"
Hey Ya!" is a song written and produced by
André 3000 for his 2003 album
The Love Below, part of the
hip hop duo
OutKast's
double album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. "Hey Ya!" takes influence from
funk,
rap and
rock music. Its music video features a live performance by a band, all eight of whose members are played by André 3000, that mimicks
the Beatles' 1964 performance on
The Ed Sullivan Show. The song received praise from contemporary
music critics, and won the award for
Best Urban/Alternative Performance at the
46th Grammy Awards. His version of the song has also appeared on the soundtrack of
Flight of the Phoenix (2004), Along with "
The Way You Move", recorded by OutKast's other member
Big Boi, "Hey Ya!" was released by
LaFace Records as one of the album's two
lead singles. It became a commercial success, reaching the top five of most of the charts it entered, and topping the
Billboard Hot 100 and the
ARIA Singles Chart, among others: in 2009,
Billboard named it as the 20th most successful song of the 2000s decade in the United States.