What's your Beyoncé top 10? (2022 edition)

one entry from Renaissance... FOR NOW

01 Rocket
02 Daddy Lessons
03 Party ft. André 3000
04 Jealous
05 Drunk in Love ft. Jay-Z
06 All Night
07 Pure/Honey
08 Pretty Hurts
09 Deja Vu ft. Jay-Z
10 Ring the Alarm (Freemasons remix)

bubbling under: Partition, I Was Here, Thique, Heated, Irreplaceable
 
sidenote - Deja Vu is kind of a total bomb on Spotify! 77m streams - for comparison

Love on Top - 493m
Run the World - 458m
Irreplaceable - 453m
If I Were a Boy - 453m (!)
Best Thing I Never Had - 323m
Sweet Dreams - 185m
Dance For You - 120m
Upgrade U - 119m

all pre-streaming and all massively ahead of her UK #1/US #4 lead single :o talk about zero cultural impact!
 
Jark said:
sidenote - Deja Vu is kind of a total bomb on Spotify! 77m streams - for comparison

Love on Top - 493m
Run the World - 458m
Irreplaceable - 453m
If I Were a Boy - 453m (!)
Best Thing I Never Had - 323m
Sweet Dreams - 185m
Dance For You - 120m
Upgrade U - 119m

all pre-streaming and all massively ahead of her UK #1/US #4 lead single :o talk about zero cultural impact!
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Is that list an arbitrary bunch of other songs or are you saying that Crazy In Love and Single Ladies are nowhere to be seen on her list of most streams?
 
it's a non-complete list of singles and album tracks spanning the B'Day to 4 eras 😇
 
I shall go for a off the top of my head / right as of this minute approaché:



1. CRAZY in Love
2. PARTition
3. I Care
4. PRETTY Hurts
5. Break My Soul (QUEENS Remix)
6. Sweet Dreams
7. Love on TOP
8. Drunk In Love
9. Deja Vu (Freemasons Mix)
10. ALIEN Supertsar
 
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This is difficult because she's really changed as an artist for me over the years... some of her music has held up really well and a lot of it has dated badly. I don't think I can sit through songs like Single Ladies or Halo anymore but Work It Out for instance remains a gem. But all good pop destined to potentially become trendy again in the future maybe? Who knows.

1. End Of Time
2. Ghost/Haunted
3. 1+1
4. Yoncé/Partition
5. I Care
6. All Night
7. XO
8. If I Were A Boy
9. Love On Top
10. 6 Inch

11. Superpower
12. Deja Vu
13. Get Me Bodied (Extended)
14. Crazy In Love
15. Suga Mama
16. Diva
17. Work It Out
18. Irreplaceable
19. Mine
20. Disappear


It's an odd list but I'm just in a transitional Beyonce phase at the moment I think. Nothing from the new album yet.
 
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Jark said:
sidenote - Deja Vu is kind of a total bomb on Spotify! 77m streams - for comparison

Love on Top - 493m
Run the World - 458m
Irreplaceable - 453m
If I Were a Boy - 453m (!)
Best Thing I Never Had - 323m
Sweet Dreams - 185m
Dance For You - 120m
Upgrade U - 119m

all pre-streaming and all massively ahead of her UK #1/US #4 lead single :o talk about zero cultural impact!
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I'm not too surprised. 77m is pretty satisfactory for a 2006 single. It kind of came and went when it charted anyway. It's not like it hung around for ages like "Fergalicious" or "Sweet Escape" did that year. Overall, she's doing very well given that she "peaked" before the streaming era.

Did "Upgrade U" become a TikTok phenomenon? I don't even remember it being a single.
 
1. Ghost/Haunted
2. Me, Myself & I
3. Jealous
4. Partition
5. Crazy In Love
6. Mine
7. Don't Hurt Yourself
8. I Miss You
9. Sorry
10. Disappear

this took a WHILE :o
 
  1. BIGGER
  2. End of Time
  3. Formation
  4. Partition
  5. BREAK MY SOUL (The Queens Remix)
  6. Crazy In Love
  7. Ghost / Haunted
  8. All Night
  9. Bow Down / ***Flawless
  10. ALIEN SUPERSTAR
  11. Superpower
  12. Naughty Girl
  13. Blow
  14. Before I Let Go
  15. Blue
  16. SUMMER RENAISSANCE
  17. VIRGO'S GROOVE
  18. Sweet Dreams
  19. Love On Top
  20. Don't Hurt Yourself
 
Jark said:
sidenote - Deja Vu is kind of a total bomb on Spotify! 77m streams - for comparison

Love on Top - 493m
Run the World - 458m
Irreplaceable - 453m
If I Were a Boy - 453m (!)
Best Thing I Never Had - 323m
Sweet Dreams - 185m
Dance For You - 120m
Upgrade U - 119m

all pre-streaming and all massively ahead of her UK #1/US #4 lead single :o talk about zero cultural impact!
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Déjà Vu was always a flop. The whole campaign was going off the rails before Irreplaceable. Beautiful Liar and all the Freemasons mixes were commercial damage control. I think it's why she went in so hard commercially on I Am... Sasha Fierce. She over-course-corrected.
 
I think she was actually always quite an "experimental" superstar at heart. B'Day is not a commercial album - at all. She dined out with Karen for a long time on the Survivor era bops, the three uptempo DIL singles and the IASF era ballads.
 
I love Deja Vu but it was very much a retread on Crazy In Love and an artist that big needed to reinvent herself. Or go full on mainstream which Irreplaceable and the Freemasons mixes provided.

I like B’Day. It’s just a bit directionless. It feels like a pop album of the 80s when it was okay to have 17 different genres in one album
 
I disagree entirely. B'Day is an extremely tight and cogent album in its original form. It's a loud, funky, R&B album. The only outliers were Irreplaceable and Resentment.

The B'Day era ended up being a total mish-mash for commercial reasons - the reissue and the Freemasons mixes were clearly not part of her original vision for the album.
 
I meant the deluxe album which was way more successful

I prefer the original, apart from the extended mix of Get Me Bodied, which is epic and a million times better than Single Ladies
 
She / her label also has a weird habit of completely reordering track listings. They had a go at changing 4 because the order was a bit off and they actually made it WORSE.
 
It's seems that the original B'Day was actually the bigger hit, at least in the UK, albeit his biggest "flop"

7. B'Day (Deluxe Edition)
Released: 2007
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 8
Total UK chart units: 272,000
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Bey's banger-filled sophomore record actually received two distinct and separate released over two years; the 2007 Deluxe edition contained a re-jigged tracklist complete with a host of new tracks - including the Number 1 single Beautiful Liar, a collaboration between none other than Beyoncé, Beyoncé and Shakira, Shakira.

6. B'Day
Released: 2006
Official Albums Chart peak: Number 3
Total UK chart units: 482,000​

With 2003's Dangerously In Love, Beyoncé proved to the world that she could stand on her own and then some. B'Day was a chance for her to celebrate and experiment with her superstardom; jumping from the Southern funk of glorious lead single Deja-Vu with Jay-Z, to the tender balladry of break-up Irreplaceable without missing a step.
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Beyoncé's Official biggest albums in the UK ranked and revealed

For the first time, we're re-visiting the solo discography of Queen Bey to reveal which one of her six albums comes out on top.
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