The Beginning (The Black Eyed Peas album)

The Beginning
Studio album by The Black Eyed Peas
Released November 26, 2010 (2010-11-26)
Recorded 2010
Ibiza, Spain;
Glenwood Place Studios
(Burbank, California);
Venice, Italy;
Ethernet Studios
(Los Angeles, California);
Germano Studios
(New York City, New York);
The Record Plant
(Los Angeles, California);
Toronto, Canada;
The Stewchia
(Los Feliz, California)
Genre Hip hop,[1][2] electro,[3][4] techno[3][4]
Length 54:05
Label Interscope, will.i.am
Producer will.i.am (also exec.), DJ Ammo, Free School, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, apl.de.ap, Replay, Sandy Vee, Labrinth
The Black Eyed Peas chronology
The E.N.D.
(2009)		 The Beginning
(2010)
Singles from The Beginning
  1. "The Time (Dirty Bit)"
    Released: November 5, 2010 (2010-11-05)
  2. "Just Can't Get Enough"
    Released: February 18, 2011 (2011-02-18)
  3. "Don't Stop the Party"
    Released: June 24, 2011 (2011-06-24)

The Beginning is the sixth studio album by American hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas. The album was released on November 26, 2010 by Interscope. The lead single, "The Time (Dirty Bit)," was released on November 9, 2010. The second single was "Just Can't Get Enough" and it was released on February 18, 2011. The final single was "Don't Stop the Party" and was released on May 10, 2011.The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 119,000 copies in the United States.

Contents

Background

On June 6, 2010, the band confirmed that they were working on a new album in an interview for The Big Issue. The album was described as a sequel to The E.N.D. will.i.am announced that the new album, which "symbolizes growth, new beginnings, and starts a fresh new perspective," would be titled The Beginning and be released on November 30, 2010.[5] The album was officially announced in a press release on October 26, 2010.[6]

Some songs were made available as promotional singles for the album release. The first, "Do It Like This", was released on November 15, 2010,[7] and the second, Light Up the Night on November 22, 2010.[8] The Beginning was a part of Oprah's Favorite Things for 2010, and the audience was given the album 11 days before its official release.[9]

A tour called "The Beginning Massive Stadium Tour" began in June 2011 in France and ended in November 2011 with a total of 20 shows.[10]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 119,000 copies in the United States.[11] It is their third album to chart inside the top ten, but their lowest charting album since Elephunk, which peaked at number 14 in 2003. As of May 2011, the album had sold over 648,700 copies in the United States.[12]

In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number 17 selling 34,006 copies. Usually, selling over 30,000 copies is enough to get an album into the top 10. However, due to the usual strong competition in the autumn, it failed to debut in the top 10. After a performance on The X Factor on December 5, 2010, the album rose eight places to number nine and since spent three weeks in the top ten. In Canada, it debuted at number two selling 27,400 copies in its first week, being kept of the top spot by a margin of 200 copies behind Susan Boyle's The Gift.[13] The album debuted at number one in France, selling 35,653 copies in its first week.[14] It is The Black Eyed Peas' third consecutive number-one album in the country.

In Germany, the album debuted at number five and started to slowly fall down. In its third week, the album was at No. 9 but could jump to No. 7 the following week. Following the success of the single "The Time (Dirty Bit)", the album rose from No. 7 to No. 2 in its fifth week, the album's peak position.[15][16]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]
Billboard [17]
Chicago Tribune [18]
Entertainment Weekly (B+)[1]
The Guardian [19]
The Independent [3]
musicOMH [20]
The New York Times (negative)[21]
Rolling Stone [22]
Spin [23]

The Beginning received generally mixed reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 47, based on 19 reviews, which indicates "mixed or average reviews."[24]

Monica Herrera wrote for Billboard that "the music is expertly produced, but problems arise when Will.i.am claims the same of his wordplay. On the track "Don't Stop the Party," he chest-thumps, "Kill you with my lyricals/Call me verbal criminal." It's a silly boast for an artist who clearly focuses on beats over rhymes, and is probably better off for it."[17] Kevin O'Donnell of Spin described the album as "one of the year's wildest sonic stews" and concluded "Pop's reigning peddlers of dumb fun are actually starting to sound stylishly avant-garde on their sixth album." The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave the album 3 out of 5 stars calling it "upscale hip-pop" and said that "the Black Eyed Peas have created an album similar to 2009's enormously successful The END, but with more Auto-Tune and less input from the wonderful Fergie."[19] Rolling Stone reviewer Jon Dolan viewed that the album "largely picks up where The E.N.D. left off" and felt that "they give themselves over more fully than ever to the groove palette of club culture, stirring up electro funk, Euro-trance and classic disco."[22] John Bush of Allmusic gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, and noted that although David Guetta only appears on one track "his production job for 2009’s “I Gotta Feeling” casts a long shadow on this record of don't-stop-the-party jams and club-life tracks."[2]

Entertainment Weekly writer Simon Vozick-Levinson gave the album a very positive review and stated "The Beginning wisely sticks with the heavier electronic beats they began importing from European clubs for The E.N.D. — a key ingredient that transformed the Black Eyed Peas from merely major stars to arguably the biggest chart act going [...] Every song is piled high with sticky pop melodies, slick hip-hop rhythms, bright synth parts, and vocals that have been diced and processed to high heaven, all furthering the goal of maximum catchiness."[1] Greg Kot of Chicago Tribune gave the album 1.5 out of 4 stars and called it "the quartet’s tamest, most hook-deprived album in the Fergie era" and stated "the music’s reliance on rhythmic and lyrical repetition (as opposed to progression and surprise) becomes wearying."[18] In his review for The Independent, Andy Gill wrote "It's a textbook blend of the over-familiar and the electronically treated, though their use of auto-tune and digital-stutter vocal effects is a touch more restrained than usual. From there on, the aspect never extends beyond the dancefloor, with martial synth-stomp riffs, spartan electro beats and loping bass grooves driving tracks."[3] Ben Ratliff of The New York Times gave the album a negative review and noted it similarities with its predecessor, The E.N.D. with few differences, "less of Fergie’s actressy, un-Autotuned belting (too bad about that), bolder two-step techno beats, more heavily draped synthesizer tones and a fascination with late ’70s and early ’80s pop radio." and found the lyrics "soggy" and "cynical."[21] musicOMH writer Luke Winkie stated that "will.i.am's productions sound like the bare minimum one could throw together and call a beat, usually encompassed by a simplified drum sequence and a buzzsaw synth turned up to the red and repeated long enough for DJs to make their paycheck" and wrote "the band has a knack of elongating their elementally good ideas into preposterously tiresome compositions."[20]

Singles

Promotional Singles

Other Notable Songs

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "The Time (Dirty Bit)"   William Adams, Allan Pineda, Damien LeRoy, Franke Previte, John DeNicola, Donald Markowitz will.i.am, DJ Ammo 5:07
2. "Light Up the Night"   Adams, Pineda, Keith Harris, Ricky Walters will.i.am 4:21
3. "Love You Long Time"   Adams, Fergie, Joshua Alvarez will.i.am 3:45
4. "XOXOXO"   Adams, Pineda, Jean Baptiste will.i.am 3:45
5. "Someday"   Adams, Baptiste, Pineda, Jaime Gomez will.i.am, Free School* 4:33
6. "Whenever"   Adams, Ferguson will.i.am 3:16
7. "Fashion Beats"   Adams, Ferguson, Harris, Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards will.i.am, DJ Ammo 5:20
8. "Don't Stop the Party"   Adams, Pineda, Gomez, Ferguson, Alvarez, LeRoy DJ Ammo, will.i.am* 6:07
9. "Do It Like This"   Adams, Pineda, Gomez, LeRoy DJ Ammo 5:29
10. "The Best One Yet (The Boy)"   Adams, Pineda, Gomez, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort, Sylvia Gordon, Baptiste will.i.am, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort 4:25
11. "Just Can't Get Enough"   Adams, Pineda, Gomez, Ferguson, Alvarez, Stephen Shadowen, Rodney Jerkins, Julie Frost will.i.am, Rodney Jerkins* 3:39
12. "Play It Loud"   Adams, Michael McHenry, Baptiste, Alain Whyte Free School 4:21

Deluxe edition

(*) denotes co-producer

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits for The Beginning adapted from Allmusic.[36]

  • Joshua Alvarez – composer
  • Eddie Axley – logo design
  • Jean Baptiste – composer
  • Davis Barnett – viola
  • Chris Bellman – mastering
  • Michelle Bishop – violin
  • Jennifer Bowling – marketing coordinator
  • John DeNicola – composer
  • Dennis Dennehy – publicity
  • William Derella – management
  • DJ Ammo – drum programming, Moog bass, producer, synthesizer
  • Dylan Dresdow – mixing
  • Bernard Edwards – composer
  • Stacy Ferguson – composer
  • Ghislaine Fleischmann – violin
  • Ruth Frazier – viola
  • Julie Frost – composer
  • Free School – producer
  • Larry Gold – conductor, string arrangements
  • Jaime Gomez – composer
  • Sylvia Gordon – composer
  • David Guetta – composer, drum programming, producer, synthesizer
  • Keith Harris – composer, Fender Rhodes, grand piano, piano, synthesizer
  • Julie Hovsepian – product manager
  • Tomoko Itoki – marketing
  • Neil Jacobson – A&R
  • Rodney Jerkins – composer
  • Thomas Brown – composer
  • Justin Franks (DJ Frank E) – producer
  • Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins – producer
  • Andy Kalyvas – mastering assistant
  • Olga Konopelsky – violin
  • Tom Kraines – cello
  • Emma Kummrow – violin
  • Tamae Lee – violin
  • Damien Leroy – composer
  • Jonathan Levine – booking
  • Josh Lopez – guitar
  • Jennie Lorenzo – cello
  • Deborah Mannis-Gardner – sample clearance
  • Donald Markowitz – composer
  • Michael McHenry – composer
  • Erica Miller – violin
  • Polo Molina – management
  • Huan Nghiem – art direction
  • Padraic 'Padlock' Kerin – engineer, production coordination
  • Charles Parker – violin
  • Allan Pineda – composer
  • Franke Previte – composer
  • Brenda Reynoso – publicity
  • Nile Rodgers – composer
  • Dante Santiago – A&R
  • Stephen Shadowen – composer
  • James Durkin – recording assistant
  • Pasha Shapiro – art direction
  • Hillary Siskind – publicity
  • David Sonenberg – management
  • Caleb Speir – bass
  • Anthony Taglianetti – mixing assistant
  • Gregory Teperman – violin
  • Scott Thomas – booking
  • Giorgio Tuinfort – composer, drum programming, producer, synthesizer
  • Andrew Van Meter – producer
  • Jorge Velasco – mixing assistant
  • Ricky Waters – composer
  • Ernst Weber – art direction
  • Alain Whyte – guitar
  • will.i.am – art direction, bass, composer, drum programming, engineer, executive producer, Fender Rhodes, logo design, Moog bass, producer, synthesizer
  • Ianthe Zevos – creation

Charts and certifications

Charts

Chart (2010–11) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[37] 8
Austrian Albums Chart[37] 7
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[37] 6
Belgian Albums Chart (Wallonia)[37] 2
Canadian Albums Chart[13] 2
Czech Albums Chart[38] 18
Dutch Albums Chart[37] 34
French Albums Chart[37] 1
German Albums Chart[39] 2
Greek Albums Chart[37] 7
Hungarian Albums Chart[40] 34
Irish Albums Chart[41] 13
Italian Albums Chart[42] 25
Mexican Albums Chart[37] 2
New Zealand Albums Chart[37] 12
Scottish Albums Chart[43] 13
Spanish Albums Chart[37] 17
Swedish Albums Chart[37] 58
Swiss Albums Chart[37] 3
UK Albums Chart[44] 8
UK Dance Albums Chart[45] 1
US Billboard 200[11] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (2010) Rank
German Albums Chart[46] 52
Chart (2011) Rank
Austrian Albums Chart[47] 45
Canadian Albums Chart[48] 4
Swiss Albums Chart[49] 18

Certifications

Country Certifications
Australia Platinum[50]
Belgium Platinum[51]
Europe Platinum[52]
France 2× Platinum[53]
Germany Platinum[54]
Ireland Platinum[55]
Italy Gold[56]
Japan Gold[57]
Mexico Platinum[58]
Switzerland Platinum[59]

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Lunatic by Booba		 French Albums Chart number-one album
5 December 2010 – 12 December 2010		 Succeeded by
Bleu Noir by Mylène Farmer

Release history

List of release dates, showing country, record label, and edition
Region Date Label Edition
Australia[60][61] November 26, 2010 Universal Music Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe
Germany[62]
Argentina[63]
Poland[64]
United Kingdom[65] November 29, 2010 Polydor Standard
France[66]
Hong Kong[67] Universal Music
Mexico[68] November 30, 2010 Interscope
Greece
United States
Italy
Japan[69] December 1, 2010 Universal Music Deluxe
Colombia[70]
Brazil[71][72] December 3, 2010

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