place as purveyor of whiteboy R&B to a middle-class audience." Hans-Petter Kjøge from Norwegian newspaper Fredrikstad Blad described it as "quality pop of the best brand." Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Tidningen said it is "nicely funky". A reviewer from Music & Media called it a "uncomplicated, good-time funky dance track in which the repetition of the title has a lasting effect." They also commented that the production and atmosphere is "owing much to late-'70s disco grooves". Music Week rated it five out of five, adding that "it's got all the right ingredients for Top 10 success — Michael's crooning vocals over an uptempo dancey beat. Radio play is already substantial." Victoria Segal from NME noted "the thrill-stalking emptiness" of the song. Writing about the album for Rolling Stone, Al Weisel called it a "bouncy disco concoction", that is "flavored with Dr. Dre-style whistling synths." Michael E. Ross from Salon Magazine said that Michael "gets back to bold, bumptious funk, the singer clearly reveling in those buoyant rhythms of the not-too-distant past." In 2014, Brendon Veevers from British webzine Renowned for Sound ranked the song at number 4 on his "Top 10 George Michael Hits" list, stating: "[The song] is a slick, ultra-modern dance-pop track that sits quite contrasting to the rest of the Older tracks but has held up exceptionally well over the past almost-20 years since it was offered to us." In 2017, Dave Fawbert of ShortList Magazine called Fastlove "one of the greatest songs ever made", noting that, at a time when Britpop was at its height "George Michael decided to completely ignore it and release a truly slinky R&B/soul number which announced, with the utmost style, that he would be just as relevant in the '90s as he had been in the '80s." He was also full of praise for Fastlove Part II, although criticized the "Summer Mix" of the song as lacking "the fruity bass of the original". Fawbert later produced a half-hour version of Fastlove as a homage. This song was featured in and a part of the soundtrack for the 2019 film Last Christmas. Chart performance The song reached the number one spot in United Kingdom, where it stayed for three weeks. It also reached number one in Australia, Hungary, Italy and Spain. "Fastlove" later became Michael's seventh-most downloaded track in the United Kingdom, according to Official Charts Company in 2014. In the United States, "Fastlove"