October 9, 20213 yr It's done very well for a vinyl single and at the price tag it has. The cassette is now sold out on HMV think it's pretty much unavailable in the UK now.
October 9, 20213 yr Author It's on Townsend https://townsendmusic.store/product/82256 and I'm pretty sure it's a very recent addition to that store. Interestingly it's set so that nobody can order more than 1 copy in one transaction.
October 9, 20213 yr Makes sense to limit it to 1 copy so someone doesn't buy all of them and stick them straight on eBay.
October 11, 20213 yr Author Greatest Hits managed to re-enter the Top 200 at #172: 902 sales = 683 Streaming 117 Downloads 90 CDs 12 Vinyl Total sales are now 687,293. I do wish their streaming could be stronger. The threshold to make the Top 200 is usually over 800 sales, so their streaming alone isn't strong enough for them to make the chart, unless they get a pure sales boost - and this week they had Live at the BBC to help them out. The previous week (Friday 1st October) it sold 759 sales. 709 of this was digital (downloads and streaming combined) and the remaining 50 was physicals. #200 sold 829. Two weeks ago (Friday 24th September) it sold 727 sales. #200 sold 817. ^ These two weeks had the 2nd and 3rd episodes of the documentary to help them along.
October 11, 20213 yr Greatest Hits managed to re-enter the Top 200 at #172: 902 sales = 683 Streaming 117 Downloads 90 CDs 12 Vinyl Total sales are now 687,293. I do wish their streaming could be stronger. The threshold to make the Top 200 is usually over 800 sales, so their streaming alone isn't strong enough for them to make the chart, unless they get a pure sales boost - and this week they had Live at the BBC to help them out. The previous week (Friday 1st October) it sold 759 sales. 709 of this was digital (downloads and streaming combined) and the remaining 50 was physicals. #200 sold 829. Two weeks ago (Friday 24th September) it sold 727 sales. #200 sold 817. ^ These two weeks had the 2nd and 3rd episodes of the documentary to help them along. Thank you Jay ^_^
October 11, 20213 yr Greatest Hits managed to re-enter the Top 200 at #172: 902 sales = 683 Streaming 117 Downloads 90 CDs 12 Vinyl Total sales are now 687,293. I do wish their streaming could be stronger. The threshold to make the Top 200 is usually over 800 sales, so their streaming alone isn't strong enough for them to make the chart, unless they get a pure sales boost - and this week they had Live at the BBC to help them out. The previous week (Friday 1st October) it sold 759 sales. 709 of this was digital (downloads and streaming combined) and the remaining 50 was physicals. #200 sold 829. Two weeks ago (Friday 24th September) it sold 727 sales. #200 sold 817. ^ These two weeks had the 2nd and 3rd episodes of the documentary to help them along. Thank you Jay!! Yeah, I suppose their streaming needs to get much, much stronger. That's on UMG mainly... They are doing well with the physicals at the moment, as they have been doing new vinyls pretty much every year since early 2019, which is very good. However, they absolutely need to focus more on the streaming. The partnership with Spotify is a great thing, but it hasnt really upped their streaming by much so far - lets hope it gets better!! Just glad it is back in the charts anyway. It's criminal that it barely ever goes back into the charts.
October 12, 20213 yr I'm just pleased the GH is a genuine success now. 700k by Jan seemed like a pipe dream a decade ago.
October 29, 20213 yr Updates from the official UK charts page Total UK sales for Spice - 3,012,000 Physical - 2,940,000 Streams - 60,000 Downloads - 12,200 First week sales for Spice in November, 1996 has been altered from 114,000 to over 128,000 surpassing DC Survivor of 118k meaning the Spice Girls first two albums hold the record for the fastest selling weeks for a girl group album in UK chart history Official charts
October 29, 20213 yr Author Thank you for posting! Always find it strange when OCC are inconsistent with their figures, like them now changing Spice’s first week figure again! I mean I’m glad it’s higher but it makes me wonder why at one point they said 114k. Edit: and Wannabe’s first week sales down from 71k to 59k :drama:
October 29, 20213 yr Thank you for posting! Always find it strange when OCC are inconsistent with their figures, like them now changing Spice’s first week figure again! I mean I’m glad it’s higher but it makes me wonder why at one point they said 114k. Edit: and Wannabe’s first week sales down from 71k to 59k :drama: Yes they downgraded wannabe lol
October 29, 20213 yr Wild that they keep changing it! Also, it's a bit shit that Spice's streaming equivalent sales basically just amount to 60k sales isnt it???? But overall, those stats are awesome! And thankfully we can now say the album has sold 31million worldwide ah
October 29, 20213 yr Nice to have a precise figure of 462,107 for '2 Become 1' too, also suggests the 426k revised figure from late 1997 was a typo. The opening sales for 'Say You'll Be There' are down 25 copies from the figure given in 2016.
October 29, 20213 yr Wild that they keep changing it! Also, it's a bit shit that Spice's streaming equivalent sales basically just amount to 60k sales isnt it???? But overall, those stats are awesome! And thankfully we can now say the album has sold 31million worldwide ah I actually thought 60k sales for Spice on streaming was great. It should do better on streaming as we go on now. There are number 1 albums now that won't go silver (60k sales) so for Spice to do that just with streaming and it being 25 years old is great. Album sales streaming is nowhere near as high as singles.
October 29, 20213 yr I actually thought 60k sales for Spice on streaming was great. It should do better on streaming as we go on now. There are number 1 albums now that won't go silver (60k sales) so for Spice to do that just with streaming and it being 25 years old is great. Album sales streaming is nowhere near as high as singles. Honestly, catalog sales for studio albums by girl groups are in general very low (see how slow the Sugababes catalog moves along, as an example), so the fact that they have gone Silver on streaming alone is pretty great.
October 29, 20213 yr Nice to have a precise figure of 462,107 for '2 Become 1' too, also suggests the 426k revised figure from late 1997 was a typo. The opening sales for 'Say You'll Be There' are down 25 copies from the figure given in 2016. I'm still struggling with this though. The week that 2B1 went to No 1 it's figure was given as 500k which I appreciate was probably a rounded up figure by Alan Jones (though that's quite a round up and more than he usually did!)- this was revised down to 498k in March 97 (which links to the original round up) then 429k in December 97 so I don't think that was a typo Liam :D . Now it may be that the OCC has resorted to DSU for its 90s figures as witnessed by the recent Channel 5 programmes but the multiplier wasn't officially given up by Millward Brown until April 1997 so everything from March 1994 to April 97 would be subject to some downgrade to covert back from panel sales to DSU. That fits the pattern for W and SYBT but not 2B1 which has actually increases (for the first time). The logic doesn't follow through on the albums either- the figure for "Spice" in it's first week- from 155k at the time to 114 and now up to 128k- again if it was just a flip between the two then it would be only one way so there appears to be a third set of figures the OCC are now quoting! Interestingly on the "revised" list of 96 done by the OCC over the summer the Y/E figure for 2B1 was only reduced by 10k (730k vs 720k) when comparing the figures of the time and DSU so it would follow again that the weekly sales of 2B1 would drop when converting rather than increase in their new calculations. The drop between the 1996 first week figure and the NEW figure is well over the 10k difference you'd expect.
October 29, 20213 yr I'm still struggling with this though. The week that 2B1 went to No 1 it's figure was given as 500k which I appreciate was probably a rounded up figure by Alan Jones (though that's quite a round up and more than he usually did!)- this was revised down to 498k in March 97 (which links to the original round up) then 429k in December 97 so I don't think that was a typo Liam :D . Now it may be that the OCC has resorted to DSU for its 90s figures as witnessed by the recent Channel 5 programmes but the multiplier wasn't officially given up by Millward Brown until April 1997 so everything from March 1994 to April 97 would be subject to some downgrade to covert back from panel sales to DSU. That fits the pattern for W and SYBT but not 2B1 which has actually increases (for the first time). The logic doesn't follow through on the albums either- the figure for "Spice" in it's first week- from 155k at the time to 114 and now up to 128k- again if it was just a flip between the two then it would be only one way so there appears to be a third set of figures the OCC are now quoting! Interestingly on the "revised" list of 96 done by the OCC over the summer the Y/E figure for 2B1 was only reduced by 10k (730k vs 720k) when comparing the figures of the time and DSU so it would follow again that the weekly sales of 2B1 would drop when converting rather than increase in their new calculations. The drop between the 1996 first week figure and the NEW figure is well over the 10k difference you'd expect. OK I dont know what any of this means but sounds great
October 30, 20213 yr Author I could have sworn that I read 426,000 for 2 Become 1 somewhere at some point (as it’s what I have written in post 1 of this thread), but yes, I see that Music Week actually said 429,000 in 1997… how curious! The upgrade to 462,000 happened a while ago though, they included that figure in a 2017 article! https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...ecome-1__17230/ Yesterday was the first time they gave it as a more precise figure. The changes for Spice are strange but I’ll happily accept 128k instead of 114k… ha.
