Hey Mama (3:47)

Hey Mama is a song by the American hip hop band Black Eyed Peas. It reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 2004 single is the third one taken from their 2003 album Elephunk.

* Played in the first “silhouette” television commercial for the iPod.
* Played in the 2004 films Along Came Polly and Garfield: The Movie.
* Played in a 2006 episode of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County.

“Hey Mama” was released as the album’s third single in 2004 and was a moderate hit. The single was played in the original television commercial for the iPod, and was also played in the movie Garfield : The movie. “Hey Mama” has reached #3 in Switzerland, #4 in Australia, Austria and New Zealand. It has also reached #6 in the UK becoming their third top ten hit. “Hey Mama” also reached #9 in Canada and #23 in the US becoming another success for the group. The song was also featured in 2007 in Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 3 on the Xbox gaming system.

“Hey Mama” was Black Eyed Peas’s first song to chart on the Latin America Top 40 (tied with “Shut Up” which debuted the same week at #28.); it debuted and peaked in the week that the chart was created at #35, mostly because the chart was created after its peak in Latin-American countries.

The single was also sampled for their 2006 hit, “Mas Que Nada”.