It's gone on to spend over 400 weeks on the UK Album Chart, and fifteen years on from its release has spent most of 2021 in the Top 100, demonstrating its enduring popularity.Ī compilation of later recordings 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures' was released posthumously in 2011, several months after her untimely death at the age of just 27. While the group splintered after the releases of follow-up albums 'Spiceworld' and 'Forever' their legacy remains strong, paving the way for numerous successful girl bands who've followed in their footsteps in the 25 years since 'Spice' was released.ĭid you know? The album has sold a total of 23 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album in music history by a girl group.Īmy Winehouse's second, and ultimately final, studio album, released when she was just 23-years-old, is loosely based on her tumultuous relationship with then-ex-boyfriend and future husband Blake Fielder-Civil.Īs well as its title track, the critically-acclaimed record features a host of much-loved tracks including 'You Know I'm No Good', 'Love Is A Losing Game', and lead single 'Rehab'. The album, and its huge singles, esablished the group as pop music icons, helping them win numerous awards, including Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novellos, and British Single of the Year at the 1997 BRITs for 'Wannabe'. Their album, selling 19 million copies in over a year, was among the UK's best-sellers of 19, and also spawned the chart-topping hits 'Say You'll Be There', '2 Become 1', and double a-side 'Mama/Who Do You Think You Are'. The Spice Girls changed the landscape of the music industry and the 'girl-group' genre when they released debut album 'Spice' and single 'Wannabe' in the summer of 1996. To date, Lady Gaga has released four more solo studio albums, three of which, including 2020's Chromatica, have topped the UK Album Charts, but it's this debut record that remains her biggest seller.ĭid you know? 'The Fame' won two awards at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010 - Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording for the single 'Poker Face' - and also won Best International Album at the 2010 BRIT Awards. The album was later repackaged as the deluxe edition 'The Fame Monster' featuring 'Bad Romance' and Beyoncé collaboration 'Telephone'. Marrying dance, pop and electro-synth, the records's first two singles, 'Just Dance' and 'Poker Face' topped the charts in both the UK and the US, establishing Gaga as one of the 21st century's most exciting new pop stars. Initially released in 2008, it became one of 2009's biggest albums, only outsold in the UK that year by Britain's Got Talent finalist Susan Boyle's debut. Lady Gaga burst onto the music scene with a dramatic bang thanks to her multi-award-winning debut album, 'The Fame'.
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