US (Albums w/TEA w/SEA) - 12/11/2020 :

 

- Spice = 7,998,797 (7,493,124 physical)

 

- Spice World = 4,332,166 (4,186,046 physical)

 

- Forever = 233'104 (214,696 physical)

 

- Greatest Hits = 791',344 (148,109 physical)

 

Greatest Hits doesn't include Victoria's Secret Sales so would be at 1.4 million up to 2020.

Edited July 26, 20231 yr by StephenN18

That is amazing if so, not sure how though when it had 1 week on the US chart at #93 and then has never been seen on there again since? There are #1 albums from that same year like Britney's Blackout which have only just sold 1 million over there, and that certainly enjoyed more recognition over there than the GH.

 

I think its down to the streams Wannabe has amassed. Their calculation of streaming seems a bit different from the UK, so it's not like they'd have sold physical/downloads of the GH...

Yep US album sales have a formula that basically includes everything down to even individual track downloads. So Wannabe will help the GH much more over in the US than the UK where they are much more tight on these things and even Wannabe's streams are downweighted.

 

The GH could easily be over 2m in the US now given how much streaming has grown in the 3 years since the last update.

Edited July 26, 20231 yr by sammy01

Headlines - 41,000 sales in the US

Thank you! What a smash :kink:

 

So in summary...

 

6,800,000 - Wannabe

1,722,000 - Say You'll Be There

1,400,000 - Spice Up Your Life

1,136,000 - 2 Become 1

910,000 - Stop

828,000 - Too Much

683,000 - Goodbye

222,000 - Who Do You Think You Are

128,000 - Viva Forever

86,000 - Holler

41,000 - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)

 

The non-Wannabe songs listed above have barely outsold Wannabe combined :cry: (they add up to 7,156,000).

 

It's interesting to see which singles have sold more in the US than UK, and which have sold less. Less in the US: 2 Become 1, Goodbye, Holler, Headlines and of course WDYTYA and Viva Forever.

Just short of 14 million singles over there then and 14 million albums so about 28 million records, not bad really.

What about poor Mama?

I always wonder why they didn't tack on 'Mama' to the US single of 'Say You'll Be There' as it dropped on the same week as US Mother's Day.

I always wonder why they didn't tack on 'Mama' to the US single of 'Say You'll Be There' as it dropped on the same week as US Mother's Day.

 

 

I don't think double a-sides were a thing in the USA.

Frankly, the US market was already labelling them as a 'kids act' so releasing Mama would have been even worse for that at the time.

 

What they should have done was release Who Do you Think You Are as well, for sure!!

US sales

 

Let Love Lead The Way: 13,000

 

Tell Me Why: 11,000

 

Voodoo: 10,000

 

Interesting, wonder what some of their popular album tracks like Love Thing, Move Over and NGUOTGT have sold in the US if Voodoo and Tell me why have done 10k.

Added a few countries!

I am doing a restyling. All the charts are coming soon.

I have a sales update for the studio albums in the U.S.

 

Spice - 8,422,176 :cheer:

Spiceworld - 4,432,721

Forever - 245,880

 

 

Sales breakdown

 

Spice

7,461,690 - physicals

56,387 - downloads

904,099 - streaming units

Total - 8,422,176 SPS (7,518,077 pure sales)

 

Spiceworld

4,170,432 - physicals

35,547 - downloads

226,742 - streaming units

Total - 4,432,721 SPS (4,205,979 pure sales)

 

Forever

212,193 - physicals

6,194 - downloads

27,493 - streaming units

Total - 245,880 SPS (218,387 pure sales)

 

 

 

Edited January 2, 20241 yr by Spice Girls Net

I think it’s pretty impressive that streaming has increased Spice’s sales in the USA by nearly a million copies. You can start to believe the 30million worldwide sales they were claiming!

Thanks for the update. They would be mad not to at least update Spice cert in the US when it hits 10m copies as that is Diamond and a huge thing in the US. Especially if the Documentary and possible tour makes it happen sooner than expected.

 

Do we have a GH update too?

 

Nothing on the GH yet

How many years streaming is that 900k? If streaming continues at that rate we should be able to work out when it will pass 10 million and go Diamond, not that I expect the label to do anything, they never do afterall.

Oooh at Spice being well over 8 million! A pity that the label are seemingly not motivated to apply for the 8xPlatinum certification.