Victoria Beckham tops UK sales charts as fans buy MP3s amid Brooklyn revelations

Victoria Beckham has the UK’s highest-selling single of the week with Not Such an Innocent Girl, originally released in 2001, after fans showed support by buying MP3s following her son Brooklyn’s revelations about a rift with his parents, including his account of his mother dancing "on" him at his 2022 wedding to Nicola Peltz.

The song reached No 1 on the Official Singles Sales chart and the Official Download chart, but did not enter the primary Official Top 100, which combines streams and sales. Exact numbers for Beckham’s song were not made available, although the Official Charts Company said sales and streams of the track had risen 19,615% since last week; at No 100 on the combined chart was Myles Smith’s 2024 single Stargazing with 5,258 combined units.

The sales and download placings give Beckham her first No 1 chart positions since the Spice Girls’ Holler/Let Love Lead the Way in 2000. The five-piece had nine UK No 1 singles, the highest of any girl group, but Beckham never achieved a solo No 1: her earlier non-Spice Girls release Out of Your Mind was beaten by Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love).

Not Such an Innocent Girl was originally hyped as part of a chart battle with Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head, both released a week after 9/11; Minogue’s song hit No 1 with first-week sales of 306,000 while Beckham’s single reached No 6 with about 35,000 sales.

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