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"Proud"
"Proud"
Single by Heather Small
from the album Proud
B-side	"Don't Give Up the Fight"; "Wonderful World";
Released	8 May 2000
Length	4:29
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Heather Small; Peter-John Vettese;
Producer(s)	Peter-John Vettese; Simon Climie; Steve DuBerry; Ollie Marland;
Heather Small singles chronology
Audio sample
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Alternative cover
	Cover art of the 2005 release.

"Proud" is the debut solo single by M People singer Heather Small, released on 8 May 2000. It was co-written with and produced by Peter-John Vettese, and is the title track of her debut album Proud. The song peaked at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart.^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Proud"	Heather Small, Peter-John Vettese	3:54
2.	"Don't Give Up the Fight"	Small, Danny Schogger	3:16
3.	"Wonderful World"	Bob Thiele, George Weiss	3:39
4.	"Proud" (music video)

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[3]	173
Croatia (HRT)^[4]	9
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)^[5]	72
Germany (GfK)^[6]	92
Scotland (OCC)^[7]	11
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)^[8]	83
UK Singles (OCC)^[9]	16
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC)^[10]	5

Chart (2005)	Peak position
Scotland (OCC)^[11]	39
UK Singles (OCC)^[12]	33

Chart (2023)	Peak position
UK Singles Downloads^[13]	3

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[14]	Silver	200,000^‡
^‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

In popular culture

In 2000, the song was used in the closing montage of the BBC's coverage of the 2000 Summer Olympics. Five years later, it was adopted as the official theme for the London 2012 Olympic bid, and was featured in a widely seen promotional video for the bid.^[15] Re-released in honour of this, and due to the fact a new M People greatest hits titled Ultimate Collection, which also included two of Small's solo songs, was released the same year, the song returned to the UK Singles Chart peaking at number 33 and remaining in the Top 75 for two more weeks.^[16] In 2009, almost a decade after the song was first released, it gained new popularity thanks to the hit BBC sitcom Miranda, written by and starring Miranda Hart. The song was a source of one of the show’s most frequent running gags, whereby Miranda's best friend and colleague, Stevie Sutton (played by Sarah Hadland) would sing the song's chorus in the style of Small's voice as a motivational chant, whilst holding a cardboard cutout of Small on a wooden stick. Small herself subsequently appeared in a special sketch with the Miranda cast for Comic Relief in 2011 for Red Nose Day, and also sung the song at the climax of the show’s last ever episode, "The Final Curtain", aired on New Year's Day in 2015.