It’s hard to believe that it’s been 25 years since the Spice Girls dropped their iconic album ‘Spiceworld’ – and you know they’re not going to give up the opportunity to celebrate this iconic moment. The group has announced that a special 25th edition album will drop on 4 November and 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 band say, “The ‘Spiceworld’ era was such a fun time for us; we’d just had a number one album with Spice, we were travelling all over the world and meeting our amazing fans, we released our second album AND we had our very own movie! Who would’ve thought it? It’s crazy to think that 25 years have passed.”
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.
Together with some timeless remixes, a search of the archives revealed a previously unreleased version of ‘Viva Forever’ – the ‘John Themis Ambient Mix’ is named after the much in-demand Australian-born guitarist who later co-wrote Emma Bunton’s April 2001 solo No. 1 ‘What Took You So Long’.
Track-listings (*Denotes previously unreleased tracks):
Digital Deluxe Edition:
- Spice Up Your Life
- Stop
- Too Much
- Saturday Night Divas
- Never Give Up On The Good Times
- Move Over
- Do It
- Denying
- Viva Forever
- The Lady Is A Vamp
- Step To Me (7” Mix)
- Outer Space Girls
- Walk Of Life
- Step To Me (Demo Version)*
- Too Much (Live In Toronto, July 1998)*
- Stop (Live In Madrid, March 1998)*
- Move Over (Live In Istanbul, October 1997)
- Spice Up Your Life (Live In Arnhem, March 1998)*
- Viva Forever (Live In Manchester, April 1998)*
- Spice Up Your Life (Morales Radio Mix)
- Stop (Morales Remix Edit)
- Too Much (SoulShock & Karlin Remix)
- Viva Forever (John Themis Ambient Mix)*
- Step To Me (Extended Mix)
- Spice Girls Party Mix*
