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Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 09:42 AM

Maybe one day I will update it with full chartruns for 1997-1998 singles.

Previous similar topics :
Britney Spears : http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=262688
Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton : http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=263152

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 09:44 AM

Steps - Heartbeat (1998)



Peak position : # 1 (5 weeks)

Chartrun (only for 1999 year) : 2-3-4-5-7-10-13-13-16-18-19-20-23-25-26-30

Weeks in top 20 : 18

Rating : 9 / 10

Posted by: Herbs 7th December 2023, 09:46 AM

Yes! If I’d started my chart by then it would have been a long running #1 (Tragedy may have scraped the top 10 as I wasn’t a fan when originally released)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 09:50 AM

Steps - Tragedy (1998)



Peak position : # 1 (1 week)

Chartrun (only for 1999 year) : 8-10-13-15-17-18-21-21-23-29-30

Weeks in top 20 : 12

Rating : 8 / 10

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 09:57 AM

"Heartbeat" is the one from my favourite Steps songs. I always associated this single with Christmas / New Year time, thanks to thematic winter videoclip.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 10:02 AM

Steps - Better Best Forgotten (1999)



Peak position : # 1 (1 week)

Chartrun : 1-2-3-3-5-8-14-17-20-22-24-25-27-28

Weeks in top 20 : 9

Rating : 8 / 10

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 10:12 AM

Steps - Love's Got A Hold On My Heart (1999)



Peak position : # 1 (1 week)

Chartrun : 5-4-2-1-4-10-15-23

Weeks in top 20 : 7

Rating : 8 / 10

Only 7 weeks in top 20 is very weak result for # 1 hit in my chart. On this moment of time I compiled 502 retrospective weekly charts and it's the second worst result behind Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" from 1983 year (Her run was : 2-2-1-5-8-15).

Posted by: Last Dreamer 7th December 2023, 06:41 PM

Steps - After The Love Has Gone (1999)



Peak position : # 5

Chartrun : 5-12-14-21-27

Weeks in top 20 : 3

Rating : 7 / 10

24th October 1999
01. ( 01 ) Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like A Woman (4 weeks) (4 weeks at # 1)
02. ( 02 ) Barbarella - Colour My Love (7 weeks)
03. ( 07 ) B*Witched - Jesse Hold On (2 weeks)
04. ( 09 ) Mindy McCready - All I Want Is Everything (6 weeks)
05. ( NE ) Steps - After The Love Has Gone (1 week)

Posted by: Padamic Tension 7th December 2023, 08:43 PM

Tragedy wasnt the monster hit on your chart that it was, but i do see why some people dont rate it aswell as others.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 8th December 2023, 07:27 AM

Steps - Say You'll Be Mine (1999)



Peak position : # 1 (7 weeks)

Chartrun : 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-2-3-3-3-3-3-4-6-8-12-14-16-17-19-20-23-25-27-30

Weeks in top 20 : 23

Rating : 9 / 10

Posted by: Last Dreamer 8th December 2023, 07:40 AM

Steps - Better The Devil You Know (1999)



Peak position : # 2

Chartrun : 5-3-2-3-5-6-7-9-10-13-19-22-23-26-30

Weeks in top 20 : 11

Rating : 8 / 10

9th January 2000
01. ( 01 ) Steps - Say You'll Be Mine (3 weeks) (3 weeks at # 1)
02. ( 03 ) Steps - Better The Devil You Know (3 weeks)
03. ( 02 ) Geri Halliwell - Lift Me Up (9 weeks)
04. ( 04 ) Rollergirl - Love You More (7 weeks)
05. ( 07 ) Big and Betsy - De Big and Betsy Show (7 weeks)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 8th December 2023, 12:47 PM

Steps - When I Said Goodbye (2000)



Peak position : # 3

Chartrun : 4-3-3-5-6-5-6-6-7-13-18-21-22-26-30

Weeks in top 20 : 11

Rating : 8 / 10

23rd July 2000
01. ( 01 ) Sugarlips - Little Piece Of Me (6 weeks) (2 weeks at # 1)
02. ( NE ) Mirah - Stop And Think It Over (1 week)
03. ( 04 ) Steps - When I Said Goodbye (2 weeks)
04. ( 02 ) Mirah - Gotta Go Home (11 weeks)
05. ( 03 ) Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again (11 weeks)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 8th December 2023, 08:41 PM

Steps - Stomp (2000)



Peak position : # 10

Chartrun : 10-13-19-20-23-26

Weeks in top 20 : 4

Rating : 7 / 10

29th October 2000
01. ( 01 ) Britney Spears - Lucky (10 weeks) (7 weeks at # 1)
02. ( 02 ) Rollergirl - Superstar (5 weeks)
03. ( 04 ) No Doubt - Simple Kind Of Life (4 weeks)
04. ( 03 ) Supersister - Coffee (3 weeks)
05. ( 07 ) Darling - Letkiss (3 weeks)
06. ( 06 ) Nikki Webster - We'll Be One (4 weeks)
07. ( 05 ) Loose Chippin's - Girls Getting Naughty (12 weeks)
08. ( 08 ) Merril Bainbridge - Sydney From A 747 (7 weeks)
09. ( 09 ) Lucy Street - Girl Next Door (5 weeks)
10. ( NE ) Steps - Stomp (1 week)

Posted by: Padamic Tension 9th December 2023, 12:23 AM

Stomp didnt do well on your chart which is a shame as i think its one of their best songs.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 07:23 AM

Steps - It's The Way You Make Me Feel (2001)



Peak position : # 1 (9 weeks)

Chartrun : 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-4-5-6-8-9-11-13-13-15-17-17-19-21-24-28-30

Weeks in top 20 : 23

Rating : 10 / 10

Only 20 songs got 10 / 10 rating from me.
Only 7 songs, spent at least nine weeks on the top of my retro chart.

Most weeks at # 1 :
Anmary - Beautiful Song (2012) (14 weeks)
YVA - Brunetes Blondines (2007) (11 weeks)
Sue Wilkinson - You Gotta Be A Hustler If You Wanna Get On (1980) (10 weeks)
Sinead Quinn - I Can't Break Down (2003) (10 weeks)
Blondie - Sunday Girl (1979) (9 weeks)
Bucks Fizz - The Land Of Make Believe (1981) (9 weeks)
Steps - It's The Way You Make Me Feel (2001) (9 weeks)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 07:29 AM

Steps - Here And Now (2001)



Peak position : # 3

Chartrun : 4-3-3-5-7-8-8-8-9-10-11-13-16-18-20-22-27-29-30

Weeks in top 20 : 15

Rating : 8 / 10

24th June 2001
01. ( NE ) allSTARS* - Best Friends (1 week) (1 week at # 1)
02. ( 01 ) Dido - Thank You (4 weeks)
03. ( 04 ) Steps - Here And Now (2 weeks)
04. ( 02 ) Ellie Campbell - Don't Want You Back (3 weeks)
05. ( 03 ) Rollergirl - Close To You (4 weeks)

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 07:32 AM

Steps - Chain Reaction (2001)



Peak position : # 20

Chartrun : 20-25-26-28-30

Weeks in top 20 : 1

Rating : 6 / 10

7th October 2001
01. ( 01 ) allSTARS* - Things That Go Bump In The Night (3 weeks) (3 weeks at # 1)
02. ( 02 ) Dido - Hunter (3 weeks)
03. ( NE ) Garbage - Androgyny (1 week)
04. ( NE ) Lambretta - Bimbo (1 week)
05. ( NE ) Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor - Come What May (1 week)
06. ( 03 ) Naimee Coleman - My Star (6 weeks)
07. ( 05 ) Lash - Beauty Queen (6 weeks)
08. ( 04 ) Emma Bunton - Take My Breath Away (5 weeks)
09. ( 06 ) Geri Halliwell - Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (9 weeks)
10. ( 07 ) allSTARS* - Best Friends (16 weeks)

20. ( NE ) Steps - Chain Reaction (1 week)

Posted by: Padamic Tension 9th December 2023, 11:23 AM

Number 1 for far too long

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 11:42 AM

Steps - Words Are Not Enough / I Know Him So Well (2001)





Peak position : # 3

Chartrun : 3-4-4-5-4-5-5-4-5-6-6-7-8-10-13-15-16-18-19-20-21-25-27

Weeks in top 20 : 20

Rating : 8 / 10

16th December 2001
01. ( 01 ) Geri Halliwell - Calling (2 weeks) (2 weeks at # 1)
02. ( NE ) Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (1 week)
03. ( NE ) Steps - Words Are Not Enough / I Know Him So Well (1 week)
04. ( 02 ) Delta Goodrem - I Don't Care (5 weeks)
05. ( 04 ) Shelby Lynne - Killin' Kind (6 weeks)

Deserved to be # 1 hit, but it was impossible for Steps and Sophie to beat "Calling" and "Something Stupid" in those two winter months.
I love both sides of double single equally, that's why didn't separate them in chart.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 12:55 PM

Faye Tozer and Russell Watson - Someone Like You (2002)



Peak position : # 1 (5 weeks)

Chartrun : 1-1-1-1-1-2-2-2-4-3-5-4-5-6-7-7-9-10-11-13-15-16-18-20-25-27

Weeks in top 20 : 24

Rating : 9 / 10

It's my all-time # 1 favourite duet.

Posted by: Padamic Tension 9th December 2023, 02:29 PM

The slower steps songs seem to have done well on your charts. I'm so the opposite the slow songs don't rate all that well with me. Although I do really like someone like you, if only it was even a quarter as successful as adeles song of the same name.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 9th December 2023, 09:14 PM

H and Claire - DJ (2002)



Peak position : # 2

Chartrun : 2-4-5-7-8-10-12-14-16-15-17-19-20-23-26

Weeks in top 20 : 13

Rating : 7 / 10

19th May 2002
01. ( NE ) Faye Tozer and Russell Watson - Someone Like You (1 week) (1 week at # 1)
02. ( NE ) H and Claire - DJ (1 week)
03. ( 01 ) allSTARS* - Back When (2 weeks)
04. ( 02 ) Mad Donna - The Wheels On The Bus (3 weeks)
05. ( 04 ) Britney Spears - I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman (6 weeks)

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 03:35 AM

Dj isn't bad but I always felt it was missing something.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 10th December 2023, 06:16 AM

H and Claire - Half A Heart (2002)



Peak position : # 1 (1 week)

Chartrun : 1-2-2-4-6-8-10-12-13-17-20-23-29

Weeks in top 20 : 11

Rating : 8 / 10

Posted by: Last Dreamer 10th December 2023, 06:19 AM

H and Claire - All Out Of Love (2002)



Peak position : # 1 (1 week)

Chartrun : 1-3-4-5-6-7-10-10-10-12-14-14-18-20-23-24-30

Weeks in top 20 : 14

Rating : 8 / 10

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 10:47 AM

Half a heart is one I don't revisit much at all but all out love I'm a big fan of and do revisit it.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 10th December 2023, 12:12 PM

'Another You, Another Me' is the one from my all-time favourite albums, possibly in top 5.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 10th December 2023, 12:12 PM

H and Claire - Beauty And The Beast (2002)



Peak position : # 1 (4 weeks)

Chartrun : 2-2-2-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-4-5-6-8-11-13-16-18-21-25-28-30

Weeks in top 20 : 18

Rating : 9 / 10

Posted by: pippa 10th December 2023, 03:31 PM

Beauty and the Beast is not a strong cover version.

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 04:36 PM

Its not a bad album but i still prefer most of Steps album to it.

Posted by: Herbs 10th December 2023, 04:40 PM

Looooove that this did so well for you. I still play it often ❤️

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 04:43 PM

Its a shame someone like you wanst more successful though, it does seem fairly popular among Steps fans but least it went top 10 officially although it only made number 46 here in Ireland.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 10th December 2023, 08:03 PM

I love Faye, sadly she didn't release anything else after "Someone Like You".

Posted by: Herbs 10th December 2023, 08:14 PM

Yeah I suppose she was just a featured singer so no official plans to do solo stuff (& if I remember rightly Russell also did a version with Cleo Higgins which was used later on)

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 09:10 PM

It's a huge shame she didn't follow it up, I wonder did she ever try and get a solo deal?

Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 10th December 2023, 09:15 PM

Just my take, so no knowledge at all.

I’d say or guess no. Only on the basis that Herve she wanted one she’s have got one.

I’m probably way off and wrong though.

Posted by: Padamic Tension 10th December 2023, 09:20 PM

Maybe at the time she wasn't self confident enough to go for a solo music career.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 11th December 2023, 09:19 AM

Usually I prefer cover versions over the original / most well-known version, especially when they were recorded by my favourite singers/groups.

Posted by: Padamic Tension 11th December 2023, 10:01 PM

Sometimes cover versions works great and sometimes they dont, this one doesnt really bother me as im not a huge fan of the song itself.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 12th December 2023, 08:01 AM

I wish to stop "Gražios Dainos" (the title of my retrospective chart) somewhere in June-July of 2012 year, because like the idea to finish it with all-time # 1 song on the top.

Steps lost their chance to get 10th number one hit (but with including non-Steps material Faye, H and Claire did it) only because of this. Only 8 acts did it (from 1970 to 2012) : ABBA, Britney, Blondie, Brotherhood Of Man, Madonna, Kim Wilde, Twiggy, YVA. I'm not a fan of their new music (after comeback), but "Story Of A Heart" is obviously "missed # 1". "Light Up The World" had a strong chances for top 5.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 12th December 2023, 08:42 AM

Top 10 singles :
1. It's The Way You Make Me Feel
2. Say You'll Be Mine
3. Someone Like You
4. Heartbeat
5. Beauty And The Beast
6. Words Are Not Enough
7. I Know Him So Well
8. Story Of A Heart
9. Last Thing On My Mind
10. One For Sorrow

Bubbling Under : Better Best Forgotten, Tragedy

Posted by: -Jay- 12th December 2023, 02:24 PM

I'm curious about why Words Are Not Enough and I Know Him So Well had a combined chart run whereas previous Double A Sides were separated?

I'll be the first to mention this: Deeper Shade of Blue, Summer of Love and You’ll Be Sorry not charting at all? While all those H & Claire songs were Top 2… that’s interesting and quite possibly completely unique taste! 🤓

Posted by: Last Dreamer 15th December 2023, 09:03 AM

I love both sides of double single equally, that's why didn't separate them in chart. In the rest cases I prefer one side.

Yes, it's already an interesting tradition, when my favourite acts had flopped singles. The most unique situation is Geri Halliwell with DNC for "It's Raining Man" and # 1 with all other singles ("Half of Me" wasn't # 1 only because I stopped to compile chart ).

I posted these statistics here, because it can be interesting for Steps fans. Of course I know about the separated forum and also you can watch my all 2000s charts in retro forum.
But it's much easy to watch it in artists forums.

For sample I compiled all-time top 100 girl groups songs and Girls Aloud were very successful in my countdown, but how much forum GA fans watched that thread ?

Posted by: Jessie Where 19th December 2023, 10:29 PM

Well, I love 5 of them so that's something!

Posted by: spiceboy 20th December 2023, 12:04 AM

To be fair I love 7 of them... all Steps ones

Posted by: Padamic Tension 20th December 2023, 12:21 AM

I love 3, really like 2 and the others not so much.

Posted by: Lee_his_cheeks 24th December 2023, 05:49 PM

Very interesting list and thanks for posting! Lovely top 2 What would be your top 5 albums btw?

Posted by: Last Dreamer 27th December 2023, 07:42 AM

Thanks for a comment.

"Another You Another Me" is # 1, after it the first three (will re-listen and rate them in 2024 year). Based on memories I think that "Buzz" is # 2.
Christmas album is not bad, but nothing special.

From comeback material I heard only singles and love only "Story Of A Heart".

Posted by: -Jay- 27th December 2023, 09:37 AM

You’re missing out on a lot of great songs by not checking out the newer albums. There’s a lot there to strike a chord with those who liked the first 3 albums.

Posted by: Lee_his_cheeks 27th December 2023, 09:36 PM

Buzz @#2

Go check their new material, worth it

Posted by: Padamic Tension 28th December 2023, 11:40 AM

Totally agree there is loads of great songs from the 3 newer albums that are equally as good as the early material.