FDOML and IWYB underrated!!

NSAIG UNDERRATED!!!

Still not over how I Want You Back is already out. WTF!!

Still not over how I Want You Back is already out. WTF!!

 

 

Yeah, and I cannot believe NSAIG actually beat it wtf??? Who is on these forums??? :huh:

:cry: First Day of My Life

 

Not really happy with this

Who's ready for the Top 40 to begin? :cheer: 36-40 revealed later this afternoon!

Who's ready for the Top 40 to begin? :cheer: 36-40 revealed later this afternoon!

 

If there is any more 'surprises' like I Want You Back and Word Up being outside of the Top20, KEEP IT JAY!!! :cry:

:cry:!

 

I would say from here on out, it's more the case that there's a few "I'm surprised this song is this high up..." scenarios!

:cry:!

 

I would say from here on out, it's more the case that there's a few "I'm surprised this song is this high up..." scenarios!

 

OK Bring it on! I have my pitchfork ready :teresa:

 

6.611 - 40. Mama SPICE GIRLS

6.648 - 39. On the Horizon MELANIE C

6.727 - 38. Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) SPICE GIRLS

6.741 - 37. Crickets Sing for Anamaria EMMA BUNTON

6.750 - 36. Dear Life MELANIE C

 

We start off the Top 40 with the first Spice Girls song to fall by the wayside! According to these results, Mama is BuzzJack's least favourite of their 13 singles. Do you agree? This sweet ode to the girls' mothers was released as a double A side single with Who Do You Think You Are, just in time for Mother's Day 1997. The single was hugely successful in the UK, where it became the girl group's fourth #1 single in a row from debut - which at the time was record breaking. It stayed at #1 for 3 weeks, (their longest stretch at #1 outside of Wannabe's impressive 7 week reign), and became 1997's 15th best selling single with 660,000 sales - and the 65th best seller of the 1990s! With downloads & streaming, the single is fast approaching 800,000 total sales. The single's success was hugely impressive when you consider that the Spice album had sold approaching 2 million copies by March 1997! The single was also a #1 success in Ireland and Austria.

 

Just making it into the top half of the results is On the Horizon by Melanie C. It was the second single to be taken from Reason, in June 2003. Fans and critics drew comparisons to New Radical's You Get What You Give - and the song is in fact written and produced by the New Radicals' Gregg Alexander, alongside Rick Nowels. Melanie C has previously expressed dislike for this song & never includes it in her live set lists, so I'm not sure what she'd make of BuzzJack declaring it as the best song from Reason! It seems that On the Horizon becoming a single may have been more down to her then-record label Virgin. Early signs indicated that it was a good choice - it made the UK Radio Airplay Top 20, at #8 - but sales were sluggish, with the single entering and peaking at #14, spending a mere 2 weeks in the Top 40. Its release also did very little for its parent album, re-entering the Top 100 for just 1 week at #81.

 

The second Spice Girls song to leave is their most recent single - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends). I say recent, but we're fast approaching this song's 12th anniversary. :drama: At the time of its release, 7 years had passed since their previous single Holler/Let Love Lead the Way. With Geri returning to the group for their 2007 reunion, it was the Spice Girls' first new song as a 5 piece in a decade. Prior to its release, Geri described Headlines as a "big love song" and a "Spice Girls classic". Unfortunately critical and public reception to the new Spice Girls ballad was lukewarm to say the least. Despite the fact that it was released in aid of the Children in Need charity, it could only manage a peak of #11 in the UK - shockingly ending the group's string of singles and albums peaking no lower than #2. It managed a mere 50,000+ sales in total. Success was greater elsewhere - #2 peaks were achieved in Italy & Spain, and #3 in Sweden. I can't mention Headlines without throwing shade to that music video - I'll never understand what anyone involved in the creation of it was thinking. :nono:

 

Crickets Sing for Anamaria is a cover of the 1960s bossa nova song by Marcos Valle, and was released as the fourth and final single from Emma's sophomore album Free Me. Crickets is certainly a unique entry in the Spice Girls canon - if you've heard it, you'll understand! Perhaps it was a little too out there for the UK public, given that it peaked at #15 and experienced a short chart life and low sales. It did create something of a revival for the album though - it climbed from outside of the Top 200 to #43, which is one of the better post-album single effects in solo Spice history!

 

Melanie C's second single choice from 2016's Version of Me is the ballad Dear Life. I'm pleasantly surprised to see it this high up in the results, I think it's a lovely song! By this stage of her career she wasn't achieving chart entries in the singles chart, but it was released as a CD single.

crickets sing for anamaria <3

Mama the lowest Spice single shocks me!!

2 group songs out before the top 30 is kinda shocking for me.

mama was pretty weak tbh

in regards to THEIR back catalogue

Crickets is too high .

Im so GLAD that Crickets is above tripe like Mama and On The Horizon. It's such an inspired cover ah! It is interesting that it somewhat revived the album's in the charts, and looks like if she had done a bit more promo for it, it would have made more of an impact. And she should have continued with its promo, maybe even releasing the next single over the Summer period. Crickets was a perfect single - great fun and arty video, great b-sides, great live performances, etc.

Mama the lowest out of the singles, tbh I agree I do prefer Headlines.

I'm glad for 'Dear Life'. It's a good song

Time for some new results!