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Best Friend

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ403221 ↗
Source-derived summary

Best Friend or Best Friends may refer to:

Film and television

Best Friend (film), a 2020 South Korean film

Best Friends (1982 film), a film starring Goldie Hawn and Burt Reynolds

Best Friends (1975 film), a film by Noel Nosseck

Best Friends, a Telugu film by Sunil Kumar Reddy

Best F(r)iends, a film starring Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero

"Best Friend" (Peppa Pig), a 2004 episode

"Best Friends" (Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures), a 2024 episode

"Best Friends", a Thomas & Friends season 12 episode

Literature

Best Friends (Martin novel), part of the Main Street book series

Best Friends (Wilson novel), a children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson

Best Friends, a 2003 novel by Thomas Berger

Music

Albums

Best Friends (Cleo Laine and John Williams album) (1978)

Best Friend (Edmond Leung album) (1997)

Best Friend (Hillsong United album) (2000)

Best Friends?, a 2010 album by Brad

Songs

"Best Friend" (50 Cent song) (2005)

"Best Friend" (The Beat song) (1980)

"Best Friend" (Brandy song) (1994)

"Best Friend" (Foster the People song) (2014)

"Best Friend" (Conan Gray song) (2022)

"Your best friend" (Toby Fox song) (2016)

"Best Friend" (Kana Nishino song) (2010)

"Best Friend" (Saweetie song) (2021)

"Best Friend" (Toy-Box song) (1999)

"Best Friend" (Sofi Tukker song) (2017)

"Best Friend" (Yelawolf song) (2015)

"Best Friend" (Young Thug song) (2015)

"Best Friend", by Toni Braxton from Toni Braxton (1993)

"Best Friend", by C.T.F.G. from Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

"Best Friend", by Candlebox from Lucy (1995)

"Best Friend", by Johnny Cash from Any Old Wind That Blows (1973)

"Best Friend", by Jason Chen (2011)

"Best Friend", by the Drums from The Drums (2010)

"Best Friend", by iKon from Return (2018)

"Best Friend", by James Marriott from Don't Tell the Dog (2025)

"Best Friend", by Kiroro (2001)

"Best Friend", by Madonna from MDNA (2012)

"Best Friend", by Paul McCartney & Wings from Red Rose Speedway (1973)

"Best Friend", by Megan Thee Stallion from Megan: Act II (2024)

"Best Friend", by Helen Reddy from I Don't Know How to Love Him (1971)

"Best Friend", by Rex Orange County (2017)

"Best Friend", by Stan Walker from All In (Stan Walker album) (2022)

"Best Friend", by Pharrell Williams from In My Mind (2006)

"Best Friend", by Younha from Someday (2008)

"Best Friend (The Unicorn Song)", by Margie Adam from Margie Adam. Songwriter.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Best Friend” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 1982, 1975, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Best, Friend and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q403221. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1982, 1975 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Best Friend” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.