George Michael: Faith (1987) watch online HD

The song was featured in the film Bitter Moon, directed by Roman Polanski.

It reached number one in the United States according to Billboard magazine.

"Faith" was the top-selling single of the year in the United States in 1988.

The song incorporates the famous Bo Diddley beat, a classic rock and roll rhythm.

The music video also features parts of two other songs by Michael. The jukebox starts by playing "I Want Your Sex", and then is interrupted by a pipe organ version of Wham!'s "Freedom" before starting into the song.

The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two on the UK Singles Chart.

Altogether, "Faith" lingered in the top 10 for nine weeks, the top 20 for 11 weeks and the top 40 for 15 weeks.

American nu metal group Limp Bizkit covered the song "Faith" in their live performances, using the cover to attract attention to the band.

Austrian Singles Chart peak position 4, 1987.

On the Hot 100 chart, "Faith" rocketed from number 54 to number 37, the week of 31 October 1987, reaching number one on 12 December 1987 and remaining there for four consecutive weeks, easily becoming the longest-running chart-topper of 1987.

Canadian The Record Singles Chart ranked 1, 1987.

Dutch Singles Chart reached #1, 1987.

Australia (ARIA) 2× Platinum Certification - 140,000 sales.

Canada (Music Canada) Gold Certification - 50,000 sales.

Canadian RPM Top Singles peak position 1, 1987.

Alvin and the Chipmunks covered this song as the opening track to their 1988 album The Chipmunks and The Chipettes: Born to Rock. In this version, they changed the lyric "If I could touch your body" to "If you could be my baby".

French Singles Chart ranked 22, 1987.

The Russian pop duo Smash!! produced a cover of this song on its 2004 album 2Nite and was later released as a single.

German Singles Chart reached # 5, 1987.

Irish Singles Chart ranked 2, 1987.

Netherlands (NVPI) Gold Certification - 75,000 sales.

Peter Berg directed a music video featuring a bizarre wedding monologue for the song in promotion for its appearance in his film Very Bad Things, but Fred Durst was unsatisfied with it and directed a second video which paid tribute to tour-mates like Primus, Deftones and Mötley Crüe, who appeared in the video.

Italian Singles Chart peak position 1, 1987.

United States (RIAA) Gold Certification - 500,000 sales.

The British musical comedy film Walking on Sunshine covered the song.

Japanese Oricon Singles Chart reached #86, 1987.

Joel McHale's character Jeff Winger sang a different version of this song on the episode "Intro to Political Science" on the NBC sitcom Community.

New Zealand Singles Chart ranked 1, 1987.

John Mayer and Keith Urban sang this song on CMT Crossroads.

The Tamil language song "Mundhinam Paarthene" from the Indian film Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) uses the same background music as "Faith".

Norwegian Singles Chart reached #3, 1987.

Spanish Singles Chart ranked 3, 1987.

US Billboard Adult Contemporary peak position 5, 1987.

US Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs ranked 17, 1987.

Swedish Singles Chart peak position 9, 1987.

UK Singles Chart peak position 2, 1987.

Swiss Singles Chart reached #4, 1987.

"I love George Michael and decided to cover 'Faith' for fun. We like to do really aggressive versions of cheesy pop hits," lead singer Fred Durst told Billboard.

Billboard Hot 100 Year-End number-one single, 1988.

The song begins with organ played by Chris Cameron, referencing Wham's song "Freedom", followed by guitar strumming, finger clicking, hand-claps, tambourine and hi-hat.