Adam Lambert 'On With the Show' album

Adam Lambert's debut album is coming out much earlier than planned, some time this summer. Before he became a household name, the flamboyant singer spent three years recording songs for Los Angeles-based Wilshire Records. The label has joined forces with Hi Fi Recordings to release the 11-track album "On With the Show" this summer. An exact release date will be announced shortly.

The first single, "Want," went on sale at digital music retailer iTunes on Tuesday. Lambert co-wrote nine of the songs, working mostly with Madonna's guitarist, Monte Pittman.

"American Idol" producer 19 Entertainment issued a brief statement attributed to Lambert in which he is quoted as saying, "The work I did back then in no way reflects the music I am currently in the studio working on."

"It doesn't surprise us, but it doesn't make us feel good," Hi Fi Chairman and CEO John Hecker said. "For some reason it's scaring Goliath, and I don't know why."

He said Lambert attended a post-production session last month, as "American Idol" reached its climax, and that the singer was "blown away" by what he heard.

It wasn't supposed to be like this in the highly controlled "American Idol" organization. The winner and the runner-up from each season, along with some other finalists, score deals with a Sony Corp label through 19 Entertainment, which is owned by media firm CKX Inc.

Their albums are released with great fanfare in the fall. If they're lucky and the odds are against them the stars will go on to enjoy Grammy-winning success like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.

Lambert's who is currently on the cover of Rolling Stone told RS, "I want to do something that has theatricality, a nod to the glam rockers that I love, but is also contemporary."

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