So if it's going to take 25 years for it to hit 100k... to be certified we are looking at what 75 years? :lol:

 

The first certification a single can get is silver which is 200k. That’s a long way off

The first certification a single can get is silver which is 200k. That’s a long way off

 

That is how I worked out 75 years… it’s going to do roughly 50k in 25 years and it needs about 150k to get there… multiply it by 3.

That's assuming we have the same certification level 75 years from now.

I mean it was tongue in cheek to be fair.

I lost one of my Spice file about chart.

I am looking for re-enter Desire position inside the physical singles chart.

Someone saved It?

Thanks

I lost one of my Spice file about chart.

I am looking for re-enter Desire position inside the physical singles chart.

Someone saved It?

Thanks

Here it is! - https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/physi...art/20161111/1/

Here it is! - https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/physi...art/20161111/1/

 

Slow-burning smash hit :cheer:

When will your faves!?!?

Thank u guys!

Mama this week:

 

#66 Downloads

#70 Sales

I wonder if the album or single version of Mama is downloaded more.

 

I think the album version is so much stronger personally.

The Radio Version on Greatest Hits tends to go higher on iTunes than the Spice album version!

Wannabe re-enter inside physical chart at #90 this week.

Some information about how their albums did in the chart, thanks to post-album single releases.

The order is based on what the album positions were in the week that the singles entered the chart. In quite a few cases the albums actually climbed in the weeks after a single's release.

 

 

1996 | Spice Girls - 'Spice':

#1, in the week that '2 Become 1' entered at #1.

 

 

1997 | Spice Girls - 'Spice':

#2, in the week that 'Mama'/'Who Do You Think You Are' entered at #1.

[Note: 'Spice' climbed to #1 a week later.]

 

 

1997 | Spice Girls - 'Spiceworld':

#2, in the week that 'Too Much' entered at #1.

[Note: #2 was the highest position 'Spiceworld' reached while 'Too Much' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

2000 | Melanie C - 'Northern Star':

#10, in the week that 'Never Be the Same Again' was #1.

[Note: 'Northern Star' climbed to #5 two weeks later, the highest position it reached while 'Never Be the Same Again' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

2000 | Geri Halliwell - 'Schizophonic':

#11, in the week that 'Bag It Up' was #1.

[Note: 'Schizophonic' climbed to #8 a week later, the highest position it reached while 'Bag It Up' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

2000 | Melanie C - 'Northern Star':

#16, in the week that 'I Turn to You' was #1.

[Note: 'Northern Star' climbed to #4 two weeks later (it was re-issued), which became the album's peak position.]

 

 

1998 | Spice Girls - 'Spiceworld':

#17, in the week that 'Stop' was #2.

[Note: 'Spiceworld' spent numerous weeks inside the Top 20, pre and post the release of 'Stop'. #12 is the highest position the album placed at while 'Stop' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

1999 | Geri Halliwell - 'Schizophonic':

#18, in the week that 'Mi Chico Latino' was #1.

[Note: 'Schizophonic' climbed to #14 a week later, the highest position it reached while 'Mi Chico Latino' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

1999 | Geri Halliwell - 'Schizophonic':

#20, in the week that 'Lift Me Up' was #1.

[Note: 'Schizophonic' climbed to #17 a week later, the highest position it reached while 'Lift Me Up' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

1998 | Spice Girls - 'Spiceworld':

#21, in the week that 'Viva Forever' entered at #1.

[Note: 'Spiceworld' climbed to #15 two weeks later, which was the album's highest position while 'Viva Forever' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

1999 | Melanie C - 'Northern Star':

#38, in the week that 'Northern Star' (single) was #4.

[Note: 'Northern Star' (album) climbed to #28 a week later, the highest position it reached while 'Northern Star' (single) was in the Top 40.]

 

 

2001 | Geri Halliwell - 'Scream If You Wanna Go Faster':

#40, in the week that 'Scream If You Wanna Go Faster' (single) was #8.

[Note: #40 was also the highest position it reached while the single was Top 40.]

 

 

2001 | Emma Bunton - 'A Girl Like Me':

#47, in the week that 'Take My Breath Away' was #5.

[Note: #47 was also the highest position it reached while 'Take My Breath Away' was in the Top 40.]

 

 

2000 | Melanie C - 'Northern Star':

#49, in the week that 'If That Were Me' was #18.

[Note: 'Northern Star' climbed to #32 three weeks later, its best position during the chart run of 'If That Were Me'.]

 

 

2004 | Emma Bunton - 'Free Me':

#53, in the week that 'Crickets Sing for Anamaria' was #15.

[Note: 'Free Me' climbed to #43 a week later, its best position during the chart run of 'Crickets Sing for Anamaria'.]

 

 

2001 | Mel B - 'Hot':

#97, in the week that 'Feels So Good' was #5.

[Note: 'Hot' climbed to #95 a week later, its best position during the chart run of 'Feels So Good'.]

 

 

2003 | Melanie C - 'Reason':

#118, in the week that 'On the Horizon' was #14.

[Note: 'Reason' climbed to #81 a week later, its best position during the chart run of 'On the Horizon'.]

 

 

2002 | Victoria Beckham - 'Victoria Beckham':

#121, in the week that 'A Mind of Its Own' was #6.

[Note: 'Victoria Beckham' climbed to #67 three weeks later - but I'm sure this was more of a reaction to the "Being Victoria Beckham" TV documentary, than to the single. Nevertheless this happened while 'A Mind of Its Own' was her current single.]

 

 

2019 | Emma Bunton - 'My Happy Place':

#162, a week after the premiere of the 'You're All I Need to Get By' video.

[Note: From memory I believe the album's re-entry was driven by the album going on sale... so I don't think it can be said the single specifically created the boost!]

 

 

2001 | Geri Halliwell - 'Scream If You Wanna Go Faster':

#170, in the week that 'Calling' was #7.

[Note: 'Scream If You Wanna Go Faster' climbed to #169 a week later, its best position during the chart run of 'Calling'.]

 

 

2001 | Emma Bunton - 'A Girl Like Me':

#176, in the week that 'We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight' was #20.

 

 

2007 | Emma Bunton - 'Life in Mono':

#188, in the week that 'All I Need to Know' was #60.

 

 

2001 | Mel B - 'Hot':

Not Top 200, in the week that 'Lullaby' was #13.

[Note: Two weeks prior to 'Lullaby' charting, 'Hot' re-entered at #197 for 1 week.]

 

 

2003 | Melanie C - 'Reason':

Not Top 200, in the week that 'Melt'/'Yeh Yeh Yeh' was #27.

 

 

None of the post-album singles from Melanie C's albums 'Beautiful Intentions', 'This Time', 'The Sea', 'Stages', 'Version of Me' or 'Melanie C' helped the albums return to the Top 200.

 

 

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Wow at 'Bag It Up' being one of the most effective singles, in terms of creating a significant boost in album sales! This single is often derided, but it certainly did its job for her. It helped return 'Schizophonic' to the Top 10, which neither 'Mi Chico Latino' or 'Lift Me Up' had pulled off for her. Very impressive for what was the third post-album single. The performance at the Brits was certainly a factor in driving album sales, although the specific boost post-Brits was a climb from #52 to #15. So the album's climbs to #11 and then #8 occurred some weeks after the performance happened.

 

'Viva Forever' not doing particularly major things for 'Spiceworld' seems surprising! I know the album had sold a lot by that point, but still... that didn't stop 'Spice' being in the Top 5 many months after its last single.

 

'On the Horizon' really was quite the disaster all round, sadly. It's so strange really, because it was a reasonably significant radio airplay hit (peak of #8 on airplay - better than a lot of the solo singles). In theory this should have been a huge help in boosting album sales, but that didn't happen. #81 being the best it managed while 'On the Horizon' was her current single - eek. Virgin must have been so nonplussed.

 

Such a shame that 'Feels So Good' did little to help out 'Hot'.

 

Also ouch at 'Calling' barely doing a thing for 'Scream If You Wanna Go Faster'!!

Really odd that Calling did so minimally for Scream... considering ballad singles are usually selling a point, but maybe the high sales of the season pushed it down? It's not as if Calling did that badly either (10wks on chart and pretty much identically to the Scream single), so it wasn't a case of a front-loaded release due to more formats. No wonder they pulled the plug on the album at that point; if a ballad couldn't get sales going it wasn't going to happen tbh.

Thank you, Jay for the stats.

 

It always baffled me that the BRITs in 1998 and the singles didn’t really boost Spiceworld further up the charts.

Thank you, Jay for the stats.

 

It always baffled me that the BRITs in 1998 and the singles didn’t really boost Spiceworld further up the charts.

 

I found this and the Brits 2000 having no effect on their sales either, quite baffling...

Seems like the majority of people who wanted the albums already had them? :cry: Maybe by 2000 the stock was quite low :thinking: But as for 1998, you'd think Stop/Viva Forever/Brits/the tour would have all created better boosts.

 

I wonder if post-Geri leaving whether that had some negative effect on people wanting to buy an album with a 5 piece picture on, like people just thought it looked out of date and didn't want it? Who knows. Then again it's not like images of the 5 of them on the Viva Forever singles had any sort of negative impact.

Seems like the majority of people who wanted the albums already had them? :cry:

The question is why only one in two people who bought Spice also bought Spiceworld.

I think it's a few reasons,

 

1) They were oversaturated so a lot of people went off them.

2) The media turning against them.

3) Spice buyers not liking the album enough to want to buy the follow up.

4) They had lost the 'cool' image they had for Spice so the more mature audience perhaps thought they were for children.

 

That and the fact that Spice was an anomaly, it's not common to have those kind of sales for albums so it wasn't going to happen again and again. I do think had they released an album in 1998 it would have had similar sales to Spiceworld.

Edited April 20, 20232 yr by spiceboy