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Originally posted by Eternium
I've seen a lot of ATRLers say that 
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Run The World is bigger than many #1 songs (we are not saying that it's bigger than most or all) Its longevity and pop culture references are outstanding.
Youtube stats:
Run The World: 258M
Hold It Against Me: 101M
3: 43M
This applies to other artists too, not just Bey.
Riptide by Vance Joy has sold over 2M downloads and is a streaming monster but its Hot100 peak is lower than many songs.
Or we can just look at Sail.
Edit: Run The World and 3 by Britney sold the same amount of downloads but RTW has 5x more streams.
We can say without a shadow of a doubt that Run The World is bigger than 3 even though 3 peaked at #1