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 23rd January 2021, 12:07 AM
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Final post (and off topic) WOW at Michael Jackson having THREE albums in the top 10! Truly the King of Pop!
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23rd January 2021, 10:10 AM
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QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jan 22 2021, 11:47 PM)  Makes you wonder where the other 20 million were sold with it's supposed 30 million sales...  9 million in Europe 7 million in USA 1 million Canada 1 million South America 500,000 Australia 500,000 Japan 19 million, makes the 23 million originally stated sound more accurate. It's at 7.5m in the US, I thought it was well over 700k in Japan. Sales in the 90s were huge, I think we have touched on this but record labels sold directly from themselves too through a thing called book club. There was also many countries who didn't track their sales back then. Also it went on shipments not sales. |
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23rd January 2021, 12:13 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 23 2021, 10:10 AM) It's at 7.5m in the US, I thought it was well over 700k in Japan. Sales in the 90s were huge, I think we have touched on this but record labels sold directly from themselves too through a thing called book club. There was also many countries who didn't track their sales back then. Also it went on shipments not sales. Did British acts get this? I thought it was strictly US acts like Britney? |
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23rd January 2021, 12:46 PM
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Book club was most certainly a UK thing too, my parents signed up for it I remember. You paid a subscription and they sent you so many cds or vhs a month. You could pick or be sent their recommendations.
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23rd January 2021, 01:28 PM
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Spice went 4x Platinum in Japan in the April of 1997 (800,000)
That was 24 years ago, hasn’t been updated since and I can imagine they sold more copies during the rest of 1997, 1998 plus downloads and streaming units |
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23rd January 2021, 01:55 PM
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QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jan 22 2021, 11:47 PM) Makes you wonder where the other 20 million were sold with it's supposed 30 million sales... 9 million in Europe 7 million in USA 1 million Canada 1 million South America 500,000 Australia 500,000 Japan 19 million, makes the 23 million originally stated sound more accurate. Think some of those dont include a lot of sales as per the rest of this thread and mostly record companies in each country havent updated their sales publicly in a long time with the Spice catalogue... Plus, there are 195 countries in the world and whilst many dont have charts or track sales publicly, they will have private information on sales. Overall, I think the 28million for Spice and 20million for Spiceworld make sense - they were literally everywhere back then and sales in the 90s were SKY HIGH and top artists were selling in those regions. Whilst the 85million records might well be inflated, I think that is an overall figure of group and solo sales though... Guess unless one of us sleeps with the boss at EMI records, we wont ever find out the real numbers 
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23rd January 2021, 02:20 PM
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I'd say as a group they are well over 100m 'sales' now. I mean Wannabe in the UK alone is nearly 700k more than when we were getting 85m reported sales. Stop is another 400k more too. The GH continues to sell well.
Here is one for you Jay, comparing the 2009 update of sales from the UK we had to the latest update and see how many more sales they have achieved in that time? Then you have to think about all the other countries in the world too. I mean Wannabe has well over 1 billion streams from Spotify and YouTube alone, add in apple, Amazon music, deezer, tidal and others plus it's download sales over the last 15 years. I wouldn't be shocked if Wannabe was way over 10m 'sales' WW these days maybe closer to 15m. This post has been edited by sammy01: 23rd January 2021, 02:21 PM |
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23rd January 2021, 02:46 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 23 2021, 02:20 PM) I'd say as a group they are well over 100m 'sales' now. I mean Wannabe in the UK alone is nearly 700k more than when we were getting 85m reported sales. Stop is another 400k more too. The GH continues to sell well. Here is one for you Jay, comparing the 2009 update of sales from the UK we had to the latest update and see how many more sales they have achieved in that time? Then you have to think about all the other countries in the world too. I mean Wannabe has well over 1 billion streams from Spotify and YouTube alone, add in apple, Amazon music, deezer, tidal and others plus it's download sales over the last 15 years. I wouldn't be shocked if Wannabe was way over 10m 'sales' WW these days maybe closer to 15m. Maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves here  Whilst Wannabe and GH have continued to sell well, lets not forget that the UK is their main market. That level of continued growth wont be the same in all other countries |
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23rd January 2021, 02:55 PM
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QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 23 2021, 01:55 PM) Think some of those dont include a lot of sales as per the rest of this thread and mostly record companies in each country havent updated their sales publicly in a long time with this group. Plus, there are 195 countries in the world and whilst many dont have charts or track sales publicly, they will have private information on sales. Overall, I think the 28million for Spice and 20million for Spiceworld make sense - they were literally everywhere back then and sales in the 90s were SKY HIGH and top artists were selling in those regions. Whilst the 85million records might well be inflated, I think that is an overall figure of group and solo sales though... Guess unless one of us sleeps with the boss at EMI records, we wont ever find out the real numbers Use that mouth for us, you’ll go down as a patron saint of the Spice community 
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23rd January 2021, 03:01 PM
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QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jan 23 2021, 02:55 PM) Use that mouth for us, you’ll go down as a patron saint of the Spice community It will be my life's work  |
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23rd January 2021, 03:48 PM
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QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 23 2021, 02:46 PM) Maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves here Whilst Wannabe and GH have continued to sell well, lets not forget that the UK is their main market. That level of continued growth wont be the same in all other countries It's also not the biggest market. Spice Girls net got hold of some US album sales and the GH is at nearly 800k in America that's not including the 600k sold to VS. The US increases will be much larger than the UK ones given the size of the market there. Spice has done over 500k in streaming sales in the US. The GH UK + US sales including those sold to VS are now nearly 2.1m thanks to streaming. |
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23rd January 2021, 06:00 PM
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QUOTE(sammy01 @ Jan 23 2021, 03:48 PM) It's also not the biggest market. Spice Girls net got hold of some US album sales and the GH is at nearly 800k in America that's not including the 600k sold to VS. The US increases will be much larger than the UK ones given the size of the market there. Spice has done over 500k in streaming sales in the US. The GH UK + US sales including those sold to VS are now nearly 2.1m thanks to streaming. You mean it was streamed 500,000 times? That doesnt mean it is a sale?!.... Or has Spice increased 500,000 copies as a result of streaming? OK I want to believe this cos the numbers sound good but it also sounds too good to be true and surely the group would be shouting about it at least whenever a new vinyl was released... |
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23rd January 2021, 06:36 PM
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QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 23 2021, 06:00 PM) You mean it was streamed 500,000 times? That doesnt mean it is a sale?!.... Or has Spice increased 500,000 copies as a result of streaming? OK I want to believe this cos the numbers sound good but it also sounds too good to be true and surely the group would be shouting about it at least whenever a new vinyl was released... It is over 8 million sales now only 7.4m of them are actually physical or download sales. It's increased over 500k thanks to streaming. |
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23rd January 2021, 08:06 PM
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QUOTE(Mr.X @ Jan 23 2021, 03:01 PM) It will be my life's work The devotion is real! 
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23rd January 2021, 08:51 PM
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Look out for some Spice Girls Net posts on Monday regarding sales
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23rd January 2021, 09:17 PM
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QUOTE(Spice Girls Net @ Jan 23 2021, 08:51 PM) Look out for some Spice Girls Net posts on Monday regarding sales  loved the solo (Melanie c) updates ❤️
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23rd January 2021, 09:23 PM
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QUOTE(spiceboy @ Jan 23 2021, 09:17 PM) loved the solo (Melanie c) updates ❤️Thank you  
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29th January 2021, 08:46 PM
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Small curiosity the spice girls have 5 singles at number one in the European radio airplay in the 90's (the only girl band to have more than ever)
1996 Wannabe (2 weeks at #1) Say you'll be there (6 weeks at #1) 1997 Spice up your life (3 weeks at #1) 1998 Stop (1 week at #1) Viva forever (4 weeks at #1) 16 weeks at #1 ✌️ |
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30th January 2021, 09:36 AM
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QUOTE(gabry @ Jan 29 2021, 08:46 PM) Small curiosity the spice girls have 5 singles at number one in the European radio airplay in the 90's (the only girl band to have more than ever) 1996 Wannabe (2 weeks at #1) Say you'll be there (6 weeks at #1) 1997 Spice up your life (3 weeks at #1) 1998 Stop (1 week at #1) Viva forever (4 weeks at #1) 16 weeks at #1 ✌️ Is there anywhere to view this chart in full? Would love to see it! |
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30th January 2021, 12:00 PM
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QUOTE(gabry @ Jan 29 2021, 08:46 PM) Small curiosity the spice girls have 5 singles at number one in the European radio airplay in the 90's (the only girl band to have more than ever) 1996 Wannabe (2 weeks at #1) Say you'll be there (6 weeks at #1) 1997 Spice up your life (3 weeks at #1) 1998 Stop (1 week at #1) Viva forever (4 weeks at #1) 16 weeks at #1 ✌️ Impressive stats, specially for the Spiceworld era. Viva Forever being #1 for so long is amazing and just shows how successful that single was
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