{"id":4037,"date":"2019-06-16T16:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:52:45","slug":"spice-girls-2019-tour-sells-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/2019\/06\/16\/spice-girls-2019-tour-sells-out\/","title":{"rendered":"SPICE GIRLS 2019 Tour Sells Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON 16 June 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was confirmed today that the Spice Girls\u2019 13 date UK and Ireland tour 2019 is the highest grossing tour of the year to date in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which sold 700k tickets, was promoted by Simon Fuller at XIX Entertainment with Harry Magee and Richard Griffiths at Modest Management. The tour played Dublin, Cardiff, Manchester, Coventry, Sunderland, Edinburgh and Bristol before ending with three sold out nights at London\u2019s Wembley Stadium marking the group\u2019s first performance since the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Spice Girls show is Wembley Stadium\u2019s highest grossing engagement of 2019 and fourth-highest grossing engagement in the venue\u2019s history. Ticketmaster U.K. confirmed that sales broke records when the tour was announced, with \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of places snapped up in minutes.\u00a0The Spice Girls first debuted on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0charts when \u201cWannabe\u201d arrived at No. 60 on the Radio Songs chart on Jan. 4, 1997 before peaking at No. 6 and spending four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. They went on to dominate pop culture in the late 90\u2019s and became the most successful girl group of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON 16 June 2019 &nbsp; It was confirmed today that the Spice Girls\u2019 13 date UK and Ireland tour 2019 is the highest grossing tour of the year to date in the UK. &nbsp; The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[37,72],"class_list":["post-4037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xix","tag-spice-girls","tag-spice-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4037\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xixentertainment.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}