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Release date: July 28th, 1997
First release: United Kingdom
Record label: Virgin Records
Formats: Pepsi’s promotional single

TRACKLIST PT1:

  1. Step To Me 7" Mix (Spice Girls/Stannard/Rowe) Produced by Absolute – Mixed by Absolute
  2. Step To Me Matthew's Disco Steppin' Mix (Spice Girls/Stannard/Rowe) Produced by Absolute - Mixed by Absolute - Remixed by Matthew Roberts
  3. Step To Me Matthew's Extra Spicey Dub (Spice Girls/Stannard/Rowe) Produced by Absolute - Mixed by Absolute
  4. Step To Me Extended Mix (Spice Girls/Stannard/Rowe) Produced by Absolute - Mixed by Absolute

The Pepsi’s promotional single wasn't available in shops. In order to get it people had to gather 20 tin's ring and exchange them for the actual single.

Posters and Pepsi cans, glasses and bottles with the Spice Girls faces on them were launched for the promotion, as well as a TV ad with the song Move Over (Generation Next).

The promotion deal included two Spice Girls concert in Istanbul in 1997, sponsored by Pepsi.

As a part of the promotion a special single for the series Pepsi Live was released with the live version from Istanbul concert of the Pepsi ad: Move Over (Generation Next).
Release date: June 1st, 1998
First release: United Kingdom
Record label: Virgin Records
Formats: Single pt1, single pt2, cassette and vinyl
Highest chart position: 9 (UK)
Total sales: 92,000 copies

PT1:

  1. On Top Of The World Full Length Version (McCulloch/Marr)
  2. On Top Of The World Instrumental (McCulloch/Marr)
PT2:
  1. On Top Of The World Perfecto Edit (McCulloch/Marr)
  2. On Top Of The World Perfecto Remix (McCulloch/Marr)
  3. On Top Of The World Match Of the Day Instrumental (McCulloch/Marr)

The song was England’s official track for the 1998 World Cup. For being very pop the song didn’t catch the attention from the football fans who preferred songs such as 3 Lions 98, released by the comedian Frank Skinner.

The single On Top Of The World had very little promotion, debuting in the charts at number 9, selling 92,000 copies in the United Kingdom. It was the 179º best seller of 1998.

The Spice Girls joined Ian McCulloch from Echo & The Bunnymen, Tommy Scott from Space and Simon Fowler from Ocean Colour Scene in order to sing England’s theme for the World Cup: (How Does It Feel To Be) On Top Of The World. Melanie says: "It was excellent going to the studios in Power Street, Liverpool to record the World Cup song, because I've never recorded in Liverpool before. Ian McCulloch, who wrote the song, said he wanted all of us to sing the chorus and then he asked me if I'd like to sing on one of the verses as well. I was chuffed to bits! I think he wanted a bit of a Scouse flavour, so he tried to make me do my bit in a Scouse accent and sing: 'You're on top of the whirrrld' But I said: 'No, that sounds silly!'
"I was really excited about meeting Tommy and Simon from Space and Ocean Colour Scene because they're so cool and in such well respected bands. It was amazing to be working with them. We didn't actually get to meet them until the video shoot, though, because we recorded our bit on our own. I was really nervous about meeting them and it was funny because I think they were nervous, too, but Victoria didn't even know who they were!"
Release date: November 30th, 1998
First release: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan
Record label: Polygram A&M Records
Formats: Single pt1, single pt2, cassette, maxi singles, Australian and Japanese versions
Highest chart position: 3 (UK), 14 (Germany)
Total sales: 635,000 copies

PT1:

  1. When You're Gone - Feauturing Melanie C (Bryan Adams/Eliot Kennedy) Produced by Bryan Adams & Bob Rock – Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
  2. Hey Baby
  3. When You're Gone Solo Version (Bryan Adams/Eliot Kennedy) Produced by Bryan Adams & Bob Rock
PT2:
  1. When You're Gone - Feauturing Melanie C (Bryan Adams/Eliot Kennedy) Produced by Bryan Adams & Bob Rock - Mixed by Bob Clearmountain
  2. I Love Ya Too Much
  3. What Does It Do To Your Heart

When You’re Gone was the first project Melanie did outside the Spice Girls. It debuted at the 3rd position in the United Kingdom and stayed inside the Top 40 for 15 weeks (9 of those weeks inside the Top 10). It sold 635,300 copies in the United Kingdom and was the 82nd best seller of the 90’s. Melanie is the only Spice Girl to appear in that list with a solo project!

In an interview for Wall Of Sound in 1998, Bryan talked about how he asked Mel to sing with him: "That was the last song written for the album (On A Day Like Today), just before I started recording. I was doing a video for On a Day Like Today in Los Angeles, and Mel C was staying in the same hotel. I actually met her in the lift going up to my room. She started talking and told me, 'I really want to do my own thing, eventually.' I said, 'Well, I've got a song if you want to sing on it.' She said, 'Really?!' and I said, 'Yeah.' So she came and sang on it. I thought it was kind of amusing. She was really nice. I don't care what it means or anything, I just thought it would be kinda fun."

When Bryan invited Melanie to sing with him, Virgin Records tried to avoid the duet, which was going to be released under Bryan’s label, A&M Records. Bryan said in an interview for Muse, 1999: "Virgin Records didn't want to help us at all," he says. "They were most uncooperative. They did everything they could to try and stop Mel's picture and her name being on the record, everything. I've no idea why. I think what it was is that The Spice Girls have a single out at the same time as When You're Gone and they don't want anything to detract from that."

At a Bryan's concert that Mel couldn’t attend, he sang When You’re Gone with Celine Dion with whom he had made a duet in another song years before.

Melanie was in tour in North America with the Spice Girls and took a little time off to fly to Canada to record the song with Bryan at a studio in Vancouver, in 1998.

When You’re Gone wasn’t released in the United States. It was only in 2005 that Bryan decided to release the track over there, replacing Melanie’s vocals with (!) Pamela Anderson’s...
Release date: March 10th, 1999
    1. Cloud Number Nine
    2. Let's Talk About Love
    3. When You're Gone (Acoustic Version with Melanie C)

Bryan Adam's single that brought When You’re Gone acoustic as a b-side. It was recorded on TFI Friday, in 1999.
Release date: December 13th, 1999
First release: United Kingdom
Record label: Virgin Records
Formats: Single pt1, single pt2, cassette
Highest chart position: 19 (UK)

PT1:

  1. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Single Version (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  2. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Arthur Baker's Rawkin' Roll Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  3. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Shaft Club Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  4. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Mickey Finn & L'Double Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  5. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll - video for PC
PT2:
  1. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Full Length Version (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  2. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Phats & Small Mutant Disco Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  3. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Ruff Driverz Innercity Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
  4. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll Deadly Avengers Takes The Mick Mix (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)

The money raised with the single sales went to Children’s Promise charity.

The Spice Girls alleged being too busy to set a new single in 1999 in order to continue with the Christmas’ number 1 tradition (since 1996, all the Christmas number ones came from the girls). But they agreed to be in the group of 36 artists that recorded together a Rolling Stones’ old success: It's Only Rock'N'Roll.

The single got a poor promotion and hit the 19th position, spending only 4 weeks inside the Top 40.
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