Hill left the band while producing the album, but was still featured on the album tracks for "Hot" and "Tell Your Mama Come" as well as in the video for "Weekends".Ģ002–2005: Addition of Fergie and Elephunk Their second album, Bridging the Gap (2000), produced the singles " Weekends" featuring Esthero and " Request + Line" featuring R&B singer Macy Gray. Singer Sierra Swan appeared as a guest on the 1998 song "Fallin' Up". One of the singles from the album was " Joints & Jam", and was featured on the Bulworth soundtrack. After being signed to Interscope Records and releasing their debut, Behind the Front (1998) the group (and their accompanying live band) earned critical acclaim. Unlike the " gangsta rap" sounds of Los Angeles-based hip hop acts at the time, the trio performed with a live band and adopted a conscious musical and appearance style. In 1995 will.i.am and apl.de.ap – former members of Atban Klann – formed a new group named as Black Eyed Pods (after renamed as The Black Eyed Peas) with Jaime Gomez ( Taboo), and Kim Hill, a singer who featured on a selected number of their tracks. History 1995–2001: Behind the Front and Bridging the Gap 1.2 2002–2005: Addition of Fergie and Elephunk.1.1 1995–2001: Behind the Front and Bridging the Gap.They were ranked 12th on Billboard 's 2000s Decade-End Artist of the Decade Chart, and 7th on the Hot 100 Artists of the Decade. In February 2011, the group performed in the Super Bowl XLV halftime show.īlack Eyed Peas have sold an estimated 80 million records, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time. In November 2010, they released the album The Beginning. At the 52nd Grammy Awards ceremony, held in January 2010, they won three awards out of six nominations. "I Gotta Feeling" became the first single to sell more than one million downloads in the United Kingdom. produced a third Hot 100 number-one placement with " Imma Be", making the group one of few to ever place three number one singles on the chart from the same album, before being followed with " Rock That Body" and " Meet Me Halfway", which peaked in the top 10 of the Hot 100. In 2009, the group became one of only 11 artists to have simultaneously held the number-one and number-two spots on the Billboard Hot 100, with their singles " Boom Boom Pow" and " I Gotta Feeling", which topped the chart for an unprecedented 26 consecutive weeks. Their fourth album, Monkey Business, was an even bigger worldwide success, and became certified 3× Platinum in the United States. Although the group was founded in Los Angeles in 1995, it was not until the release of their third album, Elephunk, in 2003, that they achieved high record sales.īlack Eyed Peas' first major hit was the 2003 single " Where Is the Love?" from Elephunk, which topped the charts in 13 countries, including the United Kingdom, where it spent seven weeks at number one and went on to become Britain's biggest-selling single of 2003. Originally an alternative hip hop group, they subsequently refashioned themselves as a more marketable pop-rap act. Black Eyed Peas (also known as The Black Eyed Peas) is an American musical group consisting of rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and J.