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After a four-year break between studio
albums, three-time Grammy Award-winning, multi-platinum
Interscope recording group The Black Eyed Peas are
back with The E.N.D.. The
Black Eyed Peas’ fifth studio album is
set to arrive June 9, 2009. “Boom
Boom Pow,” the first new single from the
album, will be serviced to Top 40 and Rhythm Crossover
radio and clubs.
“We wanted to make a record that would make people
dance,” reveals will.i.am. In conjunction
with the release of The E.N.D.,
plans call for The Black Eyed Peas to
kick off a world tour playing the same global territories
they covered over the past five years. Dates will begin
to be announced in the weeks and months ahead.
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 over
two consecutive years, when the RIAA gold single “Don't
Phunk with My Heart” won Best Rap Performance By
a Duo or Group at the 2006 ceremonies; and the RIAA platinum
single “My Humps” won Best Pop Performance
by a Duo or Group in 2007. “My Humps” also
won the MTV VMA for Best Hip-Hop Video in 2006.
The intervening three years encompassed a hugely successful
solo album from Fergie (The
Dutchess, her worldwide 6 million-selling
solo debut of 2006 is approaching 13 million in total
digital downloads) and a solo release from Producer Of
the Year Grammy nominee will.i.am (2007’s Songs
About Girls), plus two world tours
and a live performance DVD (2006’s Live
From Sydney To Vegas).Of special note
is will’s involvement in the 2008 Presidential
campaign of Barack Obama, whose song, “Yes We Can” was
written by will.i.am, as well as the two post-election
anthems, “It’s A New Day” and “America’s
Song.”
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