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Yet, those hoping Lambert would carry the rock torch into the studio on "For Your Entertainment" will be sadly disappointed.

Even cynics who think American Idol is the head horseman summoning the music-industry apocalypse will have a hard time denying the total awesomeness of this track, written by The Darkness' Justin Hawkins.

Adam Lambert should have won American Idol . That was what a lot of people were probably thinking during the show's eighth season finale.

They both lost, of course.

Adam Lambert, one of the most outsize, Technicolor contestants ever to appear on 'American Idol,' lost Season 8 to wan, amiable Kris Allen. Skittish, angel-voiced Susan Boyle lost Season 3 of 'Britain's Got Talent' to dance troupe/future Trivial Pursuit question Diversity.

But as Chris Daughtry can tell you, winning isn't everything. Boyle's debut disc, 'I Dreamed a Dream,' is Amazon.com's highest preseller ever; Lambert's debut, 'For Your Entertainment,' is the best post-'Idol' debut ever made.

The 2009 "American Idol" runner-up--arguably the most buzzed-about second-place "A.I." finisher since Clay Aiken in 2003--will try to live up to all the immense hype with the release of his major-label debut.

Adam Lambert doesn't just delight listeners with his debut album, he also stuns.

Record sales continue to free-fall -- sales are down about 13 percent from last year but that isn't preventing the labels from unloading a massive amountof big-name product on what has been dubbed Super Monday.

It was the album-cover shot shown 'round the world - or rather, the hydra-headed gossip-sphere: Adam Lambert in full gender-bent regalia, a black-leathered, blue-follicled flashpoint of next-level snazzy-dazzlement. And it seemed to make a certain promise: This special snowflake would not tamp down his fabulosity for the masses.

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With his out-of-this-world vocal range and unique musical style, Adam Lambert is the ultra-glam, rock superstar that has America hooked.

HAS Arlene Phillips tampered with the water supply ahead of tonight's Strictly? Everyone's dropping like flies.

In the fourth of Radio 1's Story of the Noughties, Huw Stephens takes us back to the year 2003 - the music, the people, the events.

Can't wait three more torturous weeks for Glambert's debut to drop? Be sated, child, by amazon.co.uk, the British arm of the books-plus behemoth: They've got 30-second teasers of all 19 tracks currently up on their site.

Perhaps proving you can't judge a record by its overly Photoshopped cover , the first morsels of Adam Lambert's album For Your Entertainment have surfaced, as the UK Amazon site is now streaming 30-second preview clips of the record's 18 tracks.

John Legend will sing the National Anthem at Yankee Stadium before Game 2 of the World Series tonight.

Yesterday we unveiled the covert art for Adam Lambert 's debut album, For Your Entertainment .

Adam Lambert has a lot to say about his forthcoming album, and he took to his Twitter account to give details.

The number of bands competing in this year's prestigious Next Big Thing competition has been slashed after the second of two semi-finals. Now the full line-up can be revealed for the high-profile final that will see just six bands fight it out on the stage of top venue the UEA.

In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, Lambert says he was influenced by the Killers and Muse for the yet-untitled LP.

If MGMT was last year's not-that-indie-rock crossover sensation, this year Passion Pit takes the title.