@KING B.

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Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera etc. do not genre half of the high catalogue streams that Beyoncé generates. This is why I don't understand why certain people denounce or degrade 'streaming' when...
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1) It is not easy to be a "streaming force".
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2) It is the prime tool of music consumption and listening in 2016 and has grown exponentially bigger in the last year alone.

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Digital sales have drastically declined; the current state of the digital music arena is in conjunction with how it was when primary digital downloads from ITunes were first introduced in 2005. This year, in 2016, only three songs have surpassed the 2M+ mark in the USA and only 15 have surpassed the 1M+ mark - this is horrorfyingly low but understandable because nobody is "truly" purchasing music anymore particularly the 'SPOTIFY' demographic of which contributes to 65% of the music buying market.
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This is why I find it to be completely illogical when people denounce Rihanna and Drake for example for having a large portion of their album equivalents stem from streaming when they've simply adapted to the era. Yes, if one can still sell over 1M+ units of an album in the current music climate then that is superb but it shouldn't be held against anybody if they don't given what's transpiring and that is that we are in the streaming era.

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Furthermore, in the USA this year, only three albums have sold over 600K+ units in pure sales; VIEWS, Lemonade & ANTI. Only three. What does that tell you?