''Ghost Town'' topped the chart in Poland and was certified triple platinum. "Ghost Town" jumped from number 16 to number 2 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart for the week Augfollowing his performance on The Voice Australia. The following week, the song climbed to number 71 with 5,637 on sales. "Ghost Town" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 82. becomes a house diva, singing with precision and ambition but in service of the song." Lewis Corner of Digital Spy commented "it's a mood perfect for Adam's balance of glam rock image, soulful vocal and today's house music-dominated landscape." Commercial performance Jon Caramanica of The New York Times called it "perhaps his best single to date. Rob Copsey from Official Charts Company called "Ghost Town" "a triumphant return.the kind of song that forces you to sit up and take notice." Lipshutz from Billboard commented that "the track could use a bigger energy boost, although the dark house beats suit Lambert well". So they're two different songs – they just share a title." Critical reception Lambert was surprised Madonna also had a song with the same title, but he thought "Hers is like a post-apocalyptic love song, mid-tempo, and mine's like an existential dance goth rave thing. Lewis Corner of Digital Spy described as the song has "a massive earworm hook – which is in the form of an addictive whistle line here – but its overall tone is marginally darker than their previous shiny anthems." He also noted that the song's verses are "dusty and spacious" with "an acoustic guitar line" and the chorus drops into "a deep house bassline and stomping club beats." Music critics noted the similarity between "Ghost Town" and Madonna's similarly titled song, " Ghosttown," because of the similarity between the titles and proximity of the songs' releases. Jason Lipshutz, a writer from Billboard, noted that "Ghost Town" starts with "a Wild West whistle, which laces together guitar balladry and EDM drops". Describing the style of the album as less " campy" and theatrical than his previous material, Lambert also identified the album's genre as "definitely pop but not bubblegum." Lambert revealed the single cover art for "Ghost Town" on April 16, 2015.
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In March 2015, he unveiled additional details regarding the musical direction of the album in an interview with Hunger TV magazine. Lambert first revealed the album title on social media on January 29, 2015, also his birthday. Songwriting for the album began in early 2014, with recording taking place between 20 in the producers' native Sweden. A deal with the label was confirmed by Billboard in January 2015, along with news that his upcoming album would be executive produced by Max Martin and Shellback and was scheduled for release in the summer of 2015. The day after his announcement, Lambert was contacted by Warner Bros.
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"Saw all of the Saints lock up the gates/ I could not enter/ Walked into the flames, called out your name/ But there was no answer," he laments, before the chorus drops into a deep house bassline and stomping club beats.In July 2013, it was reported that Lambert had left his record label of four years, RCA Records, due to "creative differences" and the label allegedly pushing him to record an album composed of cover songs from the 1980s. 'Ghost Town's verses are dusty and spacious, as Adam wanders through them with an acoustic guitar line searching for his Beatrice (figuratively speaking) within the Dante-esque narrative. 'Ghost Town' obviously has a massive earworm hook - which is in the form of an addictive whistle line here - but its overall tone is marginally darker than their previous shiny anthems.Įssentially, it's a mood perfect for Adam's balance of glam rock image, soulful vocal and today's house music-dominated landscape. The first single to be lifted from Lambert's forthcoming new album The Original High, however, is slightly left-field from what we've previously heard from the production stalwarts.
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They have been responsible for some of the biggest chart hits behind the likes of Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. For album number three he has teamed up with Max Martin and Shellback which, for those of you in the know, is a pretty big deal in pop. Nevertheless, during that time Adam has been away working on his own solo project too. He then continued to tour with Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor across the world, collecting positive reviews wherever they went, and proving - alongside Jennifer Hudson - that talent rules supreme even if you fail to take the American Idol crown. Adam Lambert made pop history when he became the first ever openly gay artist to top the Billboard 200 chart with his previous album Trespassing back in 2012.