New & expanded editions due Nov 4th
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of Spiceworld, the multi-million selling second album by the biggest girl band of all time – the Spice Girls announce new and expanded versions of the album on multiple formats via UMC/Virgin Records, due November 4th. The reissue will appear on 2 CD + hardback book, 2 LP, Picture Disc, 2 cassette and digital.
Curated by the band themselves, Spiceworld 25 brings together the original chart topping album on disc one with some of their favorite bonus tracks and B-Sides, along with previously unreleased live recordings from the Virgin Records archive, on disc two.
“The Spiceworld era was such a fun time for us; we’d just had a No. 1 album with Spice, we were traveling 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 band shares.
The iconic Spiceworld album, released on the November 3, 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 11 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 5x Platinum) and 4.2 million in the US (certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA).
The album and singles generated a phenomena known as “Spice Mania” aided by the release of the film Spice World The Movie in December 1997, a UK box office No. 1, grossing over $100 million worldwide.
Across the formats, highlights include fan favorite “Step To Me,” originally the soundtrack to a 1997 soft drinks campaign where fans were required to collect 20 pink ring pull tabs from cans in return for a four track “not in the shops” CD single. Spiceworld 25 digital and 2 CD formats include the previously unheard original demo recording.
Fans who have long clamored for a live album that captured the excitement generated by the Spice Girls’ hugely successful 1998 97-date European and North America tour will delight at the four previously unreleased live recordings included on both the 2 LP set and the 2 cassette tape set, all captured at different venues.
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.”
The digital, CD and cassette formats are rounded off by a brand new “Spice Girls Party Mix,” which pulls together some of the bands biggest and most popular hits in a near-fifteen minute fiesta of brilliant pop music.
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.
2 CD Deluxe | 2 LP | Picture Disc | 2 Cassette
CD 1:
- 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
CD 2:
- Step To Me (7″ Mix)
- Outer Space Girls
- Walk Of Life
- Step To Me (Demo Version) [Previously Unreleased]
- Too Much (Live In Toronto, July 1998) [Previously Unreleased]
- Stop (Live In Madrid, March 1998) [Previously Unreleased]
- Move Over (Live In Istanbul, October 1997)
- Spice Up Your Life (Live In Arnhem, March 1998) [Previously Unreleased]
- Viva Forever (Live In Manchester, April 1998) [Previously Unreleased]
- Spice Up Your Life (Morales Radio Mix)
- Stop (Morales Remix Edit)
- Too Much (SoulShock & Karlin Remix)
- Viva Forever (John Themis Ambient Mix) [Previously Unreleased]
- Step To Me (Extended Mix)
- Spice Girls Party Mix [Previously Unreleased]
