Mel B or Melanie B is a stage name for Melanie Janine Brown MBE, an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. She gained notoriety in the 1990s as a member of the Spice Girls, where she went by the moniker Scary Spice. The quartet became the best-selling female group of all time after selling more than 100 million records globally. Mel B's first solo album, Hot, was released when the Spice Girls were on hiatus (2000). I Want You Back, the album's debut song, was used on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie Why Do Fools Fall in Love and peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart.