Geri Halliwell countries, becoming the best-selling single by an all-female group of all time. It was followed by nine further number-one singles from their albums "Spice", "Spiceworld", and "Forever". Each member of the group received a nickname from the media. Halliwell was named "Ginger Spice". Other successful releases followed, including "Say You'll Be There" and "2 Become 1" from "Spice", and "Spice Up Your Life", "Too Much", and "Viva Forever" from "Spiceworld". On 31 May 1998, Halliwell announced that she had left the Spice Girls due to depression and differences between the group. The first official confirmation was an announcement to the
Viva Forever by David Sinclair, it was confirmed by the co-writers/producers of the song Matthew Rowe & Richard Stannard that Geri Halliwell was the main songwriter of "Viva Forever". In late March, the single was first reported as "Never Give Up on the Good Times"/"Viva Forever". "Smash Hits"<nowiki>'</nowiki> famous "Bandwatch" section provided a close watch on the status of the single, and the first piece of news it gave was that one of the songs was to have a cartoon-based video. Originally, the single was going to be released on 11 May 1998. Soon after, it was pushed back, in this first