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"2 Become 1" - Spice Girls 

from the album Spice (1996 UK/1997 US)

Billboard Hot 100 peak:#4 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 18

Today's song of the day comes from the Spice Girls, whose debut album Spice had already broke through big in America with a #1 hit in "Wannabe" and a top-3 follow-up with "Say You'll Be There" in the spring of 1997. The third release from the record would be the soft love ballad "2 Become 1". Written by the group with producers Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, the change of pace to the bedroom didn't turn off the mainly younger section of fans, and its lush production and subtle vocal interplay between Sporty, Posh, Ginger, Scary, and Baby Spice was a perfect fit for mainstream radio. It had topped the European charts the year before, and got pretty darn close here in the States...

"2 Become 1" became the third top-five pop hit for the Spice Girls in September of 1997. The laid-back song was a big success on "easy listening" radio, going to #8 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary chart and #27 on the Adult Top-40 format list. Internationally, besides topping the British chart, the single went to #1 in Ireland and Spain, and reached the top ten in Australia (#2), the Netherlands (#2), Canada (#3), Norway (#3), New Zealand (#3), France (#4), Belgium (#5W/#11F), Sweden (#7), Denmark (#7), the Czech Republic (#7), Italy (#9), Austria (#9), Finland (#9), Hungary (#9), and Switzerland (#10). 

In Europe, the "two for one" single of "Mama" and "Who Do You Think You Are" was released, and became their fourth consecutive #1 in the UK, as well as topping the Austrian and Irish charts, and made the top ten in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and New Zealand. But since Virgin Records wanted to time the release of the Girls' next album and single "Spice Up Your Life", they passed on it in America, sadly, because "Who Do You..." was the jam. 

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Here's the group performing the song live in concert in 1997...

and again from Wembley Stadium in London a year later (without Ginger)...

and lastly, reunited on Strictly Come Dancing in 2007...

Up tomorrow: "Urban" singer is asking for approval.