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The first release in two years from The Spice Girls will be a double-A side single, Holler Holler and Let Love Lead The Way. The first song is an uptempo dance number while the other is a classic Spicy-ballad. The single was released in the UK on October 23rd and went straight to number one. This will be followed by the album Forever on November 6th. The four-piece group have been busy writing and recording for over 14 months in London, Miama and LA. Guest producers will include Rodney Jenkins, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
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[A]ccording to a Spice Girls spokesperson, claims that the group is on the verge of splitting, are a "non event." The spokeswoman confirmed that no tour is planned because of the Girls' many solo commitments, but says that the group are enjoying working together: "The girls are having one of the best times together they've ever had. The British press are always taking the piss out of the Girls. They do this with All Saints too . . . [The Spice Girls] are happy together and the proof is in the pudding."
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On July 8 1996 the Spice Girls released their debut single "Wannabe" in the United Kingdom. In the weeks leading up to the release, the video for "Wannabe", (directed by Johan Camitz and shot in April at St Pancras Chambers in London), had dominated the music channels. In July 1996 the group conducted their first interview with Paul Gorman, the contributing editor of music industry paper Music Week, at Virgin Records' London headquarters. 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. He wrote: "Just when boys with guitars threaten to rule pop life, an all-girl, in-yer-face pop group has arrived with enough sass to burst that rockist bubble!!" The song entered the charts at number 3 before moving up to number 1 the following week and staying there for seven weeks. The song proved to be a global hit, hitting number 1 in 31 countries and becoming not only the biggest selling single by an all-female group but ... the biggest-selling debut single of all time.[11] "Wannabe" also proved to be a catalyst in helping the Spice Girls break into the notoriously difficult U.S. market when it debuted on the Hot 100 Chart at number 11.
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In November 1997 the Spice Girls released their second album, Spiceworld. Preceded by the single "Spice Up Your Life", the album proved to be an instant global best seller. It set a new record for the fastest-selling album over two weeks when it shipped 7 million copies. Gaining favourable reviews,[17] the album went on to sell over 10 million copies in Europe,[18] Canada,[19] and the United States [16] combined. Criticised in America for releasing the album just nine months after their debut there and suffering from over-exposure at home, the Spice Girls began to experience a media backlash. The group was criticised for the number of sponsorship deals signed – over twenty in total – and they began to witness diminishing international chart positions.
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In November 2000 The Spice Girls released Forever. Sporting a new edgier R&B sound, the album received a lukewarm response[22] and achieved only a fraction of the success of its two best-selling predecessors. In the US it peaked at number thirty-nine on the Billboard 200 albums chart. In the UK the album was released the same week as Westlife’s Coast To Coast album and the chart battle was widely reported by the media. The lead single from "Forever", the double A-side "Holler" / "Let Love Lead The Way", did enjoy some success – it became the group's ninth number one single in the UK. However the song failed to break onto the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart stateside, instead peaking at number seven on the Bubbling Under chart. "Holler" did peak at number thirty-one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play in 2001.
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The birth of the Spice Girls began with an idea of father and son team Bob and Chris Herbert. They believed that an all girl band could dominate the charts in the same way that Take That were doing. So they held a mammoth audition of 400 girls on March 4th 1994 and from the ten best the Spice Girls came together. However, soon after rehearsals began the girls decided they didn't like the deal that was being put together for them and for the next two years they searched for a better one. This lead them to Virgin and manager Simon Fuller who they would later sack as well. Bob Herbert, who had been previously involved with Bros went on to create Five and was rumoured to be about to launch another girl group when he sadly died in a car crash in August 1999.
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