"My Humps" Achieves Milestone as Industry's FIRST 2 million Selling Master Tone!

(Santa Monica, CA) Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit single "My Humps" passes 2-Million million Master Tones sales in the US this week according to Universal Music Mobile, a division of Universal Music Group (UMG) – making it the top selling Master Tone of all time, and the first to reach this 2- Million million landmark.
 

(A Master Tone is an excerpt of the actual master recording rather than a synthesized ringtone used to personalize a mobile phone.) "My Humps" is the longest-running hit from the RIAA triple-platinum CD Monkey Business, which has sold more than six million plus copies worldwide since its release back in June 2005, and is in its 39th week on the Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts.

History
The Black Eyed Peas dates back to 1989, when eighth graders will.i.am (Born: Will Adams) and apl.de.ap (Born: Allen Pineda) met and began rapping and performing together around Los Angeles. The pair signed to Ruthless Records (run by Eazy-E) after catching the attention of Eazy-E manager Jerry Heller's nephew. Along with another friend of theirs, Dante Santiago, they called their trio Atban Klann. Their debut album was never released because Ruthless did not consider the positive themes reflected in the group's music to be marketable to their audience.

After Eazy-E died of AIDS in 1995 (see 1995 in music), Atban Klann reformed as the Black Eyed Peas, replacing their original third member with Taboo (Born: Jaime Gomez), and having Kim Hill as a steady background singer. Unlike many hip-hop acts, they chose to perform with a live band and adopted a musical and clothing style that differed wildly from the "Gangsta Rap" sounds of other Los Angeles-based hip-hop acts at the time. Through the mid-'90s, they performed in the local club circuit alongside fellow acts as Ozomatli and Jurassic 5. After being signed to Interscope Records and releasing their debut, Behind the Front (1998, 1998 in music) the group (and their accompanying live band) earned critical acclaim. The hit single from the album was "Joints and Jam", and featured on the Bulworth soundtrack. Their second album was 2000's Bridging the Gap (2000 in music), which had the hit "Request + Line" featuring Macy Gray. (Source: Wikipedia)