Chart Performance
"I Want Your Sex" became George Michael's second post-Wham! hit single around the world after the song "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", his duet with Aretha Franklin from earlier that same year.
Despite censorship and airplay issues, a censored version of the song's music video received ample airplay on North American music channels, fueling its popularity there. The single eventually reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the week of August 8, 1987, behind "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2. Moreover, the single remained in the Top 10 for six weeks and the Top 40 for a total of 14 weeks, becoming one of the most popular dance-pop singles of the summer of 1987. It also climbed to #2 in Canada, where it ended up becoming the 13th most popular single of the year.
The song charted up to #3 in Britain, where the song's reprise maintained an audience for many years thanks to BBC Radio 1 breakfast show host Simon Mayo using a looped version as backing music for his daily feature On This Day in History.
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