May 10, 20233 yr Author That's definitely sloppiness from the OCC to have linked to that - that is a list from October 2022 and it's a Top 300 of most streamed 70s/80s/90s songs regardless of where the artist comes from! So that's why Wananbe is lower down in 70th there. Whereas this newer British (or mostly British...!) artists list was counted down on a radio station from 8th-11th May, but annoying OCC have only shared the Top 40 as a list. So I did my best to write up the whole list from skimming through the broadcasts: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=7340665 but it's not a complete list unfortunately. :'(
May 10, 20233 yr What is depressing is the OCC list, unless I have missed something, Kate Bush and the Spice Girls are the only female only acts in the top 40. With Kate Bush being a complete fluke and was probably nowhere near the top 40 until Stranger Things used the song last year.
May 10, 20233 yr Author It really struck me how largely male dominated the list is too! Also have to say I'm kind of surprised that Steps - 5,6,7,8 outstreams every Spice Girls song bar Wannabe, my goodness.
May 10, 20233 yr Also have to say I'm kind of surprised that Steps - 5,6,7,8 outstreams every Spice Girls song bar Wannabe, my goodness. :blink: That fact has shocked me!
May 11, 20233 yr Spice girls streaming numbers are always very odd to me. I know they were a world wide act but their UK streams always seem so low compared to the overall totals on Spotify.
May 11, 20233 yr The girls would have better streaming/selling power if they 1) did promo for their music and 2) actually f***ing cared about being a damn band... Steps have launched very successful comebacks with touring, promo and new music over the years. The Spice Girls do 1 month of concerts once every 12 years and literally nothing in between, no promo, no nothing but trying to flock their shitty solo projects on the side... If they actually cared, they would have better streaming numbers. For such an iconic catalogue of music, they should be much better!
June 15, 20233 yr f*** me it has finally happened! 8 hours ago This is Spice Girls has updated on Spotify. All solo songs gone, 40 Spice girls only songs, complete mixture of singles, album tracks and bsides. Something must be coming very soon I would say.
June 15, 20233 yr FINALLY!! Damn that first run up to #19 is just iconic bop after iconic bop!! :wub: Glad the solos are gone. Personally this is perfect now. Goodbye at #3? Holler in #7??!! Tell Me Why #17??? Forever25 confirmed :P Edited June 15, 20233 yr by Mr.X
June 16, 20233 yr Author Oh my! That's really unexpected. It'll be interesting to see how much of a boost the new additions to the playlist will get. Randomly Viva Forever's Radio Edit is included too, as well as the album version. Otherwise, the other singles are still just the album versions. The solo songs that aren't there anymore... their streams are bound to nosedive, for many of those songs this was their top playlist. Rest in peace, Midnight Fantasy x This was the previous This Is Spice Girls playlist (the one from July 2021 onwards) 1. Wannabe 2. Say You'll Be There 3. Spice Up Your Life 4. Who Do You Think You Are 5. Stop 6. 2 Become 1 7. Viva Forever 8. Too Much 9. Mama 10. Saturday Night Divas 11. Holler 12. Love Thing 13. Goodbye 14. Never Give Up on the Good Times 15. Move Over 16. If U Can't Dance 17. Do It 18. Last Time Lover 19. Never Be the Same Again [Melanie C] 20. It's Raining Men [Geri Halliwell] 21. What Took You So Long? [Emma Bunton] 22. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster [Geri Halliwell] 23. Take My Breath Away [Emma Bunton] 24. Mi Chico Latino [Geri Halliwell] 25. I Want You Back [Mel B] 26. Feels So Good [Mel B] 27. Something Kinda Funny 28. Naked 29. Midnight Fantasy [Victoria Beckham] 30. Tell Me Why 31. Denying 32. Not Such an Innocent Girl [Victoria Beckham] 33. Let Love Lead the Way 34. I Turn to You [Melanie C] 35. Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) 36. Right Back at Ya 37. What I Am [Emma Bunton] 38. I Know Him So Well [Melanie C/Emma Bunton] 39. Tell Me [Mel B] 40. A Mind of Its Own [Victoria Beckham] 41. For Once in My Life [Mel B] 42. First Day of My Life [Melanie C] Updated This Is Spice Girls playlist, noting which changes have been made: 1. (=) Wannabe 2. (+3) Stop 3. (+10) Goodbye 4. (New) Viva Forever (Radio Edit) 5. (+1) 2 Become 1 6. (-3) Spice Up Your Life 7. (+4) Holler 8. (New) Spice Up Your Life - Morales Radio Mix 9. (-7) Say You'll Be There 10. (-3) Viva Forever 11. (+22) Let Love Lead the Way 12. (+23) Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) 13. (-9) Who Do You Think You Are 14. (-6) Too Much 15. (New) Step to Me - 7" Mix 16. (New) Viva Forever (lo ci saro) 17. (-8) Mama 18. (-4) Never Give Up on the Good Times 19. (+11) Tell Me Why 20. (New) Wannabe - Junior Vasquez Remix Edit 21. (-9) Love Thing 22. (-12) Saturday Night Divas 23. (+13) Right Back at Ya 24. (New) Outer Space Girls 25. (New) Bumper to Bumper 26. (New) Voodoo 27. (New) If You Wanna Have Some Fun 28. (New) Walk of Life 29. (New) Ain't No Stopping Us Now 30. (New) My Strongest Suit 31. (New) Take Me Home 32. (New) Stop - Live in Madrid, Spain / 1998 33. (New) Feed Your Love 34. (New) We Are Family - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 35. (New) One of These Girls 36. (New) Spice Girls Party Mix 37. (New) Baby Come Round 38. (New) Spice Invaders 39. (New) Spice Chat 2 "Shall We Say 'Goodbye' Then?" 40. (New) Sisters (Are Doing It for Themselves) - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 OUT: From 15. Move Over From 16. If U Can't Dance From 17. Do It From 18. Last Time Lover From 19. Never Be the Same Again [Melanie C] From 20. It's Raining Men [Geri Halliwell] From 21. What Took You So Long? [Emma Bunton] From 22. Scream If You Wanna Go Faster [Geri Halliwell] From 23. Take My Breath Away [Emma Bunton] From 24. Mi Chico Latino [Geri Halliwell] From 25. I Want You Back [Mel B] From 26. Feels So Good [Mel B] From 27. Something Kinda Funny From 28. Naked From 29. Midnight Fantasy [Victoria Beckham] From 31. Denying From 32. Not Such an Innocent Girl [Victoria Beckham] From 34. I Turn to You [Melanie C] From 37. What I Am [Emma Bunton] From 38. I Know Him So Well [Melanie C/Emma Bunton] From 39. Tell Me [Mel B] From 40. A Mind of Its Own [Victoria Beckham] From 41. For Once in My Life [Mel B] From 42. First Day of My Life [Melanie C] Hmmm.... I didn't realise until doing this, that several Spice and Spiceworld tracks have been ditched from the list... :blink: So it's not a perfect update. :unsure: Well, maybe this list won't be static, and songs will pop in and out of the list. A lot of other "This Is..." playlists get reshuffled with new inclusions from time to time. They really should have kept all those Spice/Spiceworld tracks in and added more from Forever. They could have stretched this to 50 songs. Changes I find positive include Goodbye being bumped up the list, 3rd is surprisingly high, I hope that it has a nice effect on it. Also way more prominent placings for Let Love Lead the Way and Headlines too. I'm a little surprised that Who Do You Think You Are is below them.
June 16, 20233 yr Don't get why they removed Move Over, but at least they added Step to Me, so that's something.
June 16, 20233 yr WAIT I didnt realise that Move Over, Naked and If You Cant Dance are out??? :o OK they need to remove that awful Wannabe Junior Vasquez mix (they are so obsessed with it damn!) and the Spice Up Your Life morales mix, since neither of them do anything to improve the songs and are taking up space of much better and important songs! Who do we call??
June 16, 20233 yr Updated This Is Spice Girls playlist, noting which changes have been made: 4. (New) Viva Forever (Radio Edit) 6. (-3) Spice Up Your Life 8. (New) Spice Up Your Life - Morales Radio Mix 10. (-3) Viva Forever 16. (New) Viva Forever (lo ci saro) 26. (New) Voodoo 32. (New) Stop - Live in Madrid, Spain / 1998 38. (New) Spice Invaders 39. (New) Spice Chat 2 "Shall We Say 'Goodbye' Then?" OUT: From 15. Move Over From 16. If U Can't Dance From 17. Do It From 18. Last Time Lover Some questionable & disastrous additions / omissions to the playlist. Is a human being responsible for it or an AI software? :drama: Why do we need Viva Forever three times? Spice Up Your Life twice (almost) in a row? Seriously?! Voodoo, Stop (Awful Live Version), Spice Invaders and Spice Chat at the expense of classic & popular tracks such as Move Over, If You Can't Dance and Do It? :blink: Edited June 16, 20233 yr by Voodoo
June 16, 20233 yr Some questionable & disastrous additions / omissions to the playlist. Is a human being responsible for it or an AI software? :drama: Why do we need Viva Forever three times? Spice Up Your Life twice (almost) in a row? Seriously?! Voodoo, Stop (Awful Live Version), Spice Invaders and Spice Chat at the expense of classic & popular tracks such as Move Over, If You Can't Dance and Do It? :blink: Yeah some really baffling choices hey?... Specially the remixes in my opinion, are completely wasted space specially so high up and near the original songs. I like that the Spice Chat is includes, same with Spice Invaders, actually. They are great character-displays of the girls!! Move Over, If You Cant Dance and Naked are Spice Classiques!! I dont care that Do It is out - that bitch deserves to be in obscurity forever more :teresa:
June 16, 20233 yr Author I want to see what impact this rejigged "This Is Spice Girls" playlist has on the songs that were already in it, newly added to it, and taken away from it. So, these figures were their increases from three days ago. I'll make a post tomorrow to see if there's any notable changes! Songs still in the list +500,493 - Wannabe [896,104,619] +84,958 - Stop [156,373,432] +75,746 - Say You'll Be There [117,814,963] +64,838 - Spice Up Your Life [111,947,531] +64,347 - 2 Become 1 [125,814,854] +40,507 - Who Do You Think You Are [68,395,563] +36,568 - Viva Forever [58,470,297] +16,278 - Mama [32,282,680] +14,848 - Too Much [29,176,069] +13,309 - Goodbye [18,731,156] +11,766 - Holler [20,407,373] +6,425 - Never Give Up on the Good Times [11,938,120] +3,207 - Saturday Night Divas [9,304,796] +2,578 - Love Thing [7,604,564] +2,221 - Let Love Lead the Way [4,495,088] +1,519 - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) [3,771,071] +863 - Tell Me Why [2,954,416] +606 - Right Back at Ya [2,426,935] Songs new to the list (Increases from 3 days ago) +3,296 - Viva Forever (Radio Edit) [8,015,617] +1,665 - Spice Up Your Life - Morales Radio Mix [1,549,146] +1,511 - Step to Me - 7" Mix [801,429] +473 - Viva Forever (lo ci saro) [816,579] +469 - Wannabe - Junior Vasquez Remix Edit [702,407] +253 - If You Wanna Have Some Fun [1,339,034] +251 - Outer Space Girls [749,905] +182 - Walk of Life [479,996] +174 - My Strongest Suit [293,783] +145 - Spice Girls Party Mix [67,652] +126 - Bumper to Bumper [714,678] +124 - Voodoo [666,730] +110 - Take Me Home [288,602] +106 - Stop - Live in Madrid, Spain / 1998 [45,215] +103 - Feed Your Love [625,836] +103 - Ain't No Stopping Us Now [450,860] +98 - One of These Girls [528,500] +52 - We Are Family - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 [246,114] +47 - Baby Come Round [276,731] +43 - Spice Invaders [211,009] +31 - Spice Chat 2 "Shall We Say 'Goodbye' Then?" [63,834] +28 - Sisters (Are Doing It for Themselves) - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 [165,627] Songs removed from the list (Increases from 3 days ago) +30,621 - It's Raining Men [Geri Halliwell] [56,509,291] +20,975 - Never Be the Same Again [Melanie C] [40,244,846] +9,886 - I Turn to You [Melanie C] [24,952,967] +5,439 - First Day of My Life [Melanie C] [12,065,684] +4,738 - Mi Chico Latino [Geri Halliwell] [8,421,479] +2,694 - Move Over [7,202,264] +2,678 - Take My Breath Away [Emma Bunton] [6,414,452] +2,385 - If U Can't Dance [7,019,665] +2,024 - Do It [6,116,298] +2,000 - Last Time Lover [6,291,705] +1,710 - Something Kinda Funny [6,212,019] +1,597 - I Know Him So Well [Melanie C/Emma Bunton] [3,638,410] +1,372 - Naked [4,962,329] +1,254 - Denying [4,336,811] +1,120 - What I Am [Emma Bunton] [3,252,655] +930 - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster [Geri Halliwell] [2,669,722] +850 - I Want You Back [Mel B] [2,264,051] Songs removed from the list (For some reason these songs don't have recent data on the website I use, so I'm just going to post what their average daily streaming increase was from May 2022 to May 2023) 14,368 - What Took You So Long? [Emma Bunton] 1,556 - Not Such an Innocent Girl [Victoria Beckham] 1,252 - For Once in My Life [Mel B] 815 A Mind of Its Own [Victoria Beckham] 696 Midnight Fantasy [Victoria Beckham] 632 Feels So Good [Mel B] 476 Tell Me [Mel B] These are the most recent totals, I'll also note down the next update of totals and use this data to work out the increases. Songs still in the list 896,104,619 - Wannabe 156,373,432 - Stop 125,814,854 - 2 Become 1 117,814,963 - Say You'll Be There 111,947,531 - Spice Up Your Life 68,395,563 - Who Do You Think You Are 58,470,297 - Viva Forever 32,282,680 - Mama 29,176,069 - Too Much 20,407,373 - Holler 18,731,156 - Goodbye 11,938,120 - Never Give Up on the Good Times 9,304,796 - Saturday Night Divas 7,604,564 - Love Thing 4,495,088 - Let Love Lead the Way 3,771,071 - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) 2,954,416 - Tell Me Why 2,426,935 - Right Back at Ya Songs new to the list 8,026,260 - Viva Forever (Radio Edit 1,554,574 - Spice Up Your Life - Morales Radio Mix 1,340,046 - If You Wanna Have Some Fun 818,372 - Viva Forever (lo ci saro) 805,574 - Step to Me - 7" Mix 750,870 - Outer Space Girls 715,407 - Bumper to Bumper 703,995 - Wannabe - Junior Vasquez Remix Edit 667,404 - Voodoo 626,499 - Feed Your Love 528,991 - One of These Girls 480,783 - Walk of Life 451,483 - Ain't No Stopping Us Now 294,525 - My Strongest Suit 289,210 - Take Me Home 277,172 - Baby Come Round 246,606 - We Are Family - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 211,376 - Spice Invaders 166,013 - Sisters (Are Doing It for Themselves) - Live from Wembley Stadium, UK / 1998 68,402 - Spice Girls Party Mix 64,180 - Spice Chat 2 "Shall We Say 'Goodbye' Then?" 45,822 - Stop - Live in Madrid, Spain / 1998 Songs removed from the list 56,572,052 - It's Raining Men [Geri Halliwell] 40,288,947 - Never Be the Same Again [Melanie C] 24,973,898 - I Turn to You [Melanie C] 19,169,920 - What Took You So Long? [Emma Bunton] 12,077,074 - First Day of My Life [Melanie C] 8,431,010 - Mi Chico Latino [Geri Halliwell] 7,206,505 - Move Over 7,023,755 - If U Can't Dance 6,420,041 - Take My Breath Away [Emma Bunton] 6,295,054 - Last Time Lover 6,215,320 - Something Kinda Funny 6,119,684 - Do It 4,964,776 - Naked 4,338,846 - Denying 3,641,193 - I Know Him So Well [Melanie C/Emma Bunton] 3,254,740 - What I Am [Emma Bunton] 2,671,001 - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster [Geri Halliwell] 2,658,904 - Not Such an Innocent Girl [Victoria Beckham] 2,265,358 - I Want You Back [Mel B] 2,239,232 - For Once in My Life [Mel B] 1,503,021 - A Mind of Its Own [Victoria Beckham] 1,355,903 - Midnight Fantasy [Victoria Beckham] 1,271,009 - Feels So Good [Mel B] 1,110,485 - Tell Me [Mel B]
June 16, 20233 yr So, these figures were their increases from three days ago. I'll make a post tomorrow to see if there's any notable changes! Wouldn't a seven days gap provide a better / more accurate indication? After all, we know that in general streaming activity on Spotify varies between the days of the week.
June 16, 20233 yr I honestly don't understand WHY they have taken out some of the album tracks... move over is a bit of a signature album track for them too!?!?
