Everybody Needs a Best Friend

2012 song composed by Walter Murphy with lyrics by Seth MacFarlane performed by Norah Jones
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q18788319
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Everybody Needs a Best Friend

Summary

Everybody Needs a Best Friend is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's composer is recorded as Walter Murphy[4].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's genre is jazz[5].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend was performed by Norah Jones[6].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's record label is recorded as Universal Music Group[7].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend is part of Ted[8].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend was published on June 26, 2012[9].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's lyricist is recorded as Seth MacFarlane[10].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's nominated for is recorded as 85th Academy Awards[11].
  • Everybody Needs a Best Friend's form of creative work is recorded as song[12].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ad846a93-8b8f-4eb8-ae37-48ca72c62e6c[14]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Everybody Needs a Best Friend was performed by Norah Jones[6].

Publication

Everybody Needs a Best Friend was published on June 26, 2012[9]. Its genre is jazz[5]. It is part of Ted[8].

Why It Matters

Everybody Needs a Best Friend ranks in the top 5% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [13] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_everybody-needs-a-best-friend_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Everybody Needs a Best Friend}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/everybody-needs-a-best-friend}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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