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"Fergalicious"
Single by Fergie featuring will.i.am
from the album The Dutchess
Released	October 23, 2006 (US)
Format	CD single Digital download
Recorded	2006
Genre	Pop Rap
Length	3:47 - Radio Edit 4:52 - Album Version
Label	A&M
Writer(s)	Dania Maria Birks, Michelle Juana, Juanita A. Lee, Kim Nazel, Rahmi, Fatima Shahled, Fergie, will.i.am
Producer(s)	will.i.am
Chart positions
#1 (Brazil, Russia) #2 (U.S.) #3 (Ibero-America, Lithuania) #4 (UWC,Australia) #5 (New Zealand) #6 (Latin America, Singapore) #9 (Euro Top 20) #11 (Mexico, Belgium) #15 (France) #18 (Latvia)
Fergie featuring will.i.am singles chronology
"London Bridge" (2006)	"Fergalicious" (2006)	"Glamorous" (2007)

"Fergalicious" is the second single from Fergie's debut solo album, The Dutchess. It features Black Eyed Peas member will.i.am, who also produced the track. "Fergalicious" was not officially released in the UK, where "Glamorous" was officially made the second single instead.^[1]

Contents 1 About the record 2 Music video 3 Track listing 4 Charts 5 References

It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #79, ascending to #2 several weeks later after being the largest sales gainer, hitting #1 on the Pop 100 for a week. It has, thus far, peaked at #26 on the AOL Airplay Chart and #2 on the AOL Digital Download Chart. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, being kept from #1 by having been removed from iTunes for several days which hurt its sales during a critical period and by Beyonce's Irreplaceable.

The song heavily samples "Give It All You Got" by Afro-Rican and "Supersonic" by J. J. Fad.^[2] 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"). 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 Fergie and delicious.

On December 4, 2006, Fergie and will.i.am performed the song live at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards and Big In '06 Awards.

The video premiered on MTV on October 24, 2006 and premiered on Yahoo! Music on October 31, 2006. The music video was filmed in Hollywood, and directed by Fatima Robinson, who also directed the "My Humps" music video. will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas also appears in the video, which features Fergie in a Willy Wonka inspired factory, called "Fergieland" filled with various types of candy. The video starts with factory workers packaging boxes of "Fergalicious" candy. In the beginning the video, Fergie sings in a field of candy canes with many other people wearing strange outfits. Throughout the video, she wears a tan and khaki girl scout outfit, swims in a pile of candy, works out in a colorful gym, sings in a room filled with lollipops and other candies while dressed like Shirley Temple, and pops out of a cake while wearing a tiny blue swimsuit with gems encrusted on the exterior. She then starts watching two women wrestle in ice cream before joining in with them at the end of the video.

On VH1's annual "Top 40 Videos of the Year", this year in 2006, Fergalicious was picked as #16.

Maxi-CD

1. "Fergalicious" (album version) — 4:52
2. "Paradise" — 4:08
3. "London Bridge" (live version) — 2:43
4. "Fergalicious" (music video) — 3:52

2-track CD

1. "Fergalicious" (album version) — 4:52
2. "Paradise" — 4:08

Chart (2006)	Peak position[3]
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	2
U.S. Billboard Pop 100	1
U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream	2
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40	6
Ibero-America Top 100[4]	3
Top Latino (Latin America Top 40 Airplay)[5]	6
Mexico Top 100	11
Hot100Brasil	1
Chile Top 100	19
UK Official Download Chart	26
United World Chart	4
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	4
France Singles Chart	15
New Zealand Singles Chart	5
Lithuania	3
Romanian Top 100	36
Singapore Top 20 Singles[6]	4
Greece Top 50 Singles	17
Belgium Top 50 Singles	11
Swedish Charts	22
Czech IFPI Chart	31
Dutch top 30	2
Dutch x-charts	18
los 40 chile	3