It was scheduled to be released in the UK on May 25, 2009, however due to three alternative versions of the song entering the UK iTunes Top 50 songs, the Black Eyed Peas version was released two weeks early, on Sunday, May 10. It was released officially on iTunes in the U.S. Radio is what the people want, and "Boom Boom Pow" is proof that if something's dope, regardless of if it has that sprinkled radio vibe, that it should be played on the radio and the people are gonna like it. " Big Girls Don't Cry", ooh this sounds like a radio song, let me put some radio touch on it.' That don't exist anymore. For example, when we made " Don't Lie", I was like 'oh, let's make this radio friendly. Like, if I would've thought that was gonna be a radio song, I would've made it different. "Boom Boom Pow" was made for underground clubs. Following the band's record breaking success with "Boom Boom Pow" and "I Gotta Feeling", will.i.am commented in a video on Billboard on the song's success, saying: Will.i.am also stated on the Merrick and Rosso breakfast radio show that the song was heavily influenced by the electro sounds he heard in the nightclubs in Sydney, Australia, during the filming of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and his visit to Australia. Will.i.am stated that the lyric helped inspire the futuristic concept of the video.
The song also attempts a futuristic quality, with Fergie rapping the lyric "I'm so three thousand and eight, you so two thousand and late." The song's beat is influenced by 1980s electro song " Planet Rock". The song is to the left, but it works, because we're being true to ourselves. We've always been kind of misfits, and so it kind of fits. It's not the typical, let's do a hooky chorus, and you know, have a feel good-heart love song, or anything like that. I feel that "Boom Boom Pow" is not your typical first single. Fergie has commented on the unusual structure of the song, stating: The song concludes with Fergie repeating her initial verse, forming an outro of sorts and taking the listener more or less full-circle.
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Fergie, Taboo, and apl.de.ap each offer a variation on this theme, after which Will.i.am (introduced by Fergie) demonstrates the theme at work in a series of rapid-fire raps, punctuated with digital effects. The song opens with will.i.am meditating on and affirming a new, futuristic sound for himself and the rest of the Peas: "I got that rock-and-roll, that future flow". As of June 2020, the music video has over 360 million views on YouTube.
Rolling Stone ranked the song number 14 on their Best 25 Songs of 2009 list. It was nominated at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards for Best Dance Recording and won Best Short Form Music Video. and was ranked as the number one song and number two digital song on the Billboard Year End Chart of 2009. The single has since sold over 6,000,000 copies in the U.S. The song was named seventh on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade and 51st on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of All-time. It also topped the Australian, Canadian and UK singles charts, as well as reaching the top 10 in more than 20 countries. It is the second longest-running single to stay atop the Hot 100 in 2009, beaten only by the Black Eyed Peas' second single from The E.N.D, " I Gotta Feeling", which held the top spot for 14 consecutive weeks. "Boom Boom Pow" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for twelve weeks, making it the group's first U.S. It features a vocal sample from the 1990 song "Reach Out" by British house duo Sweet Mercy featuring singer Rowetta. " Boom Boom Pow" is a song by American hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas, released as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D.
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