From the album Go West Young Man (Reunion Records, 1990)
With the possible exception of Amy Grant, no other Christian artist has had more success than Michael W. Smith. He has won an American Music Award, three Grammy Awards, and earned 40 Dove Awards. Over the course of his career, he has sold more than 13 million albums and recorded 29 No. 1 Hit songs, fourteen gold albums, and five platinum albums. He has also published 12 books. And if all that is not enough he was also once named one of People Magazine's "Most Beautiful People!"
After five successful Christian albums, Reunion Records signed a distribution deal with Geffen and released Go West Young Man. Smith scored the biggest hit of his career with Place in This World, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1991. The song spurred sales of 1,000,000 copies earning him a platinum record. Smith talks about his experience writing the song: "I was in my basement in my house, and when I wrote it, I just thought, 'This sounds like a pop hit,' Michael recalls. "I got chills and the whole deal."
Here is the original studio released music video for the song.
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