| "God Is a DJ" | ||||||||||||
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UK / European Cover |
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| Single by Faithless | ||||||||||||
| from the album Sunday 8PM | ||||||||||||
| Released | 24 August 1998 | |||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||
| Genre | Trance music House music |
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| Length | 08:01 | |||||||||||
| Label | Cheeky Records/BMG | |||||||||||
| Producer | Rollo, Sister Bliss | |||||||||||
| Faithless singles chronology | ||||||||||||
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"God Is a DJ" is the title of a progressive trance and dance song by British group Faithless. It was released in August 1998 as the lead single from their album, Sunday 8PM. The single reached number six in the United Kingdom and also reached number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for one week in September 1998.[1]
The song was written by Maxi Jazz, Rollo, Sister Bliss and Jamie Catto. Faithless won a BRIT Award for Best British Act in 1999 for their work on the song and other tracks on Sunday 8PM. Billboard claimed in an article in early 1999 that many people involved with dance music thought that "God Is a DJ" should have been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording of 1998.[2]
The song re-entered the UK chart in 2005 following the release of Forever Faithless and reached number 66.
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| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
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| Australian Singles Chart[3] | 37 |
| Austrian Singles Chart[3] | 9 |
| Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart[3] | 4 |
| Belgian (Wallonia) Singles Chart[3] | 5 |
| Canadian RPM Dance Chart[4] | 1 |
| Dutch Singles Chart[3] | 3 |
| Finnish Singles Chart[3] | 6 |
| French Singles Chart[3] | 43 |
| German Singles Chart | 2 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 11 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart[3] | 10 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart[3] | 4 |
| Swedish Singles Chart[3] | 20 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[3] | 2 |
| UK Singles Chart | 6 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play | 1 |
| Preceded by "Top of the World" by Brandy |
Canadian RPM Dance number-one single October 12, 1998 - October 19, 1998 (2 weeks) |
Succeeded by "If You Could Read My Mind" by Stars on 54 |
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