Forever (Spice Girls album)

Forever
Studio album by Spice Girls
Publication (s)	November 6, 2000
Label (s)	Virgin
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Pop , R&B
Title (number)	11
running time	49:28
occupation	Victoria Beckham Melanie Brown Emma Bunton Melanie Chisholm
production	Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard, Darkchild , Harvey Mason, Jr., Fred Jerkins III, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
chronology Spiceworld (1997) Forever Greatest Hits (2007)

Forever is the third studio album by the British girl group Spice Girls and was released on November 6, 2000. It is the only album without Geri Halliwell , who left the group in 1998. The album sold 1,119,500 copies worldwide.

Track list

#	title	play permanently
1.	Holler	4:15
2.	Tell Me Why	4:13
3.	Let Love Lead the Way	4:57
4th	Right Back at Ya	4:09
5.	Get down with me	3:45
6th	Wasting my time	4:13
7th	Weekend love	4:04
8th.	Time Goes By	4:51
9.	If You Wanna Have Some Fun	5:25
10.	Oxygen	4:55
11.	Goodbye	4:35

Some versions sold internationally do not include the title Goodbye .

background

Album information

In November 2000, the Spice Girls released their third album Forever . With a new R&B sound, the album received only average reviews and achieved only a fraction of the success of its two successful predecessors. This publication, which was actually planned as a reason for a comeback, actually sealed the end of the Spice Girls. In addition to Holler and Let Love Lead the Way , Tell Me Why, If You Wanna Have Some Fun and Weekend Love were actually planned as single and had already been put into circulation as promo CDs. But the "Forever Project" was abandoned by the girls in favor of solo careers.

In February 2001 the Spice Girls announced that they would take a break from the band to focus on their solo careers individually. There was never an official separation.

criticism

Laut.de describes the album as follows:

“If you can believe the girls, they are big Madonna fans and what did she do at the time? She hooked up capable producers to get away from trivial pop and make more ambitious music. [...] And the Spice Girls? The Association of Englischer Gewürzmädels (BEG) would have done well to proceed as the idolized model and to consult more competent advice. Instead, apart from a few bright moments, a soul soup is touched that others get more original and, above all, better. […] The production of 'Forever' seems to have been made while listening to it, because an e-piano that sounds like the old organ from oppa has long since been in the museum, and these eternal polyphonic vocal lines always come in the 08/15 scheme.
Fortunately, the BEG can still halfway count on the vocals of Mel C. and Emma Bunton, because Victoria and Mel B's little voices are kept alive by electronic means against their will. Trying to try soul is not a bad thing per se, but when the result is a bogus plagiarism, you have to frown tremendously at the merciless overconfidence. "

- Alexander Cordas : laut.de

Allmusic refers to the album as

"[...] curiously self-conscious and flat. Neither the production, songs, nor performances have much life to them. […] There's little of the charm that made the Spice Girls so irresistible. Often, Forever plays like the Girls realized that it's their final album, and they put in just enough effort to make it palatable, but not enough to make it appetizing. "

- Stephen Thomas Erlewine : Allmusic

Awards, chart placements & sales

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Forever	DE6 (8 weeks) DE	AT10 (7 weeks) AT	CH11 (9 weeks) CH	UK2 (8 weeks) UK	US39 (7 weeks) US

Awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
Belgium (BEA)	gold	25,000
Brazil (PMB)	gold	100,000
Germany (BVMI)	gold	150,000
France (SNEP)	gold	100,000
Canada (MC)	2 × platinum	200,000
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold	40,000
Austria (IFPI)	gold	25,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	platinum	50,000
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	50,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	platinum	300,000
All in all	7 × gold 4 × platinum	1,040,000

Main article: Spice Girls / Music Sales Awards

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1998	Goodbye	DE17 (12 weeks) DE	AT13 (9 weeks) AT	CH8 (11 weeks) CH	UK1 (21 weeks) UK	US11 (11 weeks) US	First published: December 14, 1998 Sales: + 1,500,000
2000	Holler / Let Love Lead the Way	DE17 (10 weeks) DE	AT24 (3 weeks) AT	CH15 (10 weeks) CH	UK1 (17 weeks) UK	-	First published: October 23, 2000 Sales: + 300,000

Individual evidence

1. ↑ James Hunter: Forever Review, Rolling Stone , accessed March 11, 2006.
2. ↑ Alexander Cordas: laut.de criticism. To try at Soul is indeed per se nothing bad ... In: Laut.de . November 2000, accessed October 10, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Review: Spice Girls, Forever. In: Allmusic . Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Chart sources album:
   • Forever in the German charts at OfficialCharts.de
   • Forever in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
   • Forever in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Forever in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Forever on the US Billboard 200
5. ↑ Chart sources singles:
   • Spice Girls in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
   • Spice Girls in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
   • Spice Girls in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Spice Girls in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Spice Girls on the US Billboard Hot 100