Spice (album)

Spice
Studio album by Spice Girls
Released	19 September 1996 (1996-09-19)
Recorded	1995–1996
Studio	Olympic (Barnes, London) Strongroom (Shoreditch, London)
Genre	Pop dance-pop teen pop R&B
Length	39:56
Language	English Spanish
Label	Virgin
Producer	Absolute Matt Rowe Richard Stannard
Spice Girls chronology
Spice (1996) Spiceworld (1997)
Singles from Spice
"Wannabe" Released: 26 June 1996 "Say You'll Be There" Released: 14 October 1996 "2 Become 1" Released: 16 December 1996 "Mama" / "Who Do You Think You Are" Released: 3 March 1997

Spice is the debut studio album by English girl group the Spice Girls, released in Japan on 19 September 1996 and in the United Kingdom on 4 November 1996 by Virgin Records. The album was recorded between 1995 and 1996 at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, and Strongroom Studios in Shoreditch, London, by producers Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, and the production duo Absolute. Spice is a pop album that incorporates styles such as dance, R&B and hip hop. It is considered to be the record that brought teen pop back, opening the doors for a wave of teen pop artists.^[1] Conceptually, the album centered on the idea of Girl Power, and the hype surrounding the group was compared to Beatlemania.

A worldwide commercial success, Spice topped the charts in more than 17 countries across the world, and was certified Multi-Platinum in 27 countries, Platinum in 14 countries and Gold in three countries, including 10-times Platinum in the United Kingdom and Canada, eight-times Platinum in Europe, and seven-times Platinum in the United States. It became the world's top-selling album of 1997, selling 19 million copies in over a year. The album has sold a total of 23 million copies worldwide,^[2] becoming the best-selling album in music history by a girl group and one of the best-selling albums of all time.

Four singles were released from the album. The lead single, "Wannabe", reached number one in 37 countries, becoming one of the best-selling singles of all time as of 2010 by selling over six million copies worldwide. The next two singles, "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1", reached number one in 53 countries.^[3] "Who Do You Think You Are" was released as the official Comic Relief single in the UK as a double A-side with "Mama" and both songs reached the top 20 in charts across Europe, Australia and New Zealand. In the band's native UK, all four singles went to number one on the UK Singles Chart and, on the Billboard Hot 100, the album spawned three top-five singles.