“Freestyler” peaked at number four on the Finnish Singles Chart and topped the charts in more than 10 countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Sweden. The song also peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
Maybe you dodged the Charts for a while?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyler
“Freestyler” peaked at number four on the Finnish Singles Chart and topped the charts in more than 10 countries, including Australia, Germany, Italy, New Zealand and Sweden. The song also peaked within the top 10 of the charts in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
If you scroll down on the page, you can see it wasn’t as a big hit in the US, top 46 only.