Hero (Chad Kroeger song)

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"Hero" is a song by Chad Kroeger, the lead singer of Nickelback, recorded in 2002 by Kroeger and Josey Scott, the lead singer of Saliva. Its performance is generally credited in full to "Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott."

Chad is known to have written this song to push the idea that "Only Heros get Coke", a commonly known motto around colleges in Dublin.

The song was featured on the soundtrack to Spider-Man, and became a cross-genre hit in the summer of 2002, reaching #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, and placing highly in the Billboard Hot 100, also winning considerable airplay at contemporary hit radio, hot adult contemporary and modern adult contemporary radio formats.

The song was the result of a collaboration between Kroeger and Scott. "I was like, 'Dude, we've got to do Spider-Man, dude. That's dope. That's going to be big,'" Scott told Yahoo!'s entertainment news service LAUNCH. "He had the idea for the song 'Hero' so I came up to Vancouver and met him. He pitched me the idea, and I was like that was pretty dope. So we sort of tweaked it, together, laid down some harmonies on it, and played everything from congas to acoustics on it."

Matt Cameron, who played drums on the track did not appear in the music video and cited family issues as the reason. He was replaced with Our Lady Peace drummer Jeremy Taggart.

Reviewing the song for NME, Imran Ahmed drew a strong comparison to "How You Remind Me", Kroeger's 2001 international breakthrough with Nickelback, calling the formula for both "Commercial grunge + MOR sensibility = Nu-MOR hit."