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Meet Me Halfway

February 17, 2023

This article is about the song by The Black Eyed Peas. For the similarly-titled song by Kenny Loggins, see Meet Me Half Way.

"Meet Me Halfway" is the third single from the Black Eyed Peas' fifth studio album, The E.N.D.[1] It is a dance-pop song that combines futuristic electro hop beats with vintage 1980s pop stylings. Released in September 2009, the song peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts of Australia, Germany, Romania, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. In the latter country, "Meet Me Halfway" became the 10th-biggest-selling single of 2009.

"Meet Me Halfway"
Single by The Black Eyed Peas
from the album The E.N.D
ReleasedSeptember 22, 2009
Genre
Length
  • 4:44 (album)
  • 3:45 (radio edit)
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
The Black Eyed Peas singles chronology
"I Gotta Feeling"
(2009) 		"Meet Me Halfway"
(2009) 		"Imma Be"
(2010)
Audio sample
Music video
"Meet Me Halfway" on YouTube

Background

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,[2] and on radio stations across Canada.[3]

Promotion

Meet Me Halfway was performed live on the week 5 results show of the British TV singing competition The X Factor on November 8, 2009. The single was released the previous week in the UK.[4] They performed the song on the American Music Awards of 2009, along with "Boom Boom Pow".[5] The Black Eyed Peas performed the mix of the song at the 2009 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

Critical reception

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."[6] 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."[7]

Bill Lamb of About.com stated that: "Fergie has the clear lead vocal here. She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range. However, she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion. "Meet Me Halfway" is no exception. With the focus clearly on Fergie, this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort. However, the style of the song fits better in the context of The Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D. instead of Fergie's The Dutchess."[8] 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."[9]

Chart performance

The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 75 for the week ending October 3, 2009, and peaked at number seven during its sixth week (November 7), becoming the third consecutive top ten hit from the album.[10] It makes The E.N.D. the band's first album to contain three Hot 100 top ten hits. The three songs successively overlapped in the Top 10, giving the group 30 consecutive weeks with a Top 10 hit. It topped the ARIA charts, becoming their third consecutive number 1 single from The E.N.D.

In the United Kingdom, "Meet Me Halfway" entered the UK Singles Chart on October 11, 2009, at number 67. In its fifth week on the chart (November 8, 2009) it climbed to number three, 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. On November 13, it was announced that "Meet Me Halfway" was outselling its nearest competition, "Happy" by Leona Lewis, and was on course to reach number one.[11] It became The E.N.D.'s third consecutive number one single in Britain, and the band's fourth overall, on November 15, 2009, achieving the same success as in Australia. As of Sunday December 27, "Meet Me Halfway" has sold 517,178 copies in Britain, making it the 13th best selling single of 2009. On December 20, "Meet Me Halfway" fell to number 10 after eight consecutive weeks but rose to number six the following week. As on January 3, 2010, it rose again to number three.

On the New Zealand Top 40, the song peaked at number three, making it their third consecutive top three hit from the album. It was certified Gold after 10 weeks on the chart, selling over 7,500 copies.[12] The song entered the Irish Singles Chart on October 15, 2009, at number 27, it has so far peaked at number 2 for five consecutive weeks, fended off by Cheryl Cole's "Fight For This Love", the X Factor finalists' cover of "You Are Not Alone" and finally Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". The song also reached number one on the German Single Charts, making it their third chart topper since almost 5 years (last two were "Where Is the Love?" and "Shut Up" – both in 2003).

Music video

 
Fergie is shown in a luxuriant forest

The music video was confirmed by will.i.am to be directed by Ben Mor (director of "I Gotta Feeling"). "This is a very different type of video ... 'Boom Boom Pow' was very futuristic and 'I Gotta Feeling' had a party vibe, but this is more artistic video. It's very arty."[13] The video premiered on October 12, 2009.[14] It was released onto the iTunes Music store on October 13, 2009.

The video features the members in different parts of the Solar System.[15] The video opens on a road in the middle of a desert panning up to the cosmic sky which shifts to scenes of each of the members singing in different locations of space: Fergie lies in the middle of a lush, green jungle, apl.de.ap levitates on a desert planet in nomadic clothing, will.i.am rides an elephant on a moon of Jupiter and Taboo glides around the Sun in a spacesuit. Apl takes out a map and will.i.am uses a compass to search for a path to the other members. After a while, will.i.am finds a dial that reveals gateways for each of the members to go through. All the members use a stargate and turn into shooting stars, and land on the planet (presumably Earth because it is a mix of all the different places were the singers are and is a halfway of all the locations in the video), with the road in the middle of the desert. This is the first video of the album that does not end with the phrase "The E.N.D."

Covers

In May 2010, two members of the British hip-hop trio, N-Dubz performed an acoustic mash-up of the song with "Down" by Jay Sean at Live Lounge with singer Ny, as the third member Tulisa was ill, the full trio later performed the acoustic mash-up at Isle of Wight Festival and later on their Love.Live.Life Tour. In June 2010, metalcore band Haste the Day released a cover of the song on the special edition of their final studio album, Attack of the Wolf King. In 2012, a cover of "Meet Me Halfway" featured on The Futureheads a capella album Rant.

Track listing

UK CD Single (2721563)

No.TitleLength
1."Meet Me Halfway" (Radio Edit)3:44
2."I Gotta Feeling" (David Guetta's FMIF Remix)6:13
Total length:7:50

Digital Download E.P.

No.TitleLength
1."Meet Me Halfway" (DJ Ammo & A Poet Named Life Remix)5:25
2."Meet Me Halfway" (will.i.am Meet Me At The Remix)5:49
3."Meet Me Halfway" (will.i.am In 3D Remix)5:40
4."Meet Me Halfway" (Printz Board Remix for Beets & Produce, Inc.)5:21
5."Meet Me Halfway" (Richard Vission Solmatic Remix)5:30
Total length:27:45

Credits and personnel

Source adapted from Discogs.[16]

  • Bass [Synth Bass] - Printz Board
  • Guitar [Guitars By] - George Pajon, Tim "Izo" Orindgreff
  • Keyboards [Keys], Synthesizer [Synths], Bass Guitar, Drum Programming - Keith Harris
  • Written-By - William Adams, Allan Pineda, Jaime Gomez, Stacy Ferguson, Jean Baptiste, Keith Harris, Sylvia Gordon
  • Vocals - will.i.am, Fergie, Taboo, apl.de.ap
  • Recorded at: Metropolis Studios in London, UK
  • Management: David Sonenberg and William Derella for DAS Communications, Ltd. and Polo Molina for Grass Roots Productions, Inc

Charts

Certifications

Certifications and sales for "Meet Me Halfway"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[88] 3× Platinum 210,000^
Belgium (BEA)[89] 2× Platinum 60,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[90] 2× Platinum 160,000*
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[91] Gold 15,000^
France (SNEP)[92] Platinum 250,000*
Germany (BVMI)[93] Platinum 300,000 
Italy (FIMI)[94] Platinum 20,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ)[95] Platinum 15,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[96] Platinum 40,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[97] Gold 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[99] 2× Platinum 866,000[98]
United States (RIAA)[100] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
  Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release dates and formats for "I Gotta Feeling"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States September 22, 2009 Contemporary hit radio Interscope
[101]
Australia October 2, 2009 CD Universal Music
[102]
United Kingdom November 2, 2009 Polydor
[103][104]
United States November 17, 2009 Digital download (EP) Interscope
[105]
Germany November 20, 2009 CD Universal Music
[106]
France November 23, 2009 Polydor
[107]

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February 17, 2023
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This article is about the song by The Black Eyed Peas For the similarly titled song by Kenny Loggins see Meet Me Half Way Meet Me Halfway is the third single from the Black Eyed Peas fifth studio album The E N D 1 It is a dance pop song that combines futuristic electro hop beats with vintage 1980s pop stylings Released in September 2009 the song peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the charts of Australia Germany Romania Mexico and the United Kingdom In the latter country Meet Me Halfway became the 10th biggest selling single of 2009 Meet Me Halfway Single by The Black Eyed Peasfrom the album The E N DReleasedSeptember 22 2009GenreDance poppop rapLength4 44 album 3 45 radio edit LabelInterscopeSongwriter s William Adams Jean Baptiste Stacy Ferguson Jaime Gomez Sylvia Gordon Keith Harris Allan LindoProducer s will i am Keith HarrisThe Black Eyed Peas singles chronology I Gotta Feeling 2009 Meet Me Halfway 2009 Imma Be 2010 Audio sample source source filehelpMusic video Meet Me Halfway on YouTube Contents 1 Background 2 Promotion 3 Critical reception 4 Chart performance 5 Music video 6 Covers 7 Track listing 8 Credits and personnel 9 Charts 9 1 Weekly charts 9 2 Year end charts 9 3 Decade end charts 10 Certifications 11 Release history 12 See also 13 ReferencesBackground EditThe 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 2 and on radio stations across Canada 3 Promotion EditMeet Me Halfway was performed live on the week 5 results show of the British TV singing competition The X Factor on November 8 2009 The single was released the previous week in the UK 4 They performed the song on the American Music Awards of 2009 along with Boom Boom Pow 5 The Black Eyed Peas performed the mix of the song at the 2009 Victoria s Secret Fashion Show Critical reception EditThe 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 6 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 7 Bill Lamb of About com stated that Fergie has the clear lead vocal here She will never blow someone away with a bombastic voice or an otherworldly vocal range However she has an almost tearful edge to her voice that makes nearly any of her performances sound soaked with emotion Meet Me Halfway is no exception With the focus clearly on Fergie this could in some ways be seen as a solo effort However the style of the song fits better in the context of The Black Eyed Peas album The E N D instead of Fergie s The Dutchess 8 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 9 Chart performance EditThe song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 75 for the week ending October 3 2009 and peaked at number seven during its sixth week November 7 becoming the third consecutive top ten hit from the album 10 It makes The E N D the band s first album to contain three Hot 100 top ten hits The three songs successively overlapped in the Top 10 giving the group 30 consecutive weeks with a Top 10 hit It topped the ARIA charts becoming their third consecutive number 1 single from The E N D In the United Kingdom Meet Me Halfway entered the UK Singles Chart on October 11 2009 at number 67 In its fifth week on the chart November 8 2009 it climbed to number three 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 On November 13 it was announced that Meet Me Halfway was outselling its nearest competition Happy by Leona Lewis and was on course to reach number one 11 It became The E N D s third consecutive number one single in Britain and the band s fourth overall on November 15 2009 achieving the same success as in Australia As of Sunday December 27 Meet Me Halfway has sold 517 178 copies in Britain making it the 13th best selling single of 2009 On December 20 Meet Me Halfway fell to number 10 after eight consecutive weeks but rose to number six the following week As on January 3 2010 it rose again to number three On the New Zealand Top 40 the song peaked at number three making it their third consecutive top three hit from the album It was certified Gold after 10 weeks on the chart selling over 7 500 copies 12 The song entered the Irish Singles Chart on October 15 2009 at number 27 it has so far peaked at number 2 for five consecutive weeks fended off by Cheryl Cole s Fight For This Love the X Factor finalists cover of You Are Not Alone and finally Lady Gaga s Bad Romance The song also reached number one on the German Single Charts making it their third chart topper since almost 5 years last two were Where Is the Love and Shut Up both in 2003 Music video Edit Fergie is shown in a luxuriant forest The music video was confirmed by will i am to be directed by Ben Mor director of I Gotta Feeling This is a very different type of video Boom Boom Pow was very futuristic and I Gotta Feeling had a party vibe but this is more artistic video It s very arty 13 The video premiered on October 12 2009 14 It was released onto the iTunes Music store on October 13 2009 The video features the members in different parts of the Solar System 15 The video opens on a road in the middle of a desert panning up to the cosmic sky which shifts to scenes of each of the members singing in different locations of space Fergie lies in the middle of a lush green jungle apl de ap levitates on a desert planet in nomadic clothing will i am rides an elephant on a moon of Jupiter and Taboo glides around the Sun in a spacesuit Apl takes out a map and will i am uses a compass to search for a path to the other members After a while will i am finds a dial that reveals gateways for each of the members to go through All the members use a stargate and turn into shooting stars and land on the planet presumably Earth because it is a mix of all the different places were the singers are and is a halfway of all the locations in the video with the road in the middle of the desert This is the first video of the album that does not end with the phrase The E N D Covers EditIn May 2010 two members of the British hip hop trio N Dubz performed an acoustic mash up of the song with Down by Jay Sean at Live Lounge with singer Ny as the third member Tulisa was ill the full trio later performed the acoustic mash up at Isle of Wight Festival and later on their Love Live Life Tour In June 2010 metalcore band Haste the Day released a cover of the song on the special edition of their final studio album Attack of the Wolf King In 2012 a cover of Meet Me Halfway featured on The Futureheads a capella album Rant Track listing EditUK CD Single 2721563 No TitleLength1 Meet Me Halfway Radio Edit 3 442 I Gotta Feeling David Guetta s FMIF Remix 6 13Total length 7 50 Digital Download E P No TitleLength1 Meet Me Halfway DJ Ammo amp A Poet Named Life Remix 5 252 Meet Me Halfway will i am Meet Me At The Remix 5 493 Meet Me Halfway will i am In 3D Remix 5 404 Meet Me Halfway Printz Board Remix for Beets amp Produce Inc 5 215 Meet Me Halfway Richard Vission Solmatic Remix 5 30Total length 27 45Credits and personnel EditSource adapted from Discogs 16 Bass Synth Bass Printz Board Guitar Guitars By George Pajon Tim Izo Orindgreff Keyboards Keys Synthesizer Synths Bass Guitar Drum Programming Keith Harris Written By William Adams Allan Pineda Jaime Gomez Stacy Ferguson Jean Baptiste Keith Harris Sylvia Gordon Vocals will i am Fergie Taboo apl de ap Recorded at Metropolis Studios in London UK Management David Sonenberg and William Derella for DAS Communications Ltd and Polo Molina for Grass Roots Productions IncCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 2009 2010 PeakpositionAustralia ARIA 17 1Austria O3 Austria Top 40 18 4Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 19 1Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 20 1Canada Canadian Hot 100 21 5CIS TopHit 22 10Czech Republic Radio Top 100 23 2Denmark Tracklisten 24 9European Hot 100 Singles Billboard 25 1Finland Suomen virallinen lista 26 16France SNEP 27 3Germany Official German Charts 28 1Greece IFPI 29 1Hungary Dance Top 40 30 16Hungary Radios Top 40 31 4Ireland IRMA 32 2Israel Media Forest 33 1Italy FIMI 34 2Luxembourg Digital Songs Billboard 35 1Netherlands Dutch Top 40 36 3Netherlands Single Top 100 37 5New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 38 3Norway VG lista 39 1Poland Polish Airplay Chart 40 2Poland Dance Top 50 41 6Portugal Digital Song Sales Billboard 42 2Romania Romanian Top 100 43 1Scotland OCC 44 1Slovakia Radio Top 100 45 5Spain PROMUSICAE 46 5Spain Airplay PROMUSICAE 47 2Sweden Sverigetopplistan 48 5Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 49 3UK Singles OCC 50 1UK Hip Hop R amp B OCC 51 1US Billboard Hot 100 52 7US Dance Club Songs Billboard 53 17US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 54 10US Rhythmic Billboard 55 9 Year end charts Edit Chart 2009 PositionAustralia ARIA 56 8Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 57 55Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 58 37Canada Canadian Hot 100 59 75Germany Official German Charts 60 69Hungary Radios Top 40 61 148Netherlands Dutch Top 40 62 63Netherlands Single Top 100 63 82New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 64 28Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 65 95UK Singles OCC 66 10Chart 2010 PositionAustralia ARIA 67 98Austria O3 Austria Top 40 68 22Belgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 69 19Belgium Ultratop 50 Wallonia 70 11Canada Canadian Hot 100 71 39CIS TopHit 72 60European Hot 100 Singles Billboard 73 3France SNEP 74 29Germany Official German Charts 75 30Hungary Dance Top 40 76 53Hungary Radios Top 40 77 11Italy FIMI 78 16Netherlands Dutch Top 40 79 79Romania Romanian Top 100 80 34Spain PROMUSICAE 81 18Spain Airplay PROMUSICAE 82 4Sweden Sverigetopplistan 83 60Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 84 32UK Singles OCC 85 103US Billboard Hot 100 86 58Decade end charts Edit Chart 2000 2009 PositionAustralia ARIA 87 40Certifications EditCertifications and sales for Meet Me Halfway Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 88 3 Platinum 210 000 Belgium BEA 89 2 Platinum 60 000 Canada Music Canada 90 2 Platinum 160 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 91 Gold 15 000 France SNEP 92 Platinum 250 000 Germany BVMI 93 Platinum 300 000 Italy FIMI 94 Platinum 20 000 New Zealand RMNZ 95 Platinum 15 000 Spain PROMUSICAE 96 Platinum 40 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 97 Gold 15 000 United Kingdom BPI 99 2 Platinum 866 000 98 United States RIAA 100 2 Platinum 2 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history EditRelease dates and formats for I Gotta Feeling Region Date Format s Label s Ref United States September 22 2009 Contemporary hit radio Interscope 101 Australia October 2 2009 CD Universal Music 102 United Kingdom November 2 2009 Polydor 103 104 United States November 17 2009 Digital download EP Interscope 105 Germany November 20 2009 CD Universal Music 106 France November 23 2009 Polydor 107 See also EditList of number one singles in Australia in 2009 List of number one singles from the 2000s UK List of number one R amp B hits of 2009 UK List of European number one hits of 2009 List of number one hits of 2009 Germany List of Romanian Top 100 number ones of the 2000s List of Ultratop 40 number one hits of 2009 List of Ultratop 50 number one hits of 2009References Edit Screenshot from The Black Eyed Peas official UK newsletter Retrieved May 13 2009 Hot30 Countdown Vote B105 com au July 21 2008 Retrieved September 22 2009 Canadian Hit 30 canadianhit30 com Archived from the original on February 1 2016 Retrieved October 3 2009 Mirror co uk Leona Lewis confirms X Factor appearance with The Black Eyed Peas Postado por Tixa October 30 2009 MusicStarsQuality The Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway Premiere Musicstarsquality blogspot com Retrieved December 10 2009 Andrew Winistorfer The Black Eyed Peas The E N D New Album Prefixmag com Retrieved August 16 2009 Kirk Honeycutt The Black Eyed Peas The E N D New Album Billboard com Archived from the original on January 28 2016 Retrieved October 16 2009 Bill Lamb The Black Eyed Peas The E N D New Album About 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