Whataya Want from Me

"Whataya Want from Me"
Single by Adam Lambert
from the album For Your Entertainment
ReleasedNovember 20, 2009
RecordedSeptember and October 2009
Studio
  • Maratone (Stockholm)
  • House of Blues (Los Angeles)
  • Germano (New York City)
GenrePop rock
Length3:47
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Max Martin
  • Shellback
Adam Lambert singles chronology
"For Your Entertainment"
(2009)
"Whataya Want from Me"
(2009)
"If I Had You"
(2010)
Audio sample
"Whataya Want from Me"
Music video
"Whataya Want from Me" on YouTube

"Whataya Want from Me" is a song by American recording artist and American Idol eighth season runner-up Adam Lambert from his debut studio album, For Your Entertainment. It was released as the second single from the album. The song peaked at number ten[1] on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his highest charting single. The song was well received by music critics and charted within the top 10 of the charts in thirteen countries.

The rock song was written by Pink, Max Martin, and Shellback and was recorded by Pink for her fifth studio album, Funhouse, but did not make it to the final cut.[2][3] Lambert's vocal performance of the song received a Grammy nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

The song was included on the set list of Lambert's first concert tour, the 2010 Glam Nation Tour where he performed an acoustic rendition of it during the "ballad" section of the show. The song is also featured as one of the numbers in the 2019 jukebox musical & Juliet.

  1. ^ "Peak position Billboard Hot 100". Billboard.
  2. ^ "Whataya Want from Me by Adam Lambert Songfacts". Songfacts.com. November 30, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  3. ^ "Adam Lambert 'For Your Entertainment,' Debut Album Released Monday, November 23, 2009". Reuters. November 4, 2009. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2010.