It blocked:

Akon & Eminem's "Smack That" from #1

Blocked "Fergalicious" from #1 in Xmas 2006 when Fergalicious broke the record for most downloads in a week with 294k

Manged to be the biggest hit of 2007 on the year end chart despite being released in 2006 over Rihanna's "Umbrella"

Dethroned "I Wanna Love You" and got dethroned from its 10 week #1 run by "Say It Right"

It was the 11th biggest song of radio of the 2000s and 25th biggest song of the 2000s decade and has 920M streams on Spotify

Edited 13 hours ago13 hr by naval23

The music video version with the stripped down final chorus with instruments is so amazing and needs to go on Spotify

So iconic i especially love how the song was originally written for a male singer, but B said no ma'am and made herstory

10 minutes ago, SafeAndSound said:

So iconic i especially love how the song was originally written for a male singer, but B said no ma'am and made herstory

Not this giving birth for the concept of "If I Were a Boy" (I would've received Irreplaceable first)

Ooh this CLASSIC

weddings, graduations, funerals… the mv was played EVERYWHERE!

timeless smashery and gaggery.

when people hear "To left, to left" they know it's a Beyonce song already

Iconic, TIMELESS classic!