Victoria Beckham’s 2001 solo track “Not Such An Innocent Girl” is experiencing a major resurgence, climbing to the top of the U.K.’s digital charts after renewed interest triggered by a viral dispute involving her 26-year-old son, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham.
The early‑2000s single, which originally peaked at number two 25 years ago, has made its way back into public conversation as Beckham’s mega fans rally around her, to send it to number one for the very first time.
The sudden attention follows Peltz Beckham’s Instagram admission that he felt embarrassed at his wedding after his mother allegedly “hijacked” his first dance and danced “inappropriately” with him in front of around 500 guests at the lavish Florida ceremony. His comments sparked widespread reaction on social media, where users began resurfacing Y2K era clips of Beckham’s solo career, jokingly imagining her performing at the high-end reception with the same level of sass and glam.
The track’s renewed visibility has brought “Not Such An Innocent Girl” back into the cultural mainstream.
Fans, mainly based in Britain, had launched an online campaign to, in their words, “fix the national tragedy” that Beckham never achieved a solo number one hit as other former Spice Girls did.
At the time of writing, the song is number one on both the U.K. iTunes chart and the Ireland iTunes chart, and it has accumulated more than 3.3 million streams on Spotify.
Released in 2001 as Beckham’s debut solo single, “Not Such An Innocent Girl” marked her departure from the Spice Girls’ pop sound and immersed her in a more R&B, early‑2000s style. Although the track narrowly missed the top spot on release, it has remained the most recognizable track from Beckham’s brief solo music career before she moved into the fashion industry.
In recent days, its distinctive, spunky Y2K pop production and archive live performances have been widely shared online.
Memes have circulated imagining Beckham dancing as she did over two decades ago on Top of the Pops, set against jokes about her appearance at her eldest son’s wedding.
Amused millennials who grew up amid Beckham and her soccer star husband’s rise to stardom have been sharing their excitement and disbelief at the speedy iTunes rise on platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
Beckham, who stepped away from music years ago, has not joined the Spice Girls at their recent reunions. Instead, she has focused on developing her namesake fashion label, Victoria Beckham, and her beauty brand, Victoria Beckham Beauty.
A Netflix docuseries about her career and fashion brand was released in October 2025.
For fans, the campaign aims to secure what they see as a long-overdue achievement for Beckham’s solo work and recognizable pop culture image as “Posh Spice,” and a snub at Peltz Beckham’s statement against her.
Newsweek reached out to Victoria Beckham for comment via email.