"Defender" is the first single from British recording artist Peter Andre

Peter André

Peter James Andrea , better known by the stage name as Peter Andre, is an English-born Australian musician, singer-songwriter, television personality and businessman. As a recording artist, he has achieving four top 10 UK albums and ten top 10 singles.-Early life:Andre was born at Northwick Park...

's seventh studio album, Accelerate

Accelerate (Peter Andre album)

-Tracklist:-Charts:-Certifications:...

. The single was released on October 24, 2010 via Digital Download, with a physical release following a day later, exclusive to retailer ASDA. The song was written by Peter Andre

Peter André

Peter James Andrea , better known by the stage name as Peter Andre, is an English-born Australian musician, singer-songwriter, television personality and businessman. As a recording artist, he has achieving four top 10 UK albums and ten top 10 singles.-Early life:Andre was born at Northwick Park...

, Dantae Johnson, Nait Rawknait Masuku, and was produced by Nait Rawknait Masuku & Dantae Johnson with additional keyboards, drum programming and mixing by Pete "Boxsta" Martin.

Live performance

On October 17, 2010, Andre performed the song on the live Strictly Come Dancing

Strictly Come Dancing

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 results show. Andre has also performed the song on The Alan Titchmarsh Show

The Alan Titchmarsh Show

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 and Live from Studio Five

Live from Studio Five

Live From Studio Five was an early evening, British magazine programme which was produced by Sky News for Channel 5. The show was presented by Kate Walsh and a line-up of other co-presenters during its run. It consisted of interviews and discussing topical issues, with an emphasis on showbusiness...

, both performances occurred on October 25, 2010. He also performed the song on Daytime TV show This Morning

This Morning

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Critical reception

Nick Levine of Digital Spy

Digital Spy

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Blog gave the song a mixed review stating:

He may have all the credibility of an Apprentice candidate trying to flog some rather stodgy-looking bread rolls at £1.82 a pop, but, for a popstar in the commercial tundra of 2010, Peter Andre's actually doing pretty well. Last year's comeback platter Revelation debuted at number three on the UK albums chart and went on to shift a not-too-shabby 300,000 copies.

'Defender', the trailer for its efficiently-assembled follow-up Accelerate, is a melodramatic pop-R&B midtempo that works the corny old love-is-war metaphor to death. It's not the freshest production you'll hear all year, and the chorus is a way off deadly, but for a single from someone who owes his second shot at pop paydirt to a romance with a glamour model on a reality show where everyone gets upstaged by the dismembered dangly bits of a kangaroo, it's not half bad. .

Track listing

Charts

Charts (2010)	Peak Position

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
United Kingdom	24 October 2010	Digital download Music download A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...	Conehead Management
United Kingdom	25 October 2010	CD Single	Conehead Management