12 hours ago, -Jay- said:

The product description on the Rough Trade site matches the exact text from the 2020 release, so it might just be a case of Rough Trade accidentally attaching the CD/digital artwork on the product page, but it's just the usual version with the Spice Up Your Life picture artwork. If that's the case, that's a shame! I really want the GH on vinyl with the original artwork!

Yeah it is just a new print of the same GH vinyl, meaning it is still in print (and selling) which is good news at least.

Shame about the cover. They could easily sell a bit more with the original cover at least... The fans would all buy it again lol

I would 100% buy it again.

Oh well, I was excited and ready to buy lol.

Anything to give it exposure would be good, with so many greatest hits now in the top 100 for years on end it would be nice to see the this been another one.

Anyone know if this is far off triple platinum?? as im assuming its well past 800,000 but by how much i dont know.

4 hours ago, Padamic_Tension said:

Anything to give it exposure would be good, with so many greatest hits now in the top 100 for years on end it would be nice to see the this been another one.

Anyone know if this is far off triple platinum?? as im assuming its well past 800,000 but by how much i dont know.

Jay has suggested it might well be over 800,000 copies, but probably not that close to triple platinum!

It is sad that such a big GH sells so little... it very rarely is in the charts at all, sadly...

When you consider that Britney and Westlife seem to constantly be in the top 100/200 it's truly sad that Spice Girls, with all those huge hits, are not. 🥲 I guess both Britney and Westlife did a heck of a lot more to give themselves the longetivity to warrant their GH's being more prominent.

The sales total the GH has currently (probably 800k-ish as mentioned) - I feel like that's what it should have managed in 2007 alone! Let alone in 18 years lol.

The album specifically needed better promotion. They really needed ITV appearances, certainly The X Factor but also a sit down interview on a chat show. Greatest Hits should have been such an easy seller over Christmas 2007 and yet it was only #27 in Christmas chart week 🫢

As for nowadays, I feel like most of the attention they get is specifically Wannabe. Most of their hits (which of course were HUGE at the time) do a fraction of the streams of Wannabe, and that doesn't help the Greatest Hits' sales prospects. The top 2 most streamed songs on it (which are Wannabe and presumably still Stop) are weighted down to the average streams of the rest of the album. But their third, fourth, fifth etc most streamed probably don't stream as strongly as Westlife's third, fourth and fifth do, and that results in Westlife's GH ultimately being considered to be selling more in streaming units.

For the 30th anniversary next year it would be great for them to release a new greatest hits which would appeal to die hard and casual fans.

From a commercial standpoint the 8 unreleased pop tracks from Forever would appeal to a wider audience on different compilation albums rather than anniversary editions of Forever.

This would be my track list for a new greatest hits. Disc 2 would include 5 of their best non album tracks along with 5 previously unreleased songs.

Disc 1

1. Wannabe

2. Say You'll Be There

3. 2 Become 1 (Single Version)

4. Who Do You Think You Are

5. Mama (Radio Edit)

6. Spice Up Your Life

7. Too Much (Radio Edit)

8. Stop

9. Viva Forever (Radio Edit)

10. Never Give Up On The Good Times

11. Goodbye (Radio Edit)

12. Holler

13. Let Love Lead The Way (Radio Edit)

14. Tell Me Why (Radio Edit)

15. If You Wanna Have Some Fun (Radio Edit)

16. Headlines

Disc 2

1. Bumper To Bumper

2. Take Me Home

3. Step To Me

4. Outer Space Girls

5. Walk Of Life

6. W.O.M.A.N.

7. Go Go Go

8. Overnight

9. What You Want

10. Spice Is Back

3 hours ago, -Jay- said:

The sales total the GH has currently (probably 800k-ish as mentioned) - I feel like that's what it should have managed in 2007 alone! Let alone in 18 years lol.

The album specifically needed better promotion. They really needed ITV appearances, certainly The X Factor but also a sit down interview on a chat show. Greatest Hits should have been such an easy seller over Christmas 2007 and yet it was only #27 in Christmas chart week 🫢

As for nowadays, I feel like most of the attention they get is specifically Wannabe. Most of their hits (which of course were HUGE at the time) do a fraction of the streams of Wannabe, and that doesn't help the Greatest Hits' sales prospects. The top 2 most streamed songs on it (which are Wannabe and presumably still Stop) are weighted down to the average streams of the rest of the album. But their third, fourth, fifth etc most streamed probably don't stream as strongly as Westlife's third, fourth and fifth do, and that results in Westlife's GH ultimately being considered to be selling more in streaming units.

The promotion around the GH launch was dreadful... not only the Headlines single was so mismanaged, but there was barely any promo from the girls themselves... I was shocked that even during the tour in the UK they didn't do any interviews, or barely anything... They were in America for rehealsals and there was this aura of 'we're in American now' so the UK public didn't really show up for them, which was so sad...

It also pisses me off that they only ever promote Wannabe, whereas the rest of their singles were MASSIVE, to an extent that most acts haven't seen that level of success with other non-lead singles. YET they never tap into them. Both Stop and Viva Forever went viral during the Spiceworld25 campaigns, but they don't really tap into those either...

I think they are also being dense when it comes to the GH selling now, since chart rules are so prohibitive when it comes to the main 2 sellers... Surely this should give them and the record label impetus for more focus on other songs as well....

Ultimately, if the group shows up, the music will sell. This is a lesson that they should have learned since the atrocious Forever campaign. YET, they have never done anything differently other than the bare minimal for their catalogue of iconic songs.

I think even the rumours around the 30th anniversary are about 'Wannabe's 30th!'... and I'm like HELLO!!! You have so many other singles that will also turn 30th that people LOVE...

Urgh...

3 hours ago, Sideout said:

For the 30th anniversary next year it would be great for them to release a new greatest hits which would appeal to die hard and casual fans.

From a commercial standpoint the 8 unreleased pop tracks from Forever would appeal to a wider audience on different compilation albums rather than anniversary editions of Forever.

This would be my track list for a new greatest hits. Disc 2 would include 5 of their best non album tracks along with 5 previously unreleased songs.

Disc 1

1. Wannabe

2. Say You'll Be There

3. 2 Become 1 (Single Version)

4. Who Do You Think You Are

5. Mama (Radio Edit)

6. Spice Up Your Life

7. Too Much (Radio Edit)

8. Stop

9. Viva Forever (Radio Edit)

10. Never Give Up On The Good Times

11. Goodbye (Radio Edit)

12. Holler

13. Let Love Lead The Way (Radio Edit)

14. Tell Me Why (Radio Edit)

15. If You Wanna Have Some Fun (Radio Edit)

16. Headlines

Disc 2

1. Bumper To Bumper

2. Take Me Home

3. Step To Me

4. Outer Space Girls

5. Walk Of Life

6. W.O.M.A.N.

7. Go Go Go

8. Overnight

9. What You Want

10. Spice Is Back

That Disc 1 is what the original GH should be like, I would only add Move Over and Step To Me!

They've a lot of unreleased songs they can make another GH with 2 discs