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Faith (George Michael album)
''Faith'' is the debut solo album by the British singer-songwriter George Michael, released in October 1987 by Columbia Records and Epic Records. The album has won several awards including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989. To date, the album has sold over 25 million copies worldwide, and received diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.
''Faith'' spawned six top five singles that substantially helped it dominate the chart of 1988. In 2003, the album was ranked number 480 on ''Rolling Stones "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2012, the album ranked at #472 on an updated list by the magazine. The album was also notable for entering the R&B albums chart at number one making it the first album by a Caucasian artist to hit the top spot on that chart, mainly due to the R&B/funk-leaning singles that were released from the album, most notably "One More Try", "I Want Your Sex", and "Father Figure".
==Background==
By 1986, George Michael had spent five years as the lead singer of the popular duo Wham! and had grown tired of accusations that the group, which featured best friend Andrew Ridgeley, was nothing more than a teenybopper group despite the serious subject matter that was included on albums such as ''Fantastic'' and ''Make It Big''. After the success of ''Make It Big'' and its subsequent follow-up, ''Music from the Edge of Heaven'', Michael had grown weary of continuing the group and expressed the desire to split up the group to Ridgeley. A decision was made that the group would split following the end of a tenure at Wembley Stadium for what was titled ''Wham: The Final''. Following the split, Michael began to work on songs that eventually would make his first solo project, which would be titled ''Faith''.
Throughout the promotion of ''Music from the Edge of Heaven'', Michael had recorded songs without Ridgeley. One song, in particular, "A Different Corner", was released as a George Michael solo track rather than with Wham!, as had a previous single, "Careless Whisper", which was Michael's first solo single (it was billed as Wham! featuring George Michael in America), in 1984. Following the group's split, Michael performed "A Different Corner" on his own. Michael also worked as a collaborator on other musicians' projects, including Elton John, singing background for Elton's 1985 hit, "Nikita". While recording his first solo album, Michael was asked by producer Narada Michael Walden to contribute duet vocals for Aretha Franklin's single, "I Knew You Were Waiting for Me". The song was released as a single on Franklin's ''Aretha'', and entered number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in early 1987 giving Michael confidence that he could have a career of his own without Wham!.
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