Heaven (Warrant song)

"Heaven"
Single by Warrant
from the album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich
B-side"In the Sticks"[1]
ReleasedJuly 1989
Recorded1988
GenreGlam metal[2][3]
Length3:57
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Jani Lane
Producer(s)Beau Hill
Warrant singles chronology
"Down Boys"
(1989)
"Heaven"
(1989)
"Big Talk"
(1989)

Heaven is a power ballad[4] by American glam metal band Warrant. It was released in July 1989,[5] as the second single from Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich. The song is Warrant's most commercially successful single, spending two weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, and number three on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[6] The track's commercial success has led it to becoming one of the best known songs by the band.

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  2. ^ Bowar, Chad. "Best 20 Hair Metal Ballads of the '80s and '90s". LiveAbout. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  3. ^ "Every Rose Has Its Thorn: A Tribute to the Syrupy-Sweet Sounds of '80s Hair-Metal Ballads". SPIN. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  4. ^ February 2015, Classic Rock14 (14 February 2015). "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads Playlist". Classic Rock Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 884. ISBN 9780862415419.
  6. ^ "Warrant - Charts & Awards - Billboard Singles". Allmusic (Macrovision Corporation). Retrieved December 6, 2009.