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Artist News
Peas single hits one million UK downloads
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 22 June 2010
The Black Eyed Peas’ track ‘I Gotta Feeling’ has become the first ever single to be downloaded more than one million times in the UK. Why? No one can say. People must be downloading it accidentally or hacking into their enemies’ computers and buying it multiple times. Or a million people may have downloaded it because they actually want to listen to it, although that seems quite unlikely.
The band’s Will.i.am said of the achievement: “Wow! Out of all the artists in the world? I had a feeling I was supposed to move to the UK”.
Singer Fergie added: “It’s exhilarating to know we are so connected to our Peabodies [she means BEP fans]. Hopefully, the good vibes from that song will continue to brighten people’s lives”.
Official Charts Company MD Martin Talbot then butted the pair of them out of the way and screamed: “Many congratulations to the Black Eyed Peas for an incredible achievement which is all the more impressive for being a record which can never be taken away from them. Black Eyed Peas will forever be able to state that they scored the UK’s first million-selling download and ‘I Gotta Feeling’ is now firmly established as one of the defining tunes of our time”.
He continued: “Their landmark also represents a coming of age for digital downloading, six years after music downloading moved into the UK mainstream in 2004 through the launch of services including 7Digital, iTunes and MyCokeMusic – and underlines the enduring, and growing, popularity of legitimate digital music today”.
‘I Gotta Feeling’ was originally released in June last year and became the group’s third UK number one single. They also currently stand as the group who have sold more downloads than any other in the UK too, having racked up sales of over 3.3 million tracks in total.
