Spice Girls announce Wannabe 25th anniversary EP featuring previously unreleased song Feed Your Love
Spice Girls are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut single Wannabe by giving fans what they really, really want.
To mark a quarter of a century (!) since Emma, Geri, Victoria, Mel C, Mel B charged on to the charts with Wannabe, the group are releasing a new EP titled Wannabe25.
The four-track EP features the Wannabe demo and previously unreleased song Feed Your Love, a ballad written with the band's co-writers Richard 'Biff' Stannard and Matt Rowe - plus the track's original radio edit and Junior Vasquez remix.
The EP is available to stream from July 9 and to purchase physically on vinyl and cassette on July 23.
The release forms a part of the #IAmASpiceGirl campaign, in which the group are inviting fans to share their Spice memories via socials using the hashtag.
Celebrating the anniversary, the band said: "The Spice Girls belong to everyone and that’s why we want to mark 25 years of Wannabe by celebrating our incredible fans".
Here's the story from A-Z
Wannabe was originally released on 8 July 1996, debuting at Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart before climbing to Number 1 the following week. The song spent a total of seven weeks at the summit - still the longest-reigning chart-topper by a girl group.
Wannabe catapulted Spice Girls to global superstars, hitting the top spot in 37 countries. In the UK, it has 2.03 million chart sales, including 1.32 million pure sales (making it the seventh best-selling single of all time) and 84.2 million streams.
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Mark Wislen
'Wannabe's 7 No.1 Weeks, (1996), is not the longest 'Run', by a Girl Group. In 1992, 'Stay', by Shakespear's Sister, was at No.1, for 8 Weeks.
Count Plutarch
The prices on those physical formats are revolting! £21.99 for the picture disc and £11.99 for the cassette! For four songs, including a demo and a remix - there's only two different tunes on there... ouch. If you wanna be their lover, you gotta part with your cash.
MrDannyDoodah
When you consider their studio albums and greatest hits album are currently available on vinyl for around £14.99-£15.99 each then it's shocking to see an EP (though it is really a maxi-single anyway, as three of the four tracks are mixes of the same song - Wannabe) priced as high as £21.99. Of course HMV have to be even more expensive than anyone else and are asking £27.99 for it!
Count Plutarch
Absolutely. This is a cash grab, pure and simple.
mikechvng
wonder why they didn't just release it as another wannabe album but with the extra remixes and songs added to the original tracklist?
thierry henon
OMG it has been 25 years already?!! Still love WANNABE as it was released yesterday! So looking forward to that release and to listen to a brand new track as well!! Go girls!