Heaven (Avicii song)

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"Heaven"
Avicii Heaven Single Cover Art.jpg
Single by Avicii
from the album Tim
Released6 June 2019 (2019-06-06)
RecordedMay 2014 [1]
Genre Progressive house [2]
Length4:37
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tim Bergling [3]
Avicii singles chronology
"Tough Love"
(2019)		"Heaven"
(2019)		"Fades Away (Tribute Concert Version)"
(2019)
Music video
"Heaven (Tribute Video)" on YouTube

"Heaven" is the third posthumous single by Swedish DJ Avicii, featuring vocals by singer Chris Martin of British band Coldplay. The song was released on 6 June 2019, as the third single from Avicii's posthumous studio album Tim . [4] [ unreliable source? ] The song became his third single, and his second posthumously, to reach number one on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart in its 27 July 2019 issue. [5]

Contents

Recording

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"Heaven" c. 2016
Versions of "Heaven" played by Avicii during sets in 2015 and 2016 featured Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost.
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The song was recorded with Chris Martin in 2014, a couple of months after they had finished "A Sky Full of Stars". [6] It first premiered during Avicii's set at Future Music Festival in 2015. [7] During the period of 2015 till 2019, there have been different versions of the song circulating the web, a couple demos featuring singer Simon Aldred and a couple featuring Chris Martin. Eventually, Avicii's team chose to release the version featuring Chris. [8]

In 2015, Avicii premiered "Heaven" at 2015 Ultra Music Festival with singer, Simon Aldred, and said he thought he did the track justice. [9] "Heaven" is thought to originally have been planned for release on Avicii's sophomore album "Stories" in 2015, but ended up being scrapped so Avicii could continue working on it. In 2016, Avicii worked on a version of "Heaven" with producer Carl Falk, now including a revamped vocal from singer Simon Aldred and electric guitars. [10] Avicii played this version of the track during the course of 2016, until his retirement. Before his death, Tim told the Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Sweden, Per Sundin, that he wanted to release the version with Chris Martin instead. [11] The song was played in his memory by Nicky Romero during Kingsland Festival in 2018. As Nicky said, Tim sent to him a folder full of new music, mostly unfinished but still usable for the shows. On 27 May 2018, the song was leaked online after being played by NRJ radio. [12]

In April 2019, it was announced that the album Tim , which Avicii was working on before his death, would include the song "Heaven" in the album, which was released on 6 June 2019. [13]

In December 2019, "Heaven" was sung live by singer Simon Aldred at the Avicii Tribute Concert benefiting the Tim Bergling Foundation. [14]

Music video

The lyric video was released on 6 June 2019. The music video, called a "tribute video", which used old clips of Avicii at Madagascar (following his last concert performance in 2016) was released on 24 June 2019. [15] In the music video, Tim was joined by his longtime producer Levan Tsikurishvili and his childhood friend Awat to have a vacation together on the island of II Saint Marie with video collections of him walking and enjoying around the island.

Remixes

On 27 July 2019, David Guetta played the remix of the song of "Heaven" at the Tomorrowland festival featuring Morten. The song was released on 23 August 2019. [16]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from YouTube and Expressen. [17]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [68] 3× Platinum120,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [69] Gold45,000‡
France (SNEP) [70] Gold100,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [71] Platinum70,000‡
Portugal (AFP) [72] Gold5,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [73] Gold30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [74] Silver200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [75] Gold500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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