[1] 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 where "Meet Me Halfway" became the 10th-biggest-selling single of 2009.
[3] 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.
"[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.
"[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.
In the United Kingdom, "Meet Me Halfway" entered the UK Singles Chart on October 11, 2009, at number 67.
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.
As of Sunday December 27, "Meet Me Halfway" has sold 517,178 copies in Britain, making it the 13th best selling single of 2009.
[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.
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.
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.