How many sales for wannabe in the US exactly? Some articles said around 3 million but I see 1 million certified by RIAA.

How many sales for wannabe in the US exactly? Some articles said around 3 million but I see 1 million certified by RIAA.

 

Wannabe had sold 1.8 million by the end of 1997 in the US and over 2.91 million by 2014.

 

The RIAA hasn't updated any of their albums/single sales since 1998/99 time.

Alright, thanks. Someone should tell them to update those sales for the girls already, since there are more girl groups coming to challenge them. One million mark is quite easy these days with the streaming culture. New generations might misunderstood that wannabe had sold only one million in the US.

Aparently the Spice vinyl is #19 in the Australian Vinyl Charts - probably the white vinyl as it was released there recently but the picture the official charts use is from the Greatest Hits picture disk lol

 

Official Charts website

Where did Christmas Wrapping or Just Hear Those Sleigh Bells Ringing peak?

Wishing you a good 2020 to all, I read that stop in the US has been certified gold for the 500k and the 8xplatinum album is official?

 

Wishing you a good 2020 to all, I read that stop in the US has been certified gold for the 500k and the 8xplatinum album is official?

 

Sadly, no. The last official certifications for the Spice Girls are in May 1999 per RIAA (Spice World 4xPlatinum, Live At Wembley and Girl Power: Live In Istanbul Platinum) since they haven't started doing automatic certifications like BPI. I'd be surprised if Stop wasn't above 500k though with streaming + downloads.

It is label's job to apply for the certs. Looks like they couldn't be bothered.

Happy New Year! :yahoo:

Well in a lot of countries you have to pay for certifications, so record labels don't want to waste money on them. The artist themselves can pay for it too, Rihanna does this I seem to recall and all her carts in the US are very upto date.

It's only $350 per cert. I don't think those amount would hurt the label but yeah what's the point of paying money for the group who's no longer active. I assume the girls themselves don't have the sale figures though. They're probably in Virgin's database.

I'm sure in the US there certifications are very out of date. The US let albums now retrospectively add streaming sales, video streaming, individual track sales etc to count towards album sales totals in a weird ratio system.

 

So Spice would have all Wannabes streams, download sales etc added into it now.

 

Whilst $350 isn't much I bet pretty much every major release of theirs in the US needs updating so the record company might be basically throwing $3.5k away for no reason.

The last update for the 'Spice' album sales in the U.S. was 7.5 million either around the 2012 Olympics time or in 2016 when Wannabe was 20.

 

I wish the RIAA/SG label would update their sales. The albums are pretty much what they were a decade or so ago when they were updated in the late 2000s, but the singles haven't been updated since 98/99 :(

The last update for the 'Spice' album sales in the U.S. was 7.5 million either around the 2012 Olympics time or in 2016 when Wannabe was 20.

 

I wish the RIAA/SG label would update their sales. The albums are pretty much what they were a decade or so ago when they were updated in the late 2000s, but the singles haven't been updated since 98/99 :(

 

 

Wannabe has gone from 1 million to nearly 3 million sales in the USA but I don't believe it has had a further update in certification?

Wannabe has gone from 1 million to nearly 3 million sales in the USA but I don't believe it has had a further update in certification?

 

Yup.

 

I assume their label just don't see any reason to update their certifications. I really wish RIAA would use the same system as the BPI since Spice Girls aren't the only ones who are undercertified (Janet Jackson is another example), but oh well.

Those updates were from Soundscan/Billboard but if you want the cert you need to apply for it yourself, sending the figures(sales+downloads+streaming) to RIAA and they'll audit those numbers then give you the cert. The RIAA recommend to use your own numbers from your database not Soundscan since it would probably more cover all the sales or they called it "consumption" these days. No official certifications for the spice girls since 99, that means no one cares to apply for the certs. But from what we know from Soundscan, the Spice album probably still around 7+ million, I guess we have to wait for the movie to boost up their streaming numbers/sales over there and worldwide, if the movie gets well-received by the audience of course. However, at least Wannabe should be updated to 3xP already. SYBT and 2B1 probably already hit one million as well.

Those updates were from Soundscan/Billboard but if you want the cert you need to apply for it yourself, sending the figures(sales+downloads+streaming) to RIAA and they'll audit those numbers then give you the cert. The RIAA recommend to use your own numbers from your database not Soundscan since it would probably more cover all the sales or they called it "consumption" these days. No official certifications for the spice girls since 99, that means no one cares to apply for the certs. But from what we know from Soundscan, the Spice album probably still around 7+ million, I guess we have to wait for the movie to boost up their streaming numbers/sales over there and worldwide, if the movie gets well-received by the audience of course. However, at least Wannabe should be updated to 3xP already. SYBT and 2B1 probably already hit one million as well.

 

 

Biff or one of the writers confirmed that SYBT and 2B1 had hit the million sales mark in the USA and the UK. He posted something saying "The only girl band to have 3 million selling singles in the UK and the USA" and tagged Wannabe SYBT and 2B1.

I was wondering if there was any way of finding out some of the SG total worldwide single sales?

 

I’d love to know how close ‘Wannabe’ is to 10 million in actual sales

 

7 million sold by the end of 1997, including 1.8m sold in the U.S. by the end of the year

 

Since 1997 ‘Wannabe’ has sold this amount in both pure sales and digital downloads

 

Japan - 100k

UK - 150k estimate

USA - 1.2m

Germany - 250k

 

That means the total is around 8.7 million and with just a few countries added. I hope we can get a total for their singles in the future

Edited January 16, 20205 yr by Spice Girls Net

Wannabe has sold over 500k in the UK since downloads and streaming were added. It was always at 1.2m+ until then and as we know it passed 1.8m getting a triple platinum cert in November last year.

 

I'd say Wannabe is well over 10m now.

it is pretty impossible to know actual sales these days as even the OCC rarely give info that isn't combined streaming and actual sales.

Wannabe has sold over 500k in the UK since downloads and streaming were added. It was always at 1.2m+ until then and as we know it passed 1.8m getting a triple platinum cert in November last year.

 

I'd say Wannabe is well over 10m now.

 

Yes I was talking about sales rather than streams as it was 1.2m by the end of the 90s so I’m guessing out of the 1.8m total pure sales and downloads is around 1.4m

 

I wish we could have some single updates from the USA and Australia too

 

Weirdly enough they had single/album updates in Denmark and Germany in 2018/2019 when new certifications were reached