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.

 Track listings 

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)PeakpositionCertificationSalesArgentinian Albums Chart1Platinum40,000+Australian Albums Chart16× Platinum420,000Austrian Albums Chart2 – –Canadian Albums Chart16× Platinum600,000Danish Albums Chart3 – –Dutch Albums Chart3 – –Finnish Albums Chart4 – –French Albums Chart12× Platinum439,000Germany Albums Chart1Platinum200,000Greek Albums Chart13Gold10,000Italian Albums Chart10 Platinum 80,000Japanese Albums Chart3 Platinum 340,000+Mexican Albums Chart13× Gold150,000New Zealand Albums Chart14× Platinum60,000Norway Albums Chart15 – – Platinum 20,000+Spain Albums Chart5Platinum150,000+Swedish Albums Chart16Gold20,000Switzerland Albums Chart12× Platinum80,000U.S Billboard 20034× Platinum4,272,000UK Albums Chart43× Platinum1,065,834Worldwide--10,000,000 +

 Release history 
 Country Date Edition Format Label  Italy May 25, 2005 Standard CD Universal  Japan May 27, 2005  Australia May 29, 2005  France May 30, 2005 Polydor  Germany Universal  Portugal  United Kingdom Polydor  Poland May 31, 2005 Universal  Denmark June 1, 2005  Sweden  Canada June 7, 2005  New Zealand  United States  A&M Release of Monkey Business in the United States:
 CD: 
 LP:  Japan August 31, 2005 Tour CD+DVD Universal  September 27, 2006 Standard CD  May 23, 2007  November 19, 2008  March 4, 2009  September 9, 2009 SHM-CD  October 17, 2012 

References

Category:2005 albums
Category:Black Eyed Peas albums
Category:Hip hop albums
Category:Funk albums
Category:R&B albums
Category:Interscope Records albums
Category:A&M Records albums