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  1. 1. Who will be #1?

    • Gary Barlow
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    • Steps
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Steps -

 

Signed Vinyl

CD £4.99 on Amazon & HMV

2 x new MP3 albums with remixes etc., for £4.99 on Steps website

iTunes £6.99

 

:cheer:

Has Gary got anymore promo?
Steps -

 

Signed Vinyl

CD £4.99 on Amazon & HMV

2 x new MP3 albums with remixes etc., for £4.99 on Steps website

iTunes £6.99

 

:cheer:

 

 

They should bung the MP3 editions onto Amazon, 7 Digitial and iTunes etc and get the downloads from there too! I'd re-download to have it on my iTunes tbf :lol:

What an absolutely incredible few days!!

 

We've been completely blown away by the reaction to our new album so far, and we could not be more grateful to all the Steps fans who have listened, downloaded, bought, shared and supported What The Future Holds! 💜

 

We've just found out that the album is VERY close to #1 in official midweek chart update which is absolutely incredible, so THANK YOU

 

We've seen you asking, and yes - we're super excited to now have signed vinyl copies of the album available exclusively on the Steps Superstore!

 

We also wanted to create some fun digital-only editions with you to share some extra goodies we have up our sleeves, including acoustic versions of What The Future Holds & Something In Your Eyes, brand new remixes of some album tracks, the choreography-only edit of the Something In Your Eyes video and THREE never-before-seen live performances! 👏

 

These are available individually for £4.99 or together with other formats including the Signature Party Pack bundle which includes a signed vinyl and signed CD.

Gary:

 

I love this - all these years on and here we are - love these guys [sTEPS] too - genuinely lovely people - battling for the top spot is an unbelievably great problem to have !!!! Well done everyone and good luck

Gary:

 

I love this - all these years on and here we are - love these guys [sTEPS] too - genuinely lovely people - battling for the top spot is an unbelievably great problem to have !!!! Well done everyone and good luck

 

 

I'm not a fan of Gary but that's a really classy message, good for him. :heart:

Fair play to Gary, always seemed a nice guy even if he avoids tax!

Steps:

 

What an exciting week!!! HUGE thanks to everyone who supported our new album #WhatTheFutureHolds 💜🔮💜 Because of our incredible fans we are #2 in the @officialcharts UK album chart... Congrats to our friend @GaryBarlow on his number one! 👏

He smashed it, well done Gary. Wish Steps had got the same promo push that he received, I'm not totally sure how Steps have benefited from BMG tbh? Might as well have stuck to independent.
Here’s hoping Steps take in the top 5 for Xmas! It’s a great album.
It’ll certainly be interesting to see both the top 2s sales next week as there isn’t a huge amount of completion now until McCartney II is out on Xmas week.
He smashed it, well done Gary. Wish Steps had got the same promo push that he received, I'm not totally sure how Steps have benefited from BMG tbh? Might as well have stuck to independent.

 

They still ended up with a no2 album which had bigger first week sales than their last in a declining market during lockdown!

They still ended up with a no2 album which had bigger first week sales than their last in a declining market during lockdown!

Sorry to be pedantic, but What the Future Holds sold slightly less in the first week than Tears on the Dancefloor!

 

37,624 - Tears on the Dancefloor

37,394 - What the Future Holds

 

It's fair to say that both albums had very different conditions to achieve such similar sales:

 

Tears

Better promotion, more hype due to it being their comeback with a proper studio album, CD was purchasable alongside concert tickets

Formats: CD (+ signed), vinyl, download

 

Future

A long pre-order period, Q4 release, released during lockdown, low-key promo, CD and download price cuts, bundles

Formats: CD (+ signed), vinyl (+ signed), pink vinyl, picture disc, 6 cassettes, download + 2 digital versions with bonus content

^^ Tears benefitted from having 6 x CDs (Group and solo album covers) which were signed - they should have done the same this time rather than the cassettes.
^^ Tears benefitted from having 6 x CDs (Group and solo album covers) which were signed - they should have done the same this time rather than the cassettes.

That was with the re-release later in the year though, these comparisons are regarding the first week sales! Though I agree, doing signed individual CD covers would have been more beneficial than unsigned cassette covers. Kind of surprised they didn't sign some solo cassettes to give a boost.

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