The Spice Girls, an English girl group, have released three studio albums, one compilation album, 11 singles and 18 music videos. Formed in 1994, the group was made up of singers Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"), Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"), Melanie Brown ("Scary Spice"), Melanie Chisholm ("Sporty Spice") and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice"). The Spice Girls' debut single, "Wannabe", was released by Virgin Records in the United Kingdom in July 1996. It went to number one in 37 countries worldwide and became the biggest-selling debut single of all time. In the UK it stayed at the top of the UK Singles Chart for seven weeks and went on to sell over six million copies worldwide. It subsequently topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States for four weeks in February 1997. Follow-up singles "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1" also went to number one in the UK, and reached the top five across most of Europe and the US. "2 Become 1" was unofficially declared the band's "Christmas #1" in December 1996. The group's debut album, Spice, was released in the UK in November 1996 and became another global success, selling two million copies in its first week, and 10 million copies in the next seven months. Spice has sold 23 million copies worldwide and was certified ten times platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the UK. The fourth Spice Girls single, the double A-side "Mama"/"Who Do You Think You Are", also went to number one in the UK. In November 1997 the group released their second album, Spiceworld, which has been certified five times platinum by the BPI. The album produced three number-one singles in the UK, "Spice Up Your Life", "Too Much" and "Viva Forever", with "Stop!" peaking at number two, ending the group's run of consecutive number-one singles in the UK. "Too Much" was noted as the Spice Girls' second Christmas #1 in the UK. In May 1998, Geri Halliwell left the group to pursue a solo career. She also cited personal differences between the band and herself. Geri expressed an interest in attending a breast cancer event, due to her own experience with a benign tumor removal years earlier; allegedly this was not possible with their European tour schedule, and ultimately she chose to leave. Now a four-piece, the Spice Girls released their third album, Forever, in November 2000; it peaked at