The song contains an interpolation of "Supersonic" by J.J. Fad and heavily samples "Give It All You Got" by Afro-Rican. It also features elements from "Night Train" by James Brown and "It's More Fun to Compute" by Kraftwerk (both sampled in "Give It All You Got"). The riff at the opening of the song and featured throughout is from Dominic Frontiere's theme music for the 60's TV show The Rat Patrol. will.i.am's opening line is an interpolation of the opening line of 2 Live Crew's "Throw the D." The word "Fergalicious" is a portmanteau of the words 'Fergie' and 'delicious'. Spelling is a large part of the song's lyrics, with vocalists spelling Fergie's name, the word 'delicious', and the word 'tasty', albeit 'tastey'. Besides in the song Fergie uses three foreign words, such as "tres" (Spanish number translated as "three"), "uno" (Italian & Spanish number translated as "one") and "loco" (Spanish adjective translated as "crazy").
The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 several months after its release. However, "Fergalicious" managed to top the Pop 100 chart and spent 14 weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. "Fergalicious" was extremely successful as a digital song; in January 2007, it sold 295,000 downloads in a single week, holding the record for the most downloaded song in a single week (which has since been broken by Flo Rida's "Low", and songs by other artists including The Black Eyed Peas). As of August 2008, "Fergalicious" has been downloaded for over 2,740,000 times in the U.S. alone.
The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 several months after its release. However, "Fergalicious" managed to top the Pop 100 chart and spent 14 weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. "Fergalicious" was extremely successful as a digital song; in January 2007, it sold 295,000 downloads in a single week, holding the record for the most downloaded song in a single week (which has since been broken by Flo Rida's "Low", and songs by other artists including The Black Eyed Peas). As of August 2008, "Fergalicious" has been downloaded for over 2,740,000 times in the U.S. alone.
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