Just when you thought the Black Eyed Peas could not get any better they return with another chart-topping album. The E.N.D. is sure to be as successful as their previous releases.
1. Their first single, Boom Boom Pow, topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 12 consecutive weeks.
2. The album’s title stands for The Energy Never Dies.
3. Frontman Will.i.am describes the music as “a lot of dance stuff, real melodic, electronic, soulful. We call it electric static funk, something like that”.
4. Will.i.am took inspiration for the album from the electro-club music he heard while shooting the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine in Australia.
5. Their second single, I Gotta Feeling, was produced by David Guetta, who along with rapper Kid Cudi, makes a cameo appearances in the music video.
6. The group is one of only 11 artists to hold the No 1 and 2 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time.
7. More than 300 000 copies were sold in the first week - the group’s biggest first-week opening so far.
8. This is the Peas’ second album to reach the top 10 album charts.
9. The music video for Boom Boom Pow was shot in Los Angeles. Singer Fergie, who sports a new brunette look in the video, says the concept of the video is the Peas’ birth into the digital afterlife.
10. The album’s original title was Evolution but they changed it because Ciara chose the same title for her 2006 album. They then called it From Roots to Fruits but decided that would better suit a future compilation album.
