Spice Girls - Wikipedia As managers and record labels scrambled to find the next Spice Girls, around 20 new girl groups were launched in the UK in 1999, followed by another 35 the next year. Groups that emerged during this period include All Saints , B*Witched , Atomic Kitten , Girl Thing , Girls@Play , Girls Aloud and the Sugababes , all hoping to emulate the Spice ...