Spice Girls Present... The Best Girl Power Album... Ever!
| Spice Girls Present... The Best Girl Power Album... Ever! | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | 5 May 1997 |
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| Label | Virgin |
| Compiler | Spice Girls, Ashley Abram[1] |
Spice Girls Present... The Best Girl Power Album... Ever! is a 1997 compilation album released by Virgin Records. The album is a collection of "girl power"-themed songs by various artists that were "hand-picked"[2] by English girl group the Spice Girls.[1]
Track listing
[edit]Critical reception
[edit]The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music questioned if the compilation was truly representative of women in the music industry. The authors noted that the album's focus on female vocalists from the UK and US meant a lack of representation for international artists, as well as for women in instrumental support, songwriting and production roles.[3] Ken Banks of Aberdeen Press and Journal gave the compilation two out of five stars, concluding: "Value, perhaps, but pretty crudely thrown together and nothing special at all."[4] Clark Collis of The Daily Telegraph called it a "cash-in of unprecedented proportions," but given the "demented mixture of artists" decided that the album was "simply too weird a project to criticise."[2]
Commercial performance
[edit]The album peaked at number two on the UK Compilation Chart,[5] and peaked at number eight on the overall UK albums chart as compiled by Billboard.[6][a]
Certifications and sales
[edit]| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United Kingdom (BPI)[8] | Gold | 100,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Since 1989, the UK Albums Chart, as compiled by the Official Charts Company, does not include multi-artist compilation albums.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Spice Girls Present... The Best Girl Power Album... Ever! (liner notes). Various artists. Virgin Records. 1997. 7243 8 44591 2 3.
- ^ a b Collis, Clark (10 May 1997). "Foos refuse to move". The Daily Telegraph. p. A9.
- ^ Butt, John; Cook, Nicholas; Pople, Anthony; Carter, Tim (2004). "Pop music towards 2000". The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 563.
- ^ Banks, Ken (9 May 1997). "Beats with Ken Banks". Aberdeen Press and Journal. p. 11. Retrieved 4 April 2021 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Official Compilations Chart Top 100: 18 May 1997 – 24 May 1997". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Hits Of The World: U.K. (Chart-Track) 05/26/97". Billboard. Vol. 109, no. 23. 7 June 1997. p. 64. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "The history of the Official Charts: the Eighties". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 4 April 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "British album certifications – Spice Girls – Spice Girls Present...The Best Girl Power Album In The World Ever". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
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