25 years of Friends: 10 chart facts about the show's theme song I'll Be There For You that will surprise you

Premiering 25 years ago this month, Friends continues to be a must-see mainstay on TV. One of the many ingredients to the success of Friends is its theme song: the kicky, clap-along I'll Be There For You by US pop rock duo The Rembrants. 

To celebrate its quarter century, we present ten Official Chart facts about the ever-relatable jingle:

• I'll Be There For You is so good it reached the Top 10 on the Official Singles Chart on two separate occasions. It first spent two weeks at Number 3 in 1995, and a re-release in 1997 sent it back to Number 5.
  
  
• Total UK chart sales for I'll Be There For You stand at 844,000. 600,500 of that figure is physical CD single sales.
  
  
• I'll Be There For You was co-written by Friends producers David Crane and Marta Kauffman as well as The Rembrandts duo (Phil Solem and Danny Wilde).
  
  
• In 2019, I'll Be There For You has been streamed on average 96,000 times and downloaded 85 times every week.
  
  

• The song started out as the Friends TV theme song and was under one minute long, before being turned into a full three-minute pop song. "Our record label said we had to finish the song and record it. There was no way to get out of it," lead singer Phil Solem said.
  
  
• The track is heavily influenced by The Beatles, in particular I Feel Fine, which has a similar guitar riff.
  
  
• I'll Be There For You was The Rembrandts only UK Top 40 hit. Follow-up single This House Is Not A Home reached Number 58 in 1996, while parent album LP - their third record - topped out at Number 14.
  
  
• I'll Be There For You had the most commercial success in Canada, where it spent five weeks at Number 1 and became the country's best-selling single that year.
  
  
• In total, I'll Be There For You reached the Top 10 in eight countries: Australia, Belgium, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland and UK.
  
  
• To celebrate the song (and the show)'s 25th anniversary, the track has been covered by Meghan Trainor and Jonas Brothers.