Posted July 5, 201312 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/features/the...-revealed-2335/ By Justin Myers To celebrate ten years of Crazy In Love, we present Beyoncé’s Official Top 40 singles – solo, Destiny’s Child, the lot. Can it really be ten years since everybody went bonkers for Crazy In Love? “Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, a-no-no” blasted from every car, club, pub, party and bedroom for what seemed like a blissful eternity during summer 2003. It wasn’t Beyoncé’s first solo hit – that honour went to Work It Out, which reached Number 7 the year before thanks to an appearance on the soundtrack of Austin Powers: Goldmember. It was, however, her first solo Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart and announced to the world that post-Destiny’s Child Beyoncé was a force to be reckoned with when it came to pure pop power. Beyoncé’s chart story starts 15 years before Crazy In Love hit Number 1, however. As part of R&B girl group Destiny’s Child, she enjoyed 15 Official Singles Chart Top 40 hits, including two Number 1s back-to-back, with Independent Women Part 1 in 2000 – from the soundtrack of the Charlie’s Angels movie starring Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz – and Survivor in 2001. Their first hit was No, No, No, which reached Number 5 in March 1998. Independent Women is the biggest selling Destiny’s Child single in the UK, shifting over 470,000 copies. Survivor managed over 335,000 and also worth a mention is the Number 2 comeback hit from 2004, Lose My Breath, just a few thousand behind. And all from a pre-digital age, remember. But it’s when she’s going it alone that Queen Bey is at her most chart-worthy. As a solo artist, Beyoncé has racked up an impressive 23 Top 40 hits, including five Number 1s. Her biggest seller is If I Were A Boy, an Official Singles Chart Number 1 from 2008, the lead single from her third album I Am… Sasha Fierce. Sasha Fierce is also Beyoncé’s best-selling album in the UK, with a sales tally of over 1.5 million. Runner-up for best-selling Beyoncé track is Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), released alongside If I Were A Boy and racking up 690,000 sales. Nobody could get enough of Beyoncé in 2008, it seems. Her biggest ballad is the beautiful Halo, a staple of Beyoncé’s live shows. It’s sold almost 650,000 copies to be her fourth biggest hit. Her collaboration with Lady Gaga, Telephone, also an Official Chart Number 1, is up in third. It’s shifted almost 690,000 copies. And the big one itself, Crazy In Love, comes in as her fifth biggest seller with 510,000. Watch Crazy In Love before we reveal the Official Beyoncé and Destiny’s Child Top 40 Singles: A surprise Crazy In Love isn’t her top seller? Maybe. But the album it was taken from, Dangerously In Love, was released the week before it, so anyone desperate for that Crazy In Love fix – which was quite a few people as it turned out – grabbed the album, helping it to sell almost 1.2 million copies in the UK since its release in July 2003. The album spent five consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart, while Crazy In Love itself still managed to spend three weeks atop its throne on the Official Singles Chart. Also worth a mention is Beyoncé’s collaboration with Shakira, Beautiful Liar, at Number 9. The track, Shakira’s third biggest seller in the UK, has sold over 420,000 copies and was Number 1 for three weeks. Beyoncé’s first Top 40 hit with future husband Jay-Z wasn’t Crazy In Love, but a duet, ’03 Bonnie And Clyde, a Number 2 hit in early 2003. They’d go on to have two Number 1s together: Crazy In Love, of course, and Déjà Vu three years later, the lead single from Bey’s second album B Day. So here it is! The Official Ultimate Beyoncé and Destiny's Child Top 40: TRACK ARTIST PEAK POSITION YEAR 1 IF I WERE A BOY BEYONCE 1 2008 2 SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON IT) BEYONCE 7 2008 3 TELEPHONE LADY GAGA FT BEYONCE 1 2009 4 HALO BEYONCE 4 2009 5 CRAZY IN LOVE BEYONCE 1 2003 6 BEST THING I NEVER HAD BEYONCE 3 2011 7 INDEPENDENT WOMEN DESTINY'S CHILD 1 2000 8 SWEET DREAMS BEYONCE 5 2009 9 BEAUTIFUL LIAR BEYONCE & SHAKIRA 1 2007 10 IRREPLACEABLE BEYONCE 4 2006 11 SURVIVOR DESTINY'S CHILD 1 2001 12 LOSE MY BREATH DESTINY'S CHILD 2 2004 13 LISTEN BEYONCE 8 2008 14 LOVE ON TOP BEYONCE 13 2011 15 RUN THE WORLD (GIRLS) BEYONCE 11 2011 16 SAY MY NAME DESTINY'S CHILD 3 2000 17 BOOTYLICIOUS DESTINY'S CHILD 2 2001 18 JUMPIN' JUMPIN' DESTINY'S CHILD 5 2000 19 DEJA VU BEYONCE FT JAY-Z 1 2006 20 03 BONNIE & CLYDE JAY-Z FT BEYONCE KNOWLES 2 2003 21 BILLS BILLS BILLS DESTINY'S CHILD 6 1999 22 EMOTION DESTINY'S CHILD 3 2001 23 NO NO NO DESTINY'S CHILD 5 1998 24 BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL BEYONCE 27 2009 25 CHECK ON IT BEYONCE FT SLIM THUG 3 2006 26 BABY BOY BEYONCE FT SEAN PAUL 2 2003 27 BUG A BOO DESTINY'S CHILD 9 1999 28 SOLDIER DESTINY'S CHILD/TI/LIL WAYNE 4 2005 29 COUNTDOWN BEYONCE 35 2011 30 WORK IT OUT BEYONCE 7 2002 31 END OF TIME BEYONCE 39 2011 32 NAUGHTY GIRL BEYONCE 10 2004 33 GREEN LIGHT BEYONCE 12 2007 34 VIDEO PHONE BEYONCE FT LADY GAGA 58 2010 35 GIRL DESTINY'S CHILD 6 2005 36 WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME BEYONCE 51 2010 37 DIVA BEYONCE 72 2009 38 1+1 BEYONCE 71 2011 39 EGO BEYONCE 60 2010 40 AVE MARIA BEYONCE 150 2009 © 2013 The Official Charts Company. 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July 5, 201312 yr Sales: Lose My Breath <335k Survivor >335k Beautiful Liar >420k Independent Women >470k Crazy In Love 510k Halo <650k Telephone <690k Single Ladies 690k If I Were A Boy 735k Dangerously In Love <1.2m I Am... Sasha Fierce >1.5m Edited July 5, 201312 yr by #Thermometer
July 5, 201312 yr Queen Beyonce. *.* 2008-2009 really was her peak. Call me insane but I love the Single Ladies video.
July 5, 201312 yr IIRC I think If I Were A Boy is on around 800k Not if the ~720k figure I have from this February, is any indication. It seems to average ~700/wk, so probably more like 730k by now. Edited July 5, 201312 yr by vidcapper
July 5, 201312 yr The I Am...Sasha Fierce era slays then if nearly half of Bey's official top 10 is full of singles from that era. :cheer: Personally I believe 4 is her best album though but the best songs on the album ('I Miss You'/'Party') were never released so this list was never going to show that. :kink: So glad 'If I Were A Boy' is top of the list. Both the song and the video was overshadowed by SL at the time but I believe IIWAB's song AND video are both superior to those of SL. I still find it hilarious though how a #7 single is 17 places higher than a #1 single on the list (yes yes I know about sales climates etc etc). :lol: Edited July 5, 201312 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes
July 5, 201312 yr 'Single Ladies' really is the worst song ever for me, I can't see one redeeming or appealing thing about it. To think 690k actually bought that sickens me.
July 5, 201312 yr 'Single Ladies' really is the worst song ever for me, I can't see one redeeming or appealing thing about it. To think 690k actually bought that sickens me. It was definitely the weakest link of the era but then it's typical that the weakest link becomes the most commercially successful worldwide. :lol: It's an okay song but it doesn't really work in clubs and isn't fun to listen to anywhere else either. 'Sweet Dreams' and 'Scared Of Lonely' are the best Sasha Fierce songs imo.
July 5, 201312 yr Queen Beyonce. *.* 2008-2009 really was her peak. Call me insane but I love the Single Ladies video. Well, sales were higher then too. I mean, no way was Broken-Hearted Girl bigger than Baby Boy, Check On It, Soldier and Naughty Girl. :lol: I love the Single Ladies video too though. Definitely the defining music video of 2009.
July 5, 201312 yr Well, sales were higher then too. I mean, no way was Broken-Hearted Girl bigger than Baby Boy, Check On It, Soldier and Naughty Girl. :lol: I love the Single Ladies video too though. Definitely the defining music video of 2009. I don't think she has a clear peak in popularity. In 2003 she was huge, then when she came back in 2006 she wasn't as big but still big enough, in 2008/09 she surged in popularity again with XF/'Single Ladies' in the UK and worldwide respectively and then her popularity seemed to dip a bit in 2011 but, again, was still big enough. I think we'll see another surge this year with the ongoing hype from Pepsi ad/Super Bowl/Jay Z and Blue/her tour. In my opinion, she is one of the few artists out there who have got progressively better with each album. DIL was mostly filler imo but had great singles, BD had more substance, IASF was just a fantastic album and 4 is nearly void of any filler whatsoever (shame on '1+1', 'I Was Here'). Edited July 5, 201312 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes
July 5, 201312 yr IIRC I think If I Were A Boy is on around 800k The OCC article has been updated. If I Were A Boy stated as having sold 735,000 to date.
July 5, 201312 yr The OCC article has been updated. If I Were A Boy stated as having sold 735,000 to date. I was a lot closer than Fiesta, then. ;) I will of course incorporate these figures into my Total Sales spreadsheet... Edited July 5, 201312 yr by vidcapper
July 5, 201312 yr A surprise Crazy In Love isn’t her top seller? Maybe. But the album it was taken from, Dangerously In Love, was released the week before it, so anyone desperate for that Crazy In Love fix – which was quite a few people as it turned out – grabbed the album, helping it to sell almost 1.2 million copies in the UK since its release in July 2003. No, it's because the singles market in 2003 was shit! :P I knew that 'If I Was a Boy' was Beyoncé's best seller, but funnily enough, I still find it strange seeing it in writing. I do see it an awful lot on TV so I'm not too surprised it is selling 700 copies a week like Vidcapper said. Is 'Single Ladies' selling more on average each week? I would guess so, therefore I wouldn't be too surprised if it eventually overtook 'If I Were a Boy'. I seem to remember 'Crazy in Love' being on 490k in February (although it was -/+ 5k) so it is fantastic to see it on 510k! Quite a surprise that 'Best Thing I Never Had' has sold over 470k if it's ahead of 'Independent Women'; it had great airplay and a rather good chart run too, but I didn't think it had done *that* well. I Am...Sasha Fierce was definitely Beyoncé's best era, I don't think she will ever better that. :wub: The UK singles were chosen perfectly and were fantastic themselves - 'Sweet Dreams' did great chart-wise for a fourth(?) single. Her best song, however, will always be 'Crazy in Love'. Oh, and I love the video for 'Single Ladies'. :D Big :lol: at 'Video Phone' (#58) outselling 'Girl' (#6) and 'End of Time' (#39) outselling 'Naughty Girl' (#10)!
July 5, 201312 yr 'Single Ladies' really is the worst song ever for me, I can't see one redeeming or appealing thing about it. To think 690k actually bought that sickens me. I never understood the appeal either. Awful song. :puke2:
July 5, 201312 yr Wow, if Lose My Breath is at number 12 selling 335k, then that's a massive drop to number 13, because the other day I was watching the biggest selling power ballads of the noughties and Listen was on it at number 49 having only sold 180k! So it goes... 11. Survivor - 335k 12. Lose My Breath - 335k 13. Listen- 180k
July 5, 201312 yr her worst singles are best selling eww so bad to see Naughty Girl and Green Light so low.
July 5, 201312 yr Wow, if Lose My Breath is at number 12 selling 335k, then that's a massive drop to number 13, because the other day I was watching the biggest selling power ballads of the noughties and Listen was on it at number 49 having only sold 180k! So it goes... 11. Survivor - 335k 12. Lose My Breath - 335k 13. Listen- 180k Presumably Biggest-Selling Power Ballads of the Noughties only takes into account sales from 2000-2009 therefore there's 4 years of sales that haven't been added to the 180k total.
July 5, 201312 yr 18 JUMPIN' JUMPIN' DESTINY'S CHILD 5 2000 best of the lot. but I do love Halo also Edited July 5, 201312 yr by AnthonyT
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