In the '90s, the Spice Girls ruled the world, and that's not just a figure of speech. They were probably the biggest female UK act to reach such a level of fame and success all over the world, the ones responsible for bringing back the long-forgotten saying of 'girl power'.

When living in the spotlight began to take its toll on their personal lives, the five girls called it quits, but their endeavors to launch solo careers did not cease even as we speak. Out of them all, Geri Halliwell, Mel C and Emma Bunton were the ones who could still make a splash each time they released a single or an album.

But maybe all this 'we'll get back together soon' that the former Spice Girls put the world through was the last straw that broke the camel's back. Permanently promising a band reunion, the girls tried to thrive on that and to profit from the times when they were international stars. It worked for a while but, at one point, people realized that the Spice Girls are no more and that they have to settle for that which was left behind after the split.

I imagine this is the only way one could explain the huge success both Emma and Geri had with their first albums. With 'Free Me', Miss Bunton scored three top 10 hits and the album went gold soon after the release and, yet, her 'Life In Mono' just became this weekend the top of all flops.

Despite a massive promotional campaign, that cost the record company millions in ads and interviews, and although Emma is a contestant in 'Strictly Come Dancing' (the British version of 'Dancing With the Stars'), her album flopped to number 66, with merely 12,000 copies sold.

'It's a very poor performance for Emma's record. She was popular on "Strictly Come Dancing" because people like her but they don't want to buy her record. Her management spent a fortune on ads and she did interviews to promote the album - but it flopped.', a source told Britain's 'The Sun'. Well, maybe that's how things should be, who knows?