The single was the top selling iTunes song of 2005. The song spent 75 weeks in Top 100 of the UK Singles Chart, the only rap song to have ever spent longer is Low by Flo Rida (77 weeks). The single was the 9th biggest Billboard Hot 100 song of the 2000s. "Gold Digger" was the most streamed 2005 song in the UK in 2018. As of May 2010, "Gold Digger" had the fifth highest-ever weekly radio audience peak in the United States, achieving 175.6 million listeners in the week ending October 22, 2005. "Gold Digger” was the second-longest number-one (10 weeks) on the "Billboard" Pop 100 chart, behind Low and Bleeding Love (12 weeks).