Elephunk

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Elephunk
Studio album by The Black Eyed Peas
Released June 24, 2003
Recorded December 20, 2001 (2001-12-20)–May 1, 2003 (2003-05-01)
Genre Dance, Contemporary R&B, Hip hop,
Length 58:59
Label A&M, Interscope
Producer Ron Fair, will.i.am
Professional reviews
The Black Eyed Peas chronology
Bridging the Gap
(2000)		 Elephunk
(2003)		 Monkey Business
(2005)
Singles from Elephunk
  1. "Where Is the Love?"
    Released: June 16, 2003
  2. "Shut Up"
    Released: November 2003
  3. "Hey Mama"
    Released: January 12, 2004
  4. "Let's Get It Started"
    Released: May 2005

Elephunk is the third studio album by American hip hop band The Black Eyed Peas. Released on June 24, 2003, the album charted at number 14 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, and has sold 8.5 million copies worldwide. The album was produced by Ron Fair and band member will.i.am, and was the first to feature vocalist Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson. Four singles were released from Elephunk, including "Where Is the Love?", featuring Justin Timberlake, which topped the singles charts of over ten countries.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

# Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Hands Up"   Will Adams, Allan Pineda, Jaime Gómez, Billy May, George Pajon Jr., Mike Fratantuno 3:35
2. "Labor Day (It's a Holiday)"   Adams, Pineda, Phelps "Catfish" Collins, Clayton Gunnells, Clyde Stubblefield, Darrel Jamison, Frank Clifford Waddy, James Brown, John Griggs, Robert "Chopper" McCullough, Thomas Van Musser, Williams Earl Collins 3:58
3. "Let's Get Retarded"   Adams, Pineda, Gómez, Pajon Jr., Fratantuno, Terence Yoshiaki 3:35
4. "Hey Mama"   Adams, Anthony Henry 3:34
5. "Shut Up"   Adams, Gómez, Pajon Jr., J. Curtis 4:56
6. "Smells Like Funk"   Adams, Pineda, Pajon Jr., Fratantuno 5:04
7. "Latin Girls"   Adams, Pineda, Gómez, Debi Nova, Pajon Jr., Curtis 6:17
8. "Sexy"   Adams, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes 4:43
9. "Fly Away"   Adams, Ray Brady, Stacy Ferguson 3:35
10. "The Boogie That Be"   Adams, John Stephens, Van Musser 5:12
11. "The Apl Song"   Adams, Pineda 2:54
12. "Anxiety"   Adams, Pineda, Jacoby Shaddix, Tobin J. Esperance 3:38
13. "Where Is the Love?"   Adams, Pineda, Gómez, Pajob Jr., Curtis, Justin Timberlake, Fratantuno, Printz Board 4:46
14. "Third Eye" (Hidden track) Adams 3:44
58:59

[edit] Personnel

The Black Eyed Peas
Main session musicians
  • George Pajon Jr. – guitar on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13 and 15
  • J. Curtis – guitar on tracks 5, 7, 11 and 13
  • Mike Fratantuno – bass on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 13, 14 and 15; guitarrón on track 7; double bass and acoustic guitar on track 13
  • Dante Santiago – backing vocals on tracks 1, 3, 4, 6 and 10; vocals on track 7
Other contributors
  • Ray Brady – guitar on tracks 5 and 9
  • Terry Dexter – backing vocals on track 6
  • Davey Chegwidden – percussion on track 7
  • Chuck Prada – percussion on tracks 7 and 14
  • Debi Nova – vocals on track 7
  • Sérgio Mendes – piano on track 8
Main production personnel
  • Ron Fair – executive production; production on track 13; additional vocal production on track 5; piano on track 7
  • Dylan Dresdow – engineering on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, 13 and 15; additional vocal engineering on track 3
  • Christine Sirois – engineering assistance on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7 and 13
  • Tony Maserati – mixing on all tracks except 10 and 12
  • Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
Additional production personnel
  • Tal Herzberg – additional engineering on tracks 5 and 13
  • Jun Ishizeki – engineering on track 10
  • Jason Villaroman – engineering on track 11
  • Chris Lord-Alge – mixing on track 12

[edit] Charts and certifications

Chart (2005/2006) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart 1[1]
Austrian Albums Chart 3[2]
Canada Top 50 2[3]
Danish Albums Chart 3[4]
Dutch Albums Chart 5[5]
Germany Top 100 6[3]
Finnish Albums Chart 3[6]
French Top 150 2[7]
Italian Top 75 6[3]
Mexican Albums Chart 1[8]
New Zealand Albums Chart 2[9]
Norwegian Albums Chart 2[10]
Spain Albums Chart 55[3]
Swedish Albums Chart 5[11]
Swiss Albums Chart 1[12]
U.S Billboard 200 14[13]
UK Top 75 3[3]
Countries Certification Sales
Argentina Gold[14] 50,000
Australia 4x Platinum[15] 280,000
Brazil Diamond[3] 500,000
Finland Gold[16] 15,000+
France 4x Platinum[17] 413,000
Germany Platinum[18] 200,000
Indonesia Gold[19] 45,000
Japan Gold[20] 100,000
Canada 7x Platinum[21] 700,000
Europe 2x Platinum[3] 2,000,000
Mexico Platinum[22] 100,000
Switzerland Platinum[23] 40,000
Sweden Gold[24] 30,000
U.S. Billboard 200 2x Platinum[25] 2,300,000
U.K. 6x Platinum[26] 1,600,000

[edit] Trivia

 Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2010)
  • Some Australian and UK versions of this album are labeled explicit, mainly due to the song "Rock My Shit", which contains multiple uses of profanity, making it the only countries to have "Parental Advisory° label on Elephunk.
  • The melody of The Apl Song is actually based on the "Balita" (which means "news") song by the Filipino folk rock group Asin which gained popularity in the 1970s and presumably one of Apl's favorite band. In fact, the opening verse "Lapit mga kaibigan at makinig kayo, Ako'y may dala-dalang balita galing sa bayan ko..." is the original opening verse of the folk rock song. The parallelism of the content between "Balita" and "The Apl Song" is very strong. "Balita" is a song about torn-out Mindanao, the homeland of all the band members of Asin while "The Apl Song" is about the life story and hardships of Apl in his "homeland", Angeles City in Pampanga, Philippines. Thus, "The Apl Song" stayed true to the original and expanded the concept of tracing, remembering, and paying homage to your homeland.
  • The video for "The Apl Song" (which reached number one in the Philippines), featured cameo appearances by fellow Filipino Americans Dante Basco, Chad Hugo and Abe Pagtama and is a tribute to the Filipinos who fought for the U.S. in World War II.
  • "The Elephunk Theme" also features a sample of Ilaiyaraaja's Unakkum Enakkum Aanandham, a Tamil song from the movie Sri Raghavendra,[27] thus marking the beginning of the BEP foray into Indian music, which continued with "Don't Phunk with My Heart".
  • "Hands Up" samples "Bo Mambo" by Yma Sumac.
  • "Anxiety" was the theme song for the Xbox game WWE WrestleMania 21.
  • "Labor Day (It's a Holiday)" samples The JB's "The Grunt" and uncredied sample of De La Soul's "Ego Trippin' (Part 2)"
  • Flo Rida sampled "Where Is the Love?" for his song "Rewind" on his album R.O.O.T.S.
  • "Third Eye" samples of Scientist's track "De Materialize" from his 1981 album Scientist Meets the Space Invaders.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Albums Chart
  2. ^ Austrian Album Charts
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Chart Data: Black Eyed Peas
  4. ^ Danish Albums Chart
  5. ^ Dutch Albums Chart
  6. ^ Finnish Albums Chart
  7. ^ French Top 50
  8. ^ Mexican Albums Chart
  9. ^ New Zealand Albums Chart
  10. ^ Norwegian Albums Charts
  11. ^ Swedish Albums Chart
  12. ^ Swiss Albums Chart
  13. ^ U.S. Billboard 200
  14. ^ Argentine Sales and Certification
  15. ^ Australian Sales and Certification
  16. ^ [1]
  17. ^ French Sales and Certification
  18. ^ German Sales and Certification
  19. ^ Indonesian Sales and Certification
  20. ^ Japanese Sales and Certification(in japanese)
  21. ^ Canadian Sales and Certification
  22. ^ Mexican Sales and Certification
  23. ^ Swiss Sales and Certification
  24. ^ Swedish Sales and Certification (Week 15, April 9, 2004)
  25. ^ U.S. Billboard 200 Sales and Certification
  26. ^ www.musicweek.com
  27. ^ Minor Scale » Elephunking Raja
Preceded by
One Determined Heart by Paulini		 Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album
August 23 - August 29, 2004		 Succeeded by
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