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August 26. 2009
Black Eyed Peas Tops Billboard Charts
(AP) - W ill.¡.am would love
to say "I told you so" to all the
people w ho have bashed the
Black Eyed Peas in the past, but
he w on't — even though the
group ju st m ade history on the
Billboard charts.
"T here's a part of me that
w ants to be cocky, but then I
can't be cocky," the 34-year-old
Peas leader said. "There's a part
o f me that w ants to call out all
o f my other peers and com peti­
tors. I d o n 't w an t to say no
nam es because I'm not like that,
b ut p a rt o f m e w a n ts to do
that."
The foursom e, w ho have had
th eir share o f critics, topped
Will.I.am
B illb o a rd 's H ot 100 sin g les
charts for 20 consecutive weeks
last week, the m ost ever by an
act.
"Boom Boom Pow" and the
song that dislodged it, "1 G otta
Feeling," have been at the top
o f the charts for 12 and eight
weeks, respectively.
Though the band has had big
h its o v e r th e y e a rs, "B o o m
Boom Pow" w as their first No.
1 single. Will.¡.am says he's sur­
prised how successful the song
became.
"I knew that B oom B oom
Pow' w ould be big in the clubs,
but I didn't know it would be
that potent with the w orld, o ut­
side o f the club," he said.
But the success is not pure
luck, will.i.am explains. Though
he says the band didn't listen
to the radio when creating their
latest disc, "The E.N .D .," he
says they did heavy research
by p a rty in g at u n d e rg ro u n d
nightclubs and events.
T h ey ch o se "B oom B oom
Pow" as the first single after the
response it got when they de­
buted it at a G ram m y party this
year. A fter its su ccess, they
used the same idea for their cur­
rent hit.
"When I picked up T G otta
Feeling' we tested in the clubs,
looked at people, how they re­
sponded to a song they didn't
know," he explained. He says
the g ro u p w ill use the sam e
strategy for the third single, the
groovy "M eet Me H alfw ay.”
"We kept in m ind w hen it
would be com ing out: It'll be out
for the holidays. Do we w ant to
be jam -pack sm acking people
high octane in the club during
Christm as? No. So let's know
that the em otion we want to get
out there is still melodic, a love
subject would be cool around
Christm as and we still want to
be in the club," he said.
Will.¡.am says he's not sure
how to take it all in.
"L ike how am I supposed
to take this and soak this in?
I f th e s e p e o p le lik e th e
B eatles, the R o llin g S to n es
an d M ic h a e l Ja c k s o n h av e
these N o .Is, but yet we ju st
broke a record, how am I su p ­
posed to take that because we
cam e from the under, under,
underground," he said.
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Celebrating
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