9 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Well guess what darlings, after all that talk, I ordered a Hot vinyl after all.

I'm really not proud of myself, but FOMO won out in the end x

I'll totally resent this when it's £15 by June xx

Stop it, I'm trying to resist buying it!

9 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Pack that shit vinyl bah ha ha ha haaaa I am screaming. 😂

7 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Stop it, I'm trying to resist buying it!

Where’s the lie?

Buy buy buy !

33 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Well guess what darlings, after all that talk, I ordered a Hot vinyl after all.

I'm really not proud of myself, but FOMO won out in the end x

I'll totally resent this when it's £15 by June xx

YESSSS!!!! FOMO WORKS!!! BULLYING WORKSSS!!

22 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:

Stop it, I'm trying to resist buying it!

Just do ittttttt!!!! This is definitely a one-off so you don't want to miss out lol

My copy arrived! I still don't like how it looks x

Regardless, she got my sale

11 hours ago, -Jay- said:

My copy arrived! I still don't like how it looks x

Regardless, she got my sale

Good boy

No chart entries for Hot in the UK. Sadly.

I feel like the label got out of this the amount of effort put into it... heh. It's one of the worst performing RSD titles, oops-

4 hours ago, -Jay- said:

I feel like the label got out of this the amount of effort put into it... heh. It's one of the worst performing RSD titles, oops-

not charts at all is sad but.... oh well... definitely a lot of fans were put off by the lack of effort and the pricing.

Did NS, AGLM and Reason chart at all?

Here is all the chart action - none of them made the actual main chart, but across other charts, Northern Star performed the best. It's been a case of diminishing returns with every release:

Northern Star (Record Store Day 2022)

#26 - Scottish Albums Chart
#30 - Record Store Chart
#32 - Vinyl Albums Chart
#45 - Physical Albums Chart

#47 - Albums Sales Chart

#82 - Albums Chart Update (i.e. Monday midweek)

Northern Star (National Album Day 2023)

#70 - Physical Albums Chart
#74 - Albums Sales Chart
#100 - Scottish Albums Chart

A Girl Like Me (Record Store Day 2024)

#34 - Record Store Chart

#89 - Albums Sales Chart

#89 - Physical Albums Chart

Reason (Record Store Day 2025)

#99 - Physical Albums Chart

Hot (Record Store Day 2026)

#3 - Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart

I'm speculating here, but perhaps the label recreating A Girl Like Me very faithfully to the CD release's artwork (presumably paying the license to re-use the photoshoot), only to get a rather meh outcome with sales, made them cut corners for Reason re: not bothering to pay for the Reason photoshoot. Then Reason doing worse than A Girl Like Me (as an otherwise reasonable item - 2xLP black vinyl/expanded version, with sleeves) made the label even more reluctant to give Hot a particularly good treatment... so they went really basic with a picture disc/plastic sleeve, without even including a sheet of credits. To sell even worse than Reason...

Meh! Even though we know Geri and Victoria are reluctant about music releases (to say the least) I can imagine Universal/Virgin thinking it's really not worthwhile continuing, when their Spice items are amongst the least desired/least purchased on RSD lol.

I'm not really sure "what went wrong" with A Girl Like Me. Maybe it's just a sad reality that there's not that many people who are fussed to own solo Spice Girls albums. It's not that Pop items aren't of interest on RSD. Louise Redknapp's vinyl for 2026 did considerably better than A Girl Like Me, Reason and Hot. I know she's active but she's still niche - but fans showed up to buy it to a greater extent than solo Spice Girls.

26 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Here is all the chart action - none of them made the actual main chart, but across other charts, Northern Star performed the best. It's been a case of diminishing returns with every release:

Northern Star (Record Store Day 2022)

#26 - Scottish Albums Chart
#30 - Record Store Chart
#32 - Vinyl Albums Chart
#45 - Physical Albums Chart

#47 - Albums Sales Chart

#82 - Albums Chart Update (i.e. Monday midweek)

Northern Star (National Album Day 2023)

#70 - Physical Albums Chart
#74 - Albums Sales Chart
#100 - Scottish Albums Chart

A Girl Like Me (Record Store Day 2024)

#34 - Record Store Chart

#89 - Albums Sales Chart

#89 - Physical Albums Chart

Reason (Record Store Day 2025)

#99 - Physical Albums Chart

Hot (Record Store Day 2026)

#3 - Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart

I'm speculating here, but perhaps the label recreating A Girl Like Me very faithfully to the CD release's artwork (presumably paying the license to re-use the photoshoot), only to get a rather meh outcome with sales, made them cut corners for Reason re: not bothering to pay for the Reason photoshoot. Then Reason doing worse than A Girl Like Me (as an otherwise reasonable item - 2xLP black vinyl/expanded version, with sleeves) made the label even more reluctant to give Hot a particularly good treatment... so they went really basic with a picture disc/plastic sleeve, without even including a sheet of credits. To sell even worse than Reason...

Meh! Even though we know Geri and Victoria are reluctant about music releases (to say the least) I can imagine Universal/Virgin thinking it's really not worthwhile continuing, when their Spice items are amongst the least desired/least purchased on RSD lol.

I'm not really sure "what went wrong" with A Girl Like Me. Maybe it's just a sad reality that there's not that many people who are fussed to own solo Spice Girls albums. It's not that Pop items aren't of interest on RSD. Louise Redknapp's vinyl for 2026 did considerably better than A Girl Like Me, Reason and Hot. I know she's active but she's still niche - but fans showed up to buy it to a greater extent than solo Spice Girls.

Thank you for laying it all out @-Jay-

Yes it is a sad state of affairs, but it is the case with solo Spices anyway... none of them have managed to sell well even outside of RSD since like 2003, so it is not really surprising...

When it comes to A Girl Like Me, it was also a limited edition of 1500 copies which did sell out, eventually. Maybe not in the first week but still, it did. Same with NS, but then the Album Day special vinyl is still wildly available today after a few years... Emma only posted a couple of instagram posts about it. Mel C didn't even acknowlege Reason. You gotta promote to sell........

I think Reason was more of a curious one as at least it had the extra incentive of having a load of extra tracks on it, and that flopped hard, there are still vinyls available... I was so surprised Mel didn't even so much as post an instagram post about it?... no wonder it flopped...

At least Mel B tried and did a bit of promo leading up to the release, but it was always too niche of a release for it to be in serious contention of getting a good result in the charts.

Solo Spice is just not a hot sale overall, and it hasnt been for ages. Mel C's last album didnt necessarily sell more than her previous ones - and it had waaaaay more variants. 9000 copies after 1 month on sale and after so many singles and promo doesn't really point towards her growing her audience at all, she just had more variants which meant she finally got to the Top10 for one week. The same is expected of Sweat, to be honest... she gets loads of promo like any of them would, the only difference being that Mel C will literally do everything to sell her current album, and that still doesn't really translate into success...

People will turn up for group releases that show care. They won't really turn up to solo projects, specially vinyls of albums that didn't necessarily set the charts alight and don't bring anything new either...

This does not bode well for a Free Me or any other Solo Spice-related release moving forward to be honest... Apart from Free Me, all the remaining 'possible' albums sold way less and are much more niche than even Hot was. Gerita wont allow Schizo to be released and neither with VB.... So it might be over...

Our last remaining hope is Free Me as that was considered a moderate success back in the day and it seems like a pop-fan favourite, more than AGLM ever was.

Will keep my fingers crossed, but I won't be holding my breath for anything more releases

Mentioned before but gosh, imagine if it had looked like this for real:

https://www.instagram.com/universepgc/

What we all deserved!

10 hours ago, Mr.X said:

Thank you for laying it all out @-Jay-

Yes it is a sad state of affairs, but it is the case with solo Spices anyway... none of them have managed to sell well even outside of RSD since like 2003, so it is not really surprising...

When it comes to A Girl Like Me, it was also a limited edition of 1500 copies which did sell out, eventually. Maybe not in the first week but still, it did. Same with NS, but then the Album Day special vinyl is still wildly available today after a few years... Emma only posted a couple of instagram posts about it. Mel C didn't even acknowlege Reason. You gotta promote to sell........

I think Reason was more of a curious one as at least it had the extra incentive of having a load of extra tracks on it, and that flopped hard, there are still vinyls available... I was so surprised Mel didn't even so much as post an instagram post about it?... no wonder it flopped...

At least Mel B tried and did a bit of promo leading up to the release, but it was always too niche of a release for it to be in serious contention of getting a good result in the charts.

Solo Spice is just not a hot sale overall, and it hasnt been for ages. Mel C's last album didnt necessarily sell more than her previous ones - and it had waaaaay more variants. 9000 copies after 1 month on sale and after so many singles and promo doesn't really point towards her growing her audience at all, she just had more variants which meant she finally got to the Top10 for one week. The same is expected of Sweat, to be honest... she gets loads of promo like any of them would, the only difference being that Mel C will literally do everything to sell her current album, and that still doesn't really translate into success...

People will turn up for group releases that show care. They won't really turn up to solo projects, specially vinyls of albums that didn't necessarily set the charts alight and don't bring anything new either...

This does not bode well for a Free Me or any other Solo Spice-related release moving forward to be honest... Apart from Free Me, all the remaining 'possible' albums sold way less and are much more niche than even Hot was. Gerita wont allow Schizo to be released and neither with VB.... So it might be over...

Our last remaining hope is Free Me as that was considered a moderate success back in the day and it seems like a pop-fan favourite, more than AGLM ever was.

The NAD edition of Northern Star isn’t "wildly available". It isn’t in stock on Amazon or HMV anymore, although it wasn’t supposed to be as limited as the RSD edition.

As for the Reason vinyl, if it "flopped", then AGLM flopped too.

As for the self-titled album, excluding its first week, it achieved an additional 2,500 sales in the month that followed its release, taking its total to 9,700 as of November 2020. Taking into account its streaming performance since then, I wouldn’t be surprised if its UK sales have now surpassed all her albums since Beautiful Intentions, which is no mean feat.

9 hours ago, -Jay- said:

Will keep my fingers crossed, but I won't be holding my breath for anything more releases

Mentioned before but gosh, imagine if it had looked like this for real:

https://www.instagram.com/universepgc/

What we all deserved!

Mine does cos I bought that sleeve! But yeah, that's what Universal should have done!

It just shows how they don't really give much attention to the girls

11 minutes ago, Louisa said:

The NAD edition of Northern Star isn’t "wildly available". It isn’t in stock on Amazon or HMV anymore, although it wasn’t supposed to be as limited as the RSD edition.

As for the Reason vinyl, if it "flopped", then AGLM flopped too.

As for the self-titled album, excluding its first week, it achieved an additional 2,500 sales in the month that followed its release, taking its total to 9,700 as of November 2020. Taking into account its streaming performance since then, I wouldn’t be surprised if its UK sales have now surpassed all her albums since Beautiful Intentions, which is no mean feat.

lol ok...Melanie C fans never fail to amaze me for how pissy you all get about this stuff lol of course AGLM flopped as well... if anything it didn't give Universal an inpetus to release another edition of the album like NS did. The Northern Star NAD edition is easily available , I find it very easily on record stores lol Just like Reason... the record store I usually go to still has 3 copies after all this time...

The self-titled might be over 28k WORLDWIDE for sure... Emma's last album is apparently on that level of sales as well worldwide... I dont doubt that. But we're discussing the UK here. The streams of that album arent big enough to indicate an almost 20k sales in the UK alone, im sorry.

Anyway... I just spinned HOT again on the vinyl player. The album is for sure not remastered either, but it doesnt sound bad at all everything considered!

Edited Saturday at 12:504 days by Mr.X