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Bunton bombs in the US
Mike_Diver by Mike Diver February 8th, 2005
Forgive us this one last giggle before home time...

Emma Bunton's efforts to crack the US market (remember, The Spice Girls were a big success there) appear to have been in vain, as her album Free Me has failed to breach even the bottom-most depths of the Billboard Top 200.

Bunton managed to shift a fantastically poor 5,380 copies of the album across the whole of America.

Sources, quoted in UK red tops, have suggested that she'll struggle on: "It often takes a long time to gain recognition in the States and Emma's determined to see it through. But there's no denying she faces an uphill battle."

Ah, what the heck: good luck, Bunton.



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