Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)

Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) is a song written and sung by the British pop band Spice Girls . It was the first single from the compilation album Greatest Hits Der Song was the first single with the original line-up since Geri Halliwell left the band in 1998. Halliwell described the song as a " great love song " and a " real Spice Girl classic ".

The song was the official 2007 single for the UK charity Children in Need . The five played the song live for the Telethon in Los Angeles . This was the band's first appearance as a quintet in nine years.

Background information

A 30-second excerpt was published on October 21, 2007 on the Internet. The worldwide radio premiere took place two days later. A few hours before the official radio premiere, the song had already appeared on the Internet.

The song was mainly written by Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell with support from producers Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard. The other three band members had contributed further text afterwards. The news from some newspapers that Victoria Beckham had a much shorter solo part than the rest of the members was denied by a band spokesman with the statement that all band members had the same length of solo parts. In reality, Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell got the same length of solo parts, while Melanie C and Victoria Beckham got slightly shorter solo parts. Only Melanie Brown has no solo part of her own, but sings the last line of the song alone. In addition to headlines , the single also includes a Wannabe remix by Soulseekerz, the Spice Girls' debut single.

On November 11th, the song entered the UK charts at number 20 only through downloads, with over 7,000 sales. In the second week, the song dropped to # 23 and sold 5,900. In the third week, the single hit number 11 with 10,277 sales when the physical single was released, becoming the Spice Girls' first single to miss the top 10 in the UK charts. On November 14th, the single went to Hot Digital Songs in the US at # 113 with 9,717 sales. In the same week, it also made it to number 90 on the Billboard Hot 100 , due to the high video / song hits and some airplays, outside of digital downloads. In Germany, the single was ranked 46th. Overall, the single was a commercial failure, reaching the top 10 in just five countries (Italy (# 2), Philippines (# 5), Russia (# 8), Sweden (# 3) and Spain (# 2)). In the Philippines, it was the first Spice Girls single to miss the top of the chart.

Music video

On October 15, 2007, on the TV show " Dancing with the Stars ", in which Melanie Brown took part, it was announced that the Spice Girls were shooting a music video which premiered on November 2, 2007 on the English TV channel BBC One . The video, which shows the group in different rooms with chandeliers, was shot in Pinewood Studios by director Anthony Mandler. However, the video was not shown in full by the BBC, but interrupted by a message from the band about "Children In Need" during Victoria's solo part. The full video premiered on the band's official YouTube profile.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Spice Girls to release new single . BBC . October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.

Web links

[bbc-1] Spice Girls to release new single . BBC . October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.