Crazy In Love is the 11-year-old lead single from Beyoncé's solo debut album Dangerously In Love, featuring her now husband, Jay-Z.
No doubt the video is iconic, but the song only reached #1 in the US, UK, and Ireland. The song reigned at #1 for 8 weeks and has sold over 1.6 million copies in the US alone. The song is still said to have been more successful than songs like Toxic and Umbrella here on ATRL. Toxic topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, and has gone double platinum, while Umbrella was an even bigger global monster, topping the charts in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK, and the US (it topped the Hot 100 for 7 weeks and has sold over 4.2 million copies in the US).
Though it undeniably had HUGE impact, do you think Crazy In Love's success is overrated compared to seemingly bigger songs from her peers???
I personally think it is. Toxic has even outsold it and it didn't even go top 5 here. I don't think it's fair to compare its sales to Umbrella since that was released four years later.
I think you're wrong if you want to measure how it's rated by the idea that some other songs have sold more. The best way to test a song of that age. It's been 11 years already is its memorability and replay value in this day and age. Which to be fair seems to have a good one. I mean you go to concerts of other artists and you won't escape without hearing it in pre-show. JT 20/20 experience for example. Commercials, runaways, movie trailers etc. Still present. And the song sounds fresh enough
