Like a Prayer (song) her biography of Madonna that "the song is a mix of the sacred and the profane. There-in lies Madonna's triumph with 'Like a Prayer'. It still sounds catchy and danceable." From the academic world, positive reviews came from Michael Campbell, author of "Popular Music in America: And the Beat Goes On", who felt that the soothing melody of the track resembles British singer Steve Winwood's 1986 single "Higher Love". The author noted the song for merging disparate and contradictory musical features in it. He found that the simple melody of "Like a Prayer" offered an easy listen, but the contrasts
Like a Prayer (song) also included on the soundtrack EP, "". The cover version reached number 28 in Australia, number 27 in Canada, number two in Ireland, and number 16 in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the song reached number 27 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, while debuting and peaking on the Hot Digital Songs chart at number ten, with sales of 87,000 copies. DJs Meck and Dino created a mashup of the former's 2007 single, "Feels Like Home", with "Like a Prayer" and released it with the name as "Feels Like a Prayer". The song reached the top ten in Belgium