A campaign to send Victoria Beckham’s long-overlooked 2001 solo single to number one is gathering pace, just days after her bitter public fallout with son Brooklyn.
In an extraordinary social media push, fans have rallied behind Not Such An Innocent Girl following Brooklyn’s explosive six-page statement announcing he would not be reconciling with his parents. The track has surged to number one on the iTunes chart in Ireland and was sitting at number two in the UK on Thursday morning.
The momentum has been driven by a viral online campaign determined to “fix the national tragedy” that Victoria is “the only Spice Girl without a solo number one”.
“Nothing says British culture like collectively deciding to send Posh to the top of the charts because her son roasted her on Instagram,” read one widely shared post, circulated by comedians and influencers including Katherine Ryan and Luisa Zissman.
Another Instagram account urged followers to download the track, calling it “the plot twist of the year”, while jokingly branding the chart campaign a “national emergency”.
The song has also climbed the iTunes charts in Denmark and New Zealand, underlining the international interest in the family drama.
Victoria was the last Spice Girl to launch a solo career and despite major promotion in the early 2000s, Not Such An Innocent Girl was famously held off the top spot by Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head. An earlier collaboration with True Steppers and Dane Bowers also lost a heavily publicised chart battle, despite posting the biggest first-week sales of any solo Spice Girl release at the time.
The renewed attention comes amid intense scrutiny of the Beckham family, after Brooklyn accused his parents of controlling behaviour and claimed his mother “hijacked” his first dance at his 2022 wedding to Nicola Peltz. He said the moment left him “uncomfortable and humiliated”.
Brooklyn announced earlier this week that he had cut ties with his parents and did not wish to reconcile, adding that he was “standing up for myself for the first time in my life”.
Victoria has not publicly addressed the statement. Instead, she has continued to support her youngest son Cruz, whose upcoming London show sold out within hours. Sharing the news, she simply wrote: “Wow.”
Meanwhile, Sir David Beckham declined to comment on the feud when questioned at the World Economic Forum in Davos, later speaking about the power and pitfalls of social media and how children are “allowed to make mistakes”.
