Hhhmmm.... I'm not sure a Christmas Album would be good tbh... I wouldnt care for it -_-

 

Just do a simple EP with a few Christmas mixes and call it a day. THEN they can get into the studio and do a proper album :funky:

Edited December 2, 20222 yr by Mr.X

A Christmas album is such a no brainer for the group to do. Record ten Christmas covers, tack on Sleigh Ride and Christmas Wrapping. Along with Christmas mixes of 2 Become 1, Too Much and Goodbye. They would have a great 15 track Christmas album.

I’d be over the moon to see an album. But knowing these girls, I don’t think it’s achievable, unfortunately.

If they were going to an Xmas album (which they never would) they should look no further than Girls Aloud, their Xmas album was fab!

 

I suppose 2 become 1 is higher thanThe Beatles ones. Also SOTU is better than all the spice Xmas #1s (yes I said it)

I suppose 2 become 1 is higher thanThe Beatles ones. Also SOTU is better than all the spice Xmas #1s (yes I said it)

 

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In what world is SOTU better than Goodbye? or Too Much? or 2 Becomes 1 :rolleyes:

Edited December 3, 20222 yr by Mr.X

At this point I wouldn’t say no to a Christmas album. Obviously a new album would be far more preferable, but if they were ever to do something for Christmas, then albums generally get way more attention than EPs!

 

Which songs would you all choose for them to cover to fill up the track list?

 

My track list is based on them doing this for Christmas 2023, with the assumption of no involvement from Victoria.

 

Honestly I haven’t given much thought into whether my choices of Christmas cover songs would be appropriate for them but I chose a selection of popular ones! :lol:

 

 

Standard CD / Deluxe CD1 / Digital Track List:

1. 2 Become 1 [Christmas Mix] [1996 vocals/production, with additional festive sounding production]

2. Too Much [Christmas Mix] [1997 vocals/production, with additional festive sounding production]

3. Goodbye [Christmas Mix] [1998 vocals/production, with additional festive sounding production]

4. Sleigh Ride [Re-recording] [2023 vocals / with the same structure as the Jack Frost version with no chatting]

5. Christmas Wrapping (Re-recording) [2023 vocals / Emma, Melanie C, Geri & Mel B]

6. [New/Original Spice Girls Christmas Song]

7. Step into Christmas

8. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

9. Merry Christmas Everyone

10. [New/Original Spice Girls Christmas Song]

11. Merry Xmas Everybody

12. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

13. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

14. Christmas Message [spoken word message from the girls]

15. Goodbye 25 [2023 vocals, Geri instead of Victoria / similar production to the 1998 original / released as a digital single and as a physical single prior to this album’s release… including WOMAN as its B Side :P ]

 

Deluxe CD2 / Digital Track List:

1. Christmas Party Megamix [Wannabe, Say You’ll Be There, Who Do You Think You Are, Spice Up Your Life, Stop]

2. 2 Become 1 (Single Version)

3. Too Much (Album Version)

4. Goodbye (Album Version)

5. Sleigh Ride (1996 B Side Version)

6. Christmas Wrapping (1998 B Side Version)

7. 2 Become 1 (Orchestral Version)

8. Too Much (Orchestral Version)

9. Goodbye (Orchestral Version - Full Length)

10. Merry Xmas Everybody / I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (1999 “Christmas in Spiceworld” Live Version)

P.S. It’s difficult to directly compare Girls Aloud’s Sound of the Underground with the three Spice Girls Christmas #1s considering it’s an uptempo vs. three ballads, but what I will say is they’re all incredible x

TOO MUCH IS ONE OF THE GREATEST POP SANGS OF ALL TARRM

 

OF ALL TARRRM!!!

 

SOTU IS A MODERN BOP AND CLASSIC AND ONE OF THE GREATEST POP BOPS, BUT THEY DID NOT WRITE IT AND IT DOES NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO SPICES!!!! TOO MUCH AND GOODBYE ARE JUST THAT GOOD!!!

TOO MUCH IS ONE OF THE GREATEST POP SANGS OF ALL TARRM

 

OF ALL TARRRM!!!

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SOTU IS A MODERN BOP AND CLASSIC AND ONE OF THE GREATEST POP BOPS

Omg thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis

 

TOO MUCH AND GOODBYE ARE JUST THAT GOOD!!!

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In what world is SOTU better than Goodbye? or Too Much? or 2 Becomes 1 :rolleyes:

 

The real world. SOTU is my favourite girls aloud song and I would have LOVED Spice Girls to have done it. Can see them doing it with a slightly more rocky vibe!

I'm always a bit shocked they didn't hit the studio late summer 99 to record a Christmas album to tied things over. The xmas tour would have been the promo for it and no pressure to even release a single for it properly.

 

Same title as the tour Christmas in Spiceworld. 8 covers and 2 originals I'm sure they could have knocked it out in a couple of weeks. If one of the originals ended up being really good could have tried for the 99 xmas number 1.

^ A pity they didn't think of that. It would have made sense with it being tied in with a Christmas tour! I feel like there would have been less pressure for it to be #1 because Christmas albums rarely do that well anyway, though with the power they still had in 1999 it surely would have done well.

 

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Spice Girls Best Of has a new festive looking picture and a reshuffled playlist, placing the three Christmas #1s at the top. Unfortunately they've not considered putting either Christmas B Side in the playlist!

 

 

Christmas Wrapping was added to Spotify's Christmas Pop playlist yesterday which is pretty major! The playlist has 1,859,917 followers and the track is placed 15th out of 79 songs. So there's a good chance it'll get a lot of plays over the next 3 weeks!

 

Christmas Wrapping currently has 1,251,673 streams on Spotify, 3,957 of them occurring on 4th December, but that's prior to it being added to Christmas Pop. Will be keeping an eye on this and seeing how much of a boost it gets!

 

Sleigh Ride is doing okay but its most significant playlist only has 82,450 followers (Spotify's Family Christmas Party - song 77 out of 109). Current stream count is 1,604,856, 4,629 from 4th December. The Jack Frost Edit version total is 284,588, with 542 streams on 4th Dec. That's on a playlist called Pop Christmas! as the 44th song out of 108. It's not an official playlist, but nevertheless it has 16,066 followers.

Gets streaming Christmas wrapping on repeat! I'd love to see anything bar the usual 10 songs in their top 10 most popular on Spotify. Apart from Holler and Goodbye sometimes switching places and Feed your love doing a few days at number 10 it has basically never changed.

 

Would be nice to see a 'random' track in there for once.

Christmas Wrapping being on that playlist is great!

 

I don't get that Best Of playlist, it seems pretty pointless that it exists, but whatever. All their Christmas songs should be in there (and since they LOVE doing promo for their solos, why now throw Coming Home For Christmas in there too?)....

 

Christmas wrapping did nearly 64k streams yesterday thanks to being added to the Christmas pop playlist. That might not even be a full day of streaming on the playlist either as not sure what time yesterday it was updated and Christmas wrapping added.

 

Only Wannabe and sometimes Stop do more daily streams than that and it will only get higher as we get closer to xmas. Should almost certainly be their 2nd most popular song on their Spotify top 10 in the next week or so.

 

Universal really need to jump all over this, get Christmas wrapping #1 on their best of playlist and make it their artist pick. It entering their top 10 most popular in the next few days will boost its numbers too. I'd say put it #1 on their This is playlist too but we have discussed the lack of update for that already. A push on social media too wouldn't go amiss. No reason by Friday with a bit of push Christmas Wrapping cant be doing 100k streams a day easily.

Edited December 7, 20222 yr by sammy01

It's only Mel C and Emma doing a duet though, reet?! So it's not really Spice Girls. Sleigh Ride is their one and only Xmas song, outside 2 Become 1.

Fantastic to see Christmas Wrapping get such a boost! That was 62,736 streams achieved on Monday, raising its total to 1,314,409. Quite a significant 4.77% of its overall streams was achieved in just that one day!

 

Only 3,802 added to Sleigh Ride (B Side version) [total: 1,608,658] and 485 for the Edit [total: 285,073] {overall total: 1,893,731}

 

Looks like Christmas Wrapping will beat Sleigh Ride to reaching a total of 2 million streams!

 

P.S. Christmas Wrapping just a little behind Stop's daily stream figure of 63,182!

Christmas Wrapping did 151,000 streams on Tuesday! :o :cheer: New stream count: 1,465,409.

 

213,736 stream in 2 days is a remarkable 14.6% of its overall streams. It certainly demonstrates the power of a big playlist!

Will just keep growing as we get closer to Xmas too. Christmas day it could actually outstream Wannabe.

 

Hopefully will shoot into their top 10 tomorrow too giving it another boost.

^ Most of these streams were not made within the UK, right? Otherwise it would be Top 200 on UK Spotify.

 

What's the situation on Apple Music? Does it feature in any big playlist?

Christmas Wrapping definitely got a big chunk of those streams from outside of the UK. I wish it was possible to know the streaming figures per country!

 

Apparently it's only on two Apple Music playlists... "Petit Papa Noel // Noel 2020 // La playlist de Noel" by Digster (worldwide), and "Holiday Hits" by Apple Music but only in Spain!