Say You'll Be There
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| Say You'll Be There by Spice Girls | ||
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| Missing image Wanna_s.jpg Album cover | ||
| Single Information | ||
| Released | October 1996 (UK) May 1997 (US) | |
| Found on | Spice | |
| Charts | ||
| US Hot 100 | #3 | |
| US Airplay | #1 | |
| US Sales | #1 | |
| US Clubplay | #1 | |
| UK Top 40 | #1 | |
| Video | ||
| Q | 4 stars out of 5 | November 2000 (http://www.q4music.com/nav?page=q4music.review.redirect&fixture_review=117571&resource=117571&fixture_artist=144975) |
| AMG (http://Allmusic.com) | 5 stars out of 5 | link (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB020405101952141101&sql=Ayy09kent7q7x) |
| Spice Girls Chronology | ||
| "Wannabe" 1996 | "Say You'll Be There" 1996 | "2 Become 1" 1996 |
Say You'll Be There is a song released by the Spice Girls a few months after releasing "Wannabe", which reached number one in the UK. It is a mid-tempo, semi-R&B groove song.
Selling 200,000 copies in its first week, "Say You'll Be There" went on to become the first Spice Girls' song to enter at number one in Britain.
Even though it was released eight months later in the US, "Say You'll Be There" became the highest new entry in history by a non-American act, debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 at number five (and still holding this record to date), before reaching its peak, number three. It even reached number ten on the Billboard R&B chart.
The video for "Say You'll Be There" was a gigantic leap from its predesessor, "Wannabe" - shot on the cheap in a King's Cross bar. The glossy promo for the Spice Girls second single was filmed in the Mojave Desert in the summer of 1996 and saw the group adopting new, fictional identitites. Melanie C played "Katrina Highkick", Geri Halliwell's alter-ego was "Trixie Firecracker", Emma Bunton took on the role of "Kung Fu Candy", Victoria Beckham played "Midnight Miss Suki", while "Blazin' Bad Zula" was played by Melanie B.