On 13 November, it was announced that "Meet Me Halfway" was outselling its nearest competition, " Happy" by Leona Lewis, and was on course to reach number one. In its fifth week on the chart (November 8, 2009) it climbed to #3, being the highest non- X Factor related song on the chart, and one of only two songs in the top five non-related to The X Factor, along with Jay Sean's " Down", although The Black Eyed Peas performed "Meet Me Halfway" on the X Factor results show on the same night, leading to significant exposure. In the United Kingdom, "Meet Me Halfway" entered the UK Singles Chart on October 11, 2009, at #67. It topped the ARIA charts, becoming their third consecutive number 1 single from The E.N.D. The three songs successively overlapped in the Top 10, giving the group 30 consecutive weeks with a Top 10 hit.
the band's first album to contain three Hot 100 top ten hits.
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #75 for the week ending Octoand peaked at #7 in its sixth week (November 7), becoming the third consecutive top ten hit from the album. instead of Fergie's The Dutchess." Entertainment Weekly also gave a positive review: "When the group's glitchy future-funk beats sync up with Fergie's unabashedly feminine melodies, as on the sweetly insidious Meet Me Halfway, they find pure Top 40 nirvana." Chart performance However, the style of the song fits better in the context of The Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. With the focus clearly on Fergie, this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort. However, she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion. She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range. With this track already climbing the Hot 100, the Peas are proving that their hit parade is far from over." īill Lamb of stated that: "Fergie has the clear lead vocal here. 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. The song received generally positive reviews from music critics. The Black Eyed Peas performed the mix of the song at the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. They performed the song too on the American Music Awards of 2009, along with " Boom Boom Pow".
The single was released the previous week in the UK and reached #1 in the charts.
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Meet Me Halfway was performed live on the week 5 results show of the British TV singing competition The X Factor on 8 November 2009. The song got early airplay on Today Networks' Hot30 Countdown in Australia, and on radio stations across Canada. This song was the final promotional single in the series, the first two, in order of release, were "Imma Be" and "Alive". 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.
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