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Victoria Beckham could land her first ever solo number one amid her bitter fallout with son Brooklyn.
Days after her eldest son posted his scathing six page statement announcing he would not be reconciling with his parents, Victoria could get the last laugh as an extraordinary social media campaign has given one of her solo songs a huge chart boost.
Victoria’s 2001 single Not Such An Innocent Girl has shot to number one on the iTunes chart in Ireland and on Thursday morning sat in the number two slot in the UK.
The chart positions have been driven by a social media campaign which is determined to ‘fix the national tragedy’ that ‘Victoria is the only Spice Girl without a solo #1.’
‘Nothing says “British Culture” like collectively deciding to send Posh to the top of the charts because her son roasted her on Insta. Imagine both their faces,’ reads a viral post on Instagram which has been shared by the likes of Katherine Ryan and Luisa Zissman.
The Instagram account Our_dream_house writes: ‘I’ve seen more VB music promo in the last 24 hours than in the last 20 years and I am obsessed. Let’s get her that #1 for the plot twist of the year.
‘Download “Not Such An Innocent Girl”. We are unhinged. Stream Posh. It’s a national emergency.’
Victoria was the last of the Spice Girls to go solo but despite huge promo blitzes in the early noughties she failed to match the solo success of her bandmates.
Not Such An Innocent Girl served as her official debut solo single but despite an unprecedented media campaign, she was beaten to the top spot by Kylie Minogue’s monster hit Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
Months earlier Victoria’s team-up with producer duo True Steppers and former boyband alumni Dane Bowers also lost out in a massive chart clash.
That track in fact scored the biggest first week sales for a solo Spice Girl single with over 180,584 copies sold in just a few days but lost the top spot to Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love), following a much-publicised chart battle.
Victoria, who soon pivoted to fashion design after her music flopped, has previously revealed producers used to turned off her microphone while she was on stage with the Spice Girls.
The mum of four is said to have been left ‘devastated’ after taking the brunt in the vicious family fallout with son Brooklyn and Nicola.
Despite proudly declaring he was a once a ‘mama’s boy’, Brooklyn focused mainly on Lady Beckham in his lengthy statement, with his vitriolic comments leaving her ‘on the floor in pieces’.
Brooklyn announced on Monday that he has cut all ties with his parents and does ‘not want to reconcile with my family’, adding, ‘I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.’
Brooklyn and Nicola have been at the heart of the acrimonious divide that has resulted in them snubbing all significant family celebrations over recent months, including his father Sir David’s milestone 50th birthday and knighthood.
Victoria has yet to comment on Brooklyn’s statement, instead choosing to post a happy birthday message to her Spice Girls bandmate Emma Bunton and plug youngest son Cruz’s own blossoming music career.
Cruz sold out his upcoming live show on March 27 at The Courtyard Theatre just hours after tickets went on sale.
Following the news, he told his fans on social media: ‘UK… Absolutely no words, thank you a million. Looks like I’ll have to be adding more shows?!?’
Notably, Cruz added the Spice Girls track Who Do You Think You Are? to his story.
His proud mum Victoria shared his sell out announcement as she simply said ‘wow’.
Whilst Victoria has not been spotted since Brooklyn’s statement, Sir David was heckled yesterday as he faced the media at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
When asked about the feud, he declined to answer any direct questions but he later spoke, somewhat ironically, on the perils and virtues of children using social media.
In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, he said that he has tried to ‘educate’ his own children about the dangers of social media apps while also showing them how they can work for ‘good’.
‘I’ve always spoken about social media and the power of social media for the good and for the bad,’ he said on stage.
The former Manchester United star said he’d been able to use his ‘platform’ and his position as a Unicef ambassador to ‘make people aware of what’s going on around the world for children’.
He added: ‘I’ve tried to do the same with my children, to educate them.
‘They make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes. That’s how they learn.’
Meanwhile fans have begged Victoria for a Spice Girls reunion tour announcement to distract from Brooklyn’s astonishing attack.
Flooding social media with comments, they speculated how Posh Spice reuniting with her former bandmates would be the perfect way to distract from the noise of her nuclear fallout with Brooklyn.
One posted on X, formerly Twitter: ‘I think it’s time to reunite with the Spice Girls. That might be the only way Victoria Beckham can come out of this.’
More fans of the 90s girl group also shared the same sentiment: ‘Oh Victoria Beckham is definitely going to need to set up THE SPICE GIRLS reunion and go on tour to rehabilitate her image now. Watch her bring back Posh Spice & the girls’;
‘Perfect time for queen Victoria to put that pr to good use and do the spice girls reunion tour’;
‘Victoria Beckhams PR team can only do one thing to make people stop talking about this Brooklyn mess. And that’s announce a Wembley run of Spice Girls shows with all five girls. Sharpish’;
‘Theres only one way the Beckham brand can bury these Brooklyn revelations. They are in need of some great PR. It’s time for Victoria to announce that she’s agreeing to a Spice Girls reunion in time for the 30th anniversary’;
‘We need that Spice Girls announcement.. right about now’; ‘Brooklyn Beckham might have just gotten us the full Spice Girls reunion’.
The Spice Girls last performed together during the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, and without fashion designer Victoria in 2019 because she wanted to focus on her family and her business.
