Steps

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Steps (disambiguation) .

Steps
Steps on their Christmas with Steps tour in Manchester (2012)
General information
origin	Great Britain
Genre (s)	Dance pop
founding	1997
Current occupation
	Lee Latchford-Evans (born January 28, 1975 in Chester , Cheshire , England )
	Claire Richards (born August 17, 1977 in Hillingdon, London )
	Lisa Scott-Lee (born November 5, 1975)
	Faye Louise Tozer (born November 14, 1975)
	Ian "H" Watkins (born May 8, 1976 in Llwynypia, Rhondda , Wales )

Steps is a British dance-pop - band , which had between 1998 and 2002 its greatest successes.

Career

In 1997, manager Tim Byrne placed an ad in The Stage magazine seeking singers for a new band. After the audition, two men and three women were found, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian "H" Watkins, Claire Richards, Lee Latchford-Evans and Faye Tozer, who then appeared as Steps.

With their debut single 5, 6, 7, 8 they had a first respectable success in their homeland, in Australia they even reached number 1 straight away . The single reached platinum status and also came in at number 2 in New Zealand and Belgium. While the Bananarama - cover Last Thing on My Mind reached number 1 in Belgium , number 5 in Australia and platinum in both countries, the success continued in the UK Home too. The third single, One for Sorrow, was the second number one hit in Belgium and a number two hit in the UK charts.

In the same year, the debut album Step One followed , which brought the first British number one placement with the double single with its own song Heartbeat and the Bee Gees cover Tragedy . The single first rose to number 2 and only climbed to the top after eight weeks. With 30 weeks of charting and a platinum award, it is the band's most successful single release and the best-selling single of 1999 in the UK. The album came to number 2 and was awarded five times platinum.

In the following years, international success waned, while the Steps in Great Britain from 1998 to 2002 were able to string 14 top ten singles, including the second British number one hit Stomp in 2000 . In addition, the second album Steptacular and the first best-of album Gold both reached number 1 and were each awarded four times platinum.

In 2002 the five members announced their separation. Nine years later, the reunification followed, which, in addition to joint appearances, once again produced a best-of album, the Ultimate Collection , which brought them to the top of the charts again. A Christmas album in the following year and a corresponding single were largely unsuccessful, so the band separated again.

In March 2017 the band announced a reunion on the occasion of their 20th anniversary. The new single Scared of the Dark was released on March 10, 2017, the album Tears on the Dancefloor followed in April 2017.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
1998	Step One	UK2 × 5 Quintuple platinum (64 weeks)UK	US79 (10 weeks) US	First published: September 11, 1998
1999	Steptacular	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (66 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 25, 1999
2000	Buzz	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (32 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 25, 2000
2012	Light Up the World	UK32 (2 weeks) UK	-	First release: November 12, 2012 Christmas album
2017	Tears on the dance floor	UK2 gold (16 weeks)UK	-	First published: April 21, 2017

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		UK
2012	Live! 2012	-	First published: July 2, 2012
2018	Party on the Dancefloor: Live from the London SSE Wembley Arena	UK18 (1 week) UK	First published: June 8, 2018

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		UK	US
2001	Gold: Greatest Hits	UK1 × 4 Quadruple platinum (22 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 15, 2001
2002	The Last Dance	UK57 silver (3 weeks)UK	-	First published: November 25, 2002
2011	The Ultimate Collection	UK1 platinum (22 weeks)UK	-	First published: October 10, 2011

• 2012: The Platinum Collection

Singles

Chart placements

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	US	UK
1997	5,6,7,8 Step One	-	-	UK14th gold (18 weeks)UK	First published: November 7, 1997
1998	Last Thing on My Mind Step One	-	-	UK6th silver (14 weeks)UK	First published: April 17, 1998
	One for Sorrow Step One	-	-	UK2 gold (14 weeks)UK	First published: August 31, 1998
	Heartbeat / Tragedy Step One	-	-	UK1 platinum (30 weeks)UK	First published: November 6, 1998
1999	Better Best Forgotten Step One	-	-	UK2 gold (19 weeks)UK	First published: March 8, 1999
	Love's Got a Hold on My Heart Steptacular	-	-	UK2 silver (14 weeks)UK	First published: July 12, 1999
	After the Love Has Gone Steptacular	-	-	UK5 silver (12 weeks)UK	First published: October 11, 1999
	Say You'll Be Mine / Better the Devil You Know Steptacular	DE98 (1 week) DE	CH93 (4 weeks) CH	UK4th gold (18 weeks)UK	First published: December 13, 1999
2000	Deeper Shade of Blue Steptacular	-	-	UK4th silver (10 weeks)UK	First published: April 3, 2000
	When I Said Goodbye / Summer of Love Steptacular / Buzz	-	-	UK5 (14 weeks) UK	First published: July 3, 2000
	Stomp buzz	-	-	UK1 silver (12 weeks)UK	First published: October 16, 2000
	It's the Way You Make Me Feel / Too Busy Thinking About My Baby Buzz	-	-	UK2 silver (11 weeks)UK	First published: December 2000
2001	Here and Now / You'll Be Sorry Buzz	-	-	UK4 (13 weeks) UK	First published: May 28, 2001
	Chain Reaction / One For Sorrow Gold: Greatest Hits	-	-	UK2 silver (12 weeks)UK	First published: September 24, 2001
	Words Are Not Enough / I Know Him So Well Gold: Greatest Hits	-	-	UK5 (11 weeks) UK	First published: December 3, 2001
2012	Light Up the World Light Up the World	-	-	UK82 (1 week) UK	First published: October 22, 2012
2017	Scared of the Dark Tears on the Dancefloor	-	-	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	First published: March 10, 2017

Chart placements as a guest musician

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	CH	UK
1999	Thank ABBA for the Music ABBAmania	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	UK4 (13 weeks) UK	First published: March 29, 1999 with B * Witched , Billie Piper , Tina Cousins & Cleopatra

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 1998: for the single 5,6,7,8 1998: for the single One for Sorrow 1999: for the single Heartbeat / Tragedy  New Zealand 1999: for the single 5,6,7,8 1999: for the single Thank ABBA for the Music  Netherlands 1999: for the album Step One  Sweden 1999: for the single Heartbeat / Tragedy  United Kingdom 2013: for the video album The Ultimate Tour: Live Platinum record  Australia 1998: for the album Step One 1998: for the single 5,6,7,8 1998: for the single Last Thing on My Mind  Belgium 1998: for the single Last Thing on My Mind 2000: for the album Steptacular  Europe 1999: for the album Step One 2000: for the album Steptacular  New Zealand 1999: for the album Step One

2 × platinum record  Belgium 1999: for the album Step One 3 × platinum record  United Kingdom 2013: for the video album Live at Wembley 4 × platinum record  United Kingdom 2013: for the video album The Next Step: Live 5 × platinum record  United Kingdom 2013: for the video album Gold: Greatest Hits 2013: for the video album The Video

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	-	-	3 × platinum3	210,000	aria.com.au
Belgium (BEA)	-	3 × gold3	4 × platinum4th	275,000	ultratop.be
Europe (IFPI)	-	-	2 × platinum2	(2,000,000)	ifpi.org
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × gold2	platinum1	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Sweden (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	15,000	sverigetopplistan.se
United Kingdom (BPI)	8 × silver8th	6 × gold6th	34 × platinum34	9,435,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	8 × silver8th	13 × gold13	44 × platinum44

swell

1. ^ Ray Barker, Christine Moorcroft: Spelling First: Word-level activities in context across the curriculum. Vol. 1, Nelson Thornes, Cheltenham 2002, ISBN 0-7487-6814-9 , p. 6; limited preview in Google Book search
2. ↑ 5, 6, 7, 8 (single) in the Belgian and New Zealand charts
3. ^ Hit-Records, British Chart-Singles on CD-ROM, Taurus Press
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: DE CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Steps (musical group)  - collection of images

• Official website (English)
• Steps at MusicBrainz (English)
• Steps at Allmusic (English)
• Steps in Discogs (English)