Meet Me Halfway
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| Single by The Black Eyed Peas | |||||||||
| from the album The E.N.D | |||||||||
| Released | September 23, 2009 | ||||||||
| Format | CD single, digital download | ||||||||
| Recorded | 2008–2009 | ||||||||
| Genre | Dance-pop | ||||||||
| Length | 4:44 (album) 3:45 (radio edit) |
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| Label | Interscope | ||||||||
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"Meet Me Halfway" is the third single from the Black Eyed Peas’ fifth studio album The E.N.D. The song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, "Meet Me Halfway" topped the charts in Australia, Germany, Romania and the United Kingdom. In the latter country, "Meet Me Halfway" became the tenth biggest-selling single of 2009. It is a dance-pop song in the key of D Major.
The song was released as a promotional single, as part of the "Countdown to The E.N.D." where 3 album tracks were released once each week until the release of the album. This song was the final promotional single in the series, the first two, in order of release, were "Imma Be" and "Alive". The song got early airplay on Today Networks' Hot30 Countdown in Australia, and on radio stations across Canada.Fergie told the Daily Mail that when she was recording her vocals for "Meet Me Halfway", she "transported herself back to 1985, when she was 10 and saw Madonna in concert for the first time on The Virgin Tour. She took on Madonna's persona in that song as homage."
Meet Me Halfway was performed live on the week 5 results show of the British TV singing competition The X Factor on the 8th November 2009. The single was released the previous week in the UK and reached #1 in the charts. They performed the song too on the American Music Awards of 2009, along with "Boom Boom Pow". The Black Eyed Peas performed the mix of the song at the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.
The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. Prefix magazine stated, "Meet Me Halfway is notable mostly for being better than a 'new-wavey' ballad by The Black Eyed Peas has any right to be."Billboard wrote "Fergie elongates each note for a sensual vocal and offers a nice complement to co-producer Will.i.am, who handles the majority of the rhymes over funk guitar, hand claps and distorted pulses. With this track already climbing the Hot 100, the Peas are proving that their hit parade is far from over."
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