The Search for Everything: Wave One (also shortened as Wave One) is an extended play (EP) by American singer John Mayer. Released on January 20, 2017, the EP contains the first four tracks from Mayer's seventh studio album, The Search for Everything. It includes the lead single "Love on the Weekend" and three new tracks.

A second EP, The Search for Everything: Wave Two, was released on February 24, 2017, composed of four more new tracks.

The full album was released on April 14, 2017.

The Search for Everything: Wave One is the first release from John Mayer since his 2013 Americana album Paradise Valley, after a four-year hiatus. Throughout 2015 and 2016, he toured as part of the rock band Dead & Company, with the remaining members of the classic rock group The Grateful Dead. In January 2017, John Mayer wrote in a Facebook post that "The album will be released four songs at a time. There were too many songs to ever get out the door at once."

According to an excerpt from Rolling Stone, "My starting point is, 'I want to leave the Earth as a writer,'" he explains. "I wasn't interested in doing anything I've done before, and I wanted to stoke the fire of abstraction and just start punching hard." Speaking about the rollout of EPs in support of his seventh album, he said "The price of admission is four songs. If you don't like these, don't get the next four. But if I've engendered some kind of trust that you think I'm onto something, get the next four, and come along with me on every single wave."

On writing the single "Love on the Weekend", Mayer said "Writing 'Love On The Weekend' was the experience of all the best songs I've ever written, when you're going to go home and obsess all night because you know you're onto something and you know it's only going to get better when you go back and work on it the next day."

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