Song title 13 - Hero

This page lists the chart runs for songs called "Hero" in order of success. This list combines cover versions and distinct songs that happen to share the same title.

If, alternately, you are looking for songs which have the word "Hero" somewhere in the title a better alternative would be to look up the word in the site index for h.

#	Artist	Song Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	Enrique Iglesias	Hero	2001	UK 1 - Feb 2002 (26 weeks), Switzerland 1 - Oct 2001 (23 weeks), Belgium 1 - Nov 2001 (23 weeks), Eire 1 for 2 weeks - Feb 2002, Canada Billboard 1 for 1 week - Nov 2001, Australia 1 for 2 weeks - Jan 2002, UK Platinum (certified by BPI in Mar 2002), US Billboard 3 - Sep 2001 (34 weeks), Holland 3 - Oct 2001 (15 weeks), Austria 3 - Nov 2001 (5 months), Norway 3 - Nov 2001 (17 weeks), ODK Germany 3 - Oct 2001 (24 weeks) (13 weeks in top 10), Germany 4 - Jan 2002 (4 months), Germany Gold (certified by BMieV in 2001), Sweden 8 - Oct 2001 (8 weeks), POP 9 of 2001, ARC 11 of 2001 (peak 1 20 weeks), Switzerland 13 of 2001, Australia 13 of 2002, US BB 22 of 2002, US Radio 24 of 2001 (peak 2 15 weeks), Italy 28 of 2001, Japan (Tokyo) 36 - Oct 2001 (11 weeks), Brazil 78 of 2002, Germany 84 of the 2000s (peak 3 14 weeks), UKMIX 354, OzNet 487, Chart2000.com song 24 of 2002, Party 194 of 1999
2	Mariah Carey	Hero	1993	US Billboard 1 - Oct 1993 (30 weeks), US Radio 2 of 1993 (peak 1 13 weeks), Japan (Osaku) 2 of 1994 (peak 1 25 weeks), Japan (Tokyo) 2 - Oct 1993 (25 weeks), Norway 2 - Jan 1994 (8 weeks), US Platinum (certified by RIAA in Dec 1993), POP 3 of 1993, US BB 5 of 1994, Sweden 5 - Nov 1993 (9 weeks), Brazil 6 of 1994, Poland 6 - Nov 1993 (12 weeks), UK 7 - Nov 1993 (21 weeks), ARC 9 of 1993 (peak 1 17 weeks), Holland 10 - Nov 1993 (8 weeks), Scrobulate 15 of female, US CashBox 19 of 1994, Canada 22 of 1994, Australia 33 of 1994, ODK Germany 41 - Dec 1993 (25 weeks)
3	Chad Kroeger	Hero	2002	Poland 1 - Jun 2002 (23 weeks), Canada Billboard 1 for 5 weeks - May 2002, US Billboard 3 - May 2002 (22 weeks), UK 4 - Jun 2002 (14 weeks), ODK Germany 8 - Jun 2002 (16 weeks) (2 weeks in top 10), Austria 9 - Jun 2002 (4 months), Germany 10 - Jun 2002 (3 months), Switzerland 14 - Jun 2002 (15 weeks), POP 14 of 2002, Sweden 15 - Aug 2002 (1 week), US Radio 20 of 2002 (peak 2 17 weeks), Holland 22 - May 2002 (5 weeks), US BB 25 of 2002, ARC 27 of 2002 (peak 2 16 weeks), Brazil 39 of 2002, Italy 47 of 2002, Japan (Tokyo) 61 - May 2002 (5 weeks), TheQ 242, Germany 358 of the 2000s (peak 8 9 weeks), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Aug 2002), Chart2000.com song 18 of 2002
4	Mr Children	Hero	2002	Japan (Tokyo) 1 - Dec 2002 (12 weeks), Japan 1 for 1 week - Nov 2002, Japan (Osaku) 6 of 2003 (peak 1 22 weeks)
5	The X Factor Finalists 2008	Hero	2008	UK 1 - Nov 2008 (13 weeks), Eire 1 for 3 weeks - Oct 2008, Euro Digital (Billboard) 1 for 1 week - Nov 2008
6	David Crosby & Phil Collins	Hero	1993	Japan (Tokyo) 40 - Jun 1993 (6 weeks), US Billboard 44 - May 1993 (20 weeks), Canada 48 of 1993, ODK Germany 51 - Jun 1993 (9 weeks), UK 56 - May 1993 (3 weeks)
7	NAS	Hero	2008	UK 70 - Jul 2008 (6 weeks), Switzerland 70 - Jul 2008 (3 weeks), US Billboard 97 - Aug 2008 (1 week)
8	Charlotte Perrelli	Hero	2008	Sweden 1 - Mar 2008 (15 weeks), Norway 20 - Jun 2008 (1 week), Switzerland 65 - Jun 2008 (1 week)
9	Exile	Hero	2004	Japan (Tokyo) 8 - Nov 2004 (10 weeks), Japan (Osaku) 82 of 2005 (peak 10 15 weeks)
10	Christopher Wilde & Stubby	Hero	2010	US Billboard 57 - Mar 2010 (1 week), UK 61 - May 2010 (1 week)
11	Darren Hayes	Hero	2005	France 3 - Aug 2005 (1 week)
12	Family Of The Year	Hero	2013	ODK Germany 7 - Sep 2013 (35 weeks) (7 weeks in top 10)
13	Ministry	Hero	unknown	Scrobulate 13 of industrial metal

Previous Comments

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26 Oct 2019

Double Listing - David Crosby & Phil Collins

#6 & #11 are the same.

Data fixed, thanks

19 May 2018

Missing Song

You're missing 'Hero' by Skillet

Not in any charts that we can see

11 Dec 2017

Double Listing - Chad Kroeger - Hero

#3 & #12 are the same.

Data fixed, thanks

1 Jun 2017

#11 - Chad Kroeger & Josey Scott - Hero

This should be transferred to Chad Kroeger solo page (currently #20 in 2002).You have that song listed as 'The Hero' but per Wikipedia correct title is just 'Hero'.

Data fixed, thanks

17 Jan 2015

Hero by Family of the Year??

In the movie Boyhood

14 Nov 2014

Double Listing - Christopher Wilde

#9 and #10 are same recording.

That looks right, data fixed, thanks

18 Sep 2013

donna summers

where dona summers song looking for a hero

As far as we can see it was never a hit anywhere