The Black Eyed Peas Score Their First #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart

“Boom Boom Pow,” the new single from three-time Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum Interscope recording artists The Black Eyed Peas, lands at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. The first single from their upcoming release, The E.N.D. gave the Peas their first Hot 100 chart- topper of their career. “Boom Boom Pow” debuts with 469,000 digital downloads for the week catapulting the track to the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot Digital Songs chart. The weekly download total is the best-ever by a group.

The video for “Boom Boom Pow,” directed by Mathew Cullen & Mark Kudsi of Motion Theory (Weezer’s “Pork and Beans” and Beck’s “Girl”) premiers everywhere next week. In the first video from The E.N.D., The Black Eyed Peas’ imagine 3008; their birth into the digital afterlife.

The E.N.D. is the Black Eyed Peas’ first original new album since Monkey Business (released May 2005), with sales of over 4 million in the U.S. and worldwide sales of more than 9 million copies. Monkey Business generated Grammy Awards for “Don’t Phunk with My Heart” and “My Humps.”

The Energy Never Dies.

Check out MTV’s Behind the Scenes footage on the set of the “Boom Boom Pow” music video:
http://www.mtv.com/videos/?id=1608887

“The concept of the video is the Peas birth into the digital afterlife” – Fergie

“What would it be like if we were actually in the computer?” – will.i.am