"To The Beat Of My Heart" Steps
Monday 25th January 2021
Release date: Out now Label: BMG
Three years after they staged one of the most successful comebacks of the decade, enduring British pop legends Steps – aka H, Claire, Faye, Lee and Lisa – return once again with their sixth album, What the Future Holds, out today, and a huge arena tour across the UK and Ireland in November / December 2021, with 4 extra dates on sale now. The brand-new album can be streamed or downloaded on all digital platforms, and is also available to purchase in CD, Vinyl and Cassette formats.
Within hours of the release, the five-piece have already scored their first #1 with the album hitting the top spot on the iTunes Album Chart. Steps new single To The Beat Of My Heart also features on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist and Apple’s New Music Daily. To The Beat Of My Heart premiered on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show this week and has been confirmed as their third single from the album, following in the footsteps of title track What The Future Holds and Something In Your Eyes.
If you thought 2017's hi-energy Tears on the Dancefloor album, which was led by the giant glitter ball-sized banger Scared of the Dark and concluded with an arena tour that shifted over 200,000 tickets, was a step into the big leagues then brace yourselves for What The Future Holds. The album's thundering, gloriously dramatic title track, was written by pop queen Sia. Built around a typically Steps-esque bittersweet refrain of “one foot in the past and one foot in the future”, it felt like the perfect statement for a band who have taken a wave of nostalgia and alchemised it into an album full of future anthems. Alongside Sia, the versatile album also sees them reunite with the likes of Fiona Bevan (Ed Sheeran), Ina Wroldsen (Shakira) and Karl Twigg, who worked on their first three albums, plus experiment with the likes of Hannah Robinson (Kylie). “We will never forget the past with Steps, it's what made us,” says Steps, “but we've got to look to the future too.”
The What The Future Holds album is available on all digital platforms plus CD, Vinyl (including a limited edition transparent pink edition) and Cassette (including a special collector’s box with five separate transparent pink solo cassettes with an intro from each band member). The album can be purchased now from the Steps Superstore here.
Launching during the halcyon days of pop in 1997 with their line-dancing classic 5,6,7,8, Brit award winners Steps set about re-turfing the music landscape via 14 UK top 10 singles and three multi-platinum albums in three years including #1’s Tragedy and Stomp. Fast forward twenty years, the band returned with the mighty Tears On The Dancefloor, which hit #1 on the physical and iTunes album charts and went Gold within a matter of weeks, becoming the second biggest-selling independent album of 2017 behind Stormzy. Their subsequent ‘Party On The Dancefloor’ tour saw the band sell out twenty-two arenas. 23 years on from their debut, 2020 sees them return with What The Future Holds.
Release date: Out now Label: BMG
Three years after they staged one of the most successful comebacks of the decade, enduring British pop legends Steps – aka H, Claire, Faye, Lee and Lisa – return once again with their sixth album, What the Future Holds, out today, and a huge arena tour across the UK and Ireland in November / December 2021, with 4 extra dates on sale now. The brand-new album can be streamed or downloaded on all digital platforms, and is also available to purchase in CD, Vinyl and Cassette formats.
Within hours of the release, the five-piece have already scored their first #1 with the album hitting the top spot on the iTunes Album Chart. Steps new single To The Beat Of My Heart also features on Spotify’s New Music Friday playlist and Apple’s New Music Daily. To The Beat Of My Heart premiered on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 show this week and has been confirmed as their third single from the album, following in the footsteps of title track What The Future Holds and Something In Your Eyes.
If you thought 2017's hi-energy Tears on the Dancefloor album, which was led by the giant glitter ball-sized banger Scared of the Dark and concluded with an arena tour that shifted over 200,000 tickets, was a step into the big leagues then brace yourselves for What The Future Holds. The album's thundering, gloriously dramatic title track, was written by pop queen Sia. Built around a typically Steps-esque bittersweet refrain of “one foot in the past and one foot in the future”, it felt like the perfect statement for a band who have taken a wave of nostalgia and alchemised it into an album full of future anthems. Alongside Sia, the versatile album also sees them reunite with the likes of Fiona Bevan (Ed Sheeran), Ina Wroldsen (Shakira) and Karl Twigg, who worked on their first three albums, plus experiment with the likes of Hannah Robinson (Kylie). “We will never forget the past with Steps, it's what made us,” says Steps, “but we've got to look to the future too.”
The What The Future Holds album is available on all digital platforms plus CD, Vinyl (including a limited edition transparent pink edition) and Cassette (including a special collector’s box with five separate transparent pink solo cassettes with an intro from each band member). The album can be purchased now from the Steps Superstore here.
Launching during the halcyon days of pop in 1997 with their line-dancing classic 5,6,7,8, Brit award winners Steps set about re-turfing the music landscape via 14 UK top 10 singles and three multi-platinum albums in three years including #1’s Tragedy and Stomp. Fast forward twenty years, the band returned with the mighty Tears On The Dancefloor, which hit #1 on the physical and iTunes album charts and went Gold within a matter of weeks, becoming the second biggest-selling independent album of 2017 behind Stormzy. Their subsequent ‘Party On The Dancefloor’ tour saw the band sell out twenty-two arenas. 23 years on from their debut, 2020 sees them return with What The Future Holds.
Posted by Craig Jones