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    It’s now #8 in the mids. Honestly it’s doing really well in its third week, considering that it isn’t big on streaming and doesn’t have big singles! A lot of artists suffer way worse declines in the second week, let alone the third.

     

    Just to compare them with another big boyband, JLS’ comeback album charted at #4 and is currently midweek #35 in week 2 (and even that isn’t awful compared to some second week positions).

    Omg PREACH it Mr.X :cheeseblock:

     

    Yeah I'm kind of surprised they've not leaned more into their status of having three Christmas #1s and have a release that features them and the Christmas songs. Even if it was just a streaming/download exclusive.

     

     

    By the way they're in a very close battle with Girls Aloud in Official Charts' Christmas #1s semi-final... I had to go with 2 Become 1! Sorry GA :cry:

     

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    1368 votes for Spice Girls vs 1232 for Girls Aloud :o

     

     

    I have a feeling that if Spice Girls get through to the final, straight people are really going to rally around either Queen or Rage Against the Machine beating them.

    I truly love all three of their Christmas #1s, what a high quality run of ballads :wub:

     

    Even at the age of 9 I really liked Too Much… I played the cassette of it over and over! I strongly associate that song with Christmas 97 and the general feeling of Spicemania at that point.

     

    By the way, today’s date (14th December) is 23 years since the release of Goodbye! :drama: I remember getting the CDs at an independent record store in Lichfield, and they included a window display promotional poster of Goodbye… which was gorgeous… I had it on my wall for months! Sadly when my parents and I moved house in September 1999, the poster (and seemingly all my other posters) got lost in the move :(

    Yeah, 'Whole Lotta History' as the Christmas single (but better managed) with 'See the Day' never existing and 'Models' as the early '06 single really would have been perfect.

     

    Were double A-sides even a thing by 2008 though? :unsure:

    I feel like Leona was one of the last artists to give us a final hurrah with the Double A Side Better in Time/Footprints in the Sand, which resulted in Footprints charting separately… it felt messy at the time!

    TBH the singles from the Greatest Hits stories are a bit all over the place.

     

    Nicola told me OTM was meant to be the first single and that she hated BCYLM yet it's widely noted she likes BCYLM and it was meant to be the first single. Then there's the rumour that only Cheryl and Kimberly like 'Something New'

    Well that rumour is false because Cheryl has admitted that Something New is one of her least favourites, and Kimberley didn’t particularly want Something New as the single (she wanted On the Metro). Nadine was the main cheerleader for Something New.

     

    Don’t believe that Nicola hated BCYLM… she sang its praises at the times and says she was desperate for Girls Aloud to secure and record it? Unless she’s subsequently soured to it. But she was 100% behind it in 2012.

    I'm not sure if this is true, but I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that there was an original plan for Sound of the Underground to be a Double A Side with Stay Another Day (considering that One True Voice went with a Double A Side themselves), but in the end it was relegated to B Side status because they felt that Sound of the Underground was strong enough to stand on its own.

     

    It was rumoured that they were going to release an unused Hear'Say song as their second single, called If You Wanna Roll With Me!

     

    Another rumour - they were considering Rolling Back the Rivers in Time as a single. That was prior to Untouchable being confirmed.

     

    Originally The Sound of Girls Aloud was going to include a studio version of Flashdance...What a Feeling, but just days before the album was finalised for pressing, they wanted to scrap it and record I Think We're Alone Now instead. The booklet in the singles box set states that it was a planned single!

     

     

    I don't believe that Wicked Game was scrapped due to Long Hot Summer. It appeared on release schedules in March, scheduled for a release date of 30th May 2005 - but eventually got pulled. Polydor stated at the time that the reason for pulling it was "due to lack of time in the girls' busy schedule". Cheryl told Popjustice in April 2005 that she thought their version was "amazing", but I don't know if any of the others have ever given an opinion on it, other than Sarah recalling its existence in her autobiography: "For some reason it was pulled at the last minute. It's never been heard anywhere and none of us even have a copy of the recording. The video was even planned and signed off; it was meant to be a Bruce Weber-style black and white affair. Of course, that never happened either". Brian has mentioned over the years that he really didn't like the song though. Interestingly "Wicked Game" is written down in the Ringtones order page section of their 2005 tour programme, it seems that it went to print before they cancelled the song, or maybe it was just an oversight. Brian also said that Long Hot Summer was quite a rushed recording process, which makes me think that it wasn't worked on until a while after they'd cancelled Wicked Game.

    Unfortunately this has declined quite a bit this week. :( 2006 sales so far, in the Monday midweeks (with ACR applied) but the #100 has sold 2,375.

     

    I wonder what caused it to be doing relatively much better last week? Has the opportunity passed for it to chart in the UK for the first time? :(

    I’m glad that we finally know for sure that the Extended Mixes counts to the main album. I know it didn’t in Australia, but my gut feeling was that BMG wouldn’t have gone to the trouble of doing this if it wasn’t to benefit Disco in the UK. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t nosedive now! I want to see it above 150k before the end of this year!

    November and first two weeks of December - anniversaries of single releases:

     

    23 years ago:

    23/11/98 - Melanie C - When You're Gone (with Bryan Adams)

     

    22 years ago:

    01/11/99 - Emma Bunton - What I Am (with Tin Tin Out)

    01/11/99 - Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up

    22/11/99 - Melanie C - Northern Star

    09/12/99 - Spice Girls - It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It) (as part of Artists for Children's Promise)

     

    21 years ago:

    27/11/00 - Melanie C - If That Were Me

     

    20 years ago:

    26/11/01 - Geri Halliwell - Calling

    10/12/01 - Emma Bunton - We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight

     

    18 years ago:

    10/11/03 - Melanie C - Melt / Yeh Yeh Yeh

     

    17 years ago:

    22/11/04 - Geri Halliwell - Ride It

     

    15 years ago:

    20/11/06 - Emma Bunton - Downtown

     

    14 years ago:

    05/11/07 - Spice Girls - Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) [Digital Release]

     

    10 years ago:

    06/11/11 - Melanie C - Weak

    02/12/11 - Melanie C - Let There Be Love

     

    9 years ago:

    11/11/12 - Melanie C - I Know Him So Well (feat. Emma Bunton)

     

    2 years ago:

    06/11/19 - Melanie C - High Heels

    15/11/19 - Emma Bunton - Coming Home for Christmas