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) Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of three million units. After the advent of the Nielsen SoundScan era in 1991, the album sold a further 575,000 copies. "Like a Prayer" has sold over 4 million copies in the United States. In Canada, the album debuted at number two on the RPM Albums Chart on May 1, 1989. It remained on that position during four weeks, before dropping to the third position the week of May 29, 1989. The album was present for a total of 37 weeks on the chart, and was certified five times