Posted March 14, 2025Mar 14 If you had the chance to be in charge of S Club's debut album era, what would you have done differently?In reality, we had the following schedule:07/06/1999 - Single 1 - Bring It All Back20/09/1999 - Single 2 - S Club Party04/10/1999 - Album - S Club13/12/1999 - Single 3 - Two in a Million / You're My Number OneWould you tweak the single choices? Add any more singles? Bear in mind that Reach was released on 22/05/2000 - would you have postponed this release to squeeze another S Club single in first? Let us know!
March 15, 2025Mar 15 Author For me, they picked those single choices perfectly and I wouldn't have changed them at all. S Club Party would've been a good introduction song (and I'd definitely have made it track 1 on the album) but Bring It All Back being the Miami 7 theme tune made it the obvious debut single.I'd perhaps have released a fourth single, probably Viva La Fiesta, though delaying the release of Reach and therefore the launch of the second era would've messed things up with hindsight (notably having Never Had a Dream Come True as the Children in Need single).
March 19, 2025Mar 19 I wouldn't change anything either, they got it just right, especially with the follow up timings etc. The only thing I would like to have seen is Everybody Wants Ya as a single but, not enough to replace any of the ones that were chosen. Their single campaigns for the albums were always very short, none of them had more than 3 singles for each album (I'm not counting Never had a dream come true as part of Sunshine), but then they had a run of high selling singles in a way Steps didn't for instance with their flooding the market with singles.
April 14, 2025Apr 14 I feel like Everybody Wants Ya was the missed fourth single opportunity. It would have been an ideal release for either late February or early March 2000, it would have kept fans tided over until promo for Reach and L.A. 7 got under way.
November 20, 2025Nov 20 I agree I think the single choices were perfect. As much as I love You're My Number One I do wonder if Everybody Wants Ya could've taken it's place alongside Two In A Million.
December 4, 2025Dec 4 Well Bring it all back made my spotify top 100 at 77 with 36 playsThink its safe to say was perfect debut
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Author On 04/12/2025 at 23:13, 777666jason said:Well Bring it all back made my spotify top 100 at 77 with 36 playsThink its safe to say was perfect debutOne of the greatest debuts of all time I fear
December 28, 2025Dec 28 4 minutes ago, JosephCarey said:One of the greatest debuts of all time I fear Honestly as much as I love everything they did it dont think they could of started anymore perfect And the only person I can think of that has started with an almost perfect debut recently is Jade although technically she had little mix first
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Author Just now, 777666jason said:Honestly as much as I love everything they did it dont think they could of started anymore perfectAnd the only person I can think of that has started with an almost perfect debut recently is Jade although technically she had little mix firstI'd say it's up there with the likes of Wannabe, Sound of the Underground and What Makes You Beautiful among the best pop group debut singles for sure.
December 28, 2025Dec 28 4 hours ago, JosephCarey said:I'd say it's up there with the likes of Wannabe, Sound of the Underground and What Makes You Beautiful among the best pop group debut singles for sure.I have to agree. I was also going to mention ...Baby One More Time, then realised you were talking about pop groups.
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