Celebrating the 25th anniversary of ‘SPICE’, the debut album by the biggest selling girl band of all time, the Spice Girls have released an expanded deluxe edition out today, 29 Ocotber, via UMC /EMI.
The iconic ’SPICE’ album, released on the 4th November 1996, spent fifteen weeks at #1 on the Official UK Album Charts across four separate spells, spending more than a year in the Top 40. The album also topped the US Billboard 200 album chart and was #1 in thirteen other countries around the world.
Curated by the Spice Girls themselves ‘SPICE 25’ brings together the original chart-topping album with some of their favorite bonus tracks and B-sides, along with previously unreleased recordings from the Virgin archives.
Release day is here! #Spice25 is out now. A celebration of our debut album ‘Spice’. We had such a great time listening to the old demos and putting this together. We hope it brings back some amazing memories for you, just as it did for us ???? https://t.co/6A1C9xXLMq pic.twitter.com/jPqJtflVv4
— Spice Girls (@spicegirls) October 29, 2021
To further celebrate the 25th anniversary, the iconic video for the band’s smash hit debut single ‘Wannabe’ has been reimagined by Tom Burden of design studio We Are GROWNUP, to highlight the unforgettable lyrics from the song by creating, what is much more than, a lyric video. Going back to the original location of the ‘Wannabe’ music video, the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, the video features unique fonts for each of the five girls to symbolize their nicknames ‘Baby’, ‘Ginger’, ‘Posh’, ‘Scary’ and ‘Sporty’. Check it out right here.
We never had lyric videos back in 1996, so we wanted to create something special to celebrate 25 years of Wannabe & Spice. We love how it turned out and we hope you do too ???? ???? https://t.co/7X63EUHO1K pic.twitter.com/5sTFAxDOEs
— Spice Girls (@spicegirls) October 28, 2021
After their iconic 1996 debut single ‘Wannabe’ topped the charts in 37 countries, Spice Girls' debut album ’Spice’ went on to sell more than 31 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album of all time by a female group. The girls have gone on to sell more than 90 million records around the globe, releasing three studio albums and 11 singles and winning a host of awards including a BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music.
