That's nice of them. It does flabbergast me that Blackpink were able to perform at Wembley Stadium!?!? Every one of those girl bands named were bigger than Blackpink over here and yet only one of them was able to do Wembley Stadium!

K-pop works in mysterious ways lol. On paper it is wild that an artist whose:

- biggest single peak here is #17

- has never managed more than silver certified singles

- has a #1 and #2 album, one silver & one gold

…is able to do two nights at Wembley Stadium!

Good for them though, but it is odd.

Like you have Sugababes who could only manage one arena tour during their 2000-11 run & otherwise did theatres - despite multi Platinum albums, quite a few #1 singles and numerous Top 10s. No chance of them ever being able to do Wembley Stadium as a headline act despite the stats they have!

Just shows you people don't buy music anymore lol. Just like how our girls sold close to 700,000 seats for the UK tour but couldn't clear 10,000 copies of Spice 25, lol.

Happy for BlackPink, they went away for a year to release solo stuff and then still came back to tour together.

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Isn't it mostly powered by Asian migrants in the UK and US, which form some of the biggest migrant populations in those countries? Young Adults and Young people don't really buy records, but they will attend shows from 'hip' mainstream artists for sure.

It is the same situation in the US: K-pop doesn't sell that much but will take on whole stadium tours easily... All of those things together make them an easy booking for Wembley and other stadiums.

The Spice Girls are to this day the only Western girlband that could leverage a whole stadium tour and while that is to be celebrated, it also means that the west doesn't really support their girlbands, which is very sad!

I'm not sure Girls Aloud or Sugababes are really 'stadium acts' though... I love both of their music but having seen them both live, I would prefer Sugababes music to be in smaller arenas/theatres because the music is much more intimate. And Girls Aloud SUCKED live, they looked and sounded like they were straight out of doing karaoke at Butlins in Scarborough but with some budget behind them... so I couldnt really see them going the stadium route to be honest... they never even made it outside of the UK...

The issue with these girlbands is that they were always very 'local' in their sound and image/attitude/appeal... Spice Girls were truly international both in their music, their appeal and their marketing. The only other UK girlband that came close since were Little Mix but even they were quite 'local' too lets be honest lol

40 minutes ago, Mr.X said:

Girls Aloud SUCKED live

[citation needed]

3 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

[citation needed]

I saw it with my own eyes and heard them with my own ears.

That was enough...

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Randomly spent my time looking through all the Spice Girls' concert tour dates to discover which cities they played in the most! These were 3 times or more:

34 times - London

14 times - Manchester

6 times - Birmingham

5 times - Toronto

4 times - Las Vegas, Paris

3 times - Dublin, Montreal

Loads of places they played in twice and a few just once. All 6 of their Birmingham dates were in 1998 lol.