Viva Forever Viva Forever "Viva Forever" is a song recorded by English girl group the Spice Girls for their second album, "Spiceworld" (1997). It was written by the group with Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard, whilst produced by the latter two. The song was released on 20 July 1998 in the United Kingdom and received critical acclaim. The song also charted fairly well becoming the band's seventh UK number one single gaining a Platinum certification whilst also topping the charts in New Zealand. The single was a commercial success despite poor promotion. An accompanying music video directed by Steve Box was released
British Hit Singles & Albums to those of the other charts: around 30 shops in 1963 in comparison to more than 100 used by "Melody Maker", and later around 80 in comparison to "NME"s 150 and "Melody Maker"s 200. As a result, the placings in that chart were more open to error and manipulation – a situation further worsened by the larger number of records listed in the chart. The first edition was published as "The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles" in November 1977. It wasn't the first Guinness music reference publication, as the previous year a book called "The Guinness Book of Music