A campaign to get Victoria Beckham’s 2001 solo single to number one is gathering pace amid her bitter fallout with son Brooklyn.
Days after her eldest son posted his scathing six-page statement announcing he would not be reconciling with his parents, Victoria could get the last laugh as an extraordinary social media campaign has given one of her solo songs a huge chart boost.
Victoria’s 2001 single Not Such An Innocent Girl has shot to number one on the iTunes chart in Ireland and on Thursday morning sat in the number two slot in the UK.
The chart positions have been driven by a social media campaign which is determined to ‘fix the national tragedy’ that ‘Victoria is the only Spice Girl without a solo #1.’
‘Nothing says “British Culture” like collectively deciding to send Posh to the top of the charts because her son roasted her on Insta. Imagine both their faces,’ reads a viral post on Instagram which has been shared by the likes of Katherine Ryan and Luisa Zissman.
The Instagram account Our_dream_house writes: ‘I’ve seen more VB music promo in the last 24 hours than in the last 20 years and I am obsessed. Let’s get her that #1 for the plot twist of the year.
A campaign to get Victoria Beckham’s 2001 solo single to number one is gathering pace amid her bitter fallout with son Brooklyn
Days after her eldest son posted his scathing six-page statement announcing he would not be reconciling with his parents, Victoria could get the last laugh (Victoria pictured in 2001)
‘Download “Not Such An Innocent Girl”. We are unhinged. Stream Posh. It’s a national emergency.’
The track is also gaining traction in Denmark where it has reached position 48 on iTunes as well as 49 in New Zealand.
It comes after 65 per cent of Daily Mail readers said they would back ‘Team Beckham’ over ‘Team Brooklyn’ in Tuesday’s Poll of the Day which attracted 26,000 votes.
Victoria was the last of the Spice Girls to go solo but despite huge promo blitzes in the early noughties she failed to match the solo success of her bandmates.
Not Such An Innocent Girl served as her official debut solo single but despite an unprecedented media campaign, she was beaten to the top spot by Kylie Minogue’s monster hit Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.
Months earlier Victoria’s team-up with producer duo True Steppers and former boyband alumni Dane Bowers also lost out in a massive chart clash.
That track in fact scored the biggest first week sales for a solo Spice Girl single with over 180,584 copies sold in just a few days but lost the top spot to Spiller and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love), following a much-publicised chart battle.
Victoria, who soon pivoted to fashion design after her music flopped, has previously revealed producers used to turned off her microphone while she was on stage with the Spice Girls.
The mum of four is said to have been left ‘devastated’ after taking the brunt in the vicious family fallout with son Brooklyn and Nicola.
Despite proudly declaring he was a once a ‘mama’s boy’, Brooklyn focused mainly on Lady Beckham in his lengthy statement, with his vitriolic comments leaving her ‘on the floor in pieces’.
Victoria’s 2001 single Not Such An Innocent Girl has shot to number one on the iTunes chart in Ireland and on Thursday morning sat in the number two slot in the UK
The chart positions have been helped by a social media campaign which is determined to ‘fix the national tragedy’ that ‘Victoria is the only Spice Girl without a solo #1.’
Days after her eldest son posted his scathing statement, Victoria could get the last laugh (Nicola, Victoria and Brooklyn pictured in February 2024)
Victoria pictured performing at the BBC Radio 1’s One Big Sunday festival in 2001
Victoria’s 2001 single Not Such An Innocent Girl has shot to number one on the iTunes chart in Ireland and on Thursday morning sat in the number two slot in the UK
Amongst Brooklyn’s long list of claims was the accusation that his mum ‘hijacked’ his first dance at his 2022 wedding and ‘danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone’.
On Wednesday Brooklyn’s wedding DJ Fat Tony waded into the claims, sharing a video of Lucy Punch’s character Amanda in BBC sitcom Motherland dancing wildly to the Lil’ Kleine and Ronnie Flex track Drank & Drugs in front of her school mum friends.
The clip was captioned ‘POV: Victoria Beckham during Brooklyn’s first dance’ and Fat Tony added the words: ‘Actual video footage it’s true I was there !’
Tony’s partner Stavros Agapiou has also backed up Brooklyn’s ‘inappropriate’ dancing comment.
‘I was there and she did, he’s telling the truth,’ he said in an Instagram comment, which has since been deleted – with Stavros instead posting: ‘Good on him for finally speaking out!’
Brooklyn claimed that he had ‘never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life,’ after Victoria’s dancing.
He announced on Monday that he has cut all ties with his parents and does ‘not want to reconcile with my family’, adding, ‘I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.’
Brooklyn and Nicola have been at the heart of the acrimonious divide that has resulted in them snubbing all significant family celebrations over recent months, including his father Sir David’s milestone 50th birthday and knighthood.
Victoria has yet to comment on Brooklyn’s statement, instead choosing to post a happy birthday message to her Spice Girls bandmate Emma Bunton and plug youngest son Cruz’s own blossoming music career.
Cruz sold out his upcoming live show on March 27 at The Courtyard Theatre just hours after tickets went on sale.
Following the news, he told his fans on social media: ‘UK… Absolutely no words, thank you a million. Looks like I’ll have to be adding more shows?!?’
Notably, Cruz added the Spice Girls track Who Do You Think You Are? to his story.
His proud mum Victoria shared his sell out announcement as she simply said ‘wow’.
Whilst Victoria has not been spotted since Brooklyn’s statement, Sir David was heckled yesterday as he faced the media at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
When asked about the feud, he declined to answer any direct questions but he later spoke, somewhat ironically, on the perils and virtues of children using social media.
In an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box, he said that he has tried to ‘educate’ his own children about the dangers of social media apps while also showing them how they can work for ‘good’.
Not Such An Innocent Girl served as her official debut solo single but despite an unprecedented media campaign, she was beaten to the top spot by Kylie Minogue
‘I’ve always spoken about social media and the power of social media for the good and for the bad,’ he said on stage.
The former Manchester United star said he’d been able to use his ‘platform’ and his position as a Unicef ambassador to ‘make people aware of what’s going on around the world for children’.
He added: ‘I’ve tried to do the same with my children, to educate them.
‘They make mistakes. Children are allowed to make mistakes. That’s how they learn.’
Meanwhile fans have begged Victoria for a Spice Girls reunion tour announcement to distract from Brooklyn’s astonishing attack.
Flooding social media with comments, they speculated how Posh Spice reuniting with her former bandmates would be the perfect way to distract from the noise of her nuclear fallout with Brooklyn.
Victoria, who soon pivoted to fashion design after her music flopped, has previously revealed producers used to turned off her microphone while she was on stage with the Spice Girls
One posted on X, formerly Twitter: ‘I think it’s time to reunite with the Spice Girls. That might be the only way Victoria Beckham can come out of this.’
More fans of the 90s girl group also shared the same sentiment: ‘Oh Victoria Beckham is definitely going to need to set up THE SPICE GIRLS reunion and go on tour to rehabilitate her image now. Watch her bring back Posh Spice & the girls’;
‘Perfect time for queen Victoria to put that pr to good use and do the spice girls reunion tour’;
‘Victoria Beckhams PR team can only do one thing to make people stop talking about this Brooklyn mess. And that’s announce a Wembley run of Spice Girls shows with all five girls. Sharpish’;
‘Theres only one way the Beckham brand can bury these Brooklyn revelations. They are in need of some great PR. It’s time for Victoria to announce that she’s agreeing to a Spice Girls reunion in time for the 30th anniversary’;
‘We need that Spice Girls announcement.. right about now’; ‘Brooklyn Beckham might have just gotten us the full Spice Girls reunion’.
The Spice Girls last performed together during the London 2012 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony, and without fashion designer Victoria in 2019 because she wanted to focus on her family and her business.
Nicola Peltz’s ex-boyfriend’s sister Alana Hadid has weighed in on the explosive argument engulfing her husband Brooklyn Beckham and his family (Alana pictured in 2022)
Elsewhere on Thursday Nicola’s ex-boyfriend’s sister Alana Hadid weighed in on the explosive argument.
Alana, 40, is sister to models Gigi and Bella, their eldest sister Marielle and Anwar, 26 – who Nicola dated from 2016 to 2018, just one year before she met Brooklyn – and has insisted that the actress has ‘wanted to be famous for years’.
Despite Brooklyn’s statement calling for privacy, Alana replied to photographer Eli Rezkallah’s comment reading: ‘Ending an eight paragraph rant about his family’s dirty laundry with “all we want is privacy” is all I need to know’.
Alana, whose entire family are said to have had issues with Nicola both during and after the romance, echoed comments made by many, replying to Eli: ‘Right and that girl doesn’t want privacy she’s been trying to be famous for a decade’.
Alana’s comment about Nicola comes after Nicola ’caused tensions’ in the Hadid household after Anwar stopped talking to his family while he was dating the star.
The couple dated when she was 22 and he was 17, and while there were no official reports, there were rumours at the time that Anwar grew distant from his family.
A tweet claimed: ‘Brooklyn Beckham’s wife previously dated Anwar Hadid, and he also stopped talking to his parents. Yolanda [Anwar’s mum] said, “Not on my watch.”‘
Nicola dated Anwar (pictured left in 2017) from 2016 to 2018, just one year before she met Brooklyn, who she went on to marry in 2022 (pictured right in 2025)
Alana echoed comments made by many, replying to Eli, writing: ‘Right and that girl doesn’t want privacy she’s been trying to be famous for a decade’
Nicola is said to have caused ructions among the Hadids during her relationship with Anwar (the couple pictured in 2017)
Much like with comments about Victoria, in 2017 Nicola played happy families, saying: ‘He comes from an amazing family. Gigi and Bella are so, so sweet. I just love his family so much. They’re feminine, strong girls. To have that around is amazing.’
Yolanda is also said to have reached out to David and Victoria amid the feud, causing fans to raise eyebrows and come up with their own theories after she suffered her own ‘strained’ relationship with Nicola during her romance with Anwar.
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