The Olympics no doubt helped SUYL and put it as the Spice Girls 2nd most known song for most after that.

I wonder if SUYL will overtake SYBT in the U.S. there’s roughly a 300k difference

So curious about Goodbye and Holler :cheer:

You’re welcome

 

A generous fan who has a contact with access to the Nielsen SoundScan which tracks sales.

Is there any chance he could provide sales info of some of the solo singles, such as I Turn to You and Never Be the Same Again?

That would be very interesting to know!

 

Probably pushing it but does your source have access to album sales too? :thinking:

Spice girls album sales in the US would be much more interesting than the 5 copies they sold solo wise in the states.

Viva Forever Sales Plus Streaming (SPS): 128,000

Pretty decent considering it wasn't a single there! Deserves way more of course. Thank you for sharing!

I wish the US did automatic cert updates. Seeing how out of date their certs are is painful.

 

Spice will eventually go diamond as will Wannabe and it is just ridiculous if they don't get certs for that.

U.S. sales for Holler - SPS (86,000)

 

U.S. sales for Holler - SPS (86,000)

 

 

Ouch that is very low!

Ouch that is very low!

Not really, it didn't chart in the US, so it's sales are good. Remember Viva Forever is on 128,000 so 86,000 for Holler is good.

Yeah pleasently surprised Holler is that high tbh.

I wasn't sure what to expect for Holler but I'm okay with those sales! Remembering that it only reached the Bubbling Under chart thanks to airplay, and wasn't actually released commercially there to get any pure sales in 2000.

 

Thanks for sharing btw SpiceGirlsNet :wub:

Not really, it didn't chart in the US, so it's sales are good. Remember Viva Forever is on 128,000 so 86,000 for Holler is good.

 

 

Viva forever wasn't even released as a single out there and yet it outsold Holler an actual lead single release... :blink:

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That makes sense too though. The sales of Viva Forever and Holler are made up of downloads and streaming which occurred way after 1998 and 2000. Spiceworld did extremely well in the US & Viva Forever has better playlisting on streaming platforms than Holler, so as we can see from the revealed total sales, Viva Forever has ended up doing better. The fact that Holler was marketed as a single in the US almost feels like a moot point, because it wasn’t given the opportunity to sell pure copies in 2000, its airplay exposure was limited, so it wasn’t like it made such an impression that years after the fact it should be getting better downloads and streams in the US than Viva Forever.

As Jay said those totals are purely from downloads and streams which didn't come into play till long after they had disbanded. So those sales are basically on what gets pushed and is more remembered in the digital age and I think we can all agree Holler is basically a forgotten single compared to Viva Forever especially when it comes to the girls and their social media.

That’s fair I didn’t realise it was streams and downloads only I thought this included a physical realise from 2000 too. I wonder why they didn’t release a physical? No wonder it bombed at #107!

That’s fair I didn’t realise it was streams and downloads only I thought this included a physical realise from 2000 too. I wonder why they didn’t release a physical? No wonder it bombed at #107!

 

Because the physical market in the US was essentially dying at that point, so it likely wouldn't have made much of a difference.

I guess the girls never really had a chance with Forever in the US then. They were not very well played on US radio were they? Their main bulk of chart positions came from their physicals didn't they?

 

Lack of airplay for Holler combined with zero group promotion over there for the album... They might as well have not even bothered.