{"id":573520,"date":"2026-05-08T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:15:11","slug":"melanie-c-breaks-all-time-solo-spice-girls-record-with-sweat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573520\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie C breaks all-time solo Spice Girls record with Sweat"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s\u00a0more, following an extensive instore tour up and down the country,\u00a0Sweat\u00a0tops the\u00a0Official Record Store Chart<\/a>, this week’s best-seller in independent UK record shops.<\/p>\n

\"Melanie
\n MORE: Where every Melanie C song and album has charted in the UK<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking exclusively to\u00a0Official Charts,\u00a0Melanie C\u00a0says:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m\u00a0honestly blown away by all the love for Sweat. To achieve my highest-charting solo album ever and make Spice Girls history at the same time is incredibly special.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everyone who has supported this record – none of this happens without the fans who have been with me every step of the way. Thank you for streaming, buying,\u00a0listening\u00a0and believing in this album. This really means so much to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Official<\/p>\n

Sweat is Mel’s fourth Top 10 album overall, joining Northern Star, 2003’s Reason<\/a> (5) and 2020 LP Melanie C<\/a> (8).<\/p>\n

Congrats, Sporty!<\/p>\n

See the full Official Albums Chart Top 100 here from 5.45pm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What\u2019s\u00a0more, following an extensive instore tour up and down the country,\u00a0Sweat\u00a0tops the\u00a0Official Record Store Chart, this week’s best-seller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,168694,128,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-melanie-c","tag-music","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}