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Spice Girls given the 'cold shoulder'
EXCLUSIVE: FROSTY FANS BUY JUST 4,000 OF NEW CD AND RADIO 1 PUTS IT ON 'C LIST'
10/11/2007
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The Spice Girls' big comeback single is already making Headlines - for all the wrong reasons...

Meant to whip up frenzy ahead of their world tour, download sales of Headlines (Friendship Never Ends), have been hugely disappointing.

To make thing worse, the track - which is in the shops on Monday - is hardly getting ANY airplay.

Humiliatingly, it has been relegated to the C-list on Radio 1, which means it gets barely one play a day.

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George Ergatoudis, the station's Head Of Music, explains: "The opinion of the Radio 1 playlist team is that the song isn't strong enough.

"Clearly there's a huge number of Spice Girls fans out there - look at the tickets they have sold. But Headlines is very disappointing. "The song simply isn't strong enough.. it would have been a B-side in their heyday."

Figures released at the beginning of the week showed that Headlines barely shifted 300 copies when it was first available last weekend. It limped into the charts at No.124.

Since then it has struggled to a lowly 20 after selling 4,907 copies, and sources in the Spice Girls camp are privately fuming at how badly it's doing. One tells us: "They wanted it to be a surefire No.1 on downloads alone but it has failed to connect with the public." We're not surprised. The Spice Girls made their name with catchy pop and dreamy ballads - but Headlines is one of the weakest things they've ever done.

And we're not alone in thinking it. DJ Chris Moyles slagged it off on his Radio 1 Breakfast Show yesterday, while a spokeswoman for London's Capital Radio told us: "The Spice Girls aren't playlisted here." Ouch!

The Girls' 19 Management are also dismayed with Headlines' poor impact on the download market. One source admits: "Everyone's putting on a brave face. But the focus is very much on the tour - they can always fall back on the success of that instead."

Let's hope so...