Monkey Business (album)

***Monkey Business*** is the fourth studio album by American hip hop group, Black Eyed Peas. It was released on May 25, 2005, by the will.i.am Music Group and A&M Records. It was the groups second album to feature R&B singer Fergie as a member.

## Personnel

Credits adapted from _Monkey Business_ liner notes:

- William Adams – conceptual design, producer (tracks 1-2, 4-10, 12-15) (also executive), audio mixing (track 14), rap vocals, vocals sung by (All tracks), bass (tracks 1, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14), drum machine (1, 4-5, 7, 9, 12, 15), drums (15), synthesizer (1, 7, 12, 14), clavinet keyboard (5, 11), organ (5, 9), rhodes piano (8, 11), additional instruments (6)
- Stacy "Fergie" Ferguson - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-8, 10-11, 13, 15)
- Allen "apl.de.ap" Pineda - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-4, 6-8, 10-12, 14-15), Clavinet keyboard (8), drum machine (8), strings played by (8), producer (8)
- Jaime "Taboo" Gomez - rap vocals, vocals sung by (tracks 1-2, 4, 6-8, 11, 13, 15)
- Marcella Araica - assistant recording engineer, Pro-Tools music editing (track 3)
- Charlie Baccarat - electric violin (track 2)
- Printz Board - Mellotron strings (tracks 2, 7-8), Mellotron keyboards (13), Moog synthesizer (7, 10), synthesizer (8, 13), bass (8, 10), drums (8), drum machine (13), trumpet (9-11, 13), keyboards (10), Rhodes piano (10), producer (8, 13)
- Ray Brady - guitar (tracks 4, 7)
- James Brown - additional lead vocals sung by (track 10)
- Venus Brown – DJ scratching (track 3), background vocals (10), A&R management
- Demo Castelleon - recording engineer (track 3)
- Mino Cinelu - sampled percussion (track 15)
- Fred Davis – legal representation
- Dylan "3-D" Dresdow - vocal recording engineer (track 8)
- Ron Fair – executive producer, additional music producer (track 4), string arrangements (2, 9), strings conducted by (9), harmonica (4)
- Shepard Fairey – album cover and logo designer
- Mike Fratantuono - bass (track 13)
- Seth Friedman – A&R management, cover art director, manager
- Brian Gardner – mastering
- Serban Ghenea – audio mixing (tracks 5, 10-12, 15)
- Dennis Gomez – booklet design
- Cee-Lo Green - additional rap vocals (track 6)
- Keith Harris - live drums (track 7), drums (2, 7, 13-14), keyboards (7), Mellotron strings (7), percussion (8)
- Tal Herzberg - recording engineer (tracks 1-2, 4, 9), Pro-Tools music programming (2, 4)
- Julie Hovsepian – product manager
- Ted Howard - recording engineer (track 6)
- Tippa Irie - background vocals (track 7)
- Jack Johnson  - guitar played by, additional vocals sung by (track 9)
- Mike Jurkovac – cover art director
- Manu Katche - sampled drums (track 15)
- Kenny Kirkland - sampled keyboards (track 15)
- Talib Kweli - additional rap vocals (track 6)
- Sarah Larkin – business manager
- John Legend - additional vocals sung by (track 6)
- Melvin "Chaos" Lewis - recording engineer (track 11), bass, drum machine (11)
- Jimmy Limon - bass, Clavinet keyboard, organ, drum machine, percussion, guitar (track 12)
- Lor-e – stylist
- Branford Marsalis - sampled soprano saxophone (track 15)
- Edward Martinez – booklet art director and photographer
- Tony Maserati - audio mixing (tracks 3, 7-8, 13)
- Michael Matthews - guitar (track 11)
- Polo Molina – manager
- Osinachi Nwaneri - recording engineer (track 6)
- Tim "Izo" Orindgreff - saxophone (tracks 9-11, 13), flute (13)
- George Pajon Jr. - guitar (tracks 1-4, 8, 10, 13)
- Jack Joseph Puig - audio mixing (track 9)
- Q-Tip - rap vocals (track 6)
- Kevin Rudolf - guitar (track 3)
- Dante Santiago – background vocals (tracks 8, 10-11, 13), additional lead vocals (7), A&R management coordination
- Justin Siegel – A&R management coordination
- Madeleine Smith – music clearance
- David Sonenberg – manager
- Mike "Spike" Stent - audio mixing (tracks 1-2, 4)
- Sting - additional vocals sung by (track 15), sampled bass (15)
- Robert "Mousey" Thompson - bass, Clavinet keyboard, drums, drum machine, organ (track 10)
- Justin Timberlake - additional vocals sung by (track 3)
- Timbaland - additional rap vocals (track 3), all other instruments (3)
- Neil Tucker - recording engineer (tracks 2, 8, 10-11, 13)
- Andrew Van Meter – production manager
- Jason Villaroman - recording engineer (tracks 1, 3-5, 7, 12, 14-15)
- Jeff Watkins - saxophone (track 10)
- Albert Watson – photographer
- Ethan Willoughby - recording engineer, audio mixing (track 6)
- Damon Woods - guitar (track 10)
- Florencio Zavala – album cover and logo designer
- Mike Rotch – Fergie's graphic layout – director

## Charts, certifications and sales

|Chart (2005–06)|Peak position|Certification|Sales|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Argentinian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|Platinum|40,000+||||
|Australian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|6× Platinum|420,000||||
|Austrian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|2|–|–||||
|Canadian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|6× Platinum|600,000||||
|Danish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|3|–|–||||
|Dutch Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|3|–|–||||
|Finnish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|4|–|–||||
|French Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|2× Platinum|439,000||||
|Germany Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|Platinum|200,000||||
|Greek Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|13|Gold|10,000||||
|Italian Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|10|Platinum|80,000||||
|Japanese Albums Chart|style="text-align:center"|3|Platinum|340,000+||||
|Mexican Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|3× Gold|150,000||||
|New Zealand Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|4× Platinum|60,000||||
|Norway Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|15|–|–||||
|Platinum|20,000+|||||||
|Spain Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|5|Platinum|150,000+||||
|Swedish Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|16|Gold|20,000||||
|Switzerland Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|1|2× Platinum|80,000||||
|U.S _Billboard_ 200|style="text-align:center;"|3|4× Platinum|4,272,000||||
|UK Albums Chart|style="text-align:center;"|4|3× Platinum|1,065,834||||
|align="left"|Worldwide|align="left"|-|style="text-align:center;"|-|style="text-align:center;"|10,000,000 +|

## Release history

|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Edition|scope="col"|Format|scope="col"|Label|scope="col"||
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|May 25, 2005|rowspan="13"|Standard|rowspan="12"|CD|rowspan="3"|Universal||||||
|May 27, 2005||||||||||||
|May 29, 2005||||||||||||
|rowspan="4"|May 30, 2005|Polydor||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|Universal|||||||||||
|Polydor||||||||||||
|May 31, 2005|rowspan="5"|Universal||||||||||
|rowspan="2"|June 1, 2005|||||||||||
|rowspan="3"|June 7, 2005|||||||||||
||A&M|||||||||||
|August 31, 2005|Tour|CD+DVD|rowspan="7"|Universal||||||||
|September 27, 2006|rowspan="6"|Standard|rowspan="4"|CD||||||||
|May 23, 2007||||||||||||
|November 19, 2008||||||||||||
|March 4, 2009||||||||||||
|September 9, 2009|rowspan="2"|SHM-CD||||||||||
|October 17, 2012||||||||||||

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Monkey Business
- **type**: Studio album
- **artist**: Black Eyed Peas
- **released**: May 25, 2005
- **recorded**: June–December 2004
- **studio**: *
*
* Glenwood (Burbank, California, Burbank)
* Morning View (Malibu, California, Malibu)
* Smart Studios, Smart (Madison, Wisconsin, Madison)
* The Brothel (Philadelphia)
* Osi and Calvin (Washington, D.C.)
* Hit Factory Criteria (Miami)
* Metropolis Group, Metropolis (London)
* Unnamed location (Berlin)
* Bullet Train (Japan)
* The Peas Tour Bus
* will.i.am Protools Rig
- **genre**: * Hip hop music, Hip hop
* funk
* Contemporary R&B, R&B
- **length**: 66:03
- **label**: * A&M Records, A&M
* Interscope Records, Interscope
* will.i.am Music Group, will.i.am
- **producer**: * apl.de.ap
* Printz Board
* Danja (record producer), Danja
* Ron Fair
* Noize Trip
* Timbaland
* will.i.am
- **prev title**: Elephunk
- **prev year**: 2003
- **next title**: Renegotiations: The Remixes
- **next year**: 2006