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Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the name of the 2003 double album by the two members of the rap group OutKast, each disc a solo project. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below won the 2003 Grammy for Album of the Year. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks more representative of the older OutKast, while The Love Below, the solo project of Andre 3000, is performed in a smoother, calmer style which has earned him some comparisons to Prince.
The album was released on 23 September 2003 on Arista Records, on compact disc, vinyl LP, and audio cassette.
The album reached the top of the Billboard 200 in 2003 and was a best-selling album around the world. "Hey Ya!" went to number one the Billboard Hot 100 in Canada and Australia and has charted in 28 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" also topped the US charts in 2004 and has charted in 17 countries around the world. "The Way You Move" knocked "Hey Ya" off the top of the charts in the US, the first time a band has had one song replace another of its songs since 40 years ago, when The Beatles did it in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania. The third single released from the album was "Roses".
In Australia, "Hey Ya!" was voted #2 on the Triple J Hottest 100 - the biggest alternative music poll of its type in the country - of 2003.