Artist
Amuro Namie

Release date
2016.07.27

Label
Dimension Point

Catalog Number
AVCN-99036

Price
¥1,000

Producers
Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY, The Family, Cobra Endo

 

 

Artist
Amuro Namie

Release date
2016.07.27

Label
Dimension Point

Catalog Number
AVCN-99035/B

Price
¥1,800

 

 

 

Artist
Amuro Namie

Release date
2016.08.19

Label
Dimension Point

Catalog Number
AVJN-99038

Price
¥2,700

 

 

 

OVERSEAS VERSIONS

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Country: Taiwan Release date: 2016.08.05 Label: avex taiwan Catalog number: AVJSG-40772	Country: Taiwan Release date: 2016.08.05 Label: avex taiwan Catalog number: AVJSG-40772/A

 

CD TRACKLIST

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No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Production	Length
1	Hero	Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY	Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY	Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY	5:42
2	Show Me What You’ve Got	Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Anton Malmberg Hård Af Segerstad, Sara Forsberg, Ardita Ada Satka, Okajima Kanata	Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Anton Malmberg Hård Af Segerstad, Sara Forsberg, Ardita Ada Satka	The Family, Cobra Endo	3:10
3	Hero -Instrumental-		Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY	Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY	5:39
4	Show Me What You’ve Got -Instrumental-		Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Anton Malmberg Hård Af Segerstad, Sara Forsberg, Ardita Ada Satka	The Family, Cobra Endo	3:08
Total Length: 17:39

 

DVD TRACKLIST

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No.	Title	Film Director	Film Producer	Length
1	Hero -Music Video-	YKBX Additional Introduction: Shingu Ryouhei Cinematographer: Uehara Hiromitsu	Ishihara Hirohisa
2	Show Me What You’ve Got -Music Video-	Suto Kanji Cinematographer: Muramatsu Takeshi	Ishihara Hirohisa
Total Length:

 

VINYL TRACKLIST

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SIDE A Hero

SIDE B Show Me What You’ve Got

 

CREDITS

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Producers: Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY, The Family, Cobra Endo
Arrangement: Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY
Strings Arrangement: Goto Yuichiro
Vocal Direction: Emyli

Art Direction: YKBX
Design: Asai Masaya
Photography: Kikuma Yasunari

Guitar: Kubota Singo (#1)
Synthesizers, Keyboards: Imai Ryosuke, SUNNY BOY
Strings: Yuichiro Goto Strings (#1)
Background Vocals: Amuro Namie, Emyli
Chorus Vocals: Ishii Chiaki (#1), Kuroda Kou (#1), Kimura Momoka (#1), Imai Ryosuke (#1), SUNNY BOY (#1), Iwata Yume (#1), Yuto Newberry (#1), Alisa (#2), Emyli (#2), Okajima Kanata (#2)

Recorded By: Nakamura Fumitoshi, Namifusa Wataru
Mastered By: Maeda Yasuji
Mixed By: D.O.I.

Recorded at Avex Studios (Tokyo).

 

SPECIAL COLLABORATION

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Hero was selected as the NHK Japanese theme song for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Rio de de Janeiro. Amuro Namie was chosen by the NHK committee for her “powerful voice that can deeply move people’s hearts” and “her popularity among different generations”. Seven music videos were released, including a special Olympic “Gold Edition” that was broadcasted by NHK.

 

ORICON CHARTS Peak Position Oricon Singles Daily Chart Oricon Singles Weekly Chart Oricon Singles Monthly Chart Oricon Singles Yearly Chart Billboard Hot Single Sales Chart # #5 #6 #20 #75 #6 Chart Run 25 Weeks (top 100) 39 Weeks (top 200) Total Reported Sales 80,739 Daily and Weekly Chart Week Day 1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 Weekly Rank & Sales 1  –→ 6   5 ↑   5 → 8 ↓ 5 ↑ 9 ↓  6 28,879 2 5 ↑ 30 ↓ 22 ↑ 16 ↑ 13 ↑ 11 ↑ 13 ↓ 19 ↓ 5,230 3 8 ↑ 21 ↓ 20 ↑ 10 ↑ 11 ↓ 7 ↑ 8 ↓ 15 ↑ 6,163 4 9 ↓ 29 ↓ 21 ↑ 16 ↑ 12 ↑ 10 ↑ 9 ↑ 17 ↓ 6,885 5  9 → 33 ↓ 19 ↑ 17 ↑ 21 ↓ 25 ↓ 20 ↑ 23 ↓ 5,844 6 19 ↑ 42 ↓ 29 ↑ 22 ↑   22 → 24 ↓ 13 ↑ 29 ↓ 3,799 7   13 → 37 ↓   37 → 23 ↑ 29 ↓ 26 ↑ 19 ↑ 30 ↓ 2,490 8 14 ↑ 33 ↓ 36 ↓ 20 ↑ 27 ↓ 20 ↑ 18 ↑ 28 ↑ 2,199 9 19 ↓ 44 ↓ 43 ↑ 44 ↓ 36 ↑ 35 ↑ 37 ↓ 40 ↓ 1,547 10 20 ↑ ↓ 39 ↑ 30 ↑ 31 ↓ 33 ↓ 28 ↑ 39 ↑ 1,659 11 27 ↑ 44 ↓ 40 ↑ 31 ↑ 28 ↑ 26 ↑ 28 ↓   39 → 1,434 12 32 ↓ 42 ↓ ↓ 35 ↑ 38 ↓ 45 ↓ 44 ↑ 47 ↓ 1,092 13 33 ↑ ↓ 35 ↑ ↓ 58 ↓ 943 14 44 ↑ ↓ 79 ↓ 1,037 15 100 ↓ 665 16 121 ↓ 446 17 117 ↑ 458 18 140 ↓ 483 19 124 ↑ 483 20 145 ↓ 433 21 100 ↑ 469 22 92 ↑ 570 23 73 ↑ 457 24 74 ↓ 465 25 98 ↓ 296 26 136 ↓ 212 27 163 ↓ 253 28 172 ↓ 197 29 124 ↑ 304 30 154 ↓ 259 31 ↓   Daily and Weekly Chart (from September, 18th) Week Day 1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 Weekly Rank & Sales 1  –→  –→  –→ 33 ↑ 19 ↑ 26 ↓ 21 ↑ 49 ↑ 983 2 35 ↓ ↓ 17 ↑ 29 ↓ 19 ↑ 46 ↓ 36 ↑ 37 ↑ 1,555 3 58 ↓ 666 4 94 ↓ 402 5 85 ↑ 352 6 129 ↓ 317 7 148 ↓ 259 8 143 ↑ 285 9 157 ↓ 269 10 ↓ Monthly Chart Month Rank July 20 August 25 ↓ September 41 ↓   Yearly Chart Year Rank 2016 75   AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS Record Industry Association of Japan Gold Disc The 31st Japan Gold Disc Awards Best 5 Song – By download “Hero” JASRAC 2019 Awards Gold Award   MORE ABOUT THE SONGS Hero Show Me What You’ve Got