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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Laura Snapes

Victoria Beckham tops UK singles sales chart as fans show support over Brooklyn feud

Victoria Beckham on stage in a leather top and brown headscarf
‘First impressions can be wrong’ … Victoria Beckham performing in 2001. Although the song has topped two fringe charts, it failed to crack the primary Top 100. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA

There is a light at the end of the Beckhams’ hebdomadis horribilis: Victoria Beckham has the UK’s highest-selling single of the week with Not Such an Innocent Girl, originally released in 2001.

After her eldest son Brooklyn’s bombshell revelations about the rift with his parents, including his horrified account of his mother dancing “on” him at his wedding to Nicola Peltz in 2022, fans taking mater and pater Beckham’s side in the celeb gossip of the year showed their support by buying MP3s of Beckham’s debut solo single. (Her first effort without the Spice Girls, 2000’s Out of Your Mind, was a collaboration with Dane Bowers of Another Level.)

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