"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]
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 videoedit
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.
Remixesedit
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]
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^"Avicii – Heaven" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
^"Avicii – Heaven" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
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^"Avicii – Heaven" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
^"Avicii – Heaven" (in French). Ultratop Dance. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
^"Avicii Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
^"Croatia ARC TOP 100". HRT. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Change the chart to CZ – SINGLES DIGITAL – TOP 100 and insert 201924 into search. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^"Avicii – Heaven". Tracklisten. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
^"Euro Digital Song Sales - June 22, 2019". Billboard. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^"Avicii: Heaven" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
^"Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Radio Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201946 into search. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
^"ČNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: Select SINGLES DIGITAL - TOP 100 and insert 201924 into search. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
^"SloTop50 – Slovenian official singles chart". slotop50.si. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2019.