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The Black Eyed Peas have sold an estimated 80 million records, making them one of the best-selling musical acts of all time. Billboard ranked them 12th on its 2000s Decade-End Artist of the Decade Chart and 7th on the Hot 100 Artists of the Decade.
The Black Eyed Peas formed in Los Angeles in 1992, tracing their origins to 1988 when will.i.am and apl.de.ap met at an all-ages venue called Club What?. They adopted the Black Eyed Peas name after an earlier incarnation as Atban Klann on Ruthless Records.
The Black Eyed Peas held the top two positions on the Billboard Hot 100 for 26 consecutive weeks in 2009, from the 18th of April through the 10th of October, a record at the time for the longest successive number one chart run by a duo or group. "Boom Boom Pow" held number one for 12 weeks and "I Gotta Feeling" then held it for the remaining weeks.
Fergie, born Stacy Ferguson, joined the Black Eyed Peas in 2002 after being introduced to the band by Dante Santiago. She was officially confirmed to have left the group on the 18th of February 2018, when will.i.am announced her departure in an interview with the Daily Star.
"Boom Boom Pow", released on the 30th of March 2009, was the group's first number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. It sold 465,000 downloads in its first week, which was at that time the largest debut-week download total ever recorded by a group, and held the top spot for twelve consecutive weeks.
The Black Eyed Peas founded the Peapod Adobe Youth Voices academy in Manhattan, which opened on the 19th of July 2011. Run in collaboration with the Adobe Foundation and housed in a building operated by the Urban Arts Partnership, the school serves teenagers aged 13 to 19 and provides professional training in video production, music, camera work, editing, and graphic design.