Pop-Up Video: Wannabe (1996)
Spice Girls Origin: London, England Genres: Pop/dance & pop Years active: 1994–2001, 2007–2008, 2018–present Members: Melanie C Emma Bunton Mel B Geri Halliwell Victoria Beckham The Spice Girls ' song "Wannabe" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks. In the United States, it reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on February 22, 1997, for four weeks. By March 1997, "Wannabe" was the best-selling song in 37 nations and became the best-selling single by a girl group in the world by the end of 1997. A 2014 study chose it as the most easily recognizable pop song of the last 60 years.