Pump It Black Eyed Peas

Posted by spainops on Apr 29, 2010 in Featured |

Pump It Black Eyed Peas

With Pump It Black Eyed Peas launched the fourth single from their 2005 album Monkey Business.The song is about turning up the music, dancing, going wild and just doing your thing. The music is based on Dick Dale’s version of the song “Miserlou” which was featured in the Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction.

The song got a good deal of publicity getting featured in commercial spots for Best Buy in 2005 and Big Momma’s House 2, Cars and Pepsi in 2006, in addition to the main music in the pre-game of Edmonton Oilers home games during their 2006 playoff run. The track was remixed for The Black Eyed Peas fifth studio album The E.N.D. as “Pump It Harder.”

How Pump It Came To Be Written

“I was in Brazil doing some CD shopping,” Black Eyed Peas member Will.I.Am recalls. “I came across this compilation album
and I thought it was one thing but it turned out to be something else. The Dick Dale song Miserlou was on it. At first, I was angry this isn’t what I wanted to buy,” he laughs. “But then, really, that song is hot. I said, ‘We should do a song like this.’ I jump-started the computer and made some beats on the train. Then we had to fly to Tokyo and I tightened up the beat on the plane. Then I recorded vocals in this park in Tokyo, and that’s how we recorded the song ‘Pump It’.”

How Has Pump It Performed ?

Before the single had been officially released, the song actually peaked at #82 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 2005. It was primarily based on digital download strength because of getting exposed in the Best Buy ads. After its official airplay release, it peaked at #18 in March 2006. The single was released in stores in the US on February 14, 2006 and in the UK on March 13, 2006. This particular single, in comparison to all the other singles from Monkey Business, has been fairly weak on the US Charts, becoming the worst ranking single from the album. One possible element of this is it had been released after The Pussycat Dolls single “Beep” was released, which has vocals from Will.I.Am, or that My Humps was still in rotation and on the charts when it was released. By April, 2009, the song had to date sold 1,390,000 digital downloads in the United States.

The song actually did much better in various other countries. In Australia, the song peaked at #6. The song was also well-liked in the UK, becoming their 8th hit single there. “Pump It” peaked at #3 on the UK singles chart, equalling the chart success of their previous single “My Humps”.