"Time for Miracles" is Adam Lambert

Adam Lambert

Adam Mitchel Lambert is an American singer, songwriter, and actor from San Diego, California. In May 2009, he finished as the runner-up on the eighth season of American Idol...

's second single. It was released on October 16, 2009 via Amazon.com. Although the song was his first since American Idol, it was not released as his official debut single. Instead, the title track to his album, For Your Entertainment

For Your Entertainment (album)

For Your Entertainment is the debut studio album by Adam Lambert, the American Idol season 8 runner-up. It was released on November 23, 2009...

, was released. The song is featured as the ending theme in the disaster film 2012

2012 (film)

2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich. It stars John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. It was produced by Emmerich's production company, Centropolis Entertainment and was distributed by Columbia Pictures...

. A full version of the song was released on October 17, 2009, via YouTube

YouTube

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 and on October 20th, 2009 via digital download. The song was written by Alain Johannes

Alain Johannes

Alain Johannes Moschulski is a guitarist and, along with his late partner Natasha Shneider and drummer Jack Irons, a founding member of the band Eleven...

 and his partner Natasha Shneider

Natasha Shneider

Natasha Shneider was a Russian musician. She was most notably the keyboardist and vocalist in the musical group Eleven, and was the partner of bandmate Alain Johannes...

, who were probably best known for contributing to several Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age

Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...

 albums. Shneider died of cancer in 2008.

For additional information on his recording career, refer to Adam Lambert discography

Adam Lambert discography

The discography of American singer Adam Lambert consists of one studio album, two digital albums, five singles and four music videos.After Lambert's coming in second place in American Idol, Rufftown Recordings released a demo album of song recordings made prior to his being on American Idol. The...

.

Reception

Before "Time for Miracles" was released to the public, it had already garnered positive reviews.

Brian May

Brian May

Brian Harold May, CBE is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen...

 of Queen

Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...

 was able to listen to the full track and praised the song as "truly sensational" and complimented Lambert's vocals, stating, "Adam's voice reaches out with sensitivity, depth, maturity, and awesome range and power that will make jaws drop all around the world."

Having heard only the preview of the track, Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

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s Michael Slezak stated that the song "sounds like it has the potential to be a power-ballad smash".

Music video

The official music video was released on October 21, through
MySpace

MySpace

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. The video portrays Lambert walking placidly through a disaster scene, like those portrayed in 2012. Footage from the film and the clips of Adam singing are edited together.

Another music video, popularized on YouTube

YouTube

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 does not show Lambert at all, but rather a disaster sequence showing the lead characters of the film trying to escape the destruction of Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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.

In the movie, a slightly different version of the song is played during the closing credits.

Chart performance

On the chart week ending November 7, 2009, "Time for Miracles" debuted at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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. In the United States, the song has sold 124,000 legal digital downloads.

Chart (2009)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	50
Canadian Hot 100	26