Måns Zelmerlöw Song Heroes

It was released on 28 February 2015 as a digital download in Sweden. The song was written and composed by Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad, Joy Deb and Linnea Deb. On 14 March, the song won Melodifestivalen 2015 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria, which it won. It is the lead single for Zelmerlöw's sixth studio album Perfectly Damaged.

"Heroes"
Single by Måns Zelmerlöw
from the album Perfectly Damaged
Released	28 February 2015
Genre	Dance-pop electropop
Length	3:11
Label	Warner Music
Songwriter(s)	Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad Joy Deb Linnea Deb
Producer(s)	Joy Deb Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad
Måns Zelmerlöw singles chronology
"Run for Your Life" (2014) "Heroes" (2015) "Should've Gone Home" (2015)
Music video
"Heroes" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2015 entry
Country	Sweden
Artist(s)	Måns Zelmerlöw
Language	English
Composer(s)	Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad Joy Deb Linnea Deb
Lyricist(s)	Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad Joy Deb Linnea Deb
Finals performance
Semi-final result	1st
Semi-final points	217
Final result	1st
Final points	365
Entry chronology
◄ "Undo" (2014)
"If I Were Sorry" (2016) ►

Writing in The Independent, Kiran Moodley compared the song with David Guetta's "Lovers on the Sun", concluding "the resemblance is uncanny." Writing for the same outlet in 2022, Ben Kelly named it 36th best Eurovision-winning song of all time, describing it as "a David Guetta production with slightly underwhelming country-style verses".

Being Zelmerlöw's third participation in the selection, "Heroes" participated in the fourth semi-final of the 2015 Melodifestivalen which was held in Örebro's Conventum Arena on 28 February 2015.

The song was performed last at the fourth semi-final. It directly qualified to the final as it got one of the first two places. Right after the second chance, the running order of the final was revealed with "Heroes" being performed at the sixth position. "Heroes" won the selection with 122 points from the international jury and 166 points from the public, receiving 288 points in total, a record under the current voting system. The entry also beat the second placed song with a record margin of 149 points.

"Heroes" won the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with a total of 365 points. It is the third-highest-scoring song in the history of the contest from 1975 to 2015 (and fifth-highest if results from 2016 are converted to the older system). It is also the first winning song, since the introduction of the split jury-televoting system in 2009, that has not won the televoting.^{[citation needed]} "Heroes" defeated a record number of twenty-six other songs in the final, as it was the largest Eurovision Song Contest final ever with 27 participating countries.

"Heroes" received the highest percentage of possible points compared to any other Eurovision winner of the 2010 to 2019 decade.