Spice Girls – Spice World

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of ‘SPICEWORLD’, the multi-million selling second album by the biggest girl band of all time – the Spice Girls release new and expanded versions of the album on multiple formats via UMR. Curated by the band themselves, ‘SPICEWORLD 25’ brings together the original chart topping album with some of their favourite bonus tracks and B-Sides, along with previously unreleased live recordings from the Virgin Records archive. The iconic ‘Spiceworld’ album, released on the 3rd November 1997, spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Official Charts UK album chart and 48 weeks on the UK Top 40.  

 

It sold 192,000 copies in the UK Week 1, passing a million sales after just eight weeks, reaching No. 1 in eleven other territories, No. 2 in Canada, No. 3 in the US and No. 6 in Japan.  ‘Spiceworld’ has since sold more than 14 million copies worldwide, including more than 1.6 million in the UK (where industry trade body the BPI has certified it 5 x Platinum) and 4.2 million in the US (certified 4 x Platinum by the RIAA).  

 

Across the formats, highlights include fan favourite ‘Step To Me’, originally the soundtrack to a 1997 soft drinks campaign where fans were required to collect twenty pink ring pull tabs from cans in return for a four track ‘not in the shops’ CD single.