Pretty great hey :cheer:

Can we establish which is the correct amount of the 'Spice' album sales?

 

Wikipedia says 23million -_- : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(album)

 

but Roughtrade is saying 30million :o : https://www.roughtrade.com/us/spice-girls/spice

 

I even remember back in the Viva Forever! musical, that 28million was also banged about https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/viva-forever-tickets

 

And also this video where the host states that Spice has sold more than 31million copies worldwide. This was in 2016 (from 8mins12sec in):

 

WHAT IS THE TRUTH MY HUNS??!

Edited June 21, 20214 yr by Mr.X

I don’t think we’ll ever know the truth :cry: so let’s go with the highest figure :teresa:

31 million it is then! :kink: :hic: :friends:

And what about Spiceworld?

 

Wiki says 14million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiceworld_(album)

 

This blog states 20million: https://spicegirlsnet.tumblr.com/Facts

 

Recordstore states 17million: https://recordstoreday.com/UPC/724384511128

 

It's that fan's 20million blog that we go with yes? :P

Spice was definitely at 23m by 2000. Even with digital sales, cds and vinyls over the last 20 years it could potentially be 25m at least in terms of ‘sales’ with streaming units it could be nearer to 30m. But I’ll take the 31m

 

Spiceworld did 13-15m by 98/99. I would guess 17m seems like a fair total. I wish it had done 20m.

 

As Jay says, there’s so many sources and different articles all with different totals 🤪

Stop peaked at #2 in Guatemala sometime in 1998. Someone's added it to their Stop Wikipedia page, which is a nice find :cheer:

 

I wonder if it got to #1 there at all? :D

 

 

Edited July 28, 20213 yr by Spice Girls Net

This article in Music and Media states that during one particular week in August 1996 "Wannabe" was No.2 on the Oricon Singles Chart in Japan.

 

I always thought "Wannabe" was #1 in Japan on a chart, but officially the SG Oricon page says the position was No.50. Were there multiple charts, if so does anyone know the actual chart position?

 

Thank you.

 

Article is on page 7

 

Music and Media

There's a separate chart for "international acts" which is why so many acts can brag about being "big in Japan". I'm guessing that Wannabe reached either #1/#2 on that chart and #50 on the combined chart.

There's a separate chart for "international acts" which is why so many acts can brag about being "big in Japan". I'm guessing that Wannabe reached either #1/#2 on that chart and #50 on the combined chart.

 

I know the album was #1 on the International album chart.

 

I wasn't sure if there was a general Oricon singles chart and an international Oricon singles chart.

 

Thanks for the info :)

Billboard says "Spice" has sold 31 million copies worldwide. I'll take that :cheer:

 

Billboard Article

But official charts company said 23 million today too lol!!!

Spice 25 will sell 8 million copies, then it’ll be 31m for sure :cheer: :cheer:

 

:kink:

Spice 25 will sell 8 million copies, then it’ll be 31m for sure :cheer: :cheer:

 

:kink:

 

No it will be 39 million then and of course we will just say 40 million :cheer:

To be fair they’ve been throwing the 23m figure around since 2000. I’m sure the album had sold 22m by the end of the 90s. Maybe another 9m is a stretch but they’ve picked up casual cd sales, downloads, vinyls and streams

To be fair they’ve been throwing the 23m figure around since 2000. I’m sure the album had sold 22m by the end of the 90s. Maybe another 9m is a stretch but they’ve picked up casual cd sales, downloads, vinyls and streams

 

Yeah this is what I think too. The sales have been ticking, and perhaps they do include the very odd calculations from streams that the UK charts do (that a song's stream counts both towards an album and the single itself) so Wannabe is waaaaaaaay into that equasion lol

I am updating the firt page with the complete charts runs, country by country. I posted Germany atm.

I am updating the firt page with the complete charts runs, country by country. I posted Germany atm.

 

:cheer: thank you!!

Also, the *new* figure of 100million record sales seems to be thrown around at the moment. Any indication, other than a couple of articles and Melanie C herself, that this is true??!?!

 

Surely 15million sales since 2019 is a bit steep?? Like, I will take it but come on... :P

 

 

The new figure as of 2021 is 90m which seems more realistic but seeing as every country counts streaming units in a different way the 100m figure could be streams included. We don’t know their streaming totals put together.

Edited September 23, 20213 yr by Spice Girls Net