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Wannabe

By: The Spice Girls
Date: 07/1996
From: Spice
Comment:
[BRIT Awards Best British Single 1997]
written by Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard & Spice Girls

ChartDebut
Date		Peak
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US25/01/19971
UK20/07/19961
US dance20

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 Wannabe
(07/1996 • 371 pts)		Say You'll Be There
(10/1996 • 287 pts)
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(12/1996 • 299 pts)		Wannabe
(07/1996 • 371 pts)		 

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Wannabe (song)

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"Wannabe"
Single by Spice Girls
from the album Spice
B-side "Bumper to Bumper"
Released 26 June 1996
Format 12", cassette, CD single
Recorded 1995
Genre Dance-pop
Length 2:52
Label Virgin
Writer(s) Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard, Spice Girls
Producer Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard
Certification Platinum (BPI, RIAA)
Spice Girls singles chronology
"Wannabe"
(1996)		 "Say You'll Be There"
(1996)

"Wannabe" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. Written by the group members with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard during the group's first professional songwriting session, and produced by Rowe and Stannard for the group's debut album Spice, it was released in November 1996. The song was written and recorded very quickly; the result was considered lacklustre by their label, and was sent to be mixed by Dave Way. The group was not pleased with the outcome, and the recording was mixed again, this time by Mark "Spike" Stent.

"Wannabe" is an uptempo pop song that incorporates a mix of hip-hop, rap and dance music. The lyrics, which address the value of female friendship over the heterosexual bond, became an iconic symbol of female empowerment and the most emblematic song of the group's Girl Power philosophy.[1] Despite receiving mixed reviews from music critics, the song won Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards and Best Single at the 1997 BRIT Awards.

"Wannabe" was heavily promoted by the group. Its music video, directed by Jhoan Camitz, became a big success on the British cable network The Box, which sparked the press interest in the group. Subsequently the song had intensive radio airplay across the United Kingdom, while the group performed it on television programmes and started doing interviews and photo shoots for teen magazines.

Released as the group's debut single in July 1996, "Wannabe" topped the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and received a platinum certification by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). In January 1997 it was released in the United States topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, becoming the group's only number-one single in that country. By the end of 1996, "Wannabe" had topped the charts in twenty-two nations,[2] and by March 1997 this number had climbed to thirty-one.[3] At the time, it became the best-selling single by a female group, selling over six million copies worldwide.[4]

Contents

Background

In March 1994, father-and-son team Bob and Chris Herbert together with financer Chic Murphy, traded under the business name of Heart Management, placed an advert in The Stage, which asked the question: "Are you street smart, extrovert, ambitious, and able to sing and dance?". After receiving hundreds of replies, the management reduced their search down to a group of five girls: Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Geri Halliwell and Michelle Stephenson. The group moved to a house in Maidenhead and received the name "Touch". Stephenson was eventually fired because she lacked the drive that the rest of the group had, and was replaced by Emma Bunton.[5] In November, the group now named "Spice", persuaded their managers to set up a showcase in front of industry writers, producers and A&R men at the Nomis Studios in Shepherd's Bush, London.[6][7][8] Producer Richard Stannard was originally at the studio to meet pop star Jason Donovan, but he ended up in the showcase after hearing Brown, as she went charging across the corridor. Stannard recalls:

More than anything, they just made me laugh. I couldn't believe I'd walked into this situation. You didn't care if they were in time with the dance steps or whether one was overweight or one wasn't as good as the others. It was something more. It just made you feel happy. Like great pop records.[9]

Stannard stayed to talk to the group, after everyone else had left the showcase. He then reported to his songwriter partner Matt Rowe that he had found "the pop group of their dreams". In January 1995, Chris Herbert booked the group's first professional songwriting session with the producers at the Strongroom in Curtain Road, East London.[9] Rowe remembers that his feelings were similar to Stannard's when he first met the group, "I love them. Immediately. [...] They were like no one I'd met before, really." The session was productive; the duo seemed to get along with the group, as together they discussed the songwriting process and what the group wanted to do with the record.[9] In her autobiography, Brown recalled that the duo instinctively understood their point of view and knew how to incorporate "the spirit of five loud girls into great pop music".[10]

Writing and inspiration

The first song the Spice Girls wrote with Stannard and Rowe was called "Feed Your Love", a slow and soulful song that was eventually recorded and mastered for the group's debut album, but not used because it was considered too rude for their target audience. Having concluded the first song, the group proposed to write a track with an uptempo rhythm.[11] Rowe set up a drum loop on his MPC3000 drum machine. Its fast rhythm made Stannard remember the scenes of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John performing "You're the One That I Want" in Grease. The group then added their own contributions to the song, as Rowe remembers:

They made all these different bits up, not thinking in terms of verse, chorus, bridge or what was going to go where, just coming up with all these sections of chanting, rapping and singing, which we recorded all higgledy-piggledy. And then we just sewed it together. It was rather like the way we'd been working on the dance remixes we'd been doing before. Kind of a cut-and-paste method.[11]

"Wannabe" was written in thirty minutes—mainly because the group had already written parts of the song beforehand—in what Brown describes as a "sudden creative frenzy".[12][13] During the session, Brown and Bunton came up with the idea of making a rap near the end of the song. At this point the group got very motivated and incorporated the word "zigazig-ha" into the lyrics.[12] Chisholm told Billboard magazine: "You know when you're in a gang and you're having a laugh and you make up silly words? Well we were having a giggle and we made up this silly word, zigazig-ha. And we were in the studio and it all came together in this song".[14]

Recording and production

While most of the other songs on the Spice album required two or three days of studio time, "Wannabe" was recorded in under an hour.[12] The song was finished and by the time they were going to record it, every solo part was already divided between Brown, Bunton, Chisholm and Halliwell. Beckham missed most of the writing session, and communicated with the rest of the group with a mobile phone she recently bought.[15] On her autobiography Beckham wrote: "I just couldn't bear not being there. Because whatever they said about how it didn't matter, it did matter. Saying 'Yes, I like that' or 'Not sure about that' down the phone is not the same". She only did a few backing vocals and sings during the chorus.[15] Rowe finished the song the next morning, after he stayed up all night working on it.[13]

Because of the group's frustration at their management's unwillingness to listen to their visions and ideas, they parted from Heart Management in March 1995,[8] and eventually met with artist manager Simon Fuller, who decided to sign them with 19 Entertainment.[16] The group toured record labels with Fuller and finally signed a deal with Virgin Records in July.[17] The original mix of "Wannabe" was considered lacklustre by the label's executives.[18] Ashley Newton, who was in charge of A&R, sent the song to American producer Dave Way to mix it; the sound was not what the group had hoped to achieve, as Halliwell later described it, "the result was bloody awful".[19] She further elaborated about this in her second autobiography, Just for the Record: "Right at the beginning of the Spice Girls, [...] Ashley Newton, had tried to turn us into an R&B group. He sent "Wannabe" over to America to be remixed by some hot R&B producers. He brought us jungle versions and hip-hop mixes and I hated them all. Although Mel B[rown] was a big fan of R&B, she agreed with me that these versions just didn't work so we exercised our Spice veto!".[20] Eventually Fuller gave the song to audio engineer Mark "Spike" Stent, who thought that it was a "weird pop record". Stent remixed it in six hours, in what he described as "tightening it up" and "getting the vocals sounding really good".[18]

Composition
"Wannabe"
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"Wannabe" is a dance-pop song with influences of hip-hop and rap.[1] Written in the key of B major, it is set in the time signature of common time and moves at a moderate tempo of 116 beats per minute.[21] It uses the sequence B–D–E–A–A♯ as its chord progression during the refrain, the chorus and the bridge, and F♯–G♯m–E–B for the verses.[21] The song is constructed in a verse-pre-chorus-chorus form, with a rapped bridge before the third and final chorus.[21] Musically, it is "energised" by a highly syncopated synthesised riff, and by the way the repetitive lyrics and rhythm are highlighted during the bridge.[22] "Wannabe" presents a different version of the traditional pop love song performed by females, mainly because of the energic, self-assertive style that expresses a confident independence that is not reliant on the male figure for its continuance.[23]

The song opens with a laugh,[24] followed by "undislodgeable [sic] piano notes".[25] Over the notes, the first lines of the refrain are sung with spoken–almost shouted vocals, in a call and response interaction between Brown and Halliwell.[23][24] The words "tell", "really" and " I wanna" are repeated,[22] so that the voices' tone and the lyrics build up an image of female self-assertion.[23] The refrain ends with the word "zigazig-ha",[22] an euphemism for female desire, which is ambiguously sexualised or broadly economic.[26][27] The first verse follows, Chisholm, Bunton, Brown, and Halliwell sing one line individually in that order. In this part, the lyrics have a pragmatic sense of control of the situation—"If you want my future, forget my past"—which, according to musicologist Sheila Whiteley, tap directly into the emotions of the young teenage audience.[22]

During the chorus, the lyrics—"If you wanna be my lover/You gotta get with my friends"—address the value of female friendship over the heterosexual bond, while the ascending group of chords and the number of voices creates a sense of power that adds to the song's level of exciment.[23] The same pattern occurs, leading to the second chorus. Towards the end, Brown raps the bridge, which serves as a presentation to each of the girls' personalities.[1] The group repeats the chorus for the last time, ending the song with energetic refrains—"Slam your body down and wind it all around"—and the word "zigazig-ha".[24]

Release and promotion

"Wannabe" was either a hit or a miss, love or hate. It would either do everything or nothing. We felt, well, if nobody likes it then we have got other songs up our sleeves, but that was the one we wanted to release.

—Geri Halliwell on the song's release.[28]

After signing the group in July 1995, Virgin Records wanted to launch a big campaign for the Spice Girls' debut, targeting them as the new high-profile act.[17] Because of the untested formula of an all-girl group and the label's nervousness to get everything right with the campaign, there was a period of indecision about what song would be released as the first single.[18] The group, leaded by Brown and Halliwell, was adamant that it should be "Wannabe", as they considered that it served as an introduction for their personalities and the Girl Power statement. Virgin's executives believed that the first single should be "Say You'll Be There", which they considered a much "cooler" track.[18]

At the beginning of 1996, after the song was mixed twice, first by Dave Way and then by Mark Stent, the impasse between the group and their record label about the release of the single was temporaly solved.[18][19] In March, Fuller announced that he agreed with Virgin in that "Wannabe" should not be their first single. The label wanted a song that appealed to the mainstream market, and nothing considered too radical. Halliwell was shocked and furious, she told Fuller: "It's not negotiable as far as we're concerned. 'Wannabe' is our first single." Fuller and the executives at Virgin desisted and the song was chosen as their first single.[29]

The trigger for the Spice Girls' launch was the release of the "Wannabe" music video in May 1996. Its quick success on the British cable network The Box sparked the press interest despite the initial resistance to the all girl group idea.[30] The same month, their first music press interviews appeared in Music Week, Top of the Pops and Smash Hits,[31][32] and their first live TV slot was broadcast on LWT's Surprise Surprise.[33] A month after the video's release, the song was getting intensive airplay on the main radios stations across the UK, while the group started to appear mainly on kids programmes such as Live & Kicking, and doing interviews and photo shoots for teen magazines.[34] A full page advertisment appeared in the July issue of Smash Hits saying: "Wanted: Anyone with a sense of fun, freedom and adventure. Hold tight, get ready! Girl Power is comin' at you",[35] while the group appeared on the television programme This Morning with Richard and Judy, and performed at their first Radio One road show in Birmingham.[36]

"Wannabe" was released in the United Kingdom on 8 July 1996, in two single versions.[37] The first one, released in two formats,—a standard CD single and a cassette single—included the radio edit of the track, the Motiv 8 vocal slam remix, and the B-side "Bumper to Bumper", a song the group wrote with Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute—and British singer-songwriter Cathy Dennis.[38] The second version, released on maxi single format, featured the radio edit, an instrumental version, the Motiv 8 dub slam remix, and the Dave Way alternative mix. This version came with a fold-out postcard inlay and a stickered case.[37]

During the weeks following the UK release the group started to do promotional visits abroad. They did three trips to Japan, brief visits to Germany and the Netherlands, and on a trip to the Far East, they visited Hong Kong, Thailand and South Korea.[39] In January 1997, they traveled to North America to do a promotional campaign that Phil Quartararo, president of Virgin Records America, described as "absolutely massive".[40][41] During their visit to the U.S., the group met with some of the most influential radio programmers, TV networks and magazines.[42] In addition, Virgin managed to persuade fifty radio stations to playlist the song before it was released,[43] while the music video was placed by MTV into heavy rotation.[44]

Reception

Critical response

"Wannabe" received mixed reviews from music critics. Following its release in the UK, reaction to the song was mostly negative. In a review conducted by the British pop band Deuce for Smash Hits magazine, the group described it as "limp", "awful" and "not strong enough for a debut single".[45] Kate Thornton, at the time, editor of Top of the Pops magazine commented "it's not going to happen", referring to the all-girl group idea, as she considered it too threatening.[30] The NME characterized the song as "a combined force of Bananarama, Betty Boop and Shampoo rolled into one." Dele Fadele of the same magazine called the rap during the song's bridge "annoying", and added that the group's music "It's not good. It's not clever. But it's fun".[46] The magazine named "Wannabe" the worst single of the year at the 1997 NME Awards.[47] Conversely, it won for Best Single at the 1997 BRIT Awards,[48] and for International Hit Of The Year and Best British-Written Single at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards presented by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.[49]

In the U.S., reaction to the song was mixed. In a review of the group's debut album, Edna Gundersen of the USA Today said that "Wannabe" is "a melodious but disposable tune that typifies this debut's tart bubblegum and packaged sexiness".[50] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune called it "insidiously snappy, [...] [that] is shaping up as this year's "Macarena",[51] while Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune said that "'Wannabe' has UGH written all over it" adding that it is "relentlessly catchy and horrifyingly hummable".[52] The Buffalo News' Anthony Violanti called it "irresistible".[53] Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe described it as a "maniacally zippy single",[54] and Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com referred to it as an "unapologetically sassy dance hit".[55] Melissa Ruggieri of the Richmond Times-Dispatch commented that "based on their efficacious American debut single, [...] the Spice Girls might be expected to deliver more of that zingy pop on their debut album", but she felt that "aside from 'Wannabe', the album's dance tracks are color-by-numbers bland".[56]

Larry Flick of Billboard magazine said that "fans of the more edgy girl-group [...] may find this single too fluffy" but added that "everyone else with a love of tasty pop hooks, lyrical positivity, and jaunty rhythms is going to be humming this single for months to come".[57] Some reviewers noticed the combination of musical genres. Christina Kelly from Rolling Stone magazine criticized the group's image, and added that their songs including "Wannabe" were "a watered-down mix of hip-hop and cheesy pop balladry, brought together by a manager with a marketing concept".[58] Matt Diehl of Entertainment Weekly said that it was "more a compendium of music styles (from ABBA-style choruses to unconvincing hip hop) than an actual song",[59] and Sara Scribner of the Los Angeles Times described it as "a bubblegum hip-hop confection of rapping lifted off Neneh Cherry and Monie Love albums".[60] Charles Aaron of Spin magazine called it "a quickie, mid-'80s teen paperback come to life [...] so gooey it melts in your hands, not in your mouth".[61] The song ranked at fifteenth on Village Voice's 1997 "Pazz & Jop" critics' poll, conducted by music journalist Robert Christgau.[62]

Contemporary reviews from critics were mostly positive. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that "none of the girls have great voices, but they do exude personality and charisma, which is what drives bouncy dance-pop like 'Wannabe', with its ridiculous 'zig-a-zig-ahhh' hook, into pure pop guilty pleasure".[63] Dam Cairns of The Sunday Times said that the song "leaves a bad taste in the mouth: [because] the true legacy of Girl Power is, arguably, a preteen clothing industry selling crop tops and other minimal garments to young girls" but added that it "remains the same two minutes and 53 seconds of pop perfection that it ever was".[25] In a review of their Greatest Hits album, IGN said that after ten years it "still sound reasonably fresh",[64] while Digital Spy's Nick Levine said that "Wannabe" still remained an "exuberant calling card".[65]

Chart performance

The Spice Girls performing "Wannabe" at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada, during the Return of the Spice Girls tour.

As part of Virgin's strategy to make the group an international act, "Wannabe" was released in Japan and Southeast Asia two weeks before the British release. In Japan, after the song was placed into heavy rotation on FM stations, the Spice Girls made promotional tours in May, July and September of 1996.[66] The group received major press and TV exposure, appearing in programmes such as Space Shower.[67] The single was released by Toshiba EMI on 26 June 1996, selling 100,000 copies as of October 1996.[66]

"Wannabe" debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number three, six days after its physical release, climbing to number one the next week.[68] It spent seven weeks at the top, the second longest stay by an all female group, only behind Shakespears Sister's "Stay".[69] With eighteen weeks in the top forty, and twenty-six weeks in the top seventy-five,[68] it sold over 1.267 million copies,[70] becoming the second biggest-selling single of the year, and the biggest-selling single by a female group in the UK.[70]

"Wannabe" was commercially successful in the rest of Europe. On 14 September 1996 the song reached the top of Eurochart Hot 100,[71] where it stayed for nine consecutive weeks, before it was replaced by the group's second single, "Say You'll Be There".[72] "Wannabe" topped the singles charts in Belgium (both the Flemish and French charts), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland,[73][74][75][76][77][78] and peaked inside the top five in Austria and Italy.[79][80] The song was a success in Oceania. In Australia, it debuted at number forty-five, reached the top of the ARIA Charts for eleven weeks,[81] and ended at number five at the 1996 year-end chart.[82] In New Zealand, it debuted on 1 September 1996 at number thirty-eight, reaching the top position ten weeks later.[83] "Wannabe" also topped the singles charts in Hong Kong and Israel.[66]

"Wannabe" was released in North America in January 1997. In Canada, it debuted at the eighty-ninth position of the RPM singles chart,[84] peaked at nine in its eighth week,[85] and ended at number sixty-eight on the year-end chart.[86] The song performed better on the dance chart, where it reached the top for three weeks,[87] and ended at the top of the year-end chart.[88] In the U.S., the song debuted on 25 January 1997 at number eleven.[89] At the time, this was the highest-ever debut by a British act, beating the record previously held by The Beatles for "I Want to Hold Your Hand" at number twelve.[90] It reached the top of the chart in its fifth week, and stayed there for four consecutive weeks simultaneously with the group's fourth single ("Mama"/"Who Do You Think You Are") being at number one in the UK.[14] "Wannabe" reached the sixth position of the Hot 100 Airplay chart,[91] and topped the Hot 100 Singles Sales chart for four consecutive weeks,[92] selling over 1.8 million copies as of September 2000.[93] It peaked at four on the Mainstream Top 40; and was a crossover success, topping the Rhythmic Top 40, peaking at fifteen on the Hot Dance Club Play and at nine on the Hot Dance Singles Sales chart.[94]

Music video

The Spice Girls creating mischief at an eccentric bohemian party, at the Midland Grand Hotel in St Pancras.

The music video for "Wannabe" was the first for director Jhoan Camitz. Camitz was hired on Fuller's recommendation because of his commercials for Volkswagen, Diesel, and Nike. His original concept for the video was a one-take shoot of the group arriving at an exotic building in Barcelona, taking over the place and running a riot—the same way they did when they were looking for a manager and a record company.[18] A few days before the shoot on 19 April 1996,[95] Camitz was unable to get the permission to use the building, and the shoot was relocated to the Midland Grand Hotel in St Pancras, London.[96]

The video features the group running, singing, dancing and creating mischief at an eccentric bohemian party. Among their antics is Chisholm's back handspring on one of the tables. Because the video requiered to be taken in one shoot, the group rehearsed the routine several times through the night, while a guy strapped up to a steadycam ran around after them.[97] About the experience, Halliwell wrote: "The video I remember as being very chaotic and cold. It wasn't very controlled—we didn't want it to be. We wanted the camera to capture the madness of the Spice Girls".[28]

Virgin's executives were horrified with the final result, "the girls were freezing cold, which showed itself in various different ways", Ashley Newton recalled.[96] The video was later banned in some parts of Asia because of Brown's erect nipples.[97] Aditionally, the lighting was considered too dark and gloomy, the best takes showed the girls bumping with the furniture and looking behind them. Virgin was also worried that music channels would consider too threatening the fact that old people appeared on the video, the part when they jumped up on the table, and Halliwell's showgirl outfit. Immediately Virgin opened discussions about a re-shoot of the video or to make a different one for the U.S.,[98] but the group refused and the video was sent for trial airing in its original form.[96]

When the music video first appeared on the British cable network The Box, it was selected so frequently that it reached the top of the viewers' chart within two hours of going on air, staying at number one for thirteen weeks,[30] being aired up to seventy times a week at its peak and becoming the most requested track in the channel's history.[95] The video won Best Dance Video at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards,[99] and Best Video at the 1997 Comet Media Awards.[100] It was also nominated for Best British Video at the 1997 BRIT Awards,[101] and ranked at number forty-one in the Top 100 Pop Videos of all time by Channel 4.[102]

Live performances

The group performing "Wannabe" at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, during the Return of the Spice Girls tour.

The Spice Girls were in Japan when "Wannabe" went to number one in the UK. The group made their first appearance on Top of the Pops by satellite link from Tokyo, where they used a local temple as a backdrop for their mimed performance.[39] Subsequently they have performed the song several times on the show, including the programme's 1996 Christmas special.[103] It was performed many times on television, in both Europe and the U.S., including An Audience with..., the Bravo Supershow, Sorpresa ¡Sorpresa!, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Saturday Night Live.[104][105][106] The performance at Saturday Night Live on 12 April 1997 was the first time the group performed "Wannabe" with a live band—their previous performances have all been either lip-synched or sung to a recorded backing track.[41]

The group performed it in awards ceremonies such as the 1996 Smash Hits! Awards, the 1996 Irish Music Awards, the 1997 BRIT Awards, and the 1997 Channel V Music Awards held in New Delhi, where they wore Indian costumes and entered the stage in auto rickshaws.[107][108][109][110] In October 1997, the group performed "Wannabe" as the last song of their first live concert at the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. The performance was broadcast on Showtime in a pay-per-view event titled Spice Girls In Concert Wild!,[111] and was later included in the VHS and DVD release Girl Power! Live in Istanbul.[112]

The Spice Girls have performed the song on their three tours, the Spiceworld Tour, the Christmas In Spiceworld Tour, and the Return of the Spice Girls.[113][114][115][116] After Halliwell left the band at the end of the European leg of the Spiceworld Tour, her parts were replaced by Chisholm (refrain), Beckham (verses), and Bunton (bridge).[117] The performance at the tour's final concert can be found on the video: Spice Girls Live at Wembley Stadium, filmed in London, on 20 September 1998.[118]

Cover versions

"Wannabe" has been covered by numerous artists both in albums and live performances. In 1998, American retro-satirist duo, The Lounge-O-Leers did a kitschy, lounge-inspired rendition of "Wannabe" for their debut album, Experiment in Terror.[119] British intelligent dance music producer µ-Ziq recorded a cover for his fourth album, Lunatic Harness.[120] The London Double Bass Sound recorded an instrumental version in 1999,[121] a dance remix was recorded by Jan Stevens, Denise Nejame, and Sybersound for the 1997 album, Sybersound Dance Mixes, Vol. 2,[122] while an electronic version was recorded by the Street Girls for the 2005 album, The World of Hits of the 80's.[123] In 1999, the song was used in "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medley, "Polka Power!", for his tenth album, Running with Scissors.[124]

Covers of the song in a punk style includes, a trash parody version by British punk rock band Snuff for their 1998 EP, Schminkie Minkie Pinkie,[125] a punk rock version by Dutch band Heideroosjes for their 1999 album, Schizo,[126] and a pop punk cover by Zebrahead for their 2004 EP, Waste of MFZB.[127] Covers by other artists in live performances includes a punk version by Australian duo The Veronicas,[128] and another from American rock band Foo Fighters.[129] In 2005, "Wannabe" was covered and included in the soundtrack of Disney's animated film Chicken Little.[130]

Formats and track listing

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Wannabe":

  • UK CD1/Australian CD/Brazilian CD/Japanese CD
  1. "Wannabe" (Radio Edit) – 2:52
  2. "Bumper to Bumper" – 3:43
  3. "Wannabe" (Vocal Slam) – 6:20
  • UK CD2
  1. "Wannabe" (Radio Edit) – 2:52
  2. "Wannabe" (Dave Way Alternative Mix) – 3:27
  3. "Wannabe" (Dub Slam) – 6:25
  4. "Wannabe" (Instrumental) – 2:52
  • European CD/US CD
  1. "Wannabe" (Single Edit) – 2:52
  2. "Bumper to Bumper" – 3:43
  • European 12" Vinyl Single
  1. A1 "Wannabe" (Vocal Slam) – 6:20
  2. B1 "Wannabe" (Dub Slam) – 6:25
  3. B2 "Wannabe" (Instrumental Slam) – 6:20
  • US 12" Vinyl Single
  1. A1: "Wannabe" (Junior Vasquez 12" Club Mix) – 9:20
  2. A2: "Wannabe" (Vocal Slam) – 6:20
  3. B1: "Wannabe" (Junior Vasquez Club Dub) – 9:20
  4. B2: "Wannabe" (Dub Slam) – 6:25
  5. B3: "Wannabe" (Single Edit) – 2:52

Credits and personnel

Published by Windswept Pacific Music Ltd/PolyGram Music Publishing Ltd

Charts, peaks and certifications

Chart positions

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[81] 1
Austrian Singles Chart[79] 2
Belgian Ultratop 50 (Flanders)[73] 1
Belgian Ultratop 40 (Wallonia)[131] 1
Danish Singles Chart[74] 1
Dutch Top 40[77] 1
European Hot 100 Singles[71] 1
Finnish Singles Chart[132] 1
French Singles Chart[133] 1
German Singles Chart[75] 1
Irish Singles Chart[76] 1
Italian Singles Chart[80] 4
New Zealand Singles Chart[83] 1
Norwegian Singles Chart[134] 1
Spanish Singles Chart[78] 1
Swedish Singles Chart[135] 1
Swiss Singles Chart[136] 1
UK Singles Chart[137] 1
Chart (1997) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Singles Chart[85] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[138] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[139] 15
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Top 40[94] 4
U.S. Billboard Rhythmic Top 40[94] 1

Certifications

Country Provider Certification
France SNEP Diamond[140]
Germany IFPI Gold[141]
Netherlands NVPI Gold[142]
Norway IFPI Platinum[143]
Sweden GLF Gold[144]
Switzerland IFPI Gold[145]
United Kingdom BPI Platinum[146]
United States RIAA Platinum[147]
Preceded by
"Forever Love" by Gary Barlow		 UK Singles Chart number-one single
21 July 1996 – 7 September 1996		 Succeeded by
"Flava" by Peter Andre
Preceded by
"Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden		 Irish Singles Chart number-one single
3 August 1996 – 23 August 1996		 Succeeded by
"The Hurling Songs" by The Wild Swans
Preceded by
"Killing Me Softly" by Fugees		 Eurochart Hot 100 number-one single
14 September 1996 – 9 November 1996		 Succeeded by
"Say You'll Be There" by Spice Girls
Preceded by
"Macarena" by Los Del Rio		 Australian ARIA Singles Chart number-one single
28 October 1996 – 12 January 1997		 Succeeded by
"To the Moon and Back" by Savage Garden
Preceded by
"What's Love Got to Do with It" by Warren G		 New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart number-one single
8 November 1996		 Succeeded by
"What's Love Got to Do with It" by Warren G
Preceded by
"Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton		 Billboard Hot 100 number-one single
22 February 1997 – 15 March 1997		 Succeeded by
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" by Puff Daddy featuring Mase

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