"What pop group's first hit was ""Wannabe""?"
Wannabe the legacy of the Spice Girls’ girl power is being used to encourage and empower a whole new generation?" In 2014, a study at the University of Amsterdam with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, found that "Wannabe" is the most recognisable and catchiest pop song of the last 60 years. The study found that "Wannabe"’s simple and relentless melody was the key to its success, with lead musicologist Dr John Ashley Burgoyne concluding, "I would describe the song as truly relentlessly catchy. It's not that it has this one hook per se. It's quite ingeniously composed." Cover
Wannabe to young girls," but added that it "remains the same two minutes and 53 seconds of pop perfection that it ever was." In a review of their "Greatest Hits" album, IGN said that after ten years it "still sound reasonably fresh", while Digital Spy's Nick Levine said that "Wannabe" still remained an "exuberant calling card". "Billboard" named the song #5 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time. As part of Virgin's strategy to make the group an international act, "Wannabe" was released in Japan and Southeast Asia two weeks before its British release. After the