It was announced that the Spice Girls would be playing dates in Chicago and Detroit and Boston, as well as additional dates in New York to keep up with the demand. Sixteen additional dates in London were added, all selling out within one minute. Each member of the group was reportedly paid £10 million ($20 million) to do the reunion tour. On 28 June 2007, all five members of the Spice Girls, held a press conference at the O2 Arena revealing their intention to reunite for a worldwide concert tour, The Return of the Spice Girls Tour. The Spice Girls’ only major performance of the single came at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards in November.
In December 1999 they performed live for a UK-only tour, named Christmas in Spiceworld, in London and Manchester, also showcasing new songs from the third album. On May 31, Geri announced her departure from the Spice Girls after many rumours cropped up about her disappearance from the group in interviews, which the girls were fully unaware of her status at the time. In February 1998, the Spice Girls won a special award for overseas success at the 1998 Brit Awards, for sales of 32 million albums worldwide, That night, the girls performed their next single, Stop.
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In the late 1990s, the Spice Girls were involved in a prolific marketing phenomenon that saw them become the most merchandised group in music history. Live in Istanbul (1997) was broadcast on ITV, Showtime, and Fox Family Channel; Spiceworld Tour (1998) was broadcast on Sky Box Office; and Christmas in Spiceworld (1999) was broadcast on Sky One and Fox Kids, among others. In November 1997, they became the first pop group to host ITV’s An Audience with…; their show featured an all-female audience and was watched by 11.8 million viewers in the UK, one fifth of the country’s population. Considered a cult classic, several critics have reevaluated the film more positively in the years following its initial release. Despite being a commercial success, the film was widely panned by critics; the movie was nominated for seven awards at the 1999 Golden Raspberry Awards where the Spice Girls collectively won the award for “Worst Actress”. Meant to accompany their second album, the style and content of the movie was in the same vein as the Beatles’ films in the 1960s such as A Hard Day’s Night.
“Viva Forever”, the last single released from Spiceworld, became the Spice Girls’ seventh UK number-one. In December 1997, the second single from Spiceworld, “Too Much”, was released, becoming the Spice Girls’ second Christmas number one and their sixth consecutive number-one UK single. In total, the album sold over 3 million copies in Britain, the best-selling album of all time in the UK by a female group, certified ten times platinum, and reached number one for fifteen non-consecutive weeks. Riding a wave of publicity and hype, the group released their next singles in Europe.
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Sinclair noted that while Chisholm’s ad libs are a distinctive feature of certain Spice Girls songs, the difference in the amount of time her voice was featured over any other member was negligible. Writing for Bustle, Taylor Ferber praised the female-driven lyrics as ahead of their time, citing the inclusivity and optimism of songs such as “Spice Up Your Life” and the sex-positivity of “Last Time Lover” and “Naked”. Forever25, the 25th anniversary edition of Forever, was released on vinyl on 7 November 2025. Spiceworld25 was released on 4 November 2022 and charted at number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. On 27 September 2022, the Spice Girls announced the tracklisting for Spiceworld25, the 25th anniversary edition of their album Spiceworld.
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Outside of the UK and Ireland, girl groups such as New Zealand’s TrueBliss, Australia’s Bardot, Germany’s No Angels, Belgium’s K3, Spain’s Bellepop, Brazil’s Rouge, US’s Cheetah Girls, as well as South Korea’s Baby Vox and f(x) were also modelled after the Spice Girls. In the UK, they are further credited for disrupting the then male-dominated pop music scene. The Spice Girls have been credited with paving the way for the girl groups and female pop singers that have come after them. Tim Hawes, who worked with the group when they were starting out, said Halliwell’s strength was in writing lyrics and pop hooks, and estimated that she was responsible for 60–70% of the lyrics in the songs he worked on. Sinclair identified Halliwell as a major source of ideas for the Spice Girls’ songs, including many of the concepts and starting points for the group’s songs.
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The “A Mind of Its Own” songstress tried her hand at a solo music career before finding a new passion in the form of fashion design. The Spice Girls — who adopted their nicknames from Top of the Pops magazine — went on to drop a slew of hits, including “Spice Up Your Life,” “Who Do You Think You Are” and “Stop.”Halliwell announced her intentions to leave the band in May 1998. As their popularity skyrocketed, their first album, Spice, followed in November of that year. Most recently, she released a 2023 young adult novel, Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen. Now 48, Bunton married her longtime partner, fellow musician Jade Jones, in 2021. Countless girls dreamed of being part of their stylish squad, and over 25 years later, their aesthetic and their songs still take us right back.
- In one performance, they added a rap section they had written to one of Thirkell and Keiles’ songs.
- That night, the group performed their next single, “Stop”, their first not to reach number one in the UK, entering at number two.
- Nevertheless, the Spice Girls remained the biggest-selling pop group of both 1997 and 1998.
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Following the release of “Wannabe”, an article in Top of the Pops magazine identified each Spice Girl with a unique nickname based on their personalities. His piece recognised that the Spice Girls were about to institute a change in the charts away from Britpop and towards out-and-out pop. Earlier in May, they had conducted their first music press interview with Paul Gorman, the contributing editor of trade paper Music Week, at Virgin Records’ Paris headquarters. The new name was chosen as industry people often referred to them derisively as “the Spice girls”. Fuller took them on an extensive promotional tour in Los Angeles, where they met with studio executives in the hopes of securing film and television opportunities.
The sculptures of the Spice Girls (sans Halliwell) were first unveiled in December 1999, making them the first pop band to be modelled as a group since the Beatles in 1964 at the time. The Australian/British string quartet Bond were dubbed by the international press as the “Spice Girls of classical music” during their launch in 2000 due to their “sexy” image and classical crossover music that incorporated elements of pop and dance music. Rapper Aminé’s 2017 single “Spice Girl” is a reference to the group, and the song’s music video includes an appearance by Brown. The video starts with the Sugar Lumps as schoolgirls who really want to become pop stars like the Spice Girls, and ends with them joining the group on stage, while dancing and lip-syncing the song “Who Do You Think You Are”. Spice World topped the UK video charts on its first week of release, selling over 55,000 copies on its first day in stores and 270,000 copies in the first week.
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Similarly, the North American leg of their 1998 Spiceworld Tour introduced a whole new concert revenue stream when it became the first time advertising was used in a vegas casino pop concert. The dress was sold at a charity auction to the Las Vegas Hard Rock Cafe for £41,320, giving Halliwell the Guinness World Record at that time for the most expensive piece of pop star clothing ever sold. According to Chisholm, they “never thought too much more of it” until after “Wannabe” was released and the press gave them their nicknames.
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- To mark the 25th anniversary of “Wannabe”, an EP of the group’s debut single was released in July 2021, including previously unreleased demos.
- On top of the sell-out world tour, The Spice Girls licensed their name and image to Tesco’s UK supermarket chain, which has reportedly been that they were paid £1 million each for their appearances in Tesco advertisements.
- In December 1999 they performed live for a UK-only tour, named Christmas in Spiceworld, in London and Manchester, also showcasing new songs from the third album.
- Unlike previous girl groups, such as the Andrews Sisters, whose target market was male record buyers, the Spice Girls targeted a young female fanbase.
- She released two more albums, Scream If You Wanna Go Faster in 2001, and Passion in 2005.
The two tracks continued the group’s remarkable sales by topping the charts in over fifty-three countries and solidifying the group’s reputation as the biggest pop act in the world. The girls began a relationship with Fuller and finally signed with him in March 1995. Encouraged by the reaction they had received at the Nomis showcase, the five girls delayed signing contracts on the legal advice from, amongst others, Victoria’s father Tony Adams. In October, armed with a catalogue of demos and dance routines, the group began touring management agencies. After an audition, Bunton instantly impressed the Herberts and was invited to meet the (slightly older) group of girls that July, who welcomed her with open arms after feeling an instant connection with her. Vocal coach Pepi Lemer, who was training the girls, suggested to management one of her students named Abigail Kis would possibly be a good replacement.
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That night, the group performed their next single, “Stop”, their first not to reach number one in the UK, entering at number two. The world premiere, at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square, London, was attended by celebrities including Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry. Their show was watched by 11.8 million viewers in the UK, one fifth of the population.
Both albums encapsulated the group’s dance-pop style and message of female empowerment, with vocal and songwriting contributions shared equally by the members. The Spice Girls achieved three number-one singles from the album with “Spice Up Your Life”, “Too Much” and “Viva Forever”. They are zipped in a .crx file and contain a manifest.json file that specifies basic information (such as version, name, description, privileges, etc.), and other files for the user interface (icons, popups, etc.). The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive BSD license.
On August 12, 2012 The Spice Girls performed as a quintet for the last time at the London 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony. In 2010, Judy Craymer teamed up with the Spice Girls and Simon Fuller to start developing a Spice Girls musical entitled “Viva Forever”. In the same month, Brown admitted in a Colombian interview that she is planning to get together with the groups’ former members for a reality show, stating that she was looking for “girls” inspired in the Spice Girls. Brown then mused about the possibilities of another tour on her Twitter.
The “girl power” slogan was originally coined by US punk band Bikini Kill in 1991 and subsequently appeared in a few songs in the early and mid-1990s; most notably, it was the title of British pop duo Shampoo’s 1996 single which Halliwell later said was her introduction to the phrase. A common opinion within the British music industry at the time was that an all-girl pop group would not work because both girls and boys would find the concept too threatening. Their song “Step to Me” was released digitally for the first time ever on the same day as the album announcement. The Spice Girls’ comeback single, “Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)”, was announced as the official Children in Need charity single for 2007 and was released 5 November. In October 1997, the Spice Girls released the first single from their second album, Spiceworld, “Spice Up Your Life”.
Around 20 new girl groups were launched in the UK in 1999, followed by another 35 the next year. The massive commercial success of the Spice Girls led to a boom of new girl groups in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike previous girl groups, such as the Andrews Sisters, whose target market was male record buyers, the Spice Girls targeted a young female fanbase.