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Poll: Most impactful : "...Baby One More Time" or "Wannabe" ?
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View Poll Results: Most impactful lead single ?
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...Baby One More Time
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56.03% |
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Wannabe
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Wannabe, takes me back to my childhood. 
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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BOMT by far
anyone saying Wannabe
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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On Spotify
Wannabe: 44m streams
BOMT: 25m streams
+ BOMT wouldn't even exist without Wannabe so
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Originally posted by Flawfree
LOL anyone who says Wannabe is either delusional, pressed or trolling. Baby One More Time is like the third most famous song in history.
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Member Since: 4/9/2012
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Wannabe for sure. It was everywhere. That, Backstreet Boys I Want it That Way, & Ace of Base's The Sign were like signature 90s pop songs
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Member Since: 3/1/2014
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easily wannabe. its not even close 
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 32,982
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Originally posted by slobro
The US sales for "Spice" in that table only includes Billboard/Soundscan tho, while that BOMT figure includes both Soundscan and freebie club 'sales'. BOMT's official Billboard/Soundscan sales are 10.6 million
This does show how local BOMT was compared to Spice. Spice sold 9.5M outside US/Canada, BOMT only 4.5M
Wannabe clearly made more impact globally
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BOMT sold around 10M outside of the U.S. What math classes do you take?
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Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR
Neither of them is forgotten at all!
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Very true.
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Originally posted by Lately 1814
I noticed this too. Half the sales of BOMT come from the US, Britney's home country. Yet the Spice Girls' album sold more outside of their home country.
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Their home country is the U.K. which is less than a fifth the size of the U.S. Obviously every artist is going to sell the most in the U.S.
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Originally posted by Lately 1814
It's the song that created Britney's sound.
Wannabe, and it ain't close. Chart wise it was the bigger single, the respective album sold more, and the hook is more memorable.
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How do you run a receipts thread? 25M>22M. Take notes, please.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Originally posted by slobro
It didn't but either way I simply went by the totals underneath those tables Ash12345 posted
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BOMT
UK - 1,225,000
Germany - 800,000
France - 650,000
Spain - 350,000
Netherlands - 300,000
Italy - 250,000
Belgium - 200,000
Turkey - 200,000
Switzerland - 120,000
Poland - 120,000
Sweden - 100,000
Ireland - 100,000
Portugal - 90,000
Denmark - 65,000
Norway - 60,000
Austria - 60,000
Hungary - 60,000
Finland - 40,000
Czech Republic - 30,000
Slovenia - 30,000
Greece - 30,000
Romania - 30,000
Croatia - 15,000
Iceland - 10,000
Others - 120,000 (Russia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Bulgaria)
= 5,000,000
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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BOMT...
Wannabe is forgotten by anyone who didn't live through it TBH.
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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It's easily Britney, lmao.
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Member Since: 4/29/2011
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Originally posted by Eternium
Their home country is the U.K. which is less than a fifth the size of the U.S. Obviously every artist is going to sell the most in the U.S.
How do you run a receipts thread? 25M>22M. Take notes, please.
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Percentage wise, more half of of BOMT's [album] sales come from the US. When you do the math, relatively speaking, you'll see Spice was a bigger album globally.
Spice sold 28 million. 28 > 25. Spice > BOMT. I don't make the rules, I just enforce them.
If you're basing solely on impact, it's clear Wannabe is of more significance. They created a teen pop sound that gave the all the bubblegum acts an avenue for success. Britney, Xtina, N'sync, Jessica, etc all owe a debt to the Spice Girls. Not a coincidence Wannabe blows up in 97, and Max Martin starts shopping his songs around the following year. BOMT was definitely bigger in the US, but worldwide, it's just not on Wannabe's level.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Wannabe obviously. 
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Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Wannabe. The other song isn't impactful.
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Member Since: 1/31/2012
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HMMM.. Voted BOMT but I think it might actually be Wannabe after reading some of these posts
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People voting Wannabe
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Member Since: 4/10/2012
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This is so tough, but I'd say BOMT.
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Member Since: 1/31/2012
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Originally posted by idkher
On Spotify
Wannabe: 44m streams
BOMT: 25m streams
+ BOMT wouldn't even exist without Wannabe so
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Interesting how that works isn't it?
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Member Since: 6/2/2012
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I'm surprised at all the posts saying Wannabe is forgotten.
Where I live it's easily Wannabe. (I'm serious)
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Quote:
Originally posted by slobro
"Wannabe". There's a reason "Spice" (the album) was global, unlike "BOMT" (album) which was mostly local to North America
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Baby, were you high when you posted this?
...Baby One More Time (album) sold 15 million copies outside the US.
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Member Since: 6/24/2012
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Both had really significant impact. If "Wannabe" hadn't been released, "...Baby One More Time" wouldn't exist. People who say "Wannabe" is forgotten are really stupid, I played the song in my class a couple of weeks ago and my students are around 12-16 years and they were all jamming to the song. Same happens with "...Baby One More Time", they know at least the chorus.
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