Scottish albums chart added.

France added

Added Norway and Finland.

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USA added.

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USA added.

 

SUPER INTERESTING!! They were much bigger than I remembered actually. WILD that people would write them off just cos they didnt get to #1 with Spice Up Your Life when in fact so many acts fail to get to even Top20 with their music and are considered massive success!

 

Another thing to note, as I look through the stats, is that clearly made-up stat of 'Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in over 30 countries together' or something.... Like, WHERE? Which countries are you talking about? Cos the stats certainly don't seem to indicate that...

 

Say You'll Be There got to #1 in Finland and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in Ireland (and Spain according to Wikipedia) but do we know of any others at all?

SUPER INTERESTING!! They were much bigger than I remembered actually. WILD that people would write them off just cos they didnt get to #1 with Spice Up Your Life when in fact so many acts fail to get to even Top20 with their music and are considered massive success!

 

Another thing to note, as I look through the stats, is that clearly made-up stat of 'Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in over 30 countries together' or something.... Like, WHERE? Which countries are you talking about? Cos the stats certainly don't seem to indicate that...

 

Say You'll Be There got to #1 in Finland and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in Ireland (and Spain according to Wikipedia) but do we know of any others at all?

 

It's the same thing for Wannabe. I think Virgin counted probably also radio and TV charts. A lot of countries did not have an official sales chart.

SUPER INTERESTING!! They were much bigger than I remembered actually. WILD that people would write them off just cos they didnt get to #1 with Spice Up Your Life when in fact so many acts fail to get to even Top20 with their music and are considered massive success!

 

Another thing to note, as I look through the stats, is that clearly made-up stat of 'Say You'll Be There and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in over 30 countries together' or something.... Like, WHERE? Which countries are you talking about? Cos the stats certainly don't seem to indicate that...

 

Say You'll Be There got to #1 in Finland and 2 Become 1 got to #1 in Ireland (and Spain according to Wikipedia) but do we know of any others at all?

 

According to the official spice girls site circa 2007 plus other archive chart websites this is what I’ve found over the years

 

Say You’ll Be There - No.1 in the UK, Chile, Finland, Israel, Mexico, Philippines and Poland

 

2 Become 1 - No.1 in the UK, Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Poland and Spain

 

I’ve always wondered about the 53 countries combined for both singles unless that also means singles AND radio charts too?

 

I mean Wannabe was No.1 in 37 territories and A top 5/10 hit in over 50 countries

According to the official spice girls site circa 2007 plus other archive chart websites this is what I’ve found over the years

 

Say You’ll Be There - No.1 in the UK, Chile, Finland, Israel, Mexico, Philippines and Poland

 

2 Become 1 - No.1 in the UK, Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Poland and Spain

 

I’ve always wondered about the 53 countries combined for both singles unless that also means singles AND radio charts too?

 

I mean Wannabe was No.1 in 37 territories and A top 5/10 hit in over 50 countries

 

Most of the countries you listed above do not have singles charts....Mexico, Chile, etc. etc.

So Virgin made up the statistics.

What I find really interesting is how they debuted at #8 in the USA with Spiceworld despite Spice being a huge album. Obviously Spiceworld went on to be massive in its own right but was it common for such big acts to debut that low then climb in the album charts there?

 

Also really interesting to see how long their single stayed around the peak position areas for a few weeks too.

What I find really interesting is how they debuted at #8 in the USA with Spiceworld despite Spice being a huge album. Obviously Spiceworld went on to be massive in its own right but was it common for such big acts to debut that low then climb in the album charts there?

 

Also really interesting to see how long their single stayed around the peak position areas for a few weeks too.

 

Both album went out during 1997, nine months between them.

Spice probably was still charting well.

 

What I find really interesting is how they debuted at #8 in the USA with Spiceworld despite Spice being a huge album. Obviously Spiceworld went on to be massive in its own right but was it common for such big acts to debut that low then climb in the album charts there?

 

Also really interesting to see how long their single stayed around the peak position areas for a few weeks too.

 

Spiceworld being released merely 9months after Spice, with FOUR singles in between them, it was quite mad that it even went Top10 in the first place!! I think it was part of the whole saturation thing around that time....

 

It is a 4x Platinum selling album in the US, it's greatly successful! Plus all its singles went Top20, which is very rare! They had back to back Top20s, which is amazing!

I remember it was actually referred as a disappointment since Spice was doing so well at the point. But Spice up your life was doing poorly on the radios (they were started to be snubbed because of over-saturation thing by then) since it debuted so low at 32 before climbing to top 20 solely on single sale. The album started doing better when they started to go to the US to promote it. I don’t know why they felt to release the album at the same time around the world since they could have added Mama or WDYTA as the final single for Spice and kept Spiceworld to be released around the movie was dropping in the US (late January 1998 I think?). I feel that was a mistake on them and the US Virgin team.

And Spiceworld probably could have sold more (like maybe a million more) had they released Viva Forever as the final single like the rest of the world. But they didn’t. I think the US Virgin team f***ed their reputation up a lot in America. They could have been known as this incredible band with a classic like Viva Forever (that even the people who hate them have to admit that it’s an amazing song).

I added a few countries on the first page. Not fully completed.

Random, but (supposedly?) total sales for Spice and Spice World Finland are actually available here:

 

https://www.ifpi.fi/tutkimukset-ja-tilastot...q=Spice%20Girls

 

Spice: 76 375

Spice World: 92 178

Spiceworld did better than Spice? Crikey!

And Spiceworld probably could have sold more (like maybe a million more) had they released Viva Forever as the final single like the rest of the world. But they didn’t. I think the US Virgin team f***ed their reputation up a lot in America. They could have been known as this incredible band with a classic like Viva Forever (that even the people who hate them have to admit that it’s an amazing song).

 

I could understand the (wrong) decision to not release Who Do You Think You Are at least in the US in Summer 1997 as 2 Become 1 was still going strong in the charts/radios and they wanted to move on to Spice Up Your Life and Spiceworld before Christmas 1997 (to cash in on the Christmas market which was always a huge market for them back then).

 

But yeah I never understood why they didn't release Viva Forever in Summer 1998 during the tour there... made no sense to me...

 

And radios stopped supporting them after Simon was fired, it kind of happened everywhere, not just the US. Simon had a lot of deals with radios, press and promoters, which then sided with him when they fired him, and ultimately meant they had way less support and much more animosity towards then from those sectors.

Spiceworld did better than Spice? Crikey!

Are there any more countries where Spiceworld did better than Spice?