Posted on March 4, 2010.
Spice Girl and Ticket Power Meeting By popular demand, the Spice Girls have announced a date of 14, eight continent reunion tour kickoff in Vancouver, British Columbia in December and until January. Over 1 million fans have flooded the band's website, seeking ticket applications for the tour. The official website of the girls, TheSpiceGirls.com would be receiving more than 10 queries per second and the hope of giving birth to a total of more than five million applications by early to mid-July. In a recent interview with BBC Radio 1, Melanie (Sporty Spice) Chisholm, alluded to the addition of dates if demand for ticket sales is high. The latest ad on girls give fans what they really want the chance to make their city, "Spice City". Fans submit their desired location and line of the city with the most votes will become 'Spice City' and will be secured as additional stop on the reunion tour.
The announcement of the Spice Girls is the latest in a long line of British pop acts ready to put aside their differences in hopes of reviving their glory days. In the bands of recent years, including Take That, The Verve and more importantly, the police have regrouped for new albums and / or excursions. Ticket sales for The Police, one of the most anticipated tours of the year, sold out in minutes for most shows, leading with $ 240 per ticket in the primary market. Fans and brokers who bought both hoping to resell it hard to ever get rid of their tickets, let alone make a profit. Although state-Spice Girls website, "To make it fair, we'll take the chance that gets to buy tickets, like any concert, there will undoubtedly demand for resale. The only question is, how ? The fans will be notified if they have won a lottery ticket on or before October 1st and will then have 72 hours to complete the transaction, at the limit of 6 tickets per order.
The first five Spice Girls have not played together since 1998, when they embarked on a sell-out 102 date world tour covering Europe and North America. The Spiceworld Tour started in Dublin, Ireland February 24, 1998 before moving to continental Europe and then return to Britain for 14 gigs at Wembley Arena and Birmingham NEC Arena. Shows were performed in North America during the summer months, with prices of tickets on the secondary market of up to $ 300. Brokers who lived at ShowTimeTickets.com Spice Mania is the first time around predict a high value for the reunion tour, offset by a low resale value similar to what police Tour summers. "The trend we're seeing with all concerts big meeting is a high value which coincides with all the initial hype and excitement. But once the initial buzz dies down and then shows very often additional added, these conditions to create a greater availability and lower demand, which in turn lowers prices. "
The concerts will be the first group, since their split in 2001, and the first with five of the original group since Geri Halliwell quit to pursue a solo career in May 1998 that four years after the bands. The four other girls continued until the final dissolution in 2000 after their album, "Forever", failed to garner the success of previous albums.
The Spice Girls boasted album sales of 55 million during their successful career transition. The five singers are now all in their 30s. Melanie (Scary Spice) Brown, Geri (Ginger Spice) Halliwell and Victoria (Posh Spice) Beckham are mothers and Emma (Baby Spice) Bunton is expected to give birth later in August. Victoria and her soccer superstar husband David Beckham are currently in the midst of a highly publicized move to the United States, where David will play for Major League Soccer franchise LA Galaxy. Family members accompanying the girls on the bus touring, i.