I Dreamed A Dream - From "Les Misérables"

As a teenage schoolgirl, Anne Hathaway performed with the All-Eastern US High School Honors Chorus at Carnegie Hall. Since then she's become better known as an actress, but Hathaway has a fine soprano voice so it was no surprise when she was chosen to play the prostitute Fantine in the movie version of the Les Misérables musical. This ballad finds Fantine recalling the rich student she once loved, but who abandoned her, leaving the young mother to resort to prostitution to support her daughter.

Hathaway explained the importance of this song to OK magazine. "It was really exciting to take this iconic song, which is so beloved, and find a way to put it through the prism of film, and that meant having to go very, very, very deep inside myself to some uncomfortable places," she said. "But that's what we do, and those are the jobs that you remember and those are the ones that make you grow."

This was the third version of the ballad to chart on the Hot 100. Susan Boyle's interpretation peaked at #62 in 2009, while the Glee cast's cover reached #31 the following year.