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As the very public rift between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents continues to capture headlines both in Britain and across the globe, a grassroots movement has emerged attempting to propel Victoria Beckham's 2001 track Not Such an Innocent Girl back into the singles chart.

The initiative's objective was to "fix the national tragedy" that Victoria Beckham remains the sole member of the Spice Girls never to have achieved a solo number one. It kicked off with a social media post stating: "Nothing says 'British Culture' like collectively deciding to send Posh to the top of the charts because her son roasted her on Insta."

The campaign gathered considerable traction after comedian Katherine Ryan amplified the post. Despite a dramatic spike in sales and streams - soaring by 19,615% compared with the previous week - the track failed to re-enter the official UK Top 100.

Puzzlingly, Not Such an Innocent Girl did climb to number one on two specialist charts - the Official Singles Sales Chart and the Official Download Chart - yet it remained conspicuously absent from Friday's main chart countdown.

A representative from the Official Charts Company explained to the Mirror: "The singles market today is predominantly streaming-driven, so a track that is selling well doesn't automatically place in the overall chart unless it's also doing impactful streaming numbers."

The spokesperson continued: "[Victoria Beckham] has the best seller of the week, hence why you'll see it's Number 1 on the pure sales-based rankings of the Official Download Chart and Official Singles Sales Chart. Its success this week has been mostly down to fan-driven downloads."

Precise sales data for Victoria's track have not been made public, but Myles Smith secured the No. 100 position by shifting 5,258 combined units of his 2024 release Stargazing during the same period.

Paul Scaife, who runs music industry insider resource Record Of The Day, told the Mirror: "The reality with the iTunes chart, especially specialist ones, is that it simply doesn't take much sales to make an impact. Any appearance may be a brief spike too."

He added: "We were joking in the office Brooklyn should get behind Groovejet and have a rerun of the chart battle."

Victoria's track originally debuted on 17 September 2001, sparking a chart rivalry with Kylie Minogue's eventual chart-topper Can't Get You Out of My Head. It was one of just three singles released by the former Posh Spice before she shifted her focus from pop music to fashion design.

Her musical ambitions stalled following the collapse of her record label, which meant two fully recorded albums were never officially released. Unlike footage of the alleged "inappropriate" dancing that sparked her highly publicised row with son Brooklyn and his wife Nicola Peltz, both of the so-called "lost" albums have since leaked online.

Music journalist Caroline Sullivan, who has written numerous books on pop music including a best-selling biography of Taylor Swift, said the surge in sales reflects public sympathy for Victoria Beckham: "Victoria doesn't have a great voice - which she herself admits - but there's a lot of affection for her among Millennials, and they're on her side in the Brooklyn/Beckhams dispute, so buying her single is a quick way to show that support."

Despite the renewed chart attention and the controversy driving it, neither Victoria nor her husband David Beckham have commented publicly. It is also understood that no new music releases from Victoria Beckham are expected in the near future.