The Best Thing

Single infobox
Name = The Best Thing


Artist = Relient K
from Album = Five Score and Seven Years Ago
Released = 2007
Format = CD
Recorded = 2006
Genre = Pop punk, Christian rock
Length = 3:28
Label = Capitol Records, Gotee
Producer = Howard Benson
Writer = Matt Theissen
Last single = "Forgiven"
(2006)
This single = "The Best Thing"
(2007)
Next single = "I Need You"
(2007)

"The Best Thing" is the second single off Relient K's fifth studio album, "Five Score and Seven Years Ago". The band's manager announced it on their messageboard on March 17, 2007 along with Capitol announcing it on several websites [http://media.www.laloyolan.com/media/storage/paper803/news/2007/03/26/Entertainment/A.Band.relient.On.The.Power.Of.The.Lord-2789951.shtml] . The song was performed on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on April 12, 2007. It was released to Top 40 and Hot AC stations on April 10th. [http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16691] Matt Thiessen, the lead singer, has described the song as, "The anti-Daniel Powter 'Bad Day' song, it's straight up positive." The song peaked at #47 on the Top 40 charts. It is currently Relient K's second most popular song on iTunes.

Around Mid-February 2008, the song was impacted to Christian Hit Radio, and has so far peaked at No. 13. [http://www.radioandrecords.com/Formats/Charts/Christ_CHR_Chart.asp]

Promotional Use

The Song is being used for promotion of ABC's Fall preview week. The commercial features the intro to the song and the chorus while showing clips of the ABC hit shows. The commercial claims ABC has the "Best" shows on TV.

Music Video

The band originally announced the video when they said that the music video for the song was shot on April 13, 2007. They announced this at their show at the Avalon with Mae and Sherwood in Hollywood the day of the shoot] .Fact|date=May 2008

Early screenshots released by the band suggested that this video takes place in an abandoned building or apartment. Upon the video's release on May 30, 2007, it was revealed that the video's main theme is a girl taking pictures, which turn out to be of the band performing. The pictures that pop up show all the band members playing. The pictures piece together throughout the video, sometimes showing separate members, and sometimes showing multiple views of the same member. It is somewhat made up of animation, which is something Matt Thiessen had wanted in one of their videos. It is also the first Relient K video where drummer Dave Douglas is shown singing backing vocals with a microphone, despite the fact that he sings backing vocals for all the songs the band has released videos for since Douglas joined the band. This is also the first video where Matt Thiessen is seen playing the piano, despite the fact that he has piano parts in the previous three songs that the band has made into videos. As of this video, guitarist Jon Schneck and bassist John Warne have officially been in more Relient K videos (four total) than longtime Relient K bassist Brian Pittman, who was in the band's first three videos. The video is up to more than 151,000 viewings on YouTube.