"Heaven Can Wait" is the first single by Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

 featuring Beck

Beck

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 from her album IRM

IRM (album)

-Bonus tracks:-Reception:The album currently has a Metacritic score of 80/100 based on 21 professional reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".-Charts:-Release history:-Sunset Sound EP:...

. It was chosen as the Starbucks

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 iTunes

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 Pick of the Week on March 2, 2010.

Synopsis

The music video for "Heaven Can Wait" was directed by Keith Schofield

Keith Schofield

Keith Schofield is an American director of music video and television commercials based in Los Angeles, California.Schofield received the "Best Rock Video" award at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards, for his direction of Supergrass's "Bad Blood" video...

. Various scenes are featured as Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

 and Beck

Beck

Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...

 sing: a dinosaur in a wig (in a bathtub), a giant rat getting held up at knife point, a man in a SpongeBob

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 costume getting tackled by the police, an astronaut with pancakes for a head, a man racing a flying axe, and another man with half a beard.

Reception

The music video for "Heaven Can Wait" was included on Pitchfork Media

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's Top Music Videos of 2009. It was also placed at #16 on the "Top 20 Best Music Videos of 2009" by SPIN

Spin (magazine)

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Track listing

• UK CD single

1. "Heaven Can Wait" – 2:42
2. "Heaven Can Wait (Chris Taylor
   Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear musician)
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    Of Grizzly Bear Remix)
   Grizzly Bear (band)
   Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...
   
   " – 2:15
3. "Heaven Can Wait (Nosaj Thing
   Nosaj Thing
   Jason Chung, better known as Nosaj Thing, is a Korean American electronic musician based in Los Angeles County, California. He self-released his first EP Views/Octopus in 2006 and released his debut LP, Drift, on Alpha Pup Records on June 9, 2009....
   
    Remix) " – 3:17
4. "Heaven Can Wait (Jackson Escalator Remix)" – 7:05

Awards

Year	Category	Result
Antville Music Video Awards
2009	Best Music Video of the Year
	Best Art Direction

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak Position
Belgian Tip Chart (Flanders)	22
Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia) Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...	34
Japan Hot 100 Singles Japan Hot 100 The Japan Hot 100 is a music singles chart in Japan. It is compiled by Billboard and Hanshin Contents Link ever since February 2008. The chart is updated every Wednesday at billboard-japan.com and every Thursday at billboard.com ....	61