Heaven (Warrant song)

Heaven is a song by American glam metal band Warrant. It was released on July 22, 1989 as the second single from Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The power ballad[3] is Warrant's most commercially successful single, spending two weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 (kept from the top spot by Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You"), and reaching number one in Rolling Stone, and number three on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[4] The track's commercial success has led it to becoming one of the best known songs by the band.

"Heaven"
Single by Warrant
from the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
B-side"In the Sticks"[1]
ReleasedJuly 22, 1989
Recorded1988
GenreGlam metal[2]
Length3:57
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Jani Lane
Producer(s)Beau Hill
Warrant singles chronology
"Down Boys"
(1989)		 "Heaven"
(1989)		 "Big Talk"
(1989)

Background

"Heaven" took Warrant's record company by surprise. Indeed, once the widespread appeal of the song became apparent, the band were instructed to re-record the track to lend it a "bigger radio sound". The first 250,000 copies of the record featured the original version while later pressings featured a new version.[5] The song had previously been recorded by Jani Lane and Steven Sweet's old band Plain Jane.

Music video

The music video starred Scottish model Tracy Allan. It was filmed during a live concert at Sandstone Amphitheater in Kansas City, Kansas and at other locations around the Kansas City Metro area as well as New York City.

Chart positions

References
  1. "Warrant - Heaven (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
  2. Bowar, Chad. "Best 20 Hair Metal Ballads of the '80s and '90s". LiveAbout. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  3. "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads".
  4. "Warrant - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles". Allmusic (Macrovision Corporation). Retrieved December 6, 2009.
  5. Biography at Rock Detector.com Archived December 1, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  6. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  7. "Canadian peak". Archived from the original on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2015-02-24.
  8. "Norwegiancharts.com – Warrant – Heaven". VG-lista.
  9. "Top 40/Rock: September 30, 1989" (PDF). Billboard. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  10. "Top Singles - Volume 51, No. 8, December 23, 1989". RPM. December 23, 1999. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
  11. "1989 The Year in Music: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 101 (51): Y-22. December 23, 1989.
  12. "Billboard Top 100 – 1989".
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