Black Widow (Iggy Azalea song) artist in the Mainstream Top 40 chart history to send her first three chart entries to No. 1, after Lady Gaga, Avril Lavigne and Ace of Base. Ora, meanwhile, earned her first No. 1 on the chart. The track also topped the Rhythmic Songs chart for multiple weeks. On 23 December 2014, "Black Widow" was certified Double Platinum in Canada after peaking at number six on the Canadian Hot 100. On 3 June 2014, Azalea confirmed an accompanying music video for the song, stating, "We're gonna have a very crazy music video, with a lot of other people that you
Work (Iggy Azalea song) from music critics. In a "Billboard" publication, Robert Christgau called the song "excellent" and "something [Azalea] wants us to remember", and commented: "You want authentic? Iggy Azalea has all the lineaments of a risk-taking young rebel without a well-off family to back her up." Christgau went on to praise the track's hooks, and explained: "The hooks, of course, are one reason hard die-hards put her down—in the truimpant Dirty South manner, her hip-hop is radio-friendly as a matter of principle. The cumulative weight of the long-player they never think about." Monica Herrera of "Rolling Stone" called the song "a bombshell-next-door