Beyonce has major influence on actual juggernauts like Rihanna and Adele. Not to mention the new wave of girls like Rita and Azealia.
CIL is the most critically acclaimed single release of our time by a female pop star and her overall career and presence has been the blueprint for how kne should be in and outside of music.
That was easy.
Britney is more important than Beyoncé multiplied by 6 times.