God Is a DJ (Faithless song)

"God Is a DJ"
"God Is a DJ"
	UK and European cover
Single by Faithless
from the album Sunday 8PM
Released	24 August 1998
Genre	Trance
Length	8:01
Label	Cheeky; Arista;
Songwriter(s)	Rollo Armstrong; Maxwell Fraser; Ayalah Deborah Bentovim; Jamie Catto;
Producer(s)	Rollo; Sister Bliss;
Faithless singles chronology
Alternative cover
	12-inch cover
Audio sample
	"God Is a DJ" excerpt file; help;
Music video
	"God Is a DJ" on YouTube

"God Is a DJ" is a song by British group Faithless, written by Maxi Jazz, Rollo, Sister Bliss, and Jamie Catto. It was released on 24 August 1998 as the lead single from their second studio album, Sunday 8PM (1998). The single reached number six in the United Kingdom and also reached number one on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in September 1998. The title and core lyric originated from words on a T-shirt worn to rehearsal by the band guitarist Dave Randall.^[1]

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. After Maxi Jazz died in December 2022, the song charted at number 40 on the UK Singles Downloads Chart.

^ The story behind "Faithless - God Is A DJ" by Maxi Jazz | Muzikxpress 039, retrieved 26 December 2022
^ Billboard, 23 January 1999, Vol. 111 Issue 4, p34, Accessed through EBBSCO Publishing, 20 May 1999

[1] The story behind "Faithless - God Is A DJ" by Maxi Jazz | Muzikxpress 039, retrieved 26 December 2022

[2] Billboard, 23 January 1999, Vol. 111 Issue 4, p34, Accessed through EBBSCO Publishing, 20 May 1999

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