Like a Prayer (song) by "Billboard", "Like a Prayer" was voted the second best music video of the 1980s, behind only "Michael Jackson's Thriller". Scholars and academics have offered different interpretations of the music video and its story line. Allen Metz, one of the authors of "The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of Commentary", noted that when Madonna enters the church at the beginning of the clip, the line "I hear you call my name, And it feels like... Home" is played. The women of Italian East Harlem in New York call their Church as "la casa di momma" (Momma's House). In that respect, Metz
Like a Prayer (album) on it. On July, 1989, it was certified Platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipments of 300,000 copies, and once again on 2001, for shipments of 600,000 copies. In the Netherlands, "Like a Prayer" entered the MegaCharts at number four during the week of April 4, 1990. It eventually reached the top position, staying a total of thirty-two weeks on the chart. In Germany, "Like a Prayer" topped the Media Control albums chart for one month, and was later certified there times gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI) for having shipped over 750,000 copies. The album