Oh Baby Heaven Is a Place on Earth Lyrics
"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" | ||||
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Single by Belinda Carlisle | ||||
from the album Sky on Earth | ||||
B-side | "We Can Change" | |||
Released | September 14, 1987[1] | |||
Studio | Ocean Manner (Hollywood) | |||
Genre | Power pop[2] | |||
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Label | MCA | |||
Songwriter(s) |
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Producer(s) | Rick Nowels | |||
Belinda Carlisle singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Sky Is a Place on World" on YouTube | ||||
"Heaven Is a Place on Globe" is a song by American singer Belinda Carlisle from her 2nd studio album, Heaven on Earth (1987). Written by Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley, the song was released as the lead single from the Sky on World album on September 14, 1987, and it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on Dec 5, 1987, becoming Carlisle's only US chart-topper to date. A calendar month subsequently it peaked at number one in the U.k., where information technology held the peak spot of the Uk Singles Chart for 2 weeks. It is considered to be Carlisle's signature song.
The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for All-time Female person Pop Song Performance in 1988, but lost out to Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Trip the light fantastic with Somebody (Who Loves Me)". In 2017, ShortList's Dave Fawbert listed the song as containing "ane of the greatest cardinal changes in music history".[three]
In 2015, Carlisle re-recorded the song as an acoustic ballad. This version appeared on her album Wilder Shores (2017), which combines acoustic tracks with world beats and traditional Sikh chants.
Composition [edit]
The song is performed in the key of Due east major, with a tempo of 123 beats per infinitesimal in common time. Carlisle'due south vocals bridge from E3 to D ♯ 5. In the final chorus of the song, the key shifts upward a tone to F ♯ major.[four] [5]
Production [edit]
Carlisle'southward backup vocalists on the song include songwriters Nowels and Shipley too every bit Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas and songwriter Diane Warren. It also features Thomas Dolby on synthesizers.
Chart performance [edit]
"Sky Is a Identify on World" reached number 1 on the U.s.a. Billboard Hot 100 and number seven on the Adult Contemporary nautical chart. It was as well a number-one hit in the United Kingdom, topping the UK Singles Nautical chart for two weeks.
The single too reached number one in many other countries, among them Switzerland, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Southward Africa and Kingdom of norway. It also reached number 3 in Germany and Canada, number two in Australia, and number six in Italy. It reached Gold condition in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Music video [edit]
The promotional music video for the song was directed by actress Diane Keaton and includes an advent by Carlisle's married man Morgan Mason. It features children wearing blackness masks and capes, and belongings illuminated plastic globes. Carlisle appears wearing a strapless clothes and after changes to a blackness off-the-shoulder blouse. The video was partially filmed at Six Flags Magic Mount theme park in Valencia, California (now Santa Clarita, California), on the at present-defunct Spin Out ride.
Runway listing [edit]
- "Heaven Is a Identify on World" – 4:06
- "Nosotros Can Change" – 3:45
- "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" (The Heavenly version) – 5:59
- "Heaven Is a Identify on Earth" (a cappella version) – iii:49
Charts [edit]
Certifications [edit]
Run across also [edit]
- Listing of Billboard number-i singles
- List of number-one singles and albums in Sweden
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External links [edit]
- Belinda Carlisle - A Place On World.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Is_a_Place_on_Earth
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