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I like both a lot, I wish both had been able to have a turn at the top! I suppose Bootylicious was at a slight disadvantage with the album already having sold a lot, whereas Eternal Flame was released before the album reissue.

During her US promotion for her book, Geri's go-to answer for Spice Girls reunion questions is along the lines of "if something happens then it'll come from all of us", pretty much the same as what she said in that Sunday Times interview.

Geri's been very busy promoting in America:

Omg she's making us wait until 2026 Looking forward to the new single though!

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I would be very happy if she did this at my date! Although the song that came to my mind first that I'd love to see her perform is Put Yourself in My Place. Do we have an overall list of the surprise songs she's done so far?

Voting for Million Reasons

Tension Deluxe CD on Amazon and HMV up from £8.99 to £19.99

I looked at the chart week when Janet entered at #11 in the UK with Someone to Call My Lover, and interestingly Train - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) was at #10, also a new entry. Both songs were much bigger in the US, Janet peaked at #3 and Train at #5*. Even higher than both in the UK, was Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster at #8 - the highest new entry of the week, but regarded as a flop as she'd never previously charted lower than #2! Someone to Call My Lover didn't make the UK Year End Top 200, meaning it sold less than 57,000 copies in 2001. It's still uncertified. Who knows what its current sales are... will it even have made it to 100,000 yet? Hopefully this rise in popularity is sustained and it can go silver eventually! * Of course Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) went on to have big sales in the UK in the digital era, it's now 3xPlatinum / 1.8m+. Its 2001 sales were 96k!

#100 sold 5,454, so Alok/Kylie missed out on charting by 439 copies. Which might not sound like a lot, but considering it only sold 641 digitally last week (download+streaming combined), it would have been a tall order for it to make up that deficit. Oh well!

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https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-best-selling-new-vinyl-releases-of-the-last-10-years The Official best-selling new vinyl releases of the last 10 years (2015-2025)Revealed by the Official Charts Company, in celebration of 10 years of the vinyl chart, with focus on new releases that happened within these 10 years (so no classics!) POS TITLE ARTIST 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 5 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 7 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 8 BLACKSTAR DAVID BOWIE 9 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 10 CURRENTS TAME IMPALA 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 12 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS 13 25 ADELE 14 30 ADELE 15 AS YOU WERE LIAM GALLAGHER 16 HYPERSONIC MISSILES SAM FENDER 17 HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 20 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 21 ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF ELO 22 HACKNEY DIAMONDS ROLLING STONES 23 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER SAM FENDER 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 26 ROMANCE FONTAINES DC 27 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO 30 LOVER (LIVE FROM PARIS) TAYLOR SWIFT 31 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 32 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT BILLIE EILISH 33 VOYAGE ABBA 34 IGOR TYLER THE CREATOR 35 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 36 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 37 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 38 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 39 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR 40 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN How many of these titles do you guys own? Here's a copy/paste list: POS TITLE ARTIST 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT (Nearly 130,000 vinyl sales) 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT (115,000 vinyl sales) 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 5 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 7 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 8 BLACKSTAR DAVID BOWIE 9 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 10 CURRENTS TAME IMPALA 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 12 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS 13 25 ADELE 14 30 ADELE 15 AS YOU WERE LIAM GALLAGHER 16 HYPERSONIC MISSILES SAM FENDER 17 HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 20 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 21 ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF ELO 22 HACKNEY DIAMONDS ROLLING STONES 23 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER SAM FENDER 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 26 ROMANCE FONTAINES DC 27 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO 30 LOVER (LIVE FROM PARIS) TAYLOR SWIFT (Over 48,000 vinyl sales) 31 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 32 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT BILLIE EILISH 33 VOYAGE ABBA 34 IGOR TYLER THE CREATOR 35 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 36 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 37 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 38 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 39 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR 40 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN I own... 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO (A little surprised to see that GUTS has sold more on vinyl than SOUR!)

This is what I do too, but this is only a recent development! I invested in the protective outer sleeves at the end of 2023. I wish I'd done that a lot sooner. Before that... I stuck the hype stickers directly on the front cover! Which I slightly regret now, but never mind. I doubt I'll ever sell my collection, so no worries about putting off buyers with that! 😎

Apparently I'm Older Now is going to be one of the songs released on her Rosie Frost website to coincide with this book's release.

This will be no surprise coming from one of BuzzJack’s Spice Girls forum mods, but I still find Bag It Up to be enjoyable! A highly camp disco-tinged pop song, full of the bravado and cheekiness that Geri had in bucketloads back then. She really sold the heck out of this song in the performances of it. Overall, I think it’s a fun pop package! I genuinely think it’s well produced, even though I’d concede that her vocals are… well, they’re Geri vocals! 80s music fans / fans of Wham! might be interested to know that Pepsi and Shirlie perform backing vocals on this track. In the grand scheme of things, clearly All the Small Things has considerably more of a legacy, and on those grounds it feels like it would be more fitting that it made it to #1. However at the time I don’t think it felt out of place that Geri beat Blink-182. Bag It Up sold 255k within the year 2000 (42nd best seller) while All the Small Things sold 196k (67th). All the Small Things on paper is not my cup of tea, but I will say that the power of nostalgia is strong, to the point I have some affection for it, I wouldn’t skip it if it played. Side note: my favourite Blink-182 song is I Miss You.

In that era, a lot more importance was placed on the Top 75 specifically though. From my perspective the singles chart operated in a similar fashion until at least 2015; I wouldn’t say things changed drastically directly after 2006 to the point of classifying 94-06 as a distinct period. The “pent up demand with held back releases resulting in high debuts” thing, that was still very much happening throughout the download era (for singles released before an album). Ultimately it was a solid 20 years of the chart working like that, with high debuts not just possible, but normal. A significant chunk of the chart’s history! So I wouldn’t say it was an exception. It’s not like today’s charts are all that comparable to pre-1994. They’re all very distinct from each other!

Thanks tris.tan, just moving your posts here because we already have a thread!

I do miss when new artists could come charging out the gate with their first release and reach #1 (or even Top 10)! It was an exciting aspect of the chart, pre-this decade. A new boy band going straight to #1, such as The Wanted in 2010, seems like an impossibility now. If they had launched in 2025, would they have had the industry support/traction to even go Top 100 with their debut? Pixie Lott - how many songs would she have needed to release before eventually striking lucky? As Joseph said, nowadays it feels more the case that new artists release a string of songs that likely don't bother the charts, but nevertheless they gradually build up a fanbase. Then that leads to being able to tour academy/theatre venues, and achieving a charting album (that's frontloaded to the first week). It feels like some artists' measure of success is through social media engagement & stream/view counts, rather than chart positions. Of course there's moments when the stars align for artists and TikTok virality suddenly triggers a song into becoming a charting hit, maybe their very first to chart. It seems hard for some artists to sustain this. If their next song doesn't make waves on TikTok, then Spotify don't extend their support past that flash-in-the-pan moment. I suppose it's a good thing that artists these days can have long careers which aren't reliant on any singles success - that the pressure to have singles success likely just isn't there at all now, because it would be an unrealistic expectation from their management/labels. Whereas 10-15 years ago, The Wanted/their team probably felt wary if any of their singles missed the Top 5. Very different times! To answer the question directly: I'll be very surprised if any artist manages to get to #1 with their very first release in the future! Never say never. It just seems that it would require a remarkable stroke of a luck to be possible.

Sports car, Abracadabra and twilight zone ❤️

Well, I really like it! Let's see how long this lasts for me until it feels horribly overplayed x

Loving this. It's so instant! There's a part of the instrumental which sounds rather ABBA to me.

Seems impressive to me!

The time between 'Melanie C' (self-titled album) to now, is Melanie's longest gap between album releases: Album to album: 177 weeks - Northern Star to Reason 108 weeks - Reason to Beautiful Intentions 103 weeks - Beautiful Intentions to This Time 231 weeks - This Time to The Sea 53 weeks - The Sea to Stages 215 weeks - Stages to Version of Me 206 weeks - Version of Me to Melanie C 236 weeks (and counting) - Melanie C to 9th Album Shortest gap to longest gap: 53 weeks - The Sea to Stages 103 weeks - Beautiful Intentions to This Time 108 weeks - Reason to Beautiful Intentions 177 weeks - Northern Star to Reason 206 weeks - Version of Me to Melanie C 215 weeks - Stages to Version of Me 231 weeks - This Time to The Sea 236 weeks (and counting) - Melanie C to 9th Album

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I like both although they're my clear two least favourites on the album. I slightly prefer Blade of Grass!