I know I'm too early to bump this thread :P

 

I hope Goodbye 25 will come and Christmas Wrapping get strong Xmas playlisting like last year.

If it’s included on a popular Spotify playlist again I see no reason why not.

Stream it bitches

 

Christmas wrapping is already doing more streams daily than every song bar the singles minus LLLTW and Headlines. So is already their 12th most streamed song daily and will no doubt be above Holler and Goodbye in a few days.

Christmas Wrapping is a cover, right? What about Sleigh Ride? I always like their version the best.

Christmas Wrapping is a cover, right? What about Sleigh Ride? I always like their version the best.

 

Kind of, it is more like a re-working than a straight cover. The lyrics are new for instance.

Christmas Wrapping is already averaging 16.2k streams a day. That is now more than Holler and only 500 behind Goodbye and 1.5k behind Mama and Too Much.

 

Should be a week or so before Christmas Wrapping appears in their top 10 on Spotify the way it is going.

Is there any chance the snow globe is a teaser for an upcoming Christmas Wrapping lyric video?

I have no idea but if they are wise they would run with Christmas Wrapping this winter.

 

Lyric video, radio edit chopping 35 seconds off the start of it, 7 inch vinyl. A lot of the big Christmas songs the artist pushed hard as it took off, like Kylie with Santa Baby, Leona with One more sleep, Mariah never stops pushing AWIFCIY.

Still makes no sense that they never did an Xmas song all together, either before Ego Spice left or after as a 4! They even had a Christmas tour!!!!!

It would have been perfect for them to a Christmas EP in 1999... Always thought that the tour was meant to be around a single release but alas...

^ Speaking of their 1999 Christmas tour. I wish at some point over the years, their team had released a version of that live Christmas medley to try to get in seasonal playlists and radio play. The full (nearly) eight minute version would have never become a playlist staple. But I'd like to think a four minute cut of the best bits could become a holiday favorite. Just trim out the repetitive sections...Mel B's solo where she forgets the words...and Mel C's solo where she's clearly just goofin' around. Both solos are funny in the context of the concert...but wouldn't play as well in playlists/radio. Admittedly, the audio for that show isn't the best they ever recorded...but...I dunno...would it have been impossible to clean it up a bit?

 

Release it along with a cut of their concert performance...which really does showcase the sort of joy the group carried when they were at their best.

 

Anyway. I realize at no point was their team ever going to do any of that. I'm just saying that for me...those two songs merged the spirit of the holiday and the Spice Girls better than Christmas Wrapping...and certainly better than Sleigh Ride.

Christmas Wrapping streams on Spotify -

 

Monday - 21,562

Tuesday - 22,058

It would be nice if Christmas wrapping could chart some year for them.

It would be nice if Christmas wrapping could chart some year for them.

 

If Universal does anything with it, then it could for sure... but probably never will knowing how they and the company work with this things

Yeah as I say most very popular Christmas songs build then the artist or label have 1 or 2 years really pushing it to make it a staple of playlists and radio.

 

If it does as well as last year it will become their most streamed non single. At this rate it could overtake Holler and Goodbye in a couple of years.

 

The one thing Universal have done is plonk it on loads of the compilations they put out on streaming endlessly. So from about 5 versions on Spotify there is now nearly 20.

The girls probably don't care about pushing Christmas Wrapping since they don't have writing credits on it.

I wish they’d had the idea of writing/recording an original Christmas song, rather than two covers! Even though Christmas Wrapping now does pretty well for them on Spotify, I can’t see it ever outdoing the original and becoming the definitive version.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Christmas music was big in the UK in the late 90's. It was mostly American artists that used to record Christmas albums.

It went very out of fashion to release Christmas music in the mid 90s in the UK. It was big songs and novelty records.

 

Spice girls beat Telly Tubbies and South Park to Christmas number 1 didn't they.