What kinda delay ? Vanilla Ice has a 10 million selling album.
Aint non of that a classic cause its current streams are incredibly low.

Again sticking to the past to prove its a classic.
N at the bitterness about the grammys in this post.

Trent and his dupe trying hard to defend it when Cil gets more views a day then his votes against cil he trying to use as proof of it being a bigger classic.

Anywho before this turns into another we love the 90's thread.
let me go back to listening to the more relevant and bigger and more streamed viewed and played on the radio etc etc , song Crazy in love.

Just look at the poll ffs

Because spotify and youtube is more relevant to the current generation and they were added at the same time. Yall keep bringing up that it sold more but that's about it. Cil was requested for movies, received critical acclaim, was one of the best songs of 2003, win in streaming, win in iTunes currently, etc. etc. If this was "biggest hit" then BOMT >>>> but this is a CLASSICS fight. A classic is fondly remembered and looked back at. Thriller, of all music video, was added on the same year as CiL and BOMT have twice as many views for an older song. No one can ever dispute that it's still a major classic among the current generation.

Yall keep bring up the movie but don't act like a REMIX version is going to have a massive impact on everything when CiL was already outstreaming BOMT. Literally the fact are scattered throughout the thread.

BOMT:
ATRL poll and biased opinions
Sales

vs

CiL:
Spotify
Vevo
iTunes
Radios
Movies
Critics

BOMT, of course.

I mean, 'ATRL' still thinks Britney is a better dancer than Beyoncé, so I don't even know why we still bother. ATRL is full of Britney stans

Irl, Crazy In Love > BOMT, and that's why it's getting more streams + sales + airplay.

Do people actually know that getting more spins or whatever nowadays does not make anything a bigger or smaller classic? lmao.

BOMT by FAR

yall dont get this closed lmao

the hive clinging to streams when that has nothing to do with a song being a classic, and in this case using streams makes no sense. I mean, CIL is more streamed than Girls Just Want to Have fun..and I hope yall don't think that CIL is a bigger classic than that.

And again BOMT is 5 years older and pre-digital age

11 year old song that's still doing better but can't match its sales or success?

I'm totally confused of course it's gonna do better in streams its newer and beyonces currently more successful its 5 years older and more from the digital era then BOMT it was used on 2 huge films soundtracks Beyonce promoted it every given chance, Britney performes it in concert that's it.

It's like comparing apples and oranges.

Baby one more time clearly had the bigger impact and 4 times more success and as the hive keep constantly saying CIL11 years later its still selling and streamed but its yet to surpass baby one more times in actual success....

No ones gonna use Spotify streams when the songs brought up in let's say 10 years time but Britney's actually receipts attached to her debut and the impact will always be there when these girls gonna learn.

I think BOMT and CiL > GJWTHF

Who's actually checking for it?

The one that hit number 1 on every chart, the most viewed female video of the 90s, the one that is truly universally known, the one with the iconic outfit. The legendary BOMT.

A mess. Poor them

All the reciepts say CIL. Clearly ATRL is delusional/in another world when it comes to this.

I mean, if BOMT at least beat it in 1 or 2 current reciepts there might be an argument, but nope, there aren't any.

So you mean with all that radio play, including the radio play that Columbia illegally paid for until 2005, "Crazy In Love" has yet to outsell "...Baby One More Time?" Not even with the performances and remixes in hit movies and the release in the digital age?

At this rate, "Crazy In Love" will outsell "...Baby" by about 2040


I'm guessing most of the girls in here were born in the 2000s

Girls Just Want to Have Fun is the definition of a classic.

You can't compare a 1984 song to a 2003 song, wtf. At least BOMT & CiL are close (> 5 years) not 20 years

Obviously the 2003 song will have better stats, because it's more recent (Though to be fair, BOMT has barely more views & less Spotify streams than Girls & isn't charting on iTunes while Girls is).

Compare what's comparable.

A classic =/= bigger hit, which clearly BOMT was.

We're arguing that CrIL defines a classic better since its recognized a lot more today, evident by the fact that its doing better in all aspects: current sales, YT views, radio, spotify, anything, you name it!