The song’s co-writer, Terius Nash, said he thought up the original lyrics after he learned that Beyonce and Jay Z had been married in secret. In fact, since the next RIAA award would add another 500,000 copies, it’s possible the song has sold as many as six million copies around the world. However, it’s a safe bet another 200,000 copies were sold outside the certifications. Its other worldwide certifications only account for another 800,000 in total unit sales. The album went 4 times RIAA platinum in the U.S., which means it sold four million copies nationally. That Beyonce song money estimate comes from five million copies sold at $10.99 each. The 2008 single Single Ladies made the most money of any Beyonce song with $9.95 million. Read more: What’s Beyonce’s Net Worth? 1. Rounding out Beyonce’s top five money making songs are Halo, Irreplaceable and If I Were a Boy with $6 million, $5.5 million and $5.5 million each. It’s unlikely that Beyonce kept more than 9% of that money since producers, promoters, advertising and other costs eat up the lion’s share.Ģ013’s Drunk in Love takes second place with 3.75 million copies sold and $7.5 million earned. At $10.99 each, that’s a total of $9.95 million. That song has sold an estimated total of 5 million copies since it was released. That doesn’t even include streaming services like Spotify or YouTube.īeyonce’s #1 smash hit is 2008’s Single Ladies.

All together, that makes a total of almost half a billion in revenue generated by sales of Beyonce music. That doesn’t include the money made from sales of albums, which would add another $414 million to our calculations.

Those Beyonce songs add another $13 million, making a total of nearly $85 million. Beyonce is also featured in 11 singles from other artists.

Those are just the 45 singles where the diva takes the lead. The total Beyonce song money comes to $71.6 million for all Beyonce singles.

We’ve ranked every Beyonce song by revenue in the chart below.

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