How many no1s did spice girls have

Achieving this amazing feat, the girls became the first act to have three consecutive Christmas Number 1s since The Beatles in After a break of two years, the girls returned with another double A-side, and yet another Number 1 single! The Spice Girls released 11 singles in total, as well as the nine singles that hit the top spot.

The songs that didn't reach Number 1 were, 'Stop' in , which peaked at Number 2, and 'Headlines Friendship Never Ends ' when they reunited in The Spice Girls formed in after replying to an advert posted in a trade magazine looking for singers and dancers.

In November , the debut album from the Spice Girls 'Spice' was released. Moving away from their upbeat pop, '2 Become 1' was a slow pop ballad, which sold over 1,, copies, certifying it 2x Platinum in the UK. As before, it was incredibly popular and went to Number 1 around the world, selling over 1. In , Spice World the film was released. The girls promoted their film at the annual Cannes film festival held in the South of France. The film starred all five members of the group along with Richard E.

The girls' fifth single went Platinum, selling , copies and stayed at the top for two weeks. In May , Geri left the Spice Girls. In a statement released through her solicitor, she said, "Sadly I would like to confirm that I have left the Spice Girls.

This is because of differences between us. I'm sure the group will continue to be successful and I wish them all the best. The girls became the first act to have three consecutive Christmas Number 1s since The Beatles in The Spice Girls took to the road on their 'Spiceworld' Tour. They also picked up, the Outstanding Contribution Award in Their spectacular performance saw them standing on top to black cabs whilst they were singing. They posted a video saying they would be back under a different name - GEM named after their collective initials.

Despite this video, nothing was released. Earlier this year , Spice Girls fans all over the world went wild when it was confirmed that all five of the Spice Girls had met up at Geri's house, along with their former manager Simon Fuller. Since the initial meeting back in February there have been continued rumours that we could see a full reunion, new music or even a tour, however nothing has been confirmed.

Although Geri left in , the other four continued with the group until later that year. They returned in and again in , before reuniting as a full group for the London Olympics Closing Ceremony.

Victoria is married to footballer David Beckham. Mel C has a daughter, Scarlett Starr, born in with her property developer ex-boyfriend, Thomas Starr. She's also mum to year-old daughter Bluebell Madonna from her relationship with Sacha Gervasi. Although she released two solo albums, neither made it into the Top She also scored a Number 2 with 'Look At Me'. Her debut album 'Schizophonic' peaked at Number 4 and was her best-performing record.

Her debut self-titled album, released in , peaked at Number Of her seven solo albums, Mel scored two Top 10 records with debut 'Northern Star' and follow-up 'Reason'. It's not yet been confirmed, but there have been new reports that the Spice Girls have been working on new music after 'meeting with top producers' to discuss a musical comeback.

Although Virgin was sceptical of Wannabe's potential, it was an instant smash, selling 73, copies in its first week. Hoping it would go to number one, the band crowded around a radio on a picnic rug in Geri's sister's garden, champagne at the ready, as the countdown was revealed. But their hopes were dashed: Wannabe entered the charts at number three, held at bay Gary Barlow's Forever Love his first solo number one and the Fugees' Killing Me Softly.

However, the following week it climbed to the top spot, becoming the first of six consecutive number ones for the band. The original demo for Wannabe is being released to mark the song's 25th anniversary - and its very different experience to the final version, full of record scratches, clunky s synths and a bizarre breakbeat outro. And then we just sewed it together.

Kind of a cut-and-paste method. The result, according to Halliwell, "was bloody awful". Eventually, Mark "Spike" Stent - a producer who had worked with Massive Attack and Madonna - was called in to knock the song into shape.

It was quite tough to do, even though it only took six hours. The Spice Girls have always had a loyal LGBTQ following, and even changed the lyrics to one of their biggest hits to recognise their support. The Spice Girls were the prototypical manufactured band - and when they were first put together, they couldn't help sizing each other up.

Emma, Victoria and Mel C all declared Geri a "complete nutter", recalling: "She had her hair in bunches and was wearing a pink fluffy jumper and saying, 'Look, look - I'm a duck! Geri, meanwhile, "couldn't stop staring at Emma - she was really fresh and pretty with a big smile like a doll's".

Girl Power came in for a lot of stick - mostly from critics who weren't girls and didn't need any more power, music writer Tom Ewing observed. Geri was the one who pushed the concept, and even developed a "power oath" to be recited when events demanded: " I, being of sound mind and new Wonderbra do solemnly promise to cheer and dance and zig-a-zig-ah.

Girl Power! But even if the parameters were a little hazy, the idea was potent. The Spice Girls stood for freedom, self-belief and disobedience - and they inspired generations to stick up for themselves. In , Geri reflected on the legacy of Girl Power in a BBC interview : "Twenty years ago, if you said the word feminism, you thought of those bra-burning, marching protestors.

It was quite tough and harsh. But actually, Girl Power embodies much more than a gender. It's about everybody. Everybody deserves the same treatment, whatever race you are, gender you are, age you are.

As the Spice Girls became a global phenomenon, they were whisked away from their friends and family for months at a time. For tax reasons, they even spent living outside the UK, which exacerbated their feelings of isolation.

EastEnders on the TV in the background and then my dad came in from the chip shop with everybody's dinner. I was here on my own. But I don't want to be strong any more. I just want to sit down and cry… and have someone stand in front of me with their shield and say, 'I'll protect you'.

The Spice Girls performed their first ever concert at an 8,capacity basketball arena in Istanbul, Turkey, on 12 October Why Turkey?

One popular theory said they had chosen it to get as far away from the UK as possible, afraid the British press would savage their stage debut. But the reality was more prosaic. Pepsi was sponsoring the tour, and they insisted on launching it in a country where Pepsi outsold Coca-Cola. The soft drink deal was hammered home at a press conference the day before the show. The concert itself was "the sort of pop show they don't do any more", said The Guardian, full of pyrotechnics, slick choreography, and even a miniature roller coaster.

And yes, the review added, "they really sang". The Sun was more cautious, calling the gig "competent and capable" with "plenty of room for improvement". Part of the Spice Girls' appeal was their absolute refusal to play along with the media. Interviewing the band was like being dragged into a Top Shop dressing room by a hen party on its third day. They suffered no fools, and took no prisoners. They brought everyone around them to their level," their PR Nicki Chapman once said.

For example: When the Spices announced their first reunion tour in , one hapless journalist asked if the band were "unfit to do the dance routines" after having children. But the absolute gold standard, wheels-falling-off-and-car-crashing-into-a-ditch Spice Girls interview was conducted by Jamie Theakston in Luckily, someone's put it on YouTube.

He was also the brother of the Spice Girls' manager Simon - which is how he ended up writing a script for the band's first and so far only feature film, Spice World: The Movie. I think it was about a young single mother of one of the girls, fighting hardship to form the band. The girls hated the idea, so Kim asked if he could have a shot.

The story, such as it is, involves the band preparing for a concert, while dealing with unscrupulous journalists, space aliens and bomb on a bus that mysteriously vanishes. Frankly, I think we did. Pop stars were often cautious about sponsorship deals. But the Spice Girls had no such qualms. Modern pop artists, starved of income by the economics of streaming, often subsidise their careers by following the Spice Girls' example - but for Simon Fuller, it wasn't about the money.

They're no good at maths. The rest were pretty easy really because the girls' characters were already really strong. Jennifer Cawthron, who was also from Leeds, came up with that one because Mel B was so loud and had tried to take over our whole photo shoot. By , the band were already coming up with replacements. In private, though, Geri called Mel B The Ox "because I could operate perfectly on the most outrageous hangover - or even do a full performance faultlessly after several bottles of champagne - while she would be throwing up in the loo.

The last time all five Spice Girls performed together was at the closing ceremony of the London Olympic Games in The band emerged from, then stood astride, five London black cabs, as they played Wannabe and Spice Up Your Life to rapturous applause. According to Mel C, they had rehearsed the performance for a week and a half but were still absolutely petrified.

Victoria even had a panic attack inside one of the taxis and almost refused to come out. That's how you know a real friend. In fact, shambolic is more like it. But it went perfectly.

The Spice Girls' world tour saw them play to 2. In the midst of it all, both Melanie B and Victoria Beckham became pregnant - and went to great lengths to hide it from their crew and fans.

Nobody knew why and we'd have to say, 'We're just getting fat'," Mel B disclosed in the tour retrospective, Forever Spice. Then it got ridiculous because I'd have to have a plastic cup in my room to wee in. I needed to wee three or four times during the show and the toilets were miles away. Officially, the explanation was that she was suffering from exhaustion. But in her autobiography If Only, the singer said she'd been frustrated that the band had prevented her from giving a TV interview about surviving breast cancer in her teens.

This was about saving lives," she wrote. Ginger Spice was no more. And for Victoria, "there was one big plus - for the first time ever, I got to sing on Wannabe". Relationships were strained for several years, but the band eventually kissed and made up. Geri even apologised for quitting on the final date of the band's reunion tour. I was just being a brat. It is so good to be back with the girls that I love. According to a definitely-not-made-up story in The Sun in , a teenage Prince William was so besotted with the Spice Girls that he tore down his Pamela Anderson poster and replaced it with one of Emma Bunton.

He later popped into the Windsor branch of Our Price and bought a copy of their debut album using a bank note with his grandmother's face on it. It was at that same show where Geri reportedly squeezed the buttocks of the future King of England.

Why am I going to stop at the prince? Their first appearance came on an episode of Cilla Black's Surprise Surprise, a booking they secured by "cornering the show's producer in a toilet and zapping her with an a capella version of Wannabe," Victoria later recalled. They were folded into a segment where a teenage girl called Sally had won the opportunity to present a show on Manchester radio station, Key , and interview a famous band. She managed to hide her disappointment that it wasn't Boyzone.

Current affairs magazine The Spectator was the least likely place to find the Spice Girls in , but when Simon Sebag Montefiore bagged an interview with the quintet, he certainly got his money's worth.

It made headlines everywhere. Ever the diplomat, Geri later walked back her comments. I just admire people with ideals," she wrote in the official Spice Girls book, Girl Power. Dominating the front pages after the Brit Awards, Geri's most iconic outfit was originally supposed to be a simple black cocktail dress. The star sold the outfit - which had a CND flag on the back - in to raise money for breast cancer charities.

No, not the short-lived Spice Girls musical the less said about that the better but the band's eighth single, and the first to be released after Geri left. The stop-motion video, created by Aardman Animation, had been commissioned five months earlier but its message was eerily prescient.

The couple dated for six years, and Mark popped the question in , just after her Spice Girls audition. The other girls quickly helped her realise "it was all a mistake". Eventually, she decided the girls were right and they split up the day after her 21st birthday. Two years later, she met David Beckham, they had their first date in Mel C's flat, and the rest is history.