[Will.I.am] Yo I got the hit that beat the block You can get that bass overload I got the that rock and roll That future flow
That digital spit Next level visual shit I got that (Boom boom boom) How the beat bang (Boom boom boom)
[Fergie] I like that boom boom pow Them chickens jackin' my style They try to copy my swagga I'm on that next shit now I'm so three-thousand and eight You so two-thousand and late I got that boom boom boom That future boom boom boom Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
[Taboo] I'm on the supersonic boom Y'all hear that space shit zoom When when I step inside the room them girls go apeshit, uh Y'all stuck on super A-shit They're no fast stupid a bit I'm on that HD flat This beat go boom boom pow
[Apl.de.ap] I'm a beast when you turn me on Into the future cybertron Harder, faster, better, stronger Sexy ladies extra longer, cuz We got the beat that bounce We got the beat that pow We got the beat that 808 That the boom boom in your town
[Fergie] People in the place If you wanna get down Put your hands in the air Will.I.am drop the beat now
[Will.I.am] Yep yep I be rockin' them beats (Yep, yep) I be rockin' them beats (Yep yep yep, yep)
Here we go, here we go Satellite radio Y'all getting hit with (Boom boom) Beats so big I'm steppin on leprechauns Shittin' on y'all you with the (Boom boom) Shittin' on y'all you with the (Boom boom) Shittin' on y'all you with the... This beat be bumpin' bumpin' This beat go boom boom
Let the beat rock Let the beat rock Let the beat r...
This beat be bumpin' bumpin' This beat go boom boom
[Fergie] I like that boom boom pow Them chickens jackin' my style They try to copy my swagga I'm on that next shit now I'm so three-thousand and eight You so two-thousand and late I got that boom boom boom That future boom boom boom Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that) Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
"Boom Boom Pow" has topped the Billboard Hot 100, making it the group's first U.S. number-one single. It is the longest-running single to stay atop the Hot 100 in 2009, having kept the position for twelve consecutive weeks. It has also topped the Australian, Canadian and UK singles charts as well as reaching the top 10 in more than 20 countries.
The song sold 465,000 downloads in the U.S. in its first week of digital release, and has so far sold over 2,802,286 downloads in just eleven weeks, making it their highest-selling song in the U.S. to date.[2] The group's only other song to reach the 2 million sales mark in the U.S., "My Humps", took nearly two years to achieve that
Boom Boom Pow" was released to U.S. mainstream radio on March 10, 2009. It was released officially on iTunes in the U.S. on March 30, 2009. It was scheduled to be released in the UK on May 25, 2009, however due to 3 alternative versions of the song entering the UK iTunes Top 50 songs, the Black Eyed Peas version was released 2 weeks early, on Sunday, May 10th. One of their full performances took place at the American Idol Finale of 2009. This had also helped the single to become more well known to the public.
As of June 2009, an unknown number of U.S. radio stations have elected to censor the song's reference to satellite radio.[6] Most UK radio stations have also been found to distort the word satellite radio, and this is the version that appears on the UK CD single.
In the U.S., the single sold 465,000 downloads in its first week of digital release, the third-largest number of download sales in a single week overall, and the largest single-week and debut-download totals by a group in the history of digital-download sales tracking, reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100. It became the group's first U.S. #1. The song is currently in its twelfth consecutive week at #1 on the Hot 100, making it the longest running #1 song of 2009 to date on the chart, and the first song to spend at least twelve weeks at #1 since Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" in 2005. "Boom Boom Pow"'s 12-week stay at #1 ties the record held by Eminem's "Lose Yourself" as the longest running Rap/Hip Hop song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The chart week of May 30, 2009 "Boom Boom Pow" became only the fifth song to top both Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic Top 40 charts in the same week, reaching an estimated audience of 99 million on U.S. radio that week.[16] It was the fifth song of the decade of the 2000s to spend at least eleven weeks at #1, and the seventeenth since 1955. It is the band's first Rhythmic number one, and their second Mainstream Top 40 number one. "Boom Boom Pow" became the first song in digital history to spend its first twelve weeks of release as the most-downloaded song in America, selling at least 200,000 copies a week for eleven straight weeks.[17][18]
It has also topped the charts on the Canadian Hot 100 the same week as on the Hot 100 and on the Australian ARIA Charts. On the New Zealand RIANZ chart, the song has so far peaked at number two. Moreover, it has charted within the top 10 in more than ten countries.[19]
On May 17 2009, it entered the UK Singles Chart at #1 based on almost 75,000 downloads alone. It is the band's second number one in the UK (the other being "Where Is the Love?" which also reached the top of the chart six years prior). It has also reached #3 so far in Ireland.
After being knocked off the number 1 spot in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2009 by "Bonkers" by Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden, the song remained at the #2 slot for 2 weeks before returning to #1 on June 7, 2009. "Bonkers" had meanwhile swapped places with "Boom Boom Pow" and took the #2 slot. This subsequently marks the first time a song has had two separate runs at the summit of the chart since Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" in July 2006.
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
Gotta get that, Gotta get that, Gotta get that
Gotta get that that that, that that
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (That), Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom, Boom boom boom
[Will.I.am]
Yo
I got the hit that beat the block
You can get that bass overload
I got the that rock and roll
That future flow
That digital spit
Next level visual shit
I got that (Boom boom boom)
How the beat bang (Boom boom boom)
[Fergie]
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagga
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so three-thousand and eight
You so two-thousand and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (That), Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom, Boom boom boom
[Taboo]
I'm on the supersonic boom
Y'all hear that space shit zoom
When when I step inside the room them girls go apeshit, uh
Y'all stuck on super A-shit
They're no fast stupid a bit
I'm on that HD flat
This beat go boom boom pow
[Apl.de.ap]
I'm a beast when you turn me on
Into the future cybertron
Harder, faster, better, stronger
Sexy ladies extra longer, cuz
We got the beat that bounce
We got the beat that pow
We got the beat that 808
That the boom boom in your town
[Fergie]
People in the place
If you wanna get down
Put your hands in the air
Will.I.am drop the beat now
[Will.I.am]
Yep yep
I be rockin' them beats (Yep, yep)
I be rockin' them beats (Yep yep yep, yep)
Here we go, here we go
Satellite radio
Y'all getting hit with (Boom boom)
Beats so big I'm steppin on leprechauns
Shittin' on y'all you with the (Boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all you with the (Boom boom)
Shittin' on y'all you with the...
This beat be bumpin' bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
Let the beat rock
Let the beat rock
Let the beat r...
This beat be bumpin' bumpin'
This beat go boom boom
[Fergie]
I like that boom boom pow
Them chickens jackin' my style
They try to copy my swagga
I'm on that next shit now
I'm so three-thousand and eight
You so two-thousand and late
I got that boom boom boom
That future boom boom boom
Let me get it now
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (Gotta get that)
Boom boom boom (That), Boom boom boom (That)
Boom boom boom, Boom boom boom
Let the beat rock (Let the beat rock)
Let the beat rock (Let the beat...)
Let the beat r... (Let the beat rock, rock, rock, rock)
"Boom Boom Pow" is a single by the Black Eyed Peas released as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D. The song uses the auto-tune vocal effect, and blends the genres of dance pop, electro-hop and hip hop.
"Boom Boom Pow" has topped the Billboard Hot 100, making it the group's first U.S. number-one single. It is the longest-running single to stay atop the Hot 100 in 2009, having kept the position for twelve consecutive weeks. It has also topped the Australian, Canadian and UK singles charts as well as reaching the top 10 in more than 20 countries.
The song sold 465,000 downloads in the U.S. in its first week of digital release, and has so far sold over 2,802,286 downloads in just eleven weeks, making it their highest-selling song in the U.S. to date.[2] The group's only other song to reach the 2 million sales mark in the U.S., "My Humps", took nearly two years to achieve that
Boom Boom Pow" was released to U.S. mainstream radio on March 10, 2009. It was released officially on iTunes in the U.S. on March 30, 2009. It was scheduled to be released in the UK on May 25, 2009, however due to 3 alternative versions of the song entering the UK iTunes Top 50 songs, the Black Eyed Peas version was released 2 weeks early, on Sunday, May 10th. One of their full performances took place at the American Idol Finale of 2009. This had also helped the single to become more well known to the public.
As of June 2009, an unknown number of U.S. radio stations have elected to censor the song's reference to satellite radio.[6] Most UK radio stations have also been found to distort the word satellite radio, and this is the version that appears on the UK CD single.
In the U.S., the single sold 465,000 downloads in its first week of digital release, the third-largest number of download sales in a single week overall, and the largest single-week and debut-download totals by a group in the history of digital-download sales tracking, reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Pop 100. It became the group's first U.S. #1. The song is currently in its twelfth consecutive week at #1 on the Hot 100, making it the longest running #1 song of 2009 to date on the chart, and the first song to spend at least twelve weeks at #1 since Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together" in 2005. "Boom Boom Pow"'s 12-week stay at #1 ties the record held by Eminem's "Lose Yourself" as the longest running Rap/Hip Hop song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The chart week of May 30, 2009 "Boom Boom Pow" became only the fifth song to top both Billboard's Mainstream Top 40 and Rhythmic Top 40 charts in the same week, reaching an estimated audience of 99 million on U.S. radio that week.[16] It was the fifth song of the decade of the 2000s to spend at least eleven weeks at #1, and the seventeenth since 1955. It is the band's first Rhythmic number one, and their second Mainstream Top 40 number one. "Boom Boom Pow" became the first song in digital history to spend its first twelve weeks of release as the most-downloaded song in America, selling at least 200,000 copies a week for eleven straight weeks.[17][18]
It has also topped the charts on the Canadian Hot 100 the same week as on the Hot 100 and on the Australian ARIA Charts. On the New Zealand RIANZ chart, the song has so far peaked at number two. Moreover, it has charted within the top 10 in more than ten countries.[19]
On May 17 2009, it entered the UK Singles Chart at #1 based on almost 75,000 downloads alone. It is the band's second number one in the UK (the other being "Where Is the Love?" which also reached the top of the chart six years prior). It has also reached #3 so far in Ireland.
After being knocked off the number 1 spot in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2009 by "Bonkers" by Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden, the song remained at the #2 slot for 2 weeks before returning to #1 on June 7, 2009. "Bonkers" had meanwhile swapped places with "Boom Boom Pow" and took the #2 slot. This subsequently marks the first time a song has had two separate runs at the summit of the chart since Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" in July 2006.
Chart (2009) Peak
position Australian ARIA Singles Chart[20] 1 Austrian Singles Chart[21] 3 Belgian Singles Chart (Flanders)[22] 1 Belgian Singles Chart (Wallonia)[23] 1 Canadian Hot 100[24] 1 Czech Republic Singles Chart[25] 7 Danish Singles Chart[26] 5 Dutch Singles Chart[27] 4 Irish Singles Chart[28] 3 Israeli Singles Chart[29] 1 Japan Hot 100 Singles[30] 28 New Zealand Singles Chart[31] 2 Norwegian Singles Chart[32] 7 Portuguese Singles Chart[33] 4 Spanish Singles Charts [34] 12 Swedish Singles Chart[35] 10 Swiss Singles Chart[36] 4 Turkey Top 20 Chart[37] 1 UK Singles Chart[38] 1 UK R&B Chart[39] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[40][41] 1 U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs[42] 55 U.S. Billboard Pop 100[43] 1 Certifications Country Certification Sales Australia Platinum[44] 70,000[45] New Zealand Gold [46] 7,500 [47] United Kingdom Silver[citation needed] 345,466[citation needed] United States 2,802,286