Commercial Release and Chart Performance
The radio mix of the song is shorter than the album version and video edit, and it contains added strings and beats. There is a Spanish version of the song titled "En las Manos de Dios" on the limited summer edition of Loose.
The CD single for "In God's Hands" was released in Australia on 12 October 2007. For a limited time, it was available only in the Australian store JB Hi-Fi, before being released on its online store. In Canada, the single was released to radio and video stations in December 2007. It was the sixth single released from the album in Canada. Including the Latin America-only singles "Te Busqué" and "No Hay Igual", "In God's Hands" was the album's eighth single.
In the Netherlands, the single was to be released on 14 December 2007 as the seventh single from Loose. "In God's Hands" was Furtado's seventh consecutive single to be chosen by the country's most popular radio station.
There is also a newly recorded duet version with Country Superstar Keith Urban it was most added at U.S. Adult Contemporary radio with 10 adds the airplay chart week dated 4 April 2008. This version was released on April 15 for download on iTunes in Canada and the United States, reaching the seventh position on Canadian iTunes in just its first day and on its second day it reached number three. This version of the song first charted on the Canadian Hot 100 at number eleven, the "Hot Shot" of the week. This song has become Keith Urban's highest charting song on the Canadian Hot 100.
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