Goodbye (Spice Girls song)

"Goodbye"
Single by Spice Girls
B-side	"Christmas Wrapping" "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" "We Are Family"
Released	14 December 1998 (1998-12-14)
Recorded	July 1998
Studio	Ocean Way (Nashville)[1]
Genre	Pop
Length	4:35
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Spice Girls Richard Stannard Matt Rowe
Producer(s)	Richard Stannard Matt Rowe
Spice Girls singles chronology
"Viva Forever" (1998) "Goodbye" (1998) "Holler" / "Let Love Lead the Way" (2000)
Music video
"Goodbye" on YouTube

"Goodbye" is a song recorded by British girl group Spice Girls. It was written by the group, Richard Stannard, and Matt Rowe, while it was produced by the latter two. The song became the group's first song without the vocals of Geri Halliwell. It was released by Virgin Records on 14 December 1998 and was later included on their third studio album Forever (2000). "Goodbye" is a pop ballad that lyrically consists of the group's farewell to a friend, specifically Halliwell. The lyrics were also seen, by the media and fans alike, as the group's end, although the idea was dismissed by the members.

"Goodbye" received positive reviews from music commentators, who said it was one of the group's best singles. The song was a commercial success, peaking atop the UK Singles Chart and making the Spice Girls the first act to have had three consecutive Christmas number-one singles since The Beatles in 1965. Internationally, it was also commercially successful, reaching the top spots in Canada, New Zealand, Ireland and Italy and peaking inside the top five on the charts in Australia, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, Hungary, Malaysia, Netherlands, Sweden and Taiwan. Additionally, "Goodbye" peaked at number 11 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

The accompanying music video for "Goodbye" was filmed at Mentmore Towers and featured the group singing the song at a castle; Melanie Brown and Victoria Beckham were both pregnant at the time. To promote "Goodbye", the Spice Girls performed the song on several television shows, such as the Royal Variety Performance and Top of the Pops, and later on their concert tours Christmas in Spiceworld (1999), The Return of the Spice Girls (2007–2008) and Spice World – 2019 Tour (2019).

The music video was also the last to be played on the English version of The Box, after which it closed on June 30, 2024, alongside other Channel 4-owned music channels.^[2]