Viva Forever the tour, the girls sang the radio edit of the song instead of the album version. Melanie Chisholm also sang "Spice Girls forever" rather than the original lyrics "viva forever" near the end of the song. "Viva Forever" was the group's last performance on television as a quintet, on "Top of the Pops", which was recorded on 21 May 1998, and broadcast on 5 June 1998. The show's producer, Chris Cowey, said that they originally intended to broadcast the performance in July but they pushed it given Halliwell's departure from the group. It was also the first song they performed
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