Really? Wasn't there a time when she consistently explain how they put the word in the dictionary in every interview?

The song was big everywhere..

The OP knows nothing. This thread is a waste of server.

In some European countries, Single Ladies was released as a Double-A/B-side single with If I Were A Boy, but then was promoted into its own single soon afterwards.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001KOKSJ8/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Single-Ladie...dp/B001R6P1KA/

Rather famously (in the pop blog world at least) it leaked that RCA thought the song was ****, so didn't even consider releasing it in the UK until they saw the video was good.

Regardless, it was sent to radio worldwide. The problem was the label chose to push Halo quite quickly after the international roll out of Single Ladies, and Beyonce never really promoted it abroad either.

FOR SOO MANY HATERS

As of November 2009, "Single Ladies" had sold more than 6.1 million digital copies worldwide http://www.ifpi.org/content/library/DMR2010.pdf

october 2008 - November 2009 betwwen SL usa sales 3.2m..

look at -- (Jun 05, 2009 SL sales 2,760,099).. http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopi...39&start=13075

end of 2009, more than +3m (USA)

So,


nowember 2009 SL usa sles 3.2 WW sales 6.1........ after 2009 SL sales 1.8M just usa

SO, 6.1+1.8(just usa)= 7.9M + other countries updates since 2009 total more than 8.2M now days

and still charting

Single Ladies has sold 8 million worldwide, just deal.

Because it was a generic pop song like Tik Tok, California Gurls etc.

The song sold 5 million in the US.

Do y'all HONESTLY think it didn't sell more than 3 million everywhere else? Like, take a minute and think about it, cause

I'm gonna stop you right there.

Single Ladies is an R&B song. The only pop elements about the song is the hand claps every 8th beat & the "Whoa oh oh, oh oh oh" part. The song was #1 on the R&B charts for 12 weeks, and even won best Best R&B song at the Grammy's. The fact that it is in R&B song in it's core, hinders it from becoming a smash hit in places where R&B isn't a big genre, but Bey did it. She was able to make an R&B song become a massive global hit with an iconic video + song. Literally everybody knows Single Ladies. If you can find me someone who never heard of Single Ladies, than this person must be either 35+ years old, living under a rock, or doesn't listen to music at all.

It may be a cheaper rehash of Get Me Bodied, but NEITHER are generic pop songs.

One of her best songs, one of her most sucessful singles, it has the perfect formula, amazing single choice, she was killing it those days And she can still kill it nowadays

Noo haters, true

SL sold over 8M ww

MOVE!

And that's where I need you to stop.

how can we answer a nonsense question? cause it DIDNT sell more than for example WFL or CG ..

I'm Yours is one of the biggest selling single in the US but it did not reach #1
while some #1 singles failed to reach 3M

Too many bey haters on this forum.. Ugh get a life!

What happened with RTW? Is it not Beyoncé?

The op is a lie.

It has sold over 7 million, might be closer to 8 million now. Either way it sold more than some "global" smashes, which is so funny to me. Especially considering it wasn't even officially released outside of the US.

It sold that much because of the video. Everybody has seen the video on youtube or TV, so the people that liked it, bought it.

So many lies in the OP.