The Spice Girls Biography

- The Spice girls were heavily influenced by Madonna.

- With the exception of Posh (Victoria Beckham), all the girls came from working class family backgrounds.

- Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress became a symbol of “Cool Britannia”.

- Geri’s Union Jack dress made £36,000 when it was auctioned for charity.

- Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) has a blue belt in Goju, and taught the other girls how to do karate kicks in the video for “Say You’ll Be There”.

- The hit single “Wannabe” is the biggest selling single by an all-female group.

- “Spice” is the 13th highest-selling album of all time in the UK (3 million+ sold).

- The Spice Girls’ have sold a total of over 55 million records.

- “Spiceworld: The Movie” broke the record for the highest-ever debut for the SuperBowl Weekend (January 25th 1998) in the US, with sales of over $10 million. (This record has since been beaten by the movie The Butterfly Effect in 2004. )

- To coincide with their comeback tour, the Spice Girls licensed their name and image to Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, and were reportedly paid £5 million to appear in Tesco advertisements.

- The girls’ “Greatest Hits” album has gone platinum in Great Britain and Australia, and has gone gold in the USA, Canada, Brazil and New Zealand.

- In 2007, the girls signed a deal to sell their Greatest Hits albums in Victoria’s Secret lingerie boutiques and on the store’s website.

- In a Rolling Stone readers’ poll in 2007, the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” was ranked at number 8 in a list of “the most annoying songs”.

- Prior to their reunion, the Spice Girls topped a Yahoo! Music poll for the band that fans would like to see reunite most.

- The Spice Girls made the highest ever annual earnings by a female group in 1998, when they earned over $49 million.