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SALES & CERTIFICATIONS

UK CERTIFICATONS AND APROXIMATE SALES

AUSTRALIAN CERTIFICATONS

US CERTIFICATONS

ROCK ON THE NET INFO:

According to "Rock On The Net" these are the latest US certifications of the albums:

Spice 7x Platinum
Spiceworld 4 x Platinum

Also according to "Rock On The Net", the spice girls had the following honours on the Billboard charts:

1997

#1 Singles Artist of the year
#1 Duo/Group of the year
Biggest selling album of the year (Spice)
#1 New Pop Artist

1998

#4 Top Pop Artist (Duo or Group)
#37 Singles Artist of the year
#1 Album Artist (Duo or Group)
#3 Top Billboard 200 Album Artists (#1 Duo or Group!)

1999

#144 Singles artist of the year

GLOBAL CERTIFICATONS FOR SPICEWORLD

AUSTRALIA Platinum
AUSTRIA Platinum
BELGIUM Platinum x4
CANADA Platinum x2
CHILE Gold
COLOMBIA Gold
CZECH REPUBLIC Platinum
DENMARK Platinum x2
FINLAND Platinum
FRANCE Platinum
GERMANY Platinum
HOLLAND Platinum
HONG KONG Platinum
INDIA Gold
IRELAND Platinum x7
ITALY Platinum x4
JAPAN Platinum X4
KOREA Platinum MALAYSIA Platinum
MEXICO Gold
NEW ZEALAND Platinum x5
NORWAY Platinum
PHILLIPINES Platinum x2
POLAND Platinum
PORTUGAL Platinum
SAUDI ARABIA Platinum
SINGAPORE Platinum x3
SOUTH AFRICA Gold
SPAIN Platinum x8
SWEDEN Platinum
SWITZERLAND Platinum
TAIWAN Platinum x2
THAILAND Platinum x3
UK Platinum x9
USA Platinum x2

WORLDWIDE SALES

Here is a rundown of the APPROXIMATE worldwide sales of the girls.

Here are the OFFICIAL worldwide album sales of the girls from Virgin records: (thanks to spice-of-life @ DenDen)

Spice: 21,227,709

Spiceworld: 13,260,599

Forever: 1,526,977

Greatest Hits: 1, 000, 000+ (as at 23/11/07)

#1 WEEKS SALES FIGURES

Here are the sales figures for the weeks the girls were at #1

27-Jul Wannabe 108,000
03-Aug Wannabe 154,000
10-Aug Wannabe 150,000
17-Aug Wannabe 145,000
24-Aug Wannabe 125,000
31-Aug Wannabe 110,000
07-Sep Wannabe 90,000
26-Oct Say You'll Be There 349,000
02-Nov Say You'll Be There 163,000
28-Dec 2 Become 1 429,000
04-Jan 2 Become 1 300,000
11-Jan 2 Become 1 95,000
5-Mar Who Do You Think You Are / Mama 248,000
22-Mar Who Do You Think You Are / Mama 152,000
29-Mar Who Do You Think You Are / Mama 85,000
25-Oct Spice Up Your Life 321,000
27-Dec Too Much 252,000
03-Jan Too Much 218,000
01-Aug Viva Forever 277,911
08-Aug Viva Forever 112,000
26-Dec Goodbye 380,000
04-Nov Holler / Let Love Lead The Way 106,000

These figures were taken from"Spice Girls On Top" magazine published in February 1998

SPICE

WANNABE

Their first single Wannabe sold 6 Million copies world-wide and reached #1 in 37 countries. The countries include:

SAY YOU'LL BE THERE/2 BECOME 1 & MAMA/WDYTYA

Their second and third singles together have sold over 5, 000, 000 copies world-wide and were number 1 in 52 countries between them. Say You'll Be There had advanced orders for 334, 000 and ended up selling 350, 000 in the first week. 2 Become 1 sold 209, 000 in the first three days alone and Mama/WDYTYA had advanced orders of 600,000!

VIDEO SALES

Here are some stats on the sales of the girls official videos:

ONE HOUR OF GIRL POWER

UK - 3xPlatinum
Spain - 200, 000
France - 3XPlatinum (60, 000)

GIRL POWER LIVE IN ISTANBUL

UK - 2Xplatinum
France - Diamond (100, 000)

SPICEWORLD - THE MOVIE

In the UK, Spiceworld surpassed its distributor's estimates of 30,000 first-day sales, moving 55,000 units on its first day of release.

AIRPLAY

Between 1996 & 1997 the girls got 750, 000 airplays (700,000 in the US alone!) with stations like Energy 101 in Canada making it #1. . Say You'll Be There got 1, 735 radio plays in just one week in the UK alone! Also the music videos were on heavy rotation on channels such as Much Music (Wananbe was #1 for three weeks on their countdown and Say You'll Be There entered at #21 then lept to #12 the next week.) and The Box (Wannabe was #1 for weeks and weeks and recieved the most requests ever by the channel!).

EARNINGS FROM ENDORSEMENTS

In 1997 the girls signed a range of endorsement deals and, according to one fan magazine, the girls recieved the following:

PEPSI - £1, 000, 000
WALKERS - £1, 000, 000
ASDA - £1, 000, 000
PLAYSTATION - £1, 000, 000
POLOROID - £750, 000
IMPULSE - £500, 000
CHUPA CHUPS - £250, 000

SPICEWORLD - THE MOVIE

Spiceworld took in a reported $75, 000, 000 at the boxoffice. This was great considering it only took $10, 000, 000 to make. It was shot in 40 locations across England. It also peaked at #2 at the US Box Office only behind the biggest movie of all time - Titanic! Here is a quick rundown on some of the box office figures:

Budget

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend

$10,527,222 (USA) (25 January 1998) (2,339 Screens)
DEM 2,001,712 (Germany) (4 January 1998) (315 Screens)

Gross

$29,247,405 (USA) (19 April 1998)
$29,165,928 (USA) (12 April 1998)
$29,026,738 (USA) (29 March 1998)
$28,977,312 (USA) (22 March 1998)
$28,874,841 (USA) (15 March 1998)
$28,731,800 (USA) (8 March 1998)
$28,503,029 (USA) (1 March 1998)
$28,003,182 (USA) (22 February 1998)
$26,651,987 (USA) (15 February 1998)
$23,723,487 (USA) (8 February 1998)
$19,002,697 (USA) (1 February 1998)
$10,527,222 (USA) (25 January 1998)
£10,932,698 (UK) (15 February 1998)
£10,829,808 (UK) (8 February 1998)
£10,590,300 (UK) (1 February 1998)
£10,146,076 (UK) (25 January 1998)
£9,547,494 (UK) (18 January 1998)
£8,532,981 (UK) (11 January 1998)
£6,709,936 (UK) (4 January 1998)
$26,700,000 (Non-USA) (18 January 1998)
$22,800,000 (Non-USA) (11 January 1998)
$4,200,000 (Non-USA) (28 December 1997)
DEM 4,201,607 (Germany) (12 January 1998)

Weekend Gross

$4,010,133 (USA) (8 February 1998) (2,272 Screens)
$7,027,688 (USA) (1 February 1998) (2,339 Screens)
$10,527,222 (USA) (25 January 1998) (2,339 Screens)
£81,331 (UK) (15 February 1998) (229 Screens)
£190,111 (UK) (8 February 1998) (347 Screens)
£357,555 (UK) (1 February 1998) (406 Screens)
£452,741 (UK) (25 January 1998) (419 Screens)
£736,522 (UK) (18 January 1998) (451 Screens)
£1,065,072 (UK) (11 January 1998) (450 Screens)
£1,932,812 (UK) (4 January 1998) (465 Screens)

Admissions

570,000 (France) (27 January 1998)
279,086 (France) (30 December 1997)
669,519 (Germany) (26 January 1998)
564,291 (Germany) (19 January 1998)
429,828 (Germany) (12 January 1998)
194,971 (Germany) (5 January 1998) (opening week)

 

Australia

$1, 333, 413 in first week
$ 2, 974, 390 by the second week

MAGAZINES

In 1996/1997 the girls appeared on over 60 magazine covers (official), published their own official magazine "Spice", plus a number of unnofficial Spice Magazines popped up such as "Spice Girls Every Month", "Girls On Top" and regular specials from "Hot Shots" etc, and of course the regular fan magazines like "Smash Hits", "Top Of The Pops, Live And Kicking", "Teenbeat" and "16" all featured the girls regularly.

TOUR STATS

World Tour

Dates: 54
Sales: Ireland shows sold out in 2hrs
Total World Tour Audience: 2.1 million

US Tour

Dates: 41
Sales: Madison Square Garden sold out in 12 Minutes and Los Angeles & Philadelphia also sold out within minutes.
Total World Tour Audience: 2.1 million

Reunion Tour

Dates: 30 (As of 7/10/07)
Sales: First London shows sold out in 38 Seconds & Los Angeles dates sold out quickly as well (some say seconds) .

TV STATS

The girls were in high demand for all the top Music & talk shows world wide and appeared on shows such as "60 Minutes" (Australia), Hey Hey It's Saturday (Australia), "Clive James" (UK), "TOTP" (UK), "Live & Kicking" (UK), "National Lottery" (UK), "Des O'Conner" (UK), "Today" (US), "Leno" (US), "Letteman" (US), "Saturday Night Live" (US) , "Regis & Kathy Lee" (US), Rosie O'Donnell (US), Intimate & Interactive (Canada), Domenica In (Italy), Hit Machine (France) & Wetten Dass (Germany). They also did their own TV specials such as "Live In Istanbul", "An Audience With", "Miami Spice" & "Girl Talk".

Here are some viewing figures for the Girls: