Take One (Adam Lambert album)

Take One
Demo album by Adam Lambert
Released November 17, 2009 (2009-11-17)
Recorded 2005
Genre Pop rock
Length 56:04
Label Rufftown Records
Adam Lambert chronology
Season 8 Favorite Performances
(2009)		 Take One
(2009)		 For Your Entertainment
(2009)
Singles from Take One
  1. "December (promo)"
    Released: 2009

Take One is the nonofficial debut album from American artist and American Idol season eight runner-up, Adam Lambert, consisting of pre-Idol recordings Lambert made while working as a session musician, but released post-Idol. It was released on November 17, 2009. The album had sold 48,000 copies in the United States.[1]

Album information

This album is a collection of recordings Lambert made in 2005 while working as a session musician. Take One was released in the same month as his post-Idol debut, For Your Entertainment.

Lambert issued a statement through 19 Entertainment stating, "Back in 2005 when I was a struggling artist, I was hired as a studio singer to lend my vocals to tracks written by someone else. I was broke at the time and this was my chance to make a few bucks, so I jumped at the opportunity to record for my first time in a professional studio. The work I did back then in no way reflects the music I am currently in the studio working on."[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
eMusic[4]

Critical response to Take One has been mixed. Allmusic said that "The songs aren’t horrible but they’re not memorable and neither are Lambert’s performances, but that’s unfair to him: these recordings were designed to sell middle-of-the-road pop with commercial aspirations and have absolutely no room for flair, since the whole point is to showcase the lyric and melody. Lambert acquits himself in that regard, sounding like nothing more than a demo singer because that was, after all, what he was".[5]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Michael Burtscher. 

No. Title Length
1. "Climb"   4:39
2. "December"   3:29
3. "Fields"   3:42
4. "Did You Need It"   5:09
5. "More Than"   3:16
6. "Wonderful"   4:19
7. "Castle Man"   5:04
8. "Hourglass"   4:49
9. "Light Falls Away"   7:12
10. "First Light"   2:39
11. "Want" (December Remix) 3:27
12. "Spotlight" (Did You Need It Remix) 4:22
13. "On with the Show" (Fields Remix) 4:06

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200[6] 72
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums[6] 6

Release history

Year Release date Type Label Catalogue
2009 November 17, 2009 CD Rufftown Records 20097

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Take One sales". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
  2. ↑ Billboard article: "Adam Lambert Pre-'Idol' Debut Album Due This Summer"
  3. ↑ Allmusic review
  4. ↑ eMusic review
  5. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "allmusic ((( Take One > Overview )))". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
  6. 1 2 "Adam Lambert Album & Song Chart History : Billboard.com". Billboard. Retrieved 2010-09-24.
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