Spice Girls: The Singles Collection review – stop fleecing your fans right now, thank you very much — SkimNews
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- Spice Girls announced a 30th-anniversary Singles Collection in a handbag-inspired box containing 14 CDs and 160 tracks, including every single, B-sides, remixes and a few demos.
- The Singles Collection costs £94.99 on CD, £98.99 with a poster, £179.99 on 7-inch vinyl and £182.99 with a poster; each box includes five collectible art cards, a booklet carrying messages from all five members and an acrylic “30” charm.
- The Singles Collection was announced without a reunion tour or documentary after September teasers from the 1996 “Wannabe” video prompted hopes of one; reaction was muted, with one fan calling it “greedy” and another asking, “Haven’t they all made enough money from fans!?”
- Spice25, issued in 2021, repackaged the debut album with previously unreleased demos and remixes, most of which appear here; the 2022 Spiceworld 25 edition and the November 2025 Forever vinyl release continued the anniversary-reissue cycle.
- Wannabe is still described as “loaded with puckish energy,” while “Say You’ll Be There” and “Stop” are called “immaculate”; debut-era B-sides “Bumper to Bumper” and “One of These Girls” are praised as “brilliant fun.”
- Do You Think About Me, the collection’s only previously unreleased official song, is an R&B-tinged ballad originally recorded when the band was called Touch; Victoria Beckham leads vocals despite not singing on “Wannabe.”
Why it matters: For longtime Spice Girls fans, £94.99 for CD or £179.99 for vinyl means paying again for a catalogue already recently repackaged through Spice25, Spiceworld 25 and the November 2025 Forever vinyl release. With no tour or documentary announced, the 30th-anniversary offering becomes a collectors’ purchase rather than a reunion experience.
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