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10 Years Since… the release of 'Wannabe'

  • July 8, 2006
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The ultimate truckdriver
song. Number One in 37 countries including America, where it topped every
Billboard chart for which it was eligible, Australia, where it
topped the charts for 11 weeks, and the UK, where it was Number One for almost two months. 1.27 million copies sold
in the UK; six million copies sold worldwide. The best-selling single by a female
group of all time.

(Translation: mar­gin­ally more suc­cess­ful than the last Dannii single.)

Let's have a look at the Spice Girls per­form­ing it on Top Of The Pops. 

Utterly ludicrous and com­pletely amazing.

It's inter­est­ing, isn't it, that in the above clip the sound has been encoded slightly out of sync with the video — meaning that Victoria's hapless miming appears to be almost in sync.

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    Congratulations to Charli XCX and Lorde: winners of the 2024 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
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    The 2024 Twenty Quid Music Prize: Shortlist
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    Fine, let's do a Substack then.
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    The 2022 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: shortlist
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    2021 Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize: Laura Mvula wins
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