Apparently, selling 85 million records worldwide isn’t enough for the Spice Girls! Yes, the greatest girl-group of all time will be hitting the shelves of your local record store once again. Sadly, the group aren’t releasing new music, just yet.
The Spice Girls are actually re-issuing their commercially and critically acclaimed second album, Spice World on 180gm black vinyl. So, if you’ve been dying to hear ‘Spice Up Your Life’, ‘Viva Forever’ or ‘Stop’ in supreme quality, you’re in luck.
But that’s not all, the girls are also releasing their Greatest Hits album in 180gm vinyl, after releasing it as a limited edition picture disc last year.
The news of this isn’t completely new, as fans had noticed the Amazon leak late last year. However, the confirmation has only come in the past week.
The group have re-released their first album Spice on vinyl three times so far; a regular black vinyl, a limited edition white vinyl and a very limited, UNICEF blue vinyl. The release date for these new records is on March 13 this year, with pre-orders available here.
While this is exciting news for some, there are quite a few Spice fans that are upset by this release. For starters, the original Spice World vinyl became quite a bit of a collector’s item for its rarity, selling for quite a few hundred a pop on eBay in the past year. This re-release has caused a bit of a ruckus with fans who paid a premium for the original 1997 release.
However, it’s not like this phenomenon is new in the music industry. This Spice Girls release bears similarities to the merchandise release by LANY this year, which had items dating back to 2015. The drop caused a stir on Twitter with LANY stans.
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Additionally, the comments section of this vinyl announcement is full of pleas from Spice Girls fans who would rather the girls release professional footage (either on DVD or Blu-Ray) of their latest reunion tours; Spice World 2020 and The Return Of The Spice Girls.
All-in-all, it looks like the girls are wanting to stick around in our public consciousness. Could this mean more releases in the future? We hope so! Drop the DVDs, please!
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