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Part II: Shouldn't Michelle Stephenson be listed under Former Members?
I asked this before but it got archived with no responses.
Indeed, the other five are well-known as the Spice Girls. But the fact that Stephenson advanced out of the auditions, was a member of Touch, performed live, and recorded/lived with the group for under a year means that she was, technically, a former member. Touch and Spice Girls are different names, but they both fall under the same umbrella.
Other examples on Wiki, of members that are listed as former yet the band name was different: Faith No More (Mike Morris/Wade Worthington in Faith No Man), Our Lady Peace (Paul Martin/Jim Newell in As If), Sevendust (Lee Banks in Rumblefish), Cypress Hill (Mellow Man Ace in DVX), The Offspring (Jim Benton/Marcus Parrish/Doug Thompson in Manic Subsidal), Insane Clown Posse (Kid Villain/D-Lyrical in Inner City Posse), Godsmack (Lee Richards in The Scam), All Saints (Simone Rainford in All Saints 1.9.7.5), New Kids on the Block (Mark Wahlberg/Jamie Kelly in Nynuk), Beastie Boys (Jeremy Shatan in The Young Aborigines). Xanarki (talk) 02:04, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
Most commercially successful British pop act since the Beatles? Not exactly.
The most commercially successful British pop act since the Beatles? That seems like a large claim when their album sales are dwarfed by the Rolling Stones who have sold over 250 million albums so far in their career (vs the Spice Girls' ~100m), hold the all-time most top-10 albums (38) in the US, and currently hold two of the top 10 best-selling tours of all time (in 2007 they held 4).
I will give it to the Spice Girls that they are perhaps among the top successful British artists but they are definitely not at the top unless the category is drawn in such a way so as to exclude the Stones yet still include British artists, but that argument would sort of fall a bit flat as it is a comparison to the Beatles and the Stones are probably the closest comparison to the Beatles out there historically...and they're both British. There is a reason that the Stones are considered the highest-grossing live music act (as of 2022) by both Billboard and Pollstar.
As per the above, I am going to go ahead and modify that phrasing to list them as among but not the. TheSandDoctor Talk 03:39, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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