Never Surrender (Corey Hart song)

"Never Surrender"
Single by Corey Hart
from the album Boy in the Box
B-side	"Water from the Moon"
Released	June 8, 1985
Studio	Le Studio, Quebec
Length	4:58
Label	Aquarius (CAN), EMI America (U.S.)
Songwriter(s)	Corey Hart
Producer(s)	Phil Chapman Jon Astley Corey Hart
Corey Hart singles chronology
"Lamp at Midnite" (1985) "Never Surrender" (1985) "Boy in the Box" (1985)
Audio sample
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Music video
"Never Surrender" on YouTube

"Never Surrender" is a song by Canadian singer Corey Hart. It was released in June 1985 as the first single from his second studio album, Boy in the Box. The song was number-one for nine weeks in Canada and was Hart's highest-charting single in the United States, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 (topping the sales only chart for one week) in August 1985.

The song won a Juno Award in 1985 for the "Single of the Year", and was certified Platinum in Canada for sales of over 100,000 copies in 1985.^[1]

"Never Surrender" has been featured in the Hulu series Future Man (TV series) Episode 10 "Operation: Natal Attraction", the Netflix series Stranger Things, season 3, episode 1 "Suzie, Do You Copy?", The Goldbergs, season 7, episode 13 "Geoff the Pleaser", and in the Disney+ animated series What If...?, season 2, episode 2 "What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?".

In 2019, Hart released an updated version of the song on his EP Dreaming Time Again, performed as a slow piano ballad with a new "angels lead you home" coda. He released the new version as a single in 2020, highlighting its message of hope and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]