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"Headlines"
Song

"Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" is a song performed by British group the Spice Girls. It was released as the only single from the group's compilation album, Greatest Hits on November 12, 2007.[1] The song is the first commercial single release to feature the group's original lineup since Geri Halliwell left in 1998. Halliwell described the single as a "big love song" and "a Spice Girl classic".[1] Another group member, Melanie Chisholm in her 2008 appearance on Never Mind The Buzzcocks announced, that "this song is not good at all" and that she was against the release of the song and the record company trying to market the Greatest Hits release.[2].

The song was also the official Children in Need single of 2007. The five-piece performed the song especially for the telethon on November 16, 2007, live from Los Angeles.[3] They also recorded a performance of the song for the 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, but the performance did not make the televised broadcast of the show.

Release information

A 30-second song clip was premiered on Amazon.com on October 21, 2007. It was premiered simultaneously by radio stations across the UK on October 23, 2007 at 7:40am. The song was leaked online on October 22, several hours before the radio premiere. According to The Sun, the group's label EMI asked online site YouTube to remove the audio recording. After only five days, the single entered the UK Airplay Chart at #26, the highest and only debut of that week. Since this debut it has gone on to peak at number sixteen.

After the physical release, the single climbed to UK Singles Chart's number 11, the first Spice Girls single to miss the Top 10. It was the lowest selling single for Children In Need to date (until the record was surpassed by McFly the following year) and also the Spice Girls lowest charting single to date. The single was only available as a two-track CD, coupled with a new remix of their debut single "Wannabe".

The song was initially written by Emma Bunton and Geri Halliwell with help from producers, with the other three girls adding later on. Although gossip sites claimed that Victoria Beckham had a significantly shorter solo than the rest of the girls, a spokesperson denied the accusation, saying that the parts were divided equally. In fact, it is Melanie Brown with an almost non-existent solo part. Her lone solo can be found in the final line of the song where she sings "cause I'm giving it all, yeah, I'm giving it all to you." Additionally, during the solos of Halliwell and Beckham, Bunton harmonizes and Brown provides backup vocals ("ahhh..."). Beckham also, has the greatest number of lines to sing. Along with her solo, she is the only girl to sing in between the second chorus. Beckham also, is the only spice girl to sing the title line: (friendship never ends). Therefore, Beckham leads the single.

Like the Greatest Hits, this is the only Spice Girls single not to feature the girls on the cover.

Chart performance

On November 11 it reached number twenty in the UK Singles Chart on downloads alone and sold about 7,000 copies. In the second week the single fell to #23 and sold 5,900 copies. With the physical release it climbed to #11, selling 10,277 copies, becoming the first Spice single to miss the Top 2 let alone the Top 5 or 10. Its overall sales so far are 48,956, the lowest charting and selling Spice Girls single to date. Meanwhile on November 14 the single entered the Hot Digital Songs in US at number 113 selling 9,717 copies. In the same week, the song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 90, due to high video/song stream and some minor airplay, alongside the digital downloads, becoming their first entry since "Goodbye" in 1998. The single was elsewhere a commercial failure, only managing to reach the Top 10 in only five countries (Italy (#2), Philippines (#5), Russia (#8), Sweden (#3) and Spain (#2)). This was their only single to missed the number 1 spot in Philippines.[4]

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The Spice Girls in the music video for "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)"

Music video

On the October 15, 2007 episode of Dancing With the Stars, it was confirmed that the Spice Girls would be filming a music video the following week. A world exclusive screening of the video of "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)", which launched the run up to Children in Need Night, aired on BBC One on Friday November 2.[3] The video first shows a dark room. Then it shows Emma opening the door and coming in followed by the other girls. The music video ends with the girls combined together although they are at different places. The video was directed by Anthony Mandler and was filmed at Pinewood Studios.

The video was a huge hit when it debuted on Youtube having over 1 million hits on its first day and over 6 million by the end of the week.

Accomplishments

  • "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" was the first and only music video ever to be premiered on todayshow.com
  • "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" was the #7 most Pre-Ordered CD Single on amazon.com November 04, 2007.
  • "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" was the #1 most viewed video on November 02, 2007 on YouTube. It was also #2, #13 and #17 at the exact same time equalling over one million Views in one day.

Track listing

  • UK CD
  1. "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" - 3:28
  2. "Wannabe" [Soul Seekerz 2007 Mix] - 6:56

Charts

Chart (2007)[5][6] Peak
position
Italian Singles Chart 2
Spanish Singles Chart 2
Swedish Singles Chart 3
Russian Singles Chart 8
UK Singles Chart 11
European Singles Chart 14
Irish Singles Chart 29
Greek Singles Chart[7] 34
Canadian Singles Chart 42
German Singles Chart 46
Dutch Singles Chart 52
Romanian Singles Chart 64
Australian Singles Chart 74
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 90

References

  1. ^ a b "Spice Girls to release new single". BBC. October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
  2. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AY8xM-UGo8&feature=related
  3. ^ a b "Spice Girls support Pudsey with new single". Retrieved October 9, 2007.
  4. ^ Always Melanie B:: Reimagined http://www.melanie-brown.org
  5. ^ Chart peak positions:
  6. ^ http://acharts.us/song/29233 Acharts.us
  7. ^ Ελληνικό Chart


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