Sunday at 16:492 days Fingers crossed for a top 100 entry.In an ideal world everyone would stream it and get to the official No.1 spot l
Sunday at 16:512 days 3 minutes ago, Padamic_Tension said:Do we know how far off it is from silver?Interesting to see if she shows in the singles in todays first look update.The last known total was 53,938 in May 2020, so it was 6,062 away from silver at that time. A tall order for an album that must hardly sell anything each week. Previous known from June 2009, was 52,635. So in 11 years it only increased 1,303. Even with the increase in attention the album has had this week (surely the highest since 2002 lol) I would be surprised if Silver is at all imminent. If it usually sold 5 copies a week (even that might be generous) it would now be approaching a total of 55,500.It's a pity it wasn't certified silver for shipments, but Virgin needed to apply for that and they unfortunately didn't. They did that for Mel B's 'Hot' which has had its silver certification since October 2000, its release month. Hot actually sold a bit less than VB in total (53,676 by May 2020).
Sunday at 16:582 days Ya it looks like a tall order for it to go silver when we see how little it has sold in the last 20 odd years, the novelty interest in her solo music is likely to fall off after this week so looks like it will be a long time if it happens but i would like it to happen so that all 5 members can say they have certified solo albums and in my opinion Victorias album isnt the worst of all the solo spice girls albums.
Sunday at 21:462 days Because of the Vicky B going to #1 on iTunes, the Spice Girls artist forum is the #1 artist forum of the week! 177 posts done.
Monday at 14:041 day Given the enormous media exposure, could we get an update on the new estimates for his singles?Not Such an Innocent Girl has surpassed 100,000 copies sold (approximately 102,000).
Monday at 15:351 day She made it to the1 hour ago, gabry said:Given the enormous media exposure, could we get an update on the new estimates for his singles?Not Such an Innocent Girl has surpassed 100,000 copies sold (approximately 102,000).We didnt even get an official update on NSAIG despite it being #1, sadly... I doubt we will get any solo sales updates anytime soon (unless Jay sleeps with an intern at EMI again!)
Monday at 16:551 day If my maths is right, Not Such an Innocent Girl was streamed 37,800 times yesterday, so it's certainly slowing down (but still pretty amazing for a song that was getting 500 or so streams a day last week! 190,425 monthly listeners.#4 on iTunes at the moment!
Monday at 17:501 day Well, it's clear that it won't re-enter the chart on Friday, but it's still cool that it's appeared at all considering it's mostly based on downloads. It might have done over 2,000 sales so far this week. If Brooklyn had timed his statement on a different day that was more favourable for an entire chart week (lol) then maybe NSAIG would have made the Top 100.
3 hours ago3 hr Some curiosities around some Victoria Beckham tracks...1) It's crazy to me that actually Victoria holds the ONLY solo Spice-related album track released pre-streaming to have over 1million streams on Spotify: Midnight Fantasy (the only other solo album track in the last 25 years to make it over 1million without being a single is Emma's cover of 2 Become 1 with Robbie Williams and her cover of Come Away With Me lol My Happy Place was actually a smash omg!!!)The song was never released as a promo, and it pre-dates the streaming era by a few years, and it is included in a seemingly flop album. YET it's a gay favourite from the 1999-2000 gays that love pop music and often rant about it online, and once it went semi-viral because Madonna's Miles Away single has a similar melody and people threw a hissy fit online about it lol It is also at one point Victoria's only entry on Spotify's This is Spice Girls playlist2) The original singles lined up to be released were Not Such an Innocent Girl, A Mind of It's Own, IOU and Like That, and they were the only songs on the album mixed by Mike 'Spike' Stent. You didn't book Mike if you didn't want to make it a single or a central point on the album. Strange how the first two singles flopping made them try their luck with I Wish instead and bring random Robbie Craigh to the mix. Did we ever find out who mixed the cancelled single?This made me thing about how stupid it was that they didn't go with Like That straight away as the opening single, or at least the Second Single!!!!... It made sense as the sound was popular, the song was BOP CENTRAL and miles better than NSAIG, and A Mind of Its Own was a cute song but should have never been a single.Also, she really loved IOU didn't she?... I find the song so lame... WILD that she wanted it to be a single!She could have had a perfect run of singles, and probably a more sucessful one, with Like That, Midnight Fantasy, I Wish, Watcha Talkin' About but most of those were never even considered! She really picked three of the least interesting songs as singles lol3) It is always funny to me that Victoria released Resentment as an original song in the Real Beckhams DVD. Only to be a total flop and forgotten to the point that eventually BEYONCÉ of all people, picked up the song, added ONE WORD to it, recorded it and released it as her own.Technically Beyoncé did a cover of a Victoria Beckham song and I wish more of this was made about it in the press lol Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Mr.X
2 hours ago2 hr Probably VB was my favourite album among the girls’ solo debuts. I totally agree that Like That is a massive banger — Midnight Fantasy too, and I Wish! I think Victoria made a solid album and really took her solo career seriously (even though I still don’t understand that very basic cover).That said, I think she was so disliked at the time that launching herself as a pop & R&B singer only made people ridicule her even more. If she had gone for a sound more like Let Your Head Go or something closer to Schizophonic (just fun pop music), I think she could’ve connected much better with the public. Not Such an Innocent Girl and A Mind of Its Own are tracks I absolutely love, especially the latter.
1 hour ago1 hr 13 minutes ago, Joshnat192 said:Probably VB was my favourite album among the girls’ solo debuts. I totally agree that Like That is a massive banger — Midnight Fantasy too, and I Wish! I think Victoria made a solid album and really took her solo career seriously (even though I still don’t understand that very basic cover).That said, I think she was so disliked at the time that launching herself as a pop & R&B singer only made people ridicule her even more. If she had gone for a sound more like Let Your Head Go or something closer to Schizophonic (just fun pop music), I think she could’ve connected much better with the public. Not Such an Innocent Girl and A Mind of Its Own are tracks I absolutely love, especially the latter.I think she took the making of the album really seriously and I agree that overall it is a great debut - only bested by Northern Star. The album sounds gorgeous and really well produced, and you can tell it was an expensive affair. Seeminly she recorded a more pop-oriented album in 1999-2000 before pivoting to r'n'b in 2001. She was hated. After Forever and the whole 2000s debacle, I don't think many of the solo projects had a lot of chances to be honest. People were bored and it is safe to say the hits that came out in 2001 were basically due to the quality of the songs and/or specific tactics (and whatever small group of peopel was left from the Spice fandom at that point). The GP was kind of done with them and Posh in particulay was a laughing stock. Each of the girls needed to come out with an absolute banger (Emma with WTYSL and Maybe, or Geri with IRM) to get any type of good press/successs.This is why the campaign was so baffling, specially from someone as Victoria who is a master at branding and marketing. From the singles choices to the cover, to the whole design of the singles and performances, it all reaked of 'trying a bit too hard to be a posh popstar lol'... Who really thought that IOU or A Mind of Its Own were serious contenders for singles?... it's baffling...NSAIG leaned into the Posh-persona in many ways, she looked like a Posh Spice trying to be edgy and it was wrong, it was too tacky to work. Like That, I Wish and Midnight Fantasy could have provided her with serious pop-r'n'b with a dash of fun, something more truthful to her own personality and pop profile. She had the potential AND the album to be successful, the release strategy was just all wrong, sadly.
1 hour ago1 hr Yeah, in fact I’ve just watched an interview from the OOYM era where she says she’s working on the album and that it’s going to be very dance-driven, pop, and full of summer vibes, but it didn’t sound like that. Such a shame we never got a proper second album from her 😔
