Maybe a tour in 2023 to mark 25 years of their first world tour in 1998 :lol:

58,000 streams for the Wannabe demo is downright terrible. It makes me wonder if 90% of Feed Your Love streams are from die hard fans. Which means Feed Your Love streams are going to come to a halt after its shine wears off with the fans in a few more weeks.

 

I have doubts we will get the Say You'll Be There demo with Mel B's rap now.

 

There really is no reason to listen to the Wannabe demo more than once though unless you prefer it to the actual finished version of Wannabe. I think I've listened to it twice. It was a novelty to hear it a couple of times but I've no real desire to listen to it again.

 

I'm not sure who you think bar fans is listening to Feed your love either? It's got no playlisting (not even on the Spice Girls 2 playlists) so won't be getting any casual or accidental streams. The Wannabe 25 EP isn't even their artist pick so top of their Spotify page (it only was for 6 days).

 

Wannabe 25 was very last minute, it was all meant to be about Spice 25. The label only decided to go with Wannabe25 as they thought fans would be upset without something. The budget and effort on their side is going into Spice.

No playlisting = poor streams, that's all there is to it really. Spotify users need a song to be in their face in order to stream it. If Wannabe Demo was added to This Is Spice Girls then it would do better numbers.

 

Case in point, the 2 Forever album tracks included in This Is Spice Girls vs. the 6 that aren't, last week's streams:

 

8,094 - Tell Me Why

6,660 - Right Back at Ya

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2,899 - If You Wanna Have Some Fun

2,706 - Wasting My Time

2,645 - Get Down with Me

2,098 - Weekend Love

1,811 - Time Goes By

1,771 - Oxygen

No playlisting = poor streams, that's all there is to it really. Spotify users need a song to be in their face in order to stream it. If Wannabe Demo was added to This Is Spice Girls then it would do better numbers.

 

Case in point, the 2 Forever album tracks included in This Is Spice Girls vs. the 6 that aren't, last week's streams:

 

8,094 - Tell Me Why

6,660 - Right Back at Ya

~

2,899 - If You Wanna Have Some Fun

2,706 - Wasting My Time

2,645 - Get Down with Me

2,098 - Weekend Love

1,811 - Time Goes By

1,771 - Oxygen

 

 

It's actually fairly impressive Feed your love will be closing in on 400k at the end of this week. As you've shown people having to actually search for it and play it will be hurting it. At the very least Feed your love would be getting an extra 6k streams a week just by being added to the This is playlist if not more if it was higher up on it.

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There really is no reason to listen to the Wannabe demo more than once though unless you prefer it to the actual finished version of Wannabe. I think I've listened to it twice. It was a novelty to hear it a couple of times but I've no real desire to listen to it again.

 

I'm not sure who you think bar fans is listening to Feed your love either? It's got no playlisting (not even on the Spice Girls 2 playlists) so won't be getting any casual or accidental streams. The Wannabe 25 EP isn't even their artist pick so top of their Spotify page (it only was for 6 days).

 

Wannabe 25 was very last minute, it was all meant to be about Spice 25. The label only decided to go with Wannabe25 as they thought fans would be upset without something. The budget and effort on their side is going into Spice.

 

Feed Your Love at least was included in the New Music Friday playlists in the UK and Brazil, both with millions of listeners/followers. So it got a bit of an advantage but yes its streams are healthy for a previously unreleased demo!

 

I do wish they would update their playlists with more of their own catalogue and FYL and Wannabe Demo. It's quite ridiculous really, but here we are...

 

Also, not sure about the bit in bold. Didnt Biff say that they have a new manager who organised it? He also mentions it being quite last min or something?

Also, do we know roughly how much the Wannabe EP has sold? Or even an estimation?!...

The label only decided to go with Wannabe25 as they thought fans would be upset without something. The budget and effort on their side is going into Spice.

How do you know this? Do tell!

Feed Your Love at least was included in the New Music Friday playlists in the UK and Brazil, both with millions of listeners/followers. So it got a bit of an advantage but yes its streams are healthy for a previously unreleased demo!

 

I do wish they would update their playlists with more of their own catalogue and FYL and Wannabe Demo. It's quite ridiculous really, but here we are...

 

Also, not sure about the bit in bold. Didnt Biff say that they have a new manager who organised it? He also mentions it being quite last min or something?

 

They have a team working for/at universal now. I think the EP was planned but not the physical they were signed off later (hence them being messy). So whilst Wannabe was meant to be celebrated not as much as it's become with physicals. They basically saw the endless posts about a physical release on spice circle and whipped up a vinyl and cassette (hence the vinyl first pic getting changed and the cassette is pictureless as it was a rush job).

 

Spice 25 physical is already signed off so should be much better organised and hopefully planned.

 

My impression was Wannabes anniversary was about upping their overall streaming, that's why the deal with Spotify was struck to promote the This Is playlist. So when Spice rolls around they are in a better position overall to get it back in the top 10 which is the aim.

It's so frustrating, they still have so much potential and they are just wasting it on baby books, being instagram celebrities, competing on or being judges on talent competitions and solo careers... They really should just commit to say a region a time, go to Australia and tour there then the following year go to South America and tour there, then the following year go to China, then the following year USA etc that way it's not too much for them being away from families etc, they are still keeping the band alive and they can still do all the other stuff they clearly want to do on the side.

 

I think the two Mel's are the only ones that are really up for a world tour, I can see Emma and Geri not wanting to be away from families for that long, which is fair enough.

Why are people acting as if the Covid craze is already over? Restrictions are still in place all over the world. Touring is still up in the air.

When it's left to them to sort it all goes pear shaped as they don't have one unified vision anymore. It's 4 different visions, priorities and ultimately lack of ambition.

 

The 2019 tour came about as they were offered Wembley and it grew from there. They were told a date and tied to it, they couldn't barter or demand another date. The rest of the tour dates had to be before Wembley too as it had to be the pinnacle of the tour.

 

They need something like that again (maybe Glastonbury) where the date is set and they have to work around it than the other way were the 4 of them try to work a tour around their other things which as you can imagine gets them nowhere.

 

This is why they broke up too! Once they axed Simon Fuller, who DID have one vision and was holding to it, ans was doing the boring day to day stuff, they suddenly found thrmselves with 5 visions and no time to do thr music, as they had to book thr gigs and do EVERYTHING

I don’t get some fans (BuzzJack and former DenDen fans). It seems it’s all about them, 4 cats. They decide when a project sucks, flops, when 500k streams are great or a disappointment.

 

The tour won’t happen. People are getting sick again with COVID and we won’t back to “normal” before 2022. Europe at least is not doing fine, you guys in the UK can do what you like.

 

All the girls are families, children and responsibilities. Do you really think they’re gonna put their loved ones in danger because Sammy is screaming and wants another reunion with Geri standing there doing nothing and Emma & the Mels carrying the show?

 

Please, people, let’s be realistic and start respecting the girls for what they stick to. If they want a family and be housewives, if they want to release an album that sells 1k copies, if they write books about baby poops or whatever they want to do.

Why are people acting as if the Covid craze is already over? Restrictions are still in place all over the world. Touring is still up in the air.

 

Because you don't announce a tour and do it the next day. If they even got their act together and announced it in November it wouldn't be till summer 2022 at the earliest them actually touring. If in a years time we are still restricted by Covid then it's game over for the touring industry anyway.

It's also like they don't care about their legacy. Geri CLEARLY isn't hungry for success anymore, and the other three careied her during the tour.

They definitely have a very skewed perception of success these days. Probably because they achieved so much as Spice Girls they take for granted the things they could still achieve together. I mean no one sells 700k tour tickets in the UK unless you are maybe Ed or Adele, it's something the likes of Little Mix could only dream of and most acts would be absolutely desperate to do if they could. However with the girls it's more 'that's nice if it doesn't clash with my solo album, baby book, Christian's F1 season'.

They have a team working for/at universal now. I think the EP was planned but not the physical they were signed off later (hence them being messy). So whilst Wannabe was meant to be celebrated not as much as it's become with physicals. They basically saw the endless posts about a physical release on spice circle and whipped up a vinyl and cassette (hence the vinyl first pic getting changed and the cassette is pictureless as it was a rush job).

 

Spice 25 physical is already signed off so should be much better organised and hopefully planned.

 

My impression was Wannabes anniversary was about upping their overall streaming, that's why the deal with Spotify was struck to promote the This Is playlist. So when Spice rolls around they are in a better position overall to get it back in the top 10 which is the aim.

You really believe Spice Circle/DenDen has that much power? Sure, Jan.

They definitely have a very skewed perception of success these days. Probably because they achieved so much as Spice Girls they take for granted the things they could still achieve together. I mean no one sells 700k tour tickets in the UK unless you are maybe Ed or Adele, it's something the likes of Little Mix could only dream of and most acts would be absolutely desperate to do if they could. However with the girls it's more 'that's nice if it doesn't clash with my solo album, baby book, Christian's F1 season'.

 

They definitely have a very awful view on success and unfortunately the group isnt a priority for them, and it hasnt been since 1999 at the very least.

 

Boring...

Yeah unless that comes from an official source, I would be reticent to believe that. They of course take suggestions from the fans but I really doubt they green light the vinyl when they logged on to Spice Circle... They have been doing vinyls lately so it makes sense to plan for one as they have all been relatively successful anyway.

None of the girls except Melanie C has been into touring. It shouldn't be a surprise most of them don't want to do a proper 6 months world tour. Can you blame them? Their legacy is pretty much set in stone. They have millions in the bank. We should be happy for them that they don't have to work their butt off at their age. How many other artists get screwed over and are forced to tour to make ends meet?

Unless the girls do some major tv interviews as a group to promote Spice 25, I don't see it re-entering the top 10 album chart. Can anyone think of an anniversary edition of an album re-entering the top 10?