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"page_snippet": "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) ...The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States. After the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Beyonc\u00e9 released her second studio album, B'Day (2006), which received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who directed most of the acclaim towards its sonic quality and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. A commercial success, the album debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling over 541,000 copies in its first week. B'Day has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA and, as of 2013, has sold over eight million copies worldwide. Beyonc\u00e9's third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), was a double CD set, intended to reflect the two facets of her personality. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. I Am... Sasha Fierce has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified six-times platinum by the RIAA after shipping over six million units in the United States. To date, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold over 200 million records worldwide as a solo artist, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Billboard ranked her as the 37th greatest artist of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States. Beyonc\u00e9's career began as the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child.",
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade.[7] According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States.[8] As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States.[8]\n
Beyonc\u00e9's career began as the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child. She released her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), during the hiatus of Destiny's Child.[9] It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. With \"Crazy in Love\" and Dangerously in Love, Beyonc\u00e9 became the first female artist\u2014and the fifth artist ever\u2014to top both the singles and albums charts simultaneously in the United States and the United Kingdom.[10]Dangerously in Love has sold 11 million copies worldwide.[11]\n
After the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005,[12] Beyonc\u00e9 released her second studio album, B'Day (2006), which received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who directed most of the acclaim towards its sonic quality and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. A commercial success, the album debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling over 541,000 copies in its first week. B'Day has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA and, as of 2013, has sold over eight million copies worldwide.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), was a double CD set, intended to reflect the two facets of her personality.[13] It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart.[14]I Am... Sasha Fierce has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified six-times platinum by the RIAA after shipping over six million units in the United States. It has sold ten million copies worldwide, and is her second album to become one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.[15]I Am... Sasha Fierce garnered seven Grammy Award nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony (2010), including a nomination for Album of the Year.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's fourth studio album, 4, was released in June 2011 and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart.[16] It was her fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it also reached number one in Brazil, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Her self-titled fifth album, Beyonc\u00e9, was unexpectedly released to the iTunes Store in December 2013 and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming her fifth consecutive number one album in the United States. After just three days of sales, Beyonc\u00e9 became the fastest-selling album ever on iTunes, both in the US and worldwide.[17] The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (2015), including Album of the Year.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's sixth studio album Lemonade was released on April 23, 2016, after an hour-long accompanying video premiered on HBO.[18]Lemonade is one of the most acclaimed studio albums of Beyonc\u00e9's career. The album was music critics' top album of 2016,[19] and was named the greatest album of the 2010s by publications such as the Associated Press.[20] In 2020, the album was placed at number 32 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Lemonade was nominated for nine Grammy Awards at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards (2017), including Album of the Year. The album won a Peabody Award in Entertainment.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's seventh studio album Renaissance was released in July 2022 and debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming her seventh album to do so.[21] This made her the first female artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one in the United States. [22] The album received universal acclaim from music critics for its eclectic yet cohesive sound, joyous mood, and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. It became the best-rated album of 2022, named the best album of the year by publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone. Renaissance and its songs garnered nine nominations at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.\n
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"page_snippet": "Beyonce is one of the top music artists in the world, but how do her albums rank from highest-selling to lowest? Let's examine.Beyonce is amazing at whatever she does. From her crazy vocals to her amazing dance moves, her performances, and even her acting skills, Bey can truly do it all. No wonder her fans call her Queen B. Beyonce has been around for quite a while starting with her Destiny's Child days to her starting her solo career with her famous hubby Jay-Z by her side, she has put out hit after hit. Beyonce starting smashing records from the very beginning! This album was Beyonce's solo debut in 2003, coming off of her third album with Destiny's Child. During the recording of their third album, the group announced that they would take some time to create and release solo work and we would say Beyonce's was quite the success. Now, who doesn't remember this album? This 2008 album was famous for introducing Beyonce's alter ego Sasha Fierce. Beyonce has stated that when she's at home she's calm and quiet, but when she gets on stage to perform she turns into someone else and that's her stage presence, Sasha Fierce. This album also had a different vibe than the others with slow jams such as the super-popular \"If I Were A Boy\" and \"Halo\". This is how you know Beyonce is everything when songs from over 10 years ago are still getting played on the radio regularly and we are loving it!",
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Beyonce is amazing at whatever she does. From her crazy vocals to her amazing dance moves, her performances, and even her acting skills, Bey can truly do it all. No wonder her fans call her Queen B. Beyonce has been around for quite a while starting with her Destiny's Child days to her starting her solo career with her famous hubby Jay-Z by her side, she has put out hit after hit.
Some of her songs and albums have been more successful than others, even though in our opinion they are all jams. Here is a list of her highest selling albums ever, with number one being the top-selling.
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Dangerously in Love- 11 million
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Beyonce starting smashing records from the very beginning! This album was Beyonce's solo debut in 2003, coming off of her third album with Destiny's Child. During the recording of their third album, the group announced that they would take some time to create and release solo work and we would say Beyonce's was quite the success.
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Her first album is still the highest-selling album ever even with the streaming albums we have today. This album includes hits such as \"Crazy in Love\" featuring Jay-Z and \"Naughty Boy,\" which we don't know about you guys, but we still listen to both of these songs even today.
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I Am Sasha Fierce- 8 Million
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Now, who doesn't remember this album? This 2008 album was famous for introducing Beyonce's alter ego Sasha Fierce. Beyonce has stated that when she's at home she's calm and quiet, but when she gets on stage to perform she turns into someone else and that's her stage presence, Sasha Fierce.
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This album also had a different vibe than the others with slow jams such as the super-popular \"If I Were A Boy\" and \"Halo\".\u00a0 This is how you know Beyonce is everything when songs from over 10 years ago are still getting played on the radio regularly and we are loving it!
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B'DAY- 8 Million
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This 2006 album which was called B'DAY to coincide with Beyonce's 25th birthday was really neck and neck with I am Sasha Fierce released 2 years later. Both of these albums have been reported to have sold over 8 million copies worldwide to date.
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We swear every single one of her albums has a song or two that we still listen to regularly and know all the words to. This album is no different with the song that will never go out of style \"Irreplaceable.\" Who hasn't screamed \"to the left, to the left\" in their car before?
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Beyonce- 5 Million
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This self-titled album released in 2013 sold 5 million copies. Beyonce wanted this album to be more visual releasing short films with each of the songs. Now, we remember this album coming out because we felt like it dove deeper into intimate matters such as sex and relationships than Beyonce had ever before, with controversial songs such as \"Partition.\"
According to Beyonce, this was her point, stating that she kept the cover simple because she wanted to focus on black feminism. But, true to Beyonce fashion it also released a song we all love still today \"Drunk In Love,\" which features her real-life hubby Jay-Z.
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4- 3.5 Million
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Named 4, for being her 4th album, Beyonce released this album in 2011 hoping that she could step away from her pop hits and focus on a more jazzy and soulful sound. We think she nailed it.
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This album is full of hits such as \"Love On Top,\" \"Countdown,\" and \"Run The World (Girls)\". \"Love On Top\" has all sorts of soulful vibes as she shows off just how truly incredible her voice is.
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Lemonade-2.5 Million
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This was Beyonce's sixth studio album released in 2016, but only becoming available in April of 2019 on Spotify and Apple Music. This album was known as the cheating album as Beyonce put out a mixture of songs about her relationship with Jay-Z after his infamous cheating scandal.
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We can only assume it was with a girl named Becky since Beyonce talks about him calling \"Becky with the good hair\". This album is also known for the amazing music videos. Beyonce did almost full movies where she talks at the beginning of each one. It's quite the production and they are worth watching.
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Live at Wembley- 600,000
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With how well the Dangerously in Love album did, it's no wonder an album of her performing those songs live at that famous Wembley Arena in London would succeed as well. She released this live album in 2004 and has since released 5 other live albums.
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The Beyonce Experience Live Album-410,000
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Of course, there would be a lot of these sold. This was the year 2007 where people would still buy DVDs to watch full concerts of their favorite celebrities.
Beyonce performed many hits for this live album at the Staples Center including the song \"Me, Myself, and I\" which earned her a Grammy nod.
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Homecoming: The Live Album- 79,000
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In case you have been living under a rock, Beyonce performed at Coachella in 2018 and it was a huge deal. She performed tons of her past hits including songs with Destiny's Child. Although her album didn't sell that many compared to her others, it was more than her album that made this a big deal.
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Beyonce hadn't performed in a while since having her twins so she filmed herself getting ready for this comeback performance and it's now on Netflix. According to Variety, she made a 60 million dollar deal with Netflix for that film. So we hope you enjoyed it!
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The Lion King: The Gift- 56,000
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Beyonce played the beloved Nala in the reboot of the Disney Classic The Lion King.\u00a0Along with playing the voice of Nala she also has many songs in the movie and also came out with an album for the movie that she felt represented Africa. This album has brand new songs such as \"Brown Skin Girls\" and \"Spirit\" that were definitely popular, but not quite of a hit as her other songs have been. The tracking for the number of copies sold (including digitally) was stopped after a couple of days.
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Whether you listen to Bey or not, you have to admit she is talented and loved and this is the proof to show it!
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"page_snippet": "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) ...The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States. After the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005, Beyonc\u00e9 released her second studio album, B'Day (2006), which received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who directed most of the acclaim towards its sonic quality and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. A commercial success, the album debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling over 541,000 copies in its first week. B'Day has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA and, as of 2013, has sold over eight million copies worldwide. Beyonc\u00e9's third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), was a double CD set, intended to reflect the two facets of her personality. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart. I Am... Sasha Fierce has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified six-times platinum by the RIAA after shipping over six million units in the United States. To date, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold over 200 million records worldwide as a solo artist, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Billboard ranked her as the 37th greatest artist of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade. According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States. As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States. Beyonc\u00e9's career began as the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child.",
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recognized her as the Top Certified Artist of the 2000s decade.[7] According to RIAA, Beyonc\u00e9 has sold 30.5 million albums in the United States.[8] As of November 2023, the RIAA lists her total certified sales as a solo artist (including features) as over 174 million in the United States.[8]\n
Beyonc\u00e9's career began as the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child. She released her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003), during the hiatus of Destiny's Child.[9] It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. With \"Crazy in Love\" and Dangerously in Love, Beyonc\u00e9 became the first female artist\u2014and the fifth artist ever\u2014to top both the singles and albums charts simultaneously in the United States and the United Kingdom.[10]Dangerously in Love has sold 11 million copies worldwide.[11]\n
After the disbandment of Destiny's Child in 2005,[12] Beyonc\u00e9 released her second studio album, B'Day (2006), which received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who directed most of the acclaim towards its sonic quality and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. A commercial success, the album debuted atop the US Billboard 200, selling over 541,000 copies in its first week. B'Day has been certified quintuple platinum by the RIAA and, as of 2013, has sold over eight million copies worldwide.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008), was a double CD set, intended to reflect the two facets of her personality.[13] It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart.[14]I Am... Sasha Fierce has earned one diamond and over thirty platinum certifications in separate worldwide markets, being certified six-times platinum by the RIAA after shipping over six million units in the United States. It has sold ten million copies worldwide, and is her second album to become one of the best-selling albums of the 21st century.[15]I Am... Sasha Fierce garnered seven Grammy Award nominations at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards ceremony (2010), including a nomination for Album of the Year.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's fourth studio album, 4, was released in June 2011 and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart.[16] It was her fourth consecutive album to debut at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it also reached number one in Brazil, Ireland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Her self-titled fifth album, Beyonc\u00e9, was unexpectedly released to the iTunes Store in December 2013 and debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart, becoming her fifth consecutive number one album in the United States. After just three days of sales, Beyonc\u00e9 became the fastest-selling album ever on iTunes, both in the US and worldwide.[17] The album was nominated for five Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards (2015), including Album of the Year.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's sixth studio album Lemonade was released on April 23, 2016, after an hour-long accompanying video premiered on HBO.[18]Lemonade is one of the most acclaimed studio albums of Beyonc\u00e9's career. The album was music critics' top album of 2016,[19] and was named the greatest album of the 2010s by publications such as the Associated Press.[20] In 2020, the album was placed at number 32 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. Lemonade was nominated for nine Grammy Awards at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards (2017), including Album of the Year. The album won a Peabody Award in Entertainment.\n
Beyonc\u00e9's seventh studio album Renaissance was released in July 2022 and debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming her seventh album to do so.[21] This made her the first female artist to have their first seven studio albums debut at number one in the United States. [22] The album received universal acclaim from music critics for its eclectic yet cohesive sound, joyous mood, and Beyonc\u00e9's vocal performance. It became the best-rated album of 2022, named the best album of the year by publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone. Renaissance and its songs garnered nine nominations at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards including Album of the Year.\n
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"page_snippet": "The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column. Gold/Platinum certifications issued after 2016, especially on singles, are in some cases more than 50% streaming generated. Some of the 20th century artists can also have significant amount of streaming based certifications. The certified units of the newer artists may sometimes be higher than their listed claimed figures. Some of the 20th century artists can also have significant amount of streaming based certifications. The certified units of the newer artists may sometimes be higher than their listed claimed figures. This is because Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and almost all other certifying bodies count streaming towards Gold and Platinum thresholds required for Digital Single Award certification. This is because Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and almost all other certifying bodies count streaming towards Gold and Platinum thresholds required for Digital Single Award certification. For this reason, some singles and even albums get over certified by hundreds of thousands of units.",
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The following list of best-selling music artists includes those music acts from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. This information cannot be listed officially, as there is no organization that has recorded global music sales.\n
The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified units and are ranked in descending order by claimed sales. If two or more artists have the same claimed sales, they are then ranked by certified units. The claimed sales figure and the total of certified units (for each country) within the provided sources include sales of albums, singles, compilation-albums, music videos as well as downloads of singles and full-length albums. Sales figures, such as those from SoundScan, which are sometimes published by Billboard magazine, have not been included in the certified units column.\n
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Gold/Platinum certifications issued after 2016, especially on singles, are in some cases more than 50% streaming generated. Some of the 20th century artists can also have significant amount of streaming based certifications. The certified units of the newer artists may sometimes be higher than their listed claimed figures. This is because Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and almost all other certifying bodies count streaming towards Gold and Platinum thresholds required for Digital Single Award certification.[1][2][3] For this reason, some singles and even albums get over certified by hundreds of thousands of units. The over certified figures, however, are often in millions of units for RIAA certifications, one such example is Rihanna's single \"We Found Love\", which is certified at nine times Platinum by the RIAA, yet during the time of the certification, it had sold 5.4 million downloads.[4][5]\n
The certified units for some artists/bands who have multi-disc albums can be higher than their listed claimed figures due to the RIAA counting each unit within set as one unit toward certification. The certified units also can be inflated by the redundancy of certifications, because each of tracks downloads and streams contributed to the certifications of both of the single and the respective album. The RIAA counts 10 downloads of individual track as well as 1,500 audio/video streams as an equivalent to one unit of album, including those from singles released prior to the album release.[6] Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum,[7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales. Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo achieved Platinum without selling a single copy and was only available for streaming.[8]\n
Issued certifications for songs which have been recorded by multiple artists including featured artists are added to each artist's total amount of certified units, as all the artists would have played a significant part in a song. For example, \"This Is What You Came For\" and \"Where Them Girls At\" include Rihanna and Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj as featured artists respectively, so the certifications issued for these songs are added to the total amount of certified units for all involved artists. However, the certifications issued for songs that have been recorded by four or more artists are not included as the artists involved would have played minor roles, examples of such songs are Kanye West's \"Monster\" and/or \"All Day\".[a]\n
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To ensure the highest level of fact checking and editorial control, this list sources sales figures to news organizations and highly regarded music industry related organizations such as Billboard.
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The figures of total certified units within the tables below are based on certified units of albums, singles (including digital downloads) and videos.
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Markets' order within the tables is based on Retail Value: each market generates respectively, the largest market at the top and smallest at the bottom.[9][10]
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The column for certified sales includes markets, the databases of which contain certifications representing figures of 100,000 and more.
^Below you can get an understanding as to when certifications for songs are added to the total certified sales of the listed artists.\n
One lead artist and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both, the lead artist and the featured artist as both will have almost equal amount of part).
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Two lead artists.(The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both lead artists as both will have almost equal amount of part).
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Two lead artists and one featured artist. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of both lead artists as well as the featured artist. Both lead artists will play a significant part in a song and the part of the featured artist also should be significant enough).
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One lead artist and two featured artists. (The issued certification(s) should be added to the total of the lead artist and to the total of both featured artists as almost all should have equal amount of part).
Italy: 2009[23] (online certification-database covers certifications issued since 2009. Certifications; however, have existed in Italy since the 1980s)[55]
Portugal:[42](online certification-database covers certifications issued since 2004. Certifications; however, have existed in Portugal since the 1980s)[55]
\n\nCertified sales might sometimes be larger than actual sales, if stores order more albums than they are able to sell, due to certifications generally being determined by shipments and not actual sales. Often, however, actual sales are larger than certified sales, since record labels must pay a fee to obtain certifications. Record companies often apply for certifications only when a record reaches a multiple-certification level, meaning certifications might not be visible in the databases for more than a short period of time after an album reached a certification level.[451][452]\n\nAs global music sales declined in the 2000s mostly due to CD burning and downloading from unauthorized sites, certification bodies opted to reduce their certification levels.[453] See the changes in Certification-award-levels in the following markets:\n\n
United States[454] (Note, U.S. certification-award-levels for singles before 1989 were: 1,000,000 for Gold and 2,000,000 for Platinum.[455] Also, U.S. certification-awards for Shortform albums before September 1996 were: 250,000 for Gold and 500,000 for Platinum[456])
Germany[459] (Note, German certification-award-levels for singles before 1988 were: 500,000 for Gold and 1,000,000 for Platinum.[460][461][462][74][55])
New Zealand: (NZ certification-levels for singles before 1989 were: 10,000 for Gold, 20,000 for Platinum)[494](NZ certification-levels for singles before June 2007 were: 5,000 for Gold, 10,000 for Platinum)[495] (The levels for singles were adjusted again on June 17, 2016 from previous 7,500 for Gold, 15,000 for Platinum, to 15,000 for Gold, 30,000 for Platinum)[496]
^Wyman, Bill (January 4, 2013). \"Did \"Thriller\" Really Sell a Hundred Million Copies?\". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved July 19, 2022. That's about the same as the five hundred million-plus credited to the Beatles but less than any of the cumulative totals of the individual Beatles, Ringo included.\n
^\"Veloso: Portugal's Pride\"(PDF). Billboard Magazine. May 4, 1991. p. 71. Archived(PDF) from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved August 7, 2022.\n
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Per Forbes, by the time Beyonc\u00e9 released her last proper album Lemonade in 2016, she was worth $265 million. She is now up to $450 million.
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It reveals how successful the superstar has been on several industries, to the surprise of nobody.
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She now faces one of her strongest challenges yet. After smashing the physical era in her 20s with the Destiny’s Child and the download era in her 30s solo, now in her 40s, she returns with her first album to embrace the streaming world.
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Undoubtedly, Beyonc\u00e9 has been growing a lot since the days of No, No, No hit single way back in 1998.
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The power women managed to become an icon for each community, females, blacks, and LGBT+.
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She is also regarded as an accomplished women in her private life. She married rap legend Jay-Z, together, they are parents of 3 children.
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As she sings on Formation, “I dream it, I work hard, I grind ’til I own it“. It’s difficult to contradict her, as it feels that she has the skills to turn everything into gold.
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It all started in a very standard way with a string of successful eras with her group from 1998 to 2001.
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It’s during this period that she met and started to date Jay-Z. Retrospectively, this meeting can be regarded as a tremendous event for the music industry as a whole.
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The relationship obviously brought several key hits to Beyonc\u00e9 but the pair\u2019s combined strengths also enabled them to invest in various brands from the Brooklyn Nets to TIDAL, developing more and more their status as business powerhouses.
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The music industry is harsh though. As the main consumers are from 12 to 25, the have little memory, and identify better with singers in their own age range.
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While wonder how much of a Renaissance her upcoming album will be, we review her discography up to date.
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As usual, I’ll be using the Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept in order to relevantly gauge her results. This concept will not only bring you sales information for all Beyonc\u00e9‘salbums, physical and download singles, as well as audio and video streaming. In fact, it will also determine their true popularity.
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If you are not yet familiar with the CSPC method, below is a nice and short video of explanations. I fully recommend watching it before getting into the sales figures. Of course, if you are a regular visitor feel free to skip the video and get into the numbers directly.
The Commensurate Sales to Popularity Concept (CSPC)
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There are two ways to understand this revolutionary concept. In the first place, there is this Scribe video posted below. If you are unaware of the CSPC method, you will get the full idea within just a pair of minutes.
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If you are a mathematical person, and want to know the full method as well as formulas, you can read the full introduction article.
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Now let’s get into the artist’s sales figures in detail in order to apply this concept and define the act’s true popularity!
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Beyonc\u00e9 Album Sales
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Now totaling 37.14 million copies sold, Beyonce\u2018s studio albums eventually topped sales of those from the Destiny\u2019s Childin 2016.
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As the solo star has now 9 albums, including 6 traditional ones, more than her past group, the fact that she topped them only now may sound surprising.
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That only her debut LP reached the 10-million barrier is also quite intriguing considering how many 10-million sellers came out in the last 20 years, including sets from artists way less talked about these days like James Blunt or Dido.
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The comparison with the Destiny\u2019s Child isn\u2019t completely fair through as 1999-2001 market was arguably much bigger than 2003+ years in terms of album sales.
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Download sales took off during the Dangerously In Love era and slowed down only to be replaced by streaming. It means that music consumption got spread over more formats during the career of the diva.
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How does the comparison stands after accounting for all those distinct formats?
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Beyonc\u00e9 songs sales
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Below, we list down results from the artist through physical sales, digital sales and streaming.
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Please be aware that when the artist is regarded as the lead act, he is rewarded with 100% of these units, while featured acts share among them a 50% piece of the totals.
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Physical Singles
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As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 3 ratio between one album and one physical single.
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Naturally, the physical single market is not favorable for Beyonc\u00e9 as downloads replaced them very early in her career.
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Results reveal it very clearly, as her top 3 sellers are all from the Dangerously In Love era.
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With 677,500 sales, Crazy In Love remains the biggest, with both Baby Boy and ’03 Bonnie & Clyde over the 400,000 mark.
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If we look at every song close to 200,000 sales and more, and there are 10, they are all from her first two albums.
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She released few proper hit single in recent years too, so there are no collector items to take over sales from this avenue.
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In fact, Best Thing I Never Had, which is now a decade old, is her latest CD single.
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Her career total in this format adds for nearly 4 million copies, including 3.38 million from Dangerously In Love and B’Day‘s singles.
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Digital Songs
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As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1.5 ratio between one album and one digital single.
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Downloads and ringtones were nearly non-existent in Dangerously In Love years, but the huge catalog appeal of its songs, created an impressive 17.6 million sales.
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The prime example is modern day classic Crazy In Love, which is over 7 million sales.
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It isn’t an isolated case as the album contains no less than 6 million sellers. Impressive.
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Digital sales were starting to get relevant by the period of B\u2019Day.
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It benefited from this context to shift a huge 27.8 million singles, with more than 10.7 million coming from Irreplaceable alone.
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This song sold about 3.7 million units in each downloads and ringtones in the US alone.
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Listen, at 4.82 million, ended up as the biggest hit from the Dreamgirls soundtrack. Please note that the majority of the remaining 2.96 million sales for the soundtrack are from Jennifer Hudson songs.
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We list all these numbers in order to get a complete overview of the soundtrack success, but these sales will be removed from Beyonc\u00e9‘s personal total in the final tables.
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The format was reaching its peak when I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce came out, generating an unbelievable 47.7 million units, including nearly 32 million from the massive trio of smashes Singles Ladies \u2013 Halo \u2013 If I Were A Boy.
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The album produced no less than 9 million sellers, and it still leaves space for the remaining tracks to shift 2 million on their own!
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You got it, Beyonce is a massive digital seller. She managed these figures thanks to over-par ringtones but also tremendous Asian success. Halo, Listen, Honesty, Best Thing I Never Had, Love on Top and Telephone combine for a whopping 10 million sales in South Korea alone.
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From 4, Beyonce failed to produce monster hits. It was in part due to the collapse of ringtones which made it more difficult. Her consistency remained impressive though. Songs from the 2011 album sold close to 20 million units combined.
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With Beyonce, she lost a second strong avenue for her. Its songs sold a mere 10% of 4 hits in South Korea. They sold almost 11 million in total, a decent total but nothing close to the numbers she used to move.
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Drunk in Love was easily the top track at 3.28 million, with 70% of its sales coming from the US.
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Although it had no proper hit, Lemonade saw its downloads fueled by its absence on main streaming platforms, making up for the decrease of downloads market. That\u2019s how it still shifted 7.7 million units.
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All told, she is now up to 164 million digital units sold. This figure may surprise as much as impress. Most of the time we gauge these sales mostly thanks to the data from the US and the UK.
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Beyonce fully enjoyed the two factors that can bring notable additions in spite of staying pretty anonymous, the aforementioned ringtones and Asian sales.
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Both are now mostly gone, but until the release of smartphones the former were selling at a pace almost as high as downloads. The latter refers mostly to Japan and South Korea where she sold past 25 million units. This catapults her total to such an incredible number.
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Streaming
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Streaming is made up of audio and video streams. Our CSPC methodology includes both to better reflect the real popularity of each track. The main source of data for each avenue is respectively Spotify and YouTube. To factor in the growing impact of multiple Asian countries where these platforms aren’t always the go-to site for music streaming, more sources have been added.
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In order to account for their real popularity in each relevant country, the below sources have been used along with the mentioned ratios that reflect the market share of each area.
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Audio Streams \u2013 South Korea: Genie streams * 2.20 (consistent with Gaon streaming numbers) \u2013 Japan: AWA streams * 68 / 4 (AWA has 4% of the Japanese streaming market, and 32% are already considered through Spotify\u2019s extrapolation) \u2013 Arabic world: Anghami streams \u2013 Sub-Saharan Africa: Boomplay + Audiomack streams \u2013 Elsewhere: Spotify streams * 649 / 406 (649 million subscribers of global platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, etc. against 406 million from Spotify itself) + Genie streams * 2.20 (uses Genie rather than Spotify to extrapolate markets like Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam)
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Video Streams \u2013 China* : QQ video streams * 50 if the song is available for audio stream, QQ video streams * 5 elseway (scale built based on known figures for several major artists) \u2013 Elsewhere : Youtube views increased by 10% to account for various local platforms
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*since Chinese streaming platforms are mostly video streaming platforms, their streams are weighted on par with YouTube streams.
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Audio Stream value \u2013 1,500 plays equal 1 album unit Video Stream value \u2013 6,750 views equal 1 album unit
The most streamed songs from Beyonc\u00e9 are pretty weird in a way. Several reasons lead to a top 5 that seems quite surprising at first.
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Halo was nowhere near as big as Singles Ladies and If I Were a Boy upon release, but someway it went on to become far and away the 00s female song with the best lasting appeal. It topped a billion on Spotify and 2 billion on YouTube.
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Crazy In Love, her 2003 solo hit, is a stunning runner up. The track just ended to crack a billion streams on Spotify, while it got there some time back on YouTube.
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In 3rd position is the effective biggest streaming hit, Coldplay‘s Hymn For The Weekend, but Beyonc\u00e9 is awarded 50% of its equivalent album sales due to her feature condition.
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She shares credit with Ed Sheeran on Perfect Duet, but she is part of only one of the 3 major versions. Hers still adds for 850,000 EAS.
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It’s only after these songs that we start to see the ones we would expect on top like Drunk in Love, Single Ladies, If I Were a Boy, and more, while we still waiting for tracks from her last album Lemonade, or even Everything Is Love.
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Beyonc\u00e9, the 2013 album, came out just beffore the explosion of streaming. Her big 2006-2011 albums were released even before, so performance of their tracks entirely rely on their catalog appeal, which isn’t always reflective of the original chart peaks.
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Lemonade was first issued on TIDAL only. This strongly limited its streaming impact, while boosting its pure sales. It explains why the highest ranked song from the album, Formation, is outside of her top 10.
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As for Everything Is Love, the album failed to gain traction. Rather than appealing to everyone, it alienated fan bases of both Jay-Z and Beyonc\u00e9.
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It’s worth noting the overall strenght of her catalog. Every song in her top 40 has over 100 million streams, which is incredible considering the average age of these songs.
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Totals are also outstanding. The 2008 effort I Am… Sasha Fierce records 4.25 million equivalent album sales from streaming.
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Career-wise, she is up to 18.79 billion streams on Spotify and 24.84 billion on YouTube.
It sounds fairly logical to add together weighted sales of one era – studio album, physical singles, downloads, streams – to get the full picture of an album’s popularity. For older releases though, they also generate sales of various live, music videos and compilation albums.
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All those packaging-only records do not create value, they exploit the value originating from the parent studio album of each of its tracks instead. Inevitably, when such compilations are issued, this downgrades catalog sales of the original LP. Thus, to perfectly gauge the worth of these releases, we need to re-assign sales proportionally to its contribution of all the compilations which feature its songs. The following table explains this method.
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The distribution process
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How to understand this table? In the example of The Beyonc\u00e9 Experience Live, these figures mean it sold 1,150,000 units worldwide. The second statistics column means all versions of all the songs included on this package add for 3,990,765 equivalent album sales from streams of all types.
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The second part on the right of the table shows how many equivalent streams are coming from each original album, plus the share it represents on the overall package.
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Thus, streaming figures tell us songs from the Dangerously In Love album are responsible for 54% of The Beyonc\u00e9 Experience Livetrack list attractiveness. This means it generated 618,000 of its 1,150,000 album sales and so forth for the other records. We then apply this process to all compilations present on the table.
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Compilations sales figures listing
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While she has no compilation album to her name, Beyonc\u00e9‘s reputation of amazing performance enabled her to sell an awful lot of music videos.
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She issued as many as 8 big ones which total 4.28 million sales. On top of that, she released two dozens of side records, from EP of bonus tracks to 2-CD boxes, while also participating strongly on soundtracks like The Fighting Temptations and Cadillac Records.
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The large majority of these sales are powered by the trio Dangerously In Love – B’Day – I Am… Sasha Fierce.
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Full Length related records Sales \u2013 Summary
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Here is the most underestimated indicator of an album\u2019s success – the amount of compilation sales of all kinds it generated.
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Due to the dependency of sales of the original studio albums on these releases, they are a key piece of the jigsaw.
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These numbers are obtained by applying the method from the section The distribution process to all packages listed under Compilation sales figures listing category.
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Total Album (all types) Sales per Country
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Please note country-specific numbers may miss sales of a few minor releases, although totals are complete.
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Beyonc\u00e9 Career CSPC Results
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So, after checking all the figures, how many overall equivalent album sales has each album by Beyonc\u00e9 achieved? Well, at this point we hardly need to add up all of the figures defined in this article!
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Albums CSPC results
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In the following results table, all categories display figures in equivalent album sales. If different, pure sales are listed between parentheses.
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artist_spotify_id
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Album
Studio albums (EAS)
sales_update_date
Other LPs (EAS)
Physical singles (units sold)
Digital singles (units sold)
Streams
Streams increase
Total EAS
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1
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Dangerously In Love
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10,195,000
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16.07.22
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2,181,000
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617,000(2,058,000)
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2,642,000(17,610,000)
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3,294,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,740LD: 2,360
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18,996,000
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20,240,304
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3,294,000
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804
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2
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B'Day
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6,405,000
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16.07.22
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1,301,000
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329,000(1,098,000)
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4,170,000(27,800,000)
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2,347,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,070LD: 1,210
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14,553,000
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20,240,304
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2,347,000
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805
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3
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Dreamgirls
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2,465,000
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16.07.22
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181,000
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24,000(80,000)
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1,167,000(7,780,000)
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438,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 110LD: 140
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4,275,000
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20,240,304
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438,000
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10,000,023
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4
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I Am... Sasha Fierce
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7,595,000
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16.07.22
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1,123,000
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99,000(330,000)
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7,152,000(47,680,000)
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5,425,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,960LD: 2,450
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21,402,000
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20,240,304
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5,425,000
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806
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5
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4
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3,215,000
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16.07.22
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262,000
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4,000(13,000)
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2,940,000(19,600,000)
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3,599,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,020LD: 1,150
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10,020,000
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20,240,304
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3,599,000
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807
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6
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Beyonc\u00e9
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3,930,000
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16.07.22
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115,000
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31,000(103,000)
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1,629,000(10,860,000)
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4,194,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,090LD: 1,520
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9,868,000
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20,240,304
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4,194,000
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808
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7
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Lemonade
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3,050,000
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16.07.22
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8,000
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0(0)
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1,154,000(7,690,000)
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2,494,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 1,060LD: 1,440
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6,706,000
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20,240,304
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2,494,000
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809
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8
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Everything Is Love
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240,000
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16.07.22
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0
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0(0)
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47,000(310,000)
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721,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 180LD: 170
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1,008,000
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20,240,304
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721,000
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10,000,024
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9
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The Lion King: The Gift
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45,000
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16.07.22
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0
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0(0)
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24,000(160,000)
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1,087,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 380LD: 370
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1,156,000
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20,240,304
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1,087,000
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10,000,025
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10
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RENAISSANCE
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0
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0
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0(0)
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0(0)
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3,755,000 (03/04/24)
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Av.: 0LD: 0
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3,755,000
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20,240,304
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3,755,000
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0
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11
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Orphan
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0
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16.07.22
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769,000
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6,000(20,000)
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810,000(5,400,000)
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1,642,000 (07/16/22)
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N/A
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3,227,000
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20,240,304
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1,642,000
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1,626
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6vWDO969PvNqNYHIOW5v0m
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12
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Features
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0
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16.07.22
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6,000
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-1,558,000(125,000)
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2,867,000(19,110,000)
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2,370,000 (07/16/22)
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N/A
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3,685,000
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20,240,304
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2,370,000
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10,000,026
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As a reminder:
Studio Album: sales of the original album
Other Releases: sales of compilations generated thanks to the album
Physical Singles: sales of physical singles from the album (ratio 3/10)
Download Singles: sales of digital singles from the album (ratio 1,5/10)
Streaming: equivalent album sales of all the album tracks (ratio 1/1500 for Audio stream and 1/6750 for Video stream)
Beyonce perfectly switched from the Destiny\u2019s Child to her solo career with the smash era Dangerously In Love. Shifting 10 million pure album sales, the record has been a force in every metrics.
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Released several years before the digital period, it still moved an impressive 4.9 million equivalent album sales there. It’s up to 18 million in total.
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B\u2019Day comes as an impressive sophomore effort with a total closing in 14 million EAS. It generated plenty of downloads and ringtones upon release and continues to be successful on streaming.
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I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce completes a perfect trio. It is one of the rare albums with more than 7 million EAS from both pure album sales and downloads.
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It also crushes the competition on streaming, its stunning climb has now brought it to the magical 20 million mark.
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Among the 20 most successful 2000s albums, she is the only singer with 3 entries, and that doesn’t even consider the Destiny’s Child‘s Survivor!
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4, Beyonce and Lemonade are all on a lower league but they maintain very healthy numbers.
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The first two are on their way to hit 10 million, while they combine for nearly 25 million EAS. The most interesting part is obviously their huge streaming results which will grant them continuous sales in the future.
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Among side projects, Dreamgirls did well as it tops 4 million sales, while the same can’t be said about both Everything Is Love and The Lion King: The Gif, which won’t be able to do much more than hitting a million.
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Up to date, Beyonce stands at 89.75 million equivalent album sales. With the upcoming release of Renaissance, she will it 90 million instantly.
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Singles CSPC results
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The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
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1. 2003 – Beyonc\u00e9 ft. Jay-Z – Crazy in Love [Dangerously In Love] – 9,780,000 \n2. 2008 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Halo [I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce] – 6,990,000 \n3. 2006 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Irreplaceable [B’Day] – 5,120,000 \n4. 2008 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) [I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce] – 4,030,000 \n5. 2008 – Beyonc\u00e9 – If I Were a Boy [I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce] – 3,370,000 \n6. 2006 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Listen [Dreamgirls] – 2,940,000 \n7. 2003 – Beyonc\u00e9 ft. Sean Paul – Baby Boy [Dangerously In Love] – 2,590,000 \n8. 2013 – Beyonc\u00e9 ft. Jay-Z – Drunk in Love [Beyonc\u00e9] – 2,260,000 \n9. 2011 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Love on Top [4] – 2,150,000 \n10. 2007 – Beyonc\u00e9 & Shakira – Beautiful Liar [B’Day] – 2,140,000 \n11. 2011 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Run the World (Girls) [4] – 1,990,000 \n12. 2013 – Beyonc\u00e9 – 7/11 [Beyonc\u00e9] – 1,640,000 \n13. 2011 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Best Thing I Never Had [4] – 1,600,000 \n14. 2005 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Check On It [B’Day] – 1,590,000 \n15. 2003 – Beyonc\u00e9 – Naughty Girl [Dangerously In Love] – 1,500,000
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Discography results
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Thanks to our new ASR (Artist Success Rating) concept, we know that her sales represent 18.32 million times the purchase of her entire discography. Coupled with their total sales, it translates into an ASR score of 229.
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It is similar to the score of artists like Robbie Williams and Rihanna. The ranking of all artists studied so far is available too at this link.
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Records & Achievements
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Beyonce is the only artist ever which led the US Hot 100 with one song for 10 weeks or more both as a leading solo act and as part of a group.
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At 42 weeks, Beyonce is the 8th artist with the most weeks at #1 of the Hot 100.
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When Halo crossed the mark, it was the oldest female song with more than 1 billion views on YouTube.
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Beyonce\u2018s first 6 studio albums topped the US BB200 Chart. She is the only female artist ever to achieve this feat.
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At 17,958,000 EAS, Dangerously In Love is the 4th most successful albums from 2003.
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At 13,917,000 EAS, B\u2019Day is the 3rd most successful album from 2006.
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At 20,229,000 EAS, I Am\u2026 Sasha Fierce is the 2nd most successful album from 2008.
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At 9,780,000 EAS, Crazy in Love is among the 3 most successful songs from 2003.
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NB: EAS means Equivalent Album Sales.
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Dynamic Spotify Key Performance Indicators
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Please note that numbers below are retrieved automatically, so they will evolve day by day unlike previously listed data which is valid as of the publication date of the article.
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Beyonc\u00e9
Current followers count: 36,491,760 36,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/20/23 35,000,000 followers have been reached on 06/26/23 34,000,000 followers have been reached on 03/22/23 33,000,000 followers have been reached on 12/21/22 32,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/10/22 31,000,000 followers have been reached on 09/08/22 32,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/08/22 31,000,000 followers have been reached on 04/21/22 30,000,000 followers have been reached on 01/10/22 29,000,000 followers have been reached on 10/05/21 28,000,000 followers have been reached on 07/13/21 27,000,000 followers have been reached on 04/13/21 26,000,000 followers have been reached on 02/05/21 25,000,000 followers have been reached on 11/14/20 24,000,000 followers have been reached on 08/18/20 23,000,000 followers have been reached on 06/12/20 >> Daily breakdown Beyonc\u00e9 is #29 among the most followed artists of all-time >> Visit our Top 5,000 most followed artists ranking Current streams count: 21,606,332,637 21,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/19/24 20,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/07/23 17,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/06/23 20,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 10/09/23 19,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 07/16/23 18,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 06/25/23 15,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 06/16/23 18,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 05/31/23 17,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 05/16/23 18,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 05/01/23 17,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 03/07/23 16,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 03/06/23 17,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/29/23 16,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 10/22/22 15,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 08/06/22 14,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 04/09/22 13,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/05/22 12,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 01/02/22 13,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 10/14/21 12,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 04/19/21 11,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 11/18/20 10,000,000,000 streams have been reached on 06/30/20 >> Daily breakdown Beyonc\u00e9 is #32 among the most streamed artists of all-time Popularity Rating: /100 >> Visit our Top 1,000 most streamed artists ranking >> Visit our Top 20 highest rated artists ranking Current monthly listeners: 69,110,124 (Trend: 20,724,037) Global chart position: #16 The artist top 50 cities come from 22 distinct countries >> Global impact breakdown
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