BLACK EYED PEAS SET U.S. RECORD FOR MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER ONE
The BLACK EYED PEAS have made U.S. pop chart history by scoring the most consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 countdown.
The hip-hop group have topped the singles chart for 20 consecutive weeks - surpassing Usher’s previous record of 19.
Boom Boom Pow - their first number one single - and the song that dislodged it, I Gotta Feeling, have been at the top of the charts for 12 and eight weeks, respectively.
Frontman will.i.am is celebrating getting one over the band’s critics.
He says, "There’s a part of me that wants to be cocky, but then I can’t be cocky. There’s a part of me that wants to call out all of my other peers and competitors. I knew that Boom Boom Pow would be big in the clubs." The band isn’t just enjoying success in just their native U.S. - on Monday (17Aug09), the foursome reclaimed their spot at the top of the U.K. singles chart with I Gotta Feeling.
Considering the achievement, will.i.am adds, "How am I supposed to take this and soak this in? If these people like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson have these number ones, but yet we just broke a record, how am I supposed to take that because we came from the under, under, underground."
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