Available on BBC Sounds from midnight tonight, a new four part series of their "Eras" podcast, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Spice Girls, hosted by Rosie Ramsey, featuring guest contributions and rare audio from the BBC archives:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032f31/episodes/guide

Nice. This 30th anniversary is getting quite a lot of media like this, which only enriches their presence and hopefully makes the Singles Collection sell...

A shame the group itself is doing f*** all about it

Casuals are not going to buy the singles collection. It’s way too expensive. Also, most casual fans don’t care about remixes.

If they released the Orbital remix of Wannabe as a stand alone streaming release, it would probably do better.

1 hour ago, Sideout said:

If they released the Orbital remix of Wannabe

True... they should call it something else though. Charli XCX and Diplo already released a version of Wannabe called 'Spicy' so makes no sense for Orbital to do the same lol

Casual fans would probably be more open to a rarities album than a random new remix of Wannabe by a famous producer.

I read so many comments of casual fans upset with the boxset. The majority of comments were along the lines of I already own all the singles. They are in my mom’s attic. I don’t need to buy them again. Thanks for nothing Spice Girls.

In terms of music releases it seems casual fans want something new, not “old” songs repackaged. Maybe that’s why the group didn’t even bother with Forever 25 because Spice 25 and Spiceworld 25 didn’t sell as well as UMG projected.

8 hours ago, Sideout said:

Casual fans would probably be more open to a rarities album than a random new remix of Wannabe by a famous producer.

I read so many comments of casual fans upset with the boxset. The majority of comments were along the lines of I already own all the singles. They are in my mom’s attic. I don’t need to buy them again. Thanks for nothing Spice Girls.

In terms of music releases it seems casual fans want something new, not “old” songs repackaged. Maybe that’s why the group didn’t even bother with Forever 25 because Spice 25 and Spiceworld 25 didn’t sell as well as UMG projected.

Yep, everyone wants new Spice Girls! It seems only the girls themselves don't...

Anyhow... moving the topic back on track. Good series this, binge listened to it this evening. Nice to hear the contributions from Jayne Middlemiss, Clara Amfo, Peter Loraine and Alan Edwards in particular interspersed with the archive clips.