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
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