Spice Girls Solo Works
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Look At Me -10/05/99 "Look At Me" was Geri's first ever solo single, and it was hyped to the limit. Released to radio in April 1999, Geri caused controversy by swearing live on air during the build up to the radio premiere of the song, fuelled by speculation. When released on 10th May 1999, the single went straight to #2 in the UK charts, with 142,000 copies sold in its first week, just 700 copies behind Boyzone at #1. "Look At Me" went onto sell 330,000 copies in the UK, and was the 56th best seller of 1999. In the USA, the single was released to radio and was the basis of the success for "Schizophonic", which peaked at #42.
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Schizophonic - 7/06/99
"Schizophonic" was Geri's first album, released on the hype of "Look At Me". It was also the first solo Spice Girls album, released on 7th June 1999 it entered and peaked at #4. The album fell down the chart rather quickly, but when singles like "Mi Chico Latino" and "Bag It Up" were released, the sales increased and the album climbed back into the Top 10. The album peaked at #42 in the US going Gold - this is amazing considering all the promotion was 4 live performances and radio play of "Look At Me". Altogether, the album has sold around 1.5 million copies worldwide. |
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Mi Chico Latino - 16/08/99 "Mi Chico Latino" was the second single to be released from "Schizophonic". This single was much more successful than "Look At Me", it had a better video and more promotion, the single went to #1 when released on 16th August 1999 - selling 132,000 copies in its first week. Altogether, "Mi Chico Latino" sold 372,000 copies in the UK and was the 42nd best seller of 1999. The single also helped "Schizophonic" climb back up the UK chart which gave the album more sales. "Mi Chico Latino" was the best selling single from "Schizophonic". |
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Lift Me Up - 1/11/99 "Lift Me Up" was the third single to be released from "Schizophonic" on 1st November 1999. Geri's competition in this week was Emma Bunton, the first time two Spice Girls had gone head to head. Geri won this "battle", and went to #1 after intense publicity with her romance with Chris Evans. The single sold 139,000 copies in its first week - 40,000 more than rival Emma Bunton. "Lift Me Up" sold around 337,000 copies altogether in the UK - the 57th best seller of 1999. An interesting fact to note is that the single sold 27,000 copies in 2000 - very good. |
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Bag It Up - 13/03/00 "Bag It Up" was the fourth and last single to be released from "Schizophonic". This was the most underperforming single from the album, but as the album had sold around 400,000 copies at this point, it isn't surprising. Released on 13th March 2000 after a huge promotional campaign, the single shot straight to #1 selling 106,000 copies in its first week, and 255,000 copies altogether - "Bag It Up" was the 42nd best seller of 2000 in the UK, and the single also helped "Schizophonic" climb back into the Top 10! |
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It's Raining Men - 30/04/01 "It's Raining Men" was the long anticipated new single from Geri, released on 30th April 2001. It was the first single from the upcoming album "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" and it was also on the soundtrack to the film "Bridget Jones's Diary". When released, the single shot straight to #1 for 2 weeks, selling 155,000 copies in its first week and around 80,000 in the second week. Altogether, "It's Raining Men" sold 415,000 copies in the UK and was the 13th best seller of 2001. "It's Raining Men" was the biggest hit from "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster", and some would say, the only hit, as the further two (and last two) singles failed to make an impact. |
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Scream If You Wanna Go Faster - 30/04/01 "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" was the second single from the album of the same name. This single had a good video, but was poorly promoted. There was only 3 performances of the single shown on UK TV, therefore not getting the song to a wide market, plus the week it was released in had tough competition. Released on 30th July 2001, it entered the charts at #8, this was highly disappointing, and it was Geri's lowest chart position ever - this #8 was achieved by just 27,000 copies sold in its first week. Altogether, the single sold around 80,000 copies in the UK - the 154th best seller of 2001. |
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Scream If You Wanna Go Faster - 14/05/01 "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" was Geri's second album, released in May 2001, it was hyped on the huge success of "It's Raining Men", which had stayed at #1 for two weeks, but sadly the album didn't fare well. After entering at #5 the album fell down the charts very quickly, and only made a couple of re-entries back in the Top 50 when new singles were released. To date, the album has only sold around 100,000 copies in the UK - this is compared to "Schizophonic" which sold 650,000 - despite the album being (in many people's opinions) much better than her debut. |
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Calling - 26/11/01 "Calling" was the third and seemingly last single to be released from the album "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster". Like the previous single, "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster", success was limited. "Calling" went to #7 when released on 26th November 2001 with 25,000 sales in its first week - altogether, the single sold 60,000 copies - the 192nd best seller of 2001. This single did nothing to help the sales of the album, as it was quite poorly promoted. Therefore, no further singles from "Scream If You Wanna Go Faster" were released, and Geri took a break from music while living in Los Angeles for several months. |
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Double CD Album Schizophonic/Scream If you Wanna Go Faster - 21/10/02 See above for details of this double album re-release. |
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