Spice Girls by the numbers

16,000: Tickets sold for Saturday's Molson Amphitheatre Spice Girls show, with 7,000 in reserved seats and 9,000 jammed into the lawn-frenzy section.

0: Tickets left for Saturday's show. If you don't have any already, stop calling us, stop dreaming and mortgage your life to a scalper.

200: Fans who will get into the MuchMusic live show on Sunday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. They were chosen yesterday.

20: People who will get a clear view into the MuchMusic studio at CITY-TV if they mush their faces up to the glass. Otherwise, expect pandemonium on Queen St. Best advice: Stay home and turn on the tube.

$3 million (U.S.): Latest British tabloid bid for the exclusive rights to photograph and cover next year's lavish wedding of Posh Spice to disgraced English footballer David Beckham. "It will be huge, the full works," Posh warbled recently.

287: Total Toronto Sun stories mentioning the Spice Girls since they first recorded a blip on our pop music radar screens Jan. 23, 1997. Jeez, seems like forever, not just 18 months.

33: Sun stories in which Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman has poured out his passionate soul over the Spice Girls, including yesterday's dis. Hell, Mel, don't you have a city to run?

16 million: Sales of the group's debut album, Spice.

19: Countries in which Spice went platinum.

31: Countries where the single Wannabe soared to number one on the pop charts.

12 million: Sales of the followup album, SpiceWorld.

$75 million: World box office for Spice World, the movie. It cost only $10 million to produce. The movie was brainstormed by Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller and his screenwriting brother Kim Fuller. The Spice Girls fired Simon Fuller last November in a power struggle that swirled around rumors he was secretly dating Baby Spice.

2: Management teams the Spice Girls have fired since they were formed. The original creators of the group, Chris and Bob Herbert, were dumped in favor of Fuller's company.

40: Locations used for shooting Spice World, including London's Tower Bridge and the Royal Albert Hall.

7: Spice Girls entries in the Guinness Book Of Records.

6: Members of the Girls' personal entourage for the current tour, minuscule by the pop world. According to The Sunday Times of London, there are only three security guards, one personal assistant, one hairdresser and one stylist.

400: Original applicants for Spice jobs when the group was formed, a la The Monkees, after ads were placed in a trade magazine, The Stage, in Britain in 1993.

2: Months since Ginger Spice, the one who pinched Prince Charles' butt and called it "wobbly," walked out on the group in a huff during a European tour, generating panic and earning the rest of the group a new nickname, the Spite Girls.

20,000: Tons of dry ginger traded annually around the world in a good year. Originating in Asia, it was used as medicine, then for its alleged aphrodisiac qualities, now as a food spice.

0: Mentions of Ginger -- a.k.a. Geri Halliwell -- during Spice Girls shows on the current tour. Patter between songs pretends that all is still well and nothing ever happened.

2: Songs in which the Girls reference themselves in the lyrics. The remaining four are leaving Ginger's name in the mix.

4: Number of Spicers who still have to leave the group before all this nonsense will end.