Spice Girl Trade Agenda

Posted by Daniel Workman Dec 9, 2007

Fast sell-outs for 13 of 15 shows in London and Manchester, England pushed promoters to expand their Spice celebrity offerings to 45 shows in 9 countries.

The kick-off Spice reunion concert was performed to a standing-room-only crowd in Vancouver (population 1.8 million), a key west-coast shipping port. Also sold out are 2 spectacles in another major Canadian trade hub: Toronto (4.4 million) on February 3 and 4.

Seven of the 16 Spice extravaganzas in U.S. cities are before Christmas, which should maximize sales for Spice Girl merchandise. Fans can buy a wide range of goods, ranging from Spice baseball caps, books, DVD videos games, hankerchief sets, iTunes downloads, make-up sets, plates, purses, removable tatoos, ring tones and shoulder bags. T-shirts continue to be the most popular Spice Girls product sold online and at the concerts.

Starting on December 8, three Spice Girl concerts are at the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada - a major international tourist destination. Both Canadian and American gaming enthusiasts can buy tickets online from Ticketmaster, with prices ranging from US$75.50 to $133.25.

Other Spice Girl concerts will take place in some of the most heavily populated American cities.

• January 30, 2008 … Boston (population 564,483)
• February 15 & 16, 2008 … Chicago (2,818,628)
• February 10, 11 & 13, 2008 … New Jersey (8,724,560)
• December 5 & 7, 2008 … Los Angeles (3,945,097)

International venues include gigs in Argentina (Buenes Aires) and Australia (Sidney), 3 shows in China (Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai), as well as concerts in Germany (Cologne), South Africa (Cape Town) and Spain (Madrid).

The musical invasion of global trade superpower China marks the girl band’s first performance in the People’s Republic, just in time for the upcoming 2008 Olympics in Beijing.