The single was released in the United States in 1991, debuting at number eighty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 in mid-June; it peaked at number seven in late August and remained on the chart for nineteen weeks, until October. It reached the top five on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and the top twenty on the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart. It was the most commercially successful single from Seal and was Seal's biggest hit in the U.S. until \"Kiss from a Rose\", which reached #1 in 1995. In August 2003 an acoustic version of \"Crazy\" charted at number 4 on Billboard's Hot Digital Tracks chart.