Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)
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| Single by Spice Girls from the album Greatest Hits |
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| Released |  November 5, 2007 (digital) November 19, 2007 (physical) December, 2007 (radio) |
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| Format | CD single, Digital download | ||||
| Recorded | 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 3:31 (Album Version) 3:55 (Video Version) |
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| Label | Virgin Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | Richard Stannard Matt Rowe Victoria Beckham Melanie Brown Emma Bunton Melanie Chisholm Geri Halliwell |
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| Certification | No certification | ||||
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"Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" is a song performed by British group the Spice Girls. It was released as the first and last 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]
The song was also the official Children in Need single of 2007. The five-piece performed the song especially for the telethon on 16 November 2007, live from Los Angeles.[2] 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.
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[edit] 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 is the lowest selling single for Children In Need to date 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, Brown provides a harmony during the solos of Halliwell and Beckham.
Like the Greatest Hits, this is the only Spice Girls single not to feature the girls on the cover.
[edit] 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 98,956, the lowest charting and selling Spice Girls single and Children in Need 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.
Headlines is also the first release featuring Victoria Beckham to ever enter the charts outside the top 10 in the U.K. All her previous releases, group and solo, have debuted within the top 10, excluding the 1999 charity single "It's Only Rock and Roll (but I Like it) which featured the Spice Girls and charted at number 19.
[edit] 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.[2] 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.
[edit] Track listing
- UK CD
- "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)" [Radio Version] - 3:28
- "Wannabe" [Soul Seekerz 2007 Mix] - 6:55
[edit] Charts
| Chart (2007)[3][1] | Peak Position |
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| United World Chart | 38 |
| Argentina Top 40 | 16[4] |
| Australia ARIA Singles chart | 74 |
| Brazil Singles Chart | 15 |
| Bulgaria Singles Chart | 39 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 42 |
| Dutch Singles Chart | 52 |
| European Singles Chart | 14 |
| German Singles Chart | 46 |
| Greek IFPI Singles Chart[5] | 34 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 29 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 2 |
| Romanian Singles Chart | 64 |
| Russian Singles Chart | 8 |
| Spanish Singles Chart | 2 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 3 |
| UK Singles Chart | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 90 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Spice Girls to release new single". BBC. October 5, 2007. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
- ^ a b "Spice Girls support Pudsey with new single". Retrieved October 9, 2007.
- ^ Chart peak positions:
- Billboard magazine Spice Girls — Billboard Singles. Retrieved on November 26, 2007
- Mariah-Charts.net Girls.htm Spice Girls — Chart Data. Retrieved on November 26, 2007
- ^ Top 40 Argentina
- ^ Ελληνικό Chart
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