Because the very public rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his mother and father continues to seize headlines each in Britain and throughout the globe, a grassroots motion has emerged trying to propel Victoria Beckham‘s 2001 monitor Not Such an Harmless Lady again into the singles chart.
The initiative’s goal was to “repair the nationwide tragedy” that Victoria Beckham stays the only real member of the Spice Women by no means to have achieved a solo primary. It kicked off with a social media submit stating: “Nothing says ‘British Tradition’ like collectively deciding to ship Posh to the highest of the charts as a result of her son roasted her on Insta.”
The marketing campaign gathered appreciable traction after comic Katherine Ryan amplified the submit. Regardless of a dramatic spike in gross sales and streams — hovering by 19,615% in contrast with the earlier week — the monitor didn’t re-enter the official UK High 100.
Puzzlingly, Not Such an Harmless Lady did climb to primary on two specialist charts — the Official Singles Gross sales Chart and the Official Obtain Chart — but it remained conspicuously absent from Friday’s principal chart countdown.
A consultant from the Official Charts Firm defined to the Mirror: “The singles market at the moment is predominantly streaming-driven, so a monitor that’s promoting effectively does not routinely place within the general chart except it is also doing impactful streaming numbers.”
The spokesperson continued: “[Victoria Beckham] has one of the best vendor of the week, therefore why you may see it is No 1 on the pure sales-based rankings of the Official Obtain Chart and Official Singles Gross sales Chart. Its success this week has been principally all the way down to fan-driven downloads.”
Exact gross sales information for Victoria’s monitor haven’t been made public, however Myles Smith secured the No. 100 place by shifting 5,258 mixed models of his 2024 launch Stargazing throughout the identical interval.
Paul Scaife, who runs music business insider useful resource Report Of The Day, informed the Mirror: “The truth with the iTunes chart, particularly specialist ones, is that it merely does not take a lot gross sales to make an influence. Any look could also be a quick spike too.”
He added: “We have been joking within the workplace Brooklyn ought to get behind Groovejet and have a rerun of the chart battle.”
Victoria’s monitor initially debuted on 17 September 2001, sparking a chart rivalry with Kylie Minogue’s eventual chart-topper Cannot Get You Out of My Head. It was one in every of simply three singles launched by the previous Posh Spice earlier than she shifted her focus from pop music to vogue design.
Her musical ambitions stalled following the collapse of her report label, which meant two totally recorded albums have been by no means formally launched. Not like footage of the alleged “inappropriate” dancing that sparked her extremely publicised row with son Brooklyn and his spouse Nicola Peltz, each of the so-called “misplaced” albums have since leaked on-line.
Music journalist Caroline Sullivan, who has written quite a few books on pop music together with a best-selling biography of Taylor Swift, mentioned the surge in gross sales displays public sympathy for Victoria Beckham: “Victoria does not have an amazing voice – which she herself admits – however there’s a variety of affection for her amongst Millennials, they usually’re on her facet within the Brooklyn/Beckhams dispute, so shopping for her single is a fast method to present that assist.”
Regardless of the renewed chart consideration and the controversy driving it, neither Victoria nor her husband David Beckham have commented publicly. It’s also understood that no new music releases from Victoria Beckham are anticipated within the close to future.
