"Today's the Day" is the title of a song introduced by America

America (band)

America is an English-American folk rock band that originally included members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring #1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist...

 on their 1976 album Hideaway. Written by group member Dan Peek

Dan Peek

Daniel Milton 'Dan' Peek was a musician best known as a member of the rock band America from 1970 to 1977, together with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell...

, "Today's the Day" was released as the album's lead single in May 1976; its peak at #23 on the Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 in Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

signaled a fall from favor for the group America who had been ranked by Billboard as the #1 Group as Singles Artists for the year 1975. The final Top 40 hit for America as a trio, "Today's the Day" did afford America a third and final #1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart which it topped for two weeks. Internationally "Today's the Day" appeared on the charts in Australia (#55), Canada (#17) and France (#67).