Heaven (Ayumi Hamasaki song)

Infobox Single
Name = Heaven


Artist = Ayumi Hamasaki
from Album = (miss)understood
B-side = Will
Released = September 14, 2005
Format = ^JPN CD Single
^USA Digital Single [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=73951471]
Recorded =
Genre = J-pop
Length = 27:35
Label = Avex Trax
Writer = Ayumi Hamasaki
Producer =
Chart position =

• #1 (JP)

Last single = "fairyland"
(2005)
This single = "Heaven"
(2005)
Next single = "Bold & Delicious/Pride"
(2005)
Misc = Extra album cover
Upper caption = CD + DVD
Type = Single

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Lower caption = CD + DVD cover "Heaven" is the thirty-seventh single released by Ayumi Hamasaki, released on September 14, 2005. "Heaven" ended up selling over 325,000 copies, making it Hamasaki's second highest-selling single of 2005 as well as her last single to date that has sold over 300,000 physical copies. "Heaven" was used as the theme of the Japanese film "Shinobi Heart Under Blade", while "Will" was used in a television commercial for Panasonic. [cite web | url=http://www.sponichi.co.jp/osaka/ente/200508/24/ente184608.html | title=浜崎あゆみ"舞妓姿"!! デジカメ新作CM完成 | date=2005-08-24 | accessdate=2008-03-13 | language=Japanese] "HEAVEN" has been downloaded over 1,580,000 times to date.

Track listing

;CD
# "Heaven" – 4:18
# "Will" – 4:07
# "alterna" (orchestra version)
# "Heaven" (piano version) – 4:18
# "Heaven" (instrumental) – 4:18
# "Will" (instrumental) – 4:07

;DVD
# "Heaven" (PV)
# "Heaven" (photo gallery)
# "Heaven" (TV-CM)

Live performances

* September 9, 2005 – Music Station
* September 16, 2005 – Music Station
* September 16, 2005 – Music Fighter
* September 17, 2005 – CDTV
* September 23, 2005 – PopJam
* October 07, 2005 – Music Station
* December 23, 2005 – Music Station Super Live – "Heaven" and "Bold & Delicious"

Chart performance

On the first day it reached the number-two position on the Oricon chart; the second day it was at number three. It reached stayed at the top position for the rest of the week, however. At the end of the week, the physical sales of "Heaven" was over 169,000 units, topping the weekly Oricon chart. Overall, it lasted for forty-six days in the top twenty of the Oricon daily charts over a forty-nine day period; forty-two of them being consecutive.

;Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

* Total Sales : 327,111 (Japan)

References

External links

* [http://avexnet.jp/item/hamas/disc/product/AVCD-30843.html "Heaven"] information at Avex Network.
* [http://avexnet.jp/item/hamas/disc/product/AVCD-30842.html "Heaven"] information at Avex Network.
* [http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/616612/1/ "Heaven"] information at Oricon.