The E.N.D. is nigh! No, don't start stocking up on canned goods and drinking water. We just mean that the Black Eyed Peas are occupying pole position on the Billboard 200 albums chart with their CD of that name, thanks to first week sales of 304,000.
Amazingly, this is Fergie and crew's first No.1 collection. Their last album, 2005's Monkey Business, was held off the top spot by Coldplay's X&Y. In other chart news, Aventura's CD Last debuted at No. 5, while Mos Def's latest collection, The Ecstatic, hit No.9.
Pleasure P rounded out the Top Ten with The Introduction of Marcus Cooper. It was also a good week for Sammy Hagar's supergroup Chickenfoot, whose eponymous album is at No. 4.
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The black hair is a bad look. I have heard fergie doing other’s material and she sounds good. SO why does it always sound like she is straining to push out a terd on her albums and the Pea’s. I do love Boom Boom Poop though.
long live bad lyrics and drum machines.
Chickenfoot! Yeah! We’ll take it!
What happened to the Black Eyed Peas? I remember when they first came out they were on the same level as intelligent groups like De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. And then they released “Where is the Love?” which was catchy and definetly aimed for the mainstream. I have no bones with that album…sure it’s poppy but you can’t blame anyone for wanting to hit it big. But the stuff will.i.am has been putting out lately…just garbage. It looks like he’s trying to ride some sort of techno-rap that was tired years ago. will.i.am, I don’t blame you for selling out…I would have done the same for that much money…but it is possible to write hits with your credibility intact.