Probably the song is the biggest worldwide hit of 2012. You know, it's not local. It's sales are spread through out the world, not only in the US. 1 Billion Views and not probably not even 20% came from the US

Run The World Girls has 166 million views, miles above songs like Stronger which sold almost 9 x more digitally - despite having 60 million views.

Also I can't at all you acting like it's not selling well. The highest selling song this year sold about 6 million. It's been one of the highest selling song this year.

The fact that it's the most iconic and popular dance since the Macarena without having huge numbers makes it even more impressive

and I know it's hard for some to get depending on who they stan for but this song is GLOBAL, even the US refusing to play it on radios it is still huge all over the rest of the World making it the biggest song of 2012 and one of the biggest songs of all time. 3 million i nthe US without airplay, imagine if it had

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To further my point

PSY’s loopy “Gangnam Style” is #14 for the year-to-date (3,075,000). It’s the year’s best-selling novelty song. It tops LMFAO’s 2011-2012 smash “Sexy And I Know It” (2,499,000 sold so far this year) and Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup” (1,270,000).

Also it peaked at #10 on CHR radio and is not even in this years top 50 pop songs.

Underwhelming sales.

Stronger sold 9 million copies? Cause that would be 9x more than a million.

And people aren't interested in selling Kelly that's probably why her video views are low.

4 sold double what Kelly's album did worldwide.

YouTube views don't equal sales. Look at Baby. It has 800,000,000 views and has sold less than 4 million copies.

For a song that barely got radio support, 3 million is nothing to scoff at. It'll get 4 million by the end of next month. 5 million when it is all said and done.

What song without radio support can sell 3 million in a year?

Why are people talking about little airplay? I literally heard the song at least once every time I was in the car in September-November

i think that's a stretch.. i would say CMM was a bigger phenomenon

Your station isn't representative of the 1,100+ radio stations in the US, though.

Airplay wrongfully shunned it. Which is important for a song to get massive sales.

It will end up with over 4 million, as I definently forsee a holiday boost.

DRAG

Well then I'm quite envious of those Americans who weren't forced to listen to it

In a YEAR? Gangnam Style was only released 5 months ago and it only started getting popualr in the US (which was the last country to jump on the bandwagon) like 3 or 2 months ago

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Furthermore, the song peaked around 65 million weekly listeners. Most smash hits usually have 130-140 (look at Payphone, STIUTK, Call Me Maybe, We Are Young, etc.), and look at how much those songs have sold.

Its sales are incredible. We can only be in awe of the number.

Did Single Ladies sell that much outside USA?