Spice Girls Net

I know Thursday's streams aren't taken into account re the singles chart, but does anyone know if they contribute towards the total sales of a song - for example when we stream Wannabe on Thursday?

Seeing as the physical release has been pushed back until the end of August we should really push for the streaming and the digital EP this week on wards. Is anyone else up for spreading the word on all various forums?! Also, should we advise fans to download the EP individually so that ‘Wannabe’ gets more sales.

In general I don't think hosts can necessarily 'choose' which songs they can play.

Nice there’s a bit of activity in the lead up. Emma and Melanie C both hosting shows on radio tonight, the special hosted by Richard E.Grant and various articles. Hopefully there’ll be some fun posts this coming week

"Wannabe" is only 20 million behind Fifth Harmony's "Worth It" on Spotify. At the start of this year the gap was 50 million :smoke:

Wannabe has finally reached 600 million streams on Spotify :cheer:

Wannabe should get to 600m streams on Spotify this week. My guess is Thursday (July 1st) 😊

I always felt June 28th was when the Spice era truly began. Appearance and performance of "Wannabe" on GMTV 25 years ago today

I can’t believe that was 14 years ago. Time flies. I was glued to sky news that day and I was only on MySpace at the time 🤭

Wannabe nearly did 493,000 streams yesterday. Let's hope it crosses the 500k mark leading up to the anniversary.

SUYL has knocked 2B1 down one place to number 4 and is now the 3rd most popular song on the Spice Girls Spotify page after Wannabe and Stop

The BTW album has done 992k in pure sales. 8k away from 1M

Spice was definitely at 23m by 2000. Even with digital sales, cds and vinyls over the last 20 years it could potentially be 25m at least in terms of ‘sales’ with streaming units it could be nearer to 30m. But I’ll take the 31m Spiceworld did 13-15m by 98/99. I would guess 17m seems like a fair total. I wish it had done 20m. As Jay says, there’s so many sources and different articles all with different totals 🤪

Imagine a third album era with goodbye for Christmas 1998 followed by an album in early 1999 and at least 2-3 singles. If the album did 10 million tops plus a million a single, then the era would have added another 15m to their total and probably more no.1s to their catalogue

I don’t remember Mel B’s chart position for ‘Brutally Honest’ but I’m sure I read sales were 250k I’m pretty certain Geri did half a million copies.

Clip of Melanie on GMB this morning @1405796395433529350

After 1998 most of Wannabe sales probably did start again until the mid 2000s when the digital era took hold. Any paid for sales that Wannabe has done in the last 15 years will be downloads.

Since the 90s it’s gone from Gold in Germany (250k) to platinum (500k) in 2018. Also it went Gold in Japan in 2011 for 100k digital sales. It was also certified Platinum in Italy (digital and streaming) as it was already 6x plat back in the 90s. And lastly it would have sold a few copies back in the 90s, but it was certified gold in 2018 for sales of 45k. As for the U.S. it was at 1.8m by the end of 1997 and as of 2014 it was 2.91m It will easily be over 10 million by now I would have thought, excluding streams.

That would definitely be the best way to go 🙏

I’m more likely to play a CD out of all the formats. But at least we get streaming and digital too

Wannabe's total UK sales - 2,033,880 Source: Music Week

Yes you have to wait a little longer ☺️

You’ll definitely need to keep an eye out as Sammy says

You’ll get something nice for the Anniversary

Can’t wait for the celebrations to begin