Mama

 

iTunes:

#30 United Kingdom

#37 Spain

#41 United Kingdom

Always nice on Mother's day when Mama gets a big boost.

 

Amazing that Universal are too lazy to take advantage. Imagine how well a 7 inch Mama vinyl would sell if put on pre-order in Jan to be released the Friday before Mothering Sunday. It could include a printed sheet with the lyrics on one side and a 'To......... Love always.......' on the other side where you could fill it in as a gift to your mother.

 

A nice present idea, a Spice Girls fans collectors item too. No brainer.

Always nice on Mother's day when Mama gets a big boost.

 

Amazing that Universal are too lazy to take advantage. Imagine how well a 7 inch Mama vinyl would sell if put on pre-order in Jan to be released the Friday before Mothering Sunday. It could include a printed sheet with the lyrics on one side and a 'To......... Love always.......' on the other side where you could fill it in as a gift to your mother.

 

A nice present idea, a Spice Girls fans collectors item too. No brainer.

 

 

I'd buy it for my mother for sure.

I guess the reason they are not putting out anything because they don't achieve the sales target that they want. Their Wannabe vinyl is still available. We'll buy anything but us fanbase is just too small. Those who attend the concerts don't buy their music anymore.

I guess the reason they are not putting out anything because they don't achieve the sales target that they want. Their Wannabe vinyl is still available. We'll buy anything but us fanbase is just too small. Those who attend the concerts don't buy their music anymore.

 

That's because they have no legacy. It's also part of the reason why the musical flopped (apart from being shite). They needed to have at least 5 albums to really cement a legacy.

I guess the reason they are not putting out anything because they don't achieve the sales target that they want. Their Wannabe vinyl is still available. We'll buy anything but us fanbase is just too small. Those who attend the concerts don't buy their music anymore.

 

This is absolutely not true. The Wannabe vinyl was a big success (#1 on the vinyl singles chart and has charted for over a year in total).

 

Spice re-entered the charts at #5 with its anniversary edition.

 

The GH picture disc vinyl was #1 on the vinyl chart.

 

I've spoken to someone connected to Universal and they just don't care about the Spice Girls for several reasons. Firstly they aren't signed so aren't a priority, secondly they are an anomoly in that their team have little to no interaction with the Universal team, it is a very odd set up. Thirdly with very little work the Spice Girls music earns good money any way through streaming. Wannabe did 620k streams Friday on Spotify alone.

 

Spice and Wannabe are about as big as any UK 90s female artists stream full stop.

 

If Spice Girls were with another label they would be getting loads more effort put in. Let's be real a Mama vinyl at Mother's day would sell a heck of a lot more than a Steps Deeper Shade of Blue vinyl but it is the latter being released.

Let's be real a Mama vinyl at Mother's day would sell a heck of a lot more than a Steps Deeper Shade of Blue vinyl but it is the latter being released.

Steps' recent vinyls (not just the RSD one) are issued by Demon. It shows that even Sony are not interested.

This is absolutely not true. The Wannabe vinyl was a big success (#1 on the vinyl singles chart and has charted for over a year in total).

 

Spice re-entered the charts at #5 with its anniversary edition.

 

The GH picture disc vinyl was #1 on the vinyl chart.

 

I've spoken to someone connected to Universal and they just don't care about the Spice Girls for several reasons. Firstly they aren't signed so aren't a priority, secondly they are an anomoly in that their team have little to no interaction with the Universal team, it is a very odd set up. Thirdly with very little work the Spice Girls music earns good money any way through streaming. Wannabe did 620k streams Friday on Spotify alone.

 

Spice and Wannabe are about as big as any UK 90s female artists stream full stop.

 

If Spice Girls were with another label they would be getting loads more effort put in. Let's be real a Mama vinyl at Mother's day would sell a heck of a lot more than a Steps Deeper Shade of Blue vinyl but it is the latter being released.

 

 

I think it is also due to the fact the girls show no interest in re-releases either. I mean the Spiceworld re-release was ignored the Spice one only from Melanie C, Emma has not even acknowleded her own album being released for record store day. Why would the record company bother? Steps at least go all out to promote theirs, and they will get a heck of alot less than Spice Girls would from re-releases.

Edited March 10, 20241 yr by spiceboy

There's gotta be a reason why they dropped the ball with Spiceworld25 if they could achieve the same success with Spice25 if they had released them in similar formats

Yeah the support from the girls for the Spice25 campaign was already a bit lackluster, tbh... only Mel C showed any interest in it publicly, she was the one giving interviews. The others only did one instagram post and moved on.

 

The success of that campaign - and it was successful - was down to the fans and the record company promoting mainly. It worked.

But then the ball go so dropped for SW25... what a shame

Something I've noticed recently is that Goodbye is ahead of Too Much on Spotify. Goodbye is 9th most popular and Too Much is 10th.

Something I've noticed recently is that Goodbye is ahead of Too Much on Spotify. Goodbye is 9th most popular and Too Much is 10th.

 

Deserved. We need Mama out of their Top10 and Holler to go Top3 :cheer:

I would support this! :cool:

Probably due to Goodbye's high placement on This Is Spice Girls playlist.

Stop had its biggest ever day of views on Youtube on Sunday 21st according to kworb. It did 54k views in the one day.

 

That seems low to me though I guess Stop hasn't had the viral moment Wannabe/Spice up your life had at the Olympics and it isn't anywhere near as big on Youtube as it is on Spotify for them.

SUYL has dropped down to No.3 on Spotify and Stop had moved back to No.2 on the SG’s most popular tracks

Stop had its biggest ever day of views on Youtube on Sunday 21st according to kworb. It did 54k views in the one day.

 

That seems low to me though I guess Stop hasn't had the viral moment Wannabe/Spice up your life had at the Olympics and it isn't anywhere near as big on Youtube as it is on Spotify for them.

 

Stop went absolutely viral last year during it's 25th anniversary, across all platforms but specifically on YouTube and TikTok, so that number doesnt seem right in that context?...

SUYL has dropped down to No.3 on Spotify and Stop had moved back to No.2 on the SG’s most popular tracks

I suppose this was inevitable! Now I’m curious about if Spice Up Your Life can continue to stay ahead of Say You’ll Be There, in terms of position. Also, the gap in streams between them is only 757,158, I wonder if SUYL will overtake SYBT stream count at some point?

A majority of countries around the world are celebrating Mother’s Day today

 

Mama - Worldwide iTunes

 

#48 Australia

#71 Philippines

#72 Finland

#106 Malaysia

#171 South Africa

#178 India

#198 Germany

I suppose this was inevitable! Now I’m curious about if Spice Up Your Life can continue to stay ahead of Say You’ll Be There, in terms of position. Also, the gap in streams between them is only 757,158, I wonder if SUYL will overtake SYBT stream count at some point?

 

According to kworb SYBT is outstreaming SUYL by a fair amount in the last 7 days, not sure why.