"Beep" was also a success in Ireland, where it peaked at number two on the Irish Singles Chart.
On the UK Singles Chart, "Beep" debuted and peaked at number two, with first-week sales of 29,212 copies. In Canada, "Beep" was not a commercial success, peaking at number 48 on the Canadian Singles Chart and number 45 on the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart. "Beep" debuted at number 93 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and eventually peaked at number 13, becoming the Pussycat Dolls' third consecutive top-20 hit, but failed to match the success of its predecessors " Don't Cha" and " Stickwitu", which both became top-five hits. musicOMH's John Murphy described the song as "oddly sexless", "bland", "dull" and "just so damn safe." Senior editor of Billboard magazine, Chuck Taylor described the song as "cliched and overwrought." He ended his review writing "We had higher hopes." Miriam Zendle of Digital Spy described awarded the song 1 out 5 stars criticizing will.i.am for "making it sound pretentious and too try-hard" and noted that the "terrible rapping and incredibly short and repetitive sample the song" ruins any "attempt to make the song in any way sexual." She said the group miserably fail as they "go in yet another undefined direction." Commercial performance Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine wrote that the song is a "degrading material". Nick Butler from Sputnikmusic wrote that the song may even be better than " Don't Cha." "'Beep', pretty much the only thing here that stands up to 'Don't Cha' (it's quite possibly better, actually)." People's Chuck Arnold described the song as "naughty". When reviewing for PCD, Lisa Haines described "Beep" as a standout tune. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic indicated the song as one of the standout tracks of the album. In his consumer guide for MSN Music, Robert Christgau selected "Wait a Minute" as one of the album's highlights. The melody is mainly composed with cinematic strings and features a sitar in the middle eighth, and uses stomping, custom-made beat.
It's like two songs in one, though one of the songs feels like a throwback to '80s sterile pop." According to the sheet music published at by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the "girl-empowerment song" has a time signature set in common time, with a tempo of 104 beats per minute. noted that "the song is a mixed bag, tossing together slick strings for that orchestrated pop vibe, then mixing that up with a loping, though downplayed, funk groove.
The staccato verse may be interpreted as explicit lyrics, clipped by a bleep censor, hence the title "Beep". Critics noted that the song was similar to The Black Eyed Peas' " My Humps" (2005), also produced and written by will.i.am. The instrumental string hook is a sample of Electric Light Orchestra's " Evil Woman" (1975). "Beep" is a hip hop song written by William Adams, Kara DioGuardi, and Jeff Lynne, and composed in the key of G minor. Problems playing this file? See media help. Internationally, it peaked atop the charts in Belgium and New Zealand, while reaching the top ten in Australia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, the song failed to replicate the commercial success of its predecessors, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Upon its release, "Beep" received mixed reviews from music critics. It was released as the third single from PCD on February 6, 2006, by A&M Records and Interscope Records. The song contains a sample of " Evil Woman" by Electric Light Orchestra. It features will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas, who composed the song with additional writing from Kara DioGuardi and Jeff Lynne, and additional production from Ron Fair. " Beep" is a song recorded by American girl group the Pussycat Dolls for their debut studio album PCD (2005).
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