Spice Girls Singles:

Spice Girls Albums:

Mel B Singles:

Mel B Albums:

Victoria Beckham Singles:

Victoria Beckham Album:

Emma Bunton Singles:

Emma Bunton Albums:

Melanie C Singles:

Melanie C Albums:

Geri Halliwell Singles:

Geri Halliwell Albums:

Miscellaneous Singles:

Old Sales Figures (Singles):

Old Sales Figures (Albums):

The Spices really weren't that big.

 

They fall from like 2 to 10 and then to 20 the next week :/

 

They were a hype band. Once the hype died, so did their sales

Looking at the sales, they clearly were massive for their first 2 eras.

I think it's a bit of a reach to say they weren't that big. First week sales of 2 Become 1 of over 429,000 copies in an era with no downloads or streaming suggests that actually, they were. 429,000 physical CD sales in one week is just astronomical sales by any standard. Achieving that NOW with downloads and streaming would be a mean feat let alone back then without them. How many acts have sold 429,000 copies of a single (sales ONLY) recently? Ed Sheeran? Possibly the only one? Maybe Despacito? Look how long they both had to be number 1 before getting anywhere near that sales only total.

 

The SG had the best selling Comic Relief single of the 90's despite both Mama and Who Do You Think You Are featuring on the album that had already been out over four months by that point.

 

Even after Geri left, with Goodbye, they still managed over 330,000 sales in their first week. It was also, up until recently because of streams, their fourth biggest selling single.

 

Yes, they made a huge mistake leaving it so long between Goodbye and Holler, and yes, they did lose a lot of sales because of this. However, suggesting they weren't that big is a controversial claim especially when the sales speak for themselves.

Preach *.* They were huge, it's undeniable. :wub:

 

I'll do my best to fully update the solo sections soon, I ran out of steam after completing the group section!

Wow so interesting to see how huge they really were! Where did you get the Top 200 runs?

Wow so interesting to see how huge they really were! Where did you get the Top 200 runs?

Hey! I found most of them via here: http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/cwann.HTM A few years ago I bought the 1997 and 1998 chart booklets to find the old information, and over the last few years I've found out the positions from ChartsPlus ^_^