I've seen this claim thrown around many times so I looked into the stats. I selected a few of Bey's biggest hits to analyze. You be the judge. Based on the stats, do you believe that Telephone is indeed Bey's biggest hit? If not Telephone, which is Bey's biggest song?

Stats accumulated from chartmasters: http://chartmasters.org/2016/12/cspc...y-analysis/16/

Physical Sales:
Crazy in Love – 875,000
Irreplaceable – 300,000
If I Were a Boy – 275,000
Halo – 125,000
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) – 50,000
Telephone – 50,000


Digital Sales:
Crazy in Love – 5,500,000
Irreplaceable – 9,400,000
If I Were a Boy – 7,900,000
Halo – 10,700,000
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) – 11,300,000
Telephone – 8,300,000


YouTube Views:
Crazy in Love - 272,000,000
Irreplaceable - 217,000,000
If I Were a Boy - 271,000,000
Halo - 459,000,000
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) - 538,000,000
Telephone - 266,000,000


Spotify Streams:
Crazy in Love -152,208,226
Irreplaceable - 81,804,945
If I Were a Boy - 95,990,831
Halo - 230,358,472
Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it) - 117,018,188
Telephone - 98,468,596

hell no

this decade, it is 100% her biggest hit

Lemme gather up the Spotify stats real quick

Crazy In Love, Halo, Irreplaceable & Single Ladies were bigger.

It's her biggest hit this decade though

yes

yes

Have you ever realized that this is the only place where you ever hear such a thing being said? And things like "this decade"? nn a hit is a hit no matter when it happened.

Ask a random person on the street and they'd think it was CIL, Single Ladies or Halo. Nobody listens to, remembers or cares about Telephone anymore.... but if Gaga fans want to hold on to that as some sort of validation bc Bey is prospering and Gaga is finished, I say let them.

Yes!

yes, lel

lol, clearly not based on those stats

And the irony because the hive call Formation her biggest hit / the hit of 2016 yet it has the most disappointing stats Kind of odd that you now claim that more sales = bigger hit

A big hit has to have the whole package, something that Telephone has/had. I thought you knew that sales don't matter?

No, people only claim that it's her biggest hit THIS decade and according to the receipts provided it is. I think you made this thread to drag the monsters and label them as deluded(some of them are, though)

Love On Top and Run The World are both bigger than Telephone

If someone can post Irreplaceable, SL, IIWAB, and Telephone's Spotify stats that would be great. I can't see past the top 5 on my iPad.

Baby Boy too maybe but yeah this

this decade yes.

It was big, but probably her most forgettable.

Crazy in Love, Irreplaceable, Single Ladies, Halo, and Drunk In Love are obviously more memorable.

Yes