Waking Up the Neighbours is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer/songwriter Bryan Adams released in 1991. The album was recorded at Battery Studios in London, and at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, mixed at Mayfair Studios in London, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk in New York City. "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" was number one on the British charts for a record-breaking sixteen weeks. The album sold more than 16 million copies worldwide.

The album was also notable in Canada for creating controversy concerning the system of Canadian content. Although Adams was one of Canada's biggest recording stars at the time, the nature of his collaboration with the British–Zambian Mutt Lange, combined with the fact that the album was not primarily recorded in Canada, meant that, under the rules in force until 1991, the Adams/Lange-written songs on Waking Up the Neighbours did not qualify as Canadian content. As a result of Adams' complaints, in September of that year, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that the Canadian content rules would be broadened. The regulations already accounted for collaborative writing between Canadians and non-Canadians where the lyricist and musical composer worked separately. As of September 1991, the regulations were tweaked to recognize partnerships where two (or more) collaborators each contributed equally to both the lyrics and to the music, as was the case with Adams and Lange.