the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University , located in Ohio, who participate in the school's Greek system...
  
  , Season 3, Episode 10, "Friend or Foe"
• Sport Relief 2010
  Sport Relief 2010
  Sport Relief 2010, was a fund raising event organised by Sport Relief, broadcast live on BBC One and BBC Two from the evening of 19 March 2010 to early the following morning...
  
   (James Corden and Manchester United)
• Mongrels
  Mongrels (TV series)
  Mongrels, formerly known under the working titles of We Are Mongrels and The Un-Natural World, is a British puppet-based situation comedy series first broadcast on BBC Three between 22 June and 10 August 2010, with a making-of documentary entitled "Mongrels Uncovered" broadcast on 11 August 2010...
  
  , Season 1, Episode 6

Live-action film

• The Italian Chef Movie
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film that follows Steve Wiebe as he tries to take the world high score for the arcade game Donkey Kong from reigning champion Billy Mitchell...
  
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• Strays, a short film by Gareth Nolan
• Big Stan
  Big Stan
  Big Stan is a 2007 American comedy film produced, directed by and starring Rob Schneider. It is his directorial debut. Although released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, it was released straight to DVD in the U.S. on March 24, 2009. It debuted at number 17 on the DVD rental charts...
  
  
• The Karate Kid

Professional sports

• Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao
  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
  
   used the song as entrance music in his fight against Antonio Margarito.
• UFC fighter Joe Stevenson
  Joe Stevenson
  Joseph Christopher Stevenson is an American mixed martial artist fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Competing as a welterweight, he won The Ultimate Fighter 2 welterweight tournament. Stevenson fought most of his UFC career as a lightweight, and made his featherweight debut at UFC Live: Kongo vs....
  
   uses a hip-hop version as entrance music.
• The independent professional wrestling tag team The Best Around uses the song as entrance music.
• Professional wrestler Frankie Kazarian
  Frankie Kazarian
  Frank B. Gerdelman is an Armenian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Frankie Kazarian or simply Kazarian. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
  
   uses this as his theme song on the independent circuit
  Independent circuit
  In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...
  
  .
• Pittsburgh Pirates
  Pittsburgh Pirates
  The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
  
   third baseman
  Third baseman
  A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...
  
   Andy LaRoche
  Andy LaRoche
  Andrew Christian LaRoche is an American professional baseball third baseman who is a free agent....
  
   used this as his at-bat intro song for much of his minor league career and also during his rookie season in 2008. His brother, former Pittsburgh Pirates
  Pittsburgh Pirates
  The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
  
   first baseman
  First baseman
  First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a baserunner in order to score a run for that player's team...
  
   Adam LaRoche
  Adam LaRoche
  David Adam LaRoche , is a Major League Baseball first baseman. In 2011, the Washington Nationals signed him to a two-year deal...
  
  , also used this song for several weeks in 2008 as a dare by Andy. However the fans in Pittsburgh seemed to find little humor in the song, as both players struggled with poor results during the season.
• CarltonFan2010 uses this song as his theme song on WFigs.
• Professional wrestler Robert Evans uses the song as his victory music on the independent circuit
  Independent circuit
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  .
• The IBL's Los Angeles Lightning play the song over the PA system at the end of every home win.
• Professional wrestler Chris Holmes uses the song as his theme song on the independent circuit
  Independent circuit
  In professional wrestling, the independent circuit or indy circuit refers to the many independent promotions which are much smaller than major televised promotions. They are roughly analagous to a minor league for pro wrestling, or community or regional theatre.Specific promotions on the...
  
  .
• Professional wrestler Prince Devitt uses the song as his theme song in New Japan Pro Wrestling
  New Japan Pro Wrestling
  is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...
  
  .
• The Richmond Flying Squirrels
  Richmond Flying Squirrels
  The Richmond Flying Squirrels are a minor league baseball team in Richmond, Virginia. The team, which is a part of the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants major league club, and plays at The Diamond...
  
  , Class AA affiliate of the San Francisco Giants
  San Francisco Giants
  The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....
  
  , use this song in the opening animation video that plays when the team takes the field at its home games played at The Diamond.
• New York Mets
  New York Mets
  The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
  
   Catcher Josh Thole
  Josh Thole
  Joshua Michael "Josh" Thole is an American professional baseball player. He currently plays catcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.-Early years:Thole grew up in Breese, Illinois, and attended Mater Dei High school....
  
   used this as his walk up song during the 2009 season when he was with the Binghamton Mets
  Binghamton Mets
  The Binghamton Mets are a U.S. minor league baseball team based in Binghamton, New York. The team, which plays in the Eastern League, is the Double-A affiliate of the New York Mets major-league club...
  
    Class AA affiliate of the New York Mets.

Commercials

• 2007 Utilikilts Mockumercial "The Kegerator"
• 2009 commercial of the Ford Focus in Mexico
• 2010 Sport Relief
  Sport Relief
  Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries...
  
   commercial in Britain
• 2010 Derek Ledgerwood's new marketing campaign. Song is played whenever a loan is closed.
• 2010 EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp video game

Radio

• The song also appears on the Opie & Anthony show whenever Master Po walks into the studio.
• The song is often played on the Mike and Mike Show
  Mike and Mike in the Morning
  Mike and Mike in the Morning is an American sports-talk radio show hosted by Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg on ESPN Radio and simulcast on television, normally on ESPN2. If ESPN is broadcasting a live sporting event during the show's timeslot, Sportscenter will air on ESPN2, and the show's...
  
  on ESPN Radio
  ESPN Radio
  ESPN Radio is an American sports radio network. It was launched on January 1, 1992 under the original banner of "SportsRadio ESPN." ESPN Radio is located at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut...
  
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• A brief sample of the song is played in honor of particularly interesting callers on the Charlie Hodge Rock 'n Roll Halftime Show on KLBJ-FM
  KLBJ-FM
  KLBJ-FM is a classic rock music radio station serving the Austin, Texas area, broadcasting at 93.7 MHz from its broadcast tower on Austin's Mount Larson.The station was owned by the Lyndon B...
  
   in Austin, Texas
  Austin, Texas
  Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
  
  . This is referred to as "The Joe Esposito Award".
• It is used periodically on the Toucher and Rich Show
  The Toucher and Rich Show
  The Toucher and Rich Show is a morning radio show from 6 to 10 AM on The Sports Hub 98.5 WBZ-FM, based Boston, Massachusetts. The show first aired on June 5, 2006...
  
  on Boston's 98.5 the Sports Hub, for example in reference to Tyler Seguin
  Tyler Seguin
  Tyler Seguin is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League . He was a draft pick of the Bruins, selected second overall in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  .

Video games

• Capcom
  Capcom
  is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...
  
   and UDON
  UDON
  UDON Entertainment Corporation is a studio of Asian-influenced comic book creators that provides creative services to the entertainment industry. The company is a publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and art books, as well as English editions of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa titles. Erik...
  
   used the song for both of their trailers for Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
  Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
  Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is a two dimensional fighting game released using the PlayStation Store and Xbox Live Arcade download services...
  
  .
• An achievement/trophy in the video game BlazBlue is named "You're the best! Around!" and another named "Nothing's Gonna Keep You Down".
• The achievement called "You're the best around!" is awarded for completing the video game Splosion Man in single player.
• An achievement/trophy in Dante's Inferno
  Dante's Inferno (video game)
  Dante's Inferno is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Visceral Games and published by Electronic Arts for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles. The game was also released on the PlayStation Portable and was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement...
  
   called "You're the best around!" is awarded for earning a player score of 250,000 in the Trials of Saint Lucia DLC pack.
• The Adult Swim
  Adult Swim
  Adult Swim is an adult-oriented Cable network that shares channel space with Cartoon Network from 9:00 pm until 6:00 am ET/PT in the United States, and broadcasts in countries such as Australia and New Zealand...
  
   game Jetpack Jackass uses the song as its' soundtrack.
• The song is part of the Saints Row: The Third soundtrack.

Other songs

• Jason Mraz
  Jason Mraz
  Jason Thomas Mraz , also known as Mr. AZ and Mr. Raz, is an American singer-songwriter. Mraz released his debut album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy ", in 2002, but it was not until the release of his second album, "Mr. A-Z", in 2005, that Mraz achieved...
  
  ' song "The Dynamo of Volition" from the 2008 album We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
  We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.
  The Latin American and Spanish re-release of the album includes a Spanish version of the song Lucky which was recorded by Mraz and Mexican singer Ximena Sariñana.-Critical reception:The album overall, gained positive to mixed reviews...
  
  concludes with the chorus of this song.
• In 2011, the song was parodied by The Fringemunks
  The Fringemunks
  The Fringemunks are a music group created by Seattle musician David Wu in 2008 consisting of three "cloned" anthropomorphic chipmunks: Feebo, Notchy and Pie. They are known mostly for recapping all episodes of Fox television series Fringe with song parodies...
  
   as part of a medley that recapped Fringe
  Fringe (TV series)
  Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...
  
  episode 3.21, "The Last Sam Weiss."
• During the Warped Tour 2010
  Warped Tour 2010
  Warped Tour 2010 is the 16th installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour festival. Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor. The first bands were announced on December 18. The 43-date tour kicks off on June 25, 2010 in Carson, California and ends August 15, 2010 in Hillsboro, Oregon.On...
  
  , Every Time I Die
  Every Time I Die
  Every Time I Die is a metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. Their musical style is rooted in technical hardcore with strong southern metal and mathcore elements, and is also characterised by their cryptic, bitingly sarcastic lyrics. The band announced on July 14, 2008 that they had...
  
  often used the song as their entrance music.