"Best I Ever Had" is a song recorded by the American alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Vertical Horizon

Vertical Horizon

Vertical Horizon is an American alternative rock band formed at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. in 1991. The band is best known for a string of hits in 1999 and early 2000s, including "You're a God", "Everything You Want", and "Best I Ever Had ". Their most recent album, Burning the...

 on their fourth album Everything You Want, which was released in 1999. It was released as a single in 2001. It served as the band's fourth overall single, and their third consecutive Top Ten hit on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Adult Top 40 charts.

Chart performance

Chart (2001)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	58
U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 Tracks	7

Gary Allan version

In 2005, country music singer Gary Allan

Gary Allan

Gary Allan Herzberg is an American country music artist, known professionally as Gary Allan.Signed to Decca Records in 1996, Allan made his debut on the United States country music scene with the release of his single "Her Man", the lead-off to his gold-certified debut album Used Heart for Sale,...

 recorded a cover version for his album Tough All Over

Tough All Over

-Personnel:As listed in liner notes.*Perry Coleman - background vocals*Chad Cromwell - drums*Eric Darken - percussion*Kenny Greenberg - acoustic guitar on track 2, electric guitar on tracks 2, 7, 8 and 12*Wes Hightower - background vocals...

. Allan's version, which was titled "Best I Ever Had" upon its release to radio, became his eighth Top Ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts in mid-2005.

Chart performance

"Best I Ever Had" debuted at number 56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs for the week of June 11, 2005. > >

Chart (2005)	Peak position
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Music video

The music video for Gary Allan's version of the song was directed by Paul Boyd.

Other versions

Also in 2005, the track was covered by then-Boston Red Sox

Boston Red Sox

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 pitcher Bronson Arroyo

Bronson Arroyo

Bronson Anthony Arroyo , is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds and an aspiring musician. He has previously played for the Pittsburgh Pirates between 2000 and 2002 and Boston Red Sox from 2003 to 2005...

 on Arroyo's all covers album, "Covering The Bases

Covering the Bases

Covering the Bases is the debut album by Major League Baseball pitcher Bronson Arroyo. It was released in 2005 following the Boston Red Sox 2004 World Series Championship, which Arroyo was a part of; he currently plays for the Cincinnati Reds...

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