What the Future Holds - The last figure we knew was "just under 83,000" in late December 2021. From 17th September 2021 to 24th December 2021 its average sales per week were 332. That was pretty decent given that it was a year old by then, but of course Steps being active with What the Future Holds Pt. 2 and the tour would have been helpful.

 

Since the end of December 2021 it would have needed to sell at a rate of just over 200 copies a week on average, up to now, to be approaching 100,000 for Gold. That would be quite a high weekly figure for an ageing studio album though, particularly one from Steps who don't exactly have the greatest streaming presence. Its weekly sales must be quite low by now, but it is anybody's guess how low it would be. I'd like to think that it could have reached 90,000+ by now.

 

 

What the Future Holds Pt. 2 - 36,943 on 26th November 2021. In that week it had sold 986 copies at #180. It climbed to #178 the following week but we didn't find out sales for it, but probably 1,000+? I think it could have exceeded 40,000 by the end of December 2021. Which would have left it needing 20,000 to reach Silver. 83 weeks have passed in 2022 and 2023 so far. 20,000 divided by 83 weeks is 241 copies a week on average needed to be almost at 60k now, but its weekly sales probably aren't anywhere close to that.

 

 

I guess we're in for quite a long wait to see the albums certify Gold and Silver respectively... but I have faith that both will happen within the 2020s decade.

Steps deserve so much more!! :cry:

Steps deserve so much more!! :cry:

 

I couldn’t agree more

Thanks Jay and definitely! Still, they aren’t doing that bad for an act that started in the 90’s :heart:

'Platinum Collection' is Silver! My estimate for its total as of its last week in the chart is 32.3k, since then 57 weeks have passed which gives the album an average of 486 chart sales per week.

Thanks for the info! And sales could’ve been worse. I’m curious to know if it’s mostly streaming or physical cd’s that keep the PC selling.

Definitely streaming, it hasn't been in the physical chart Top 100 since November 2022.

 

Presumably it'll go Gold within the next couple of years then. I would be surprised if it hasn't made it by the end of 2025.

Definitely streaming, it hasn't been in the physical chart Top 100 since November 2022.

 

Presumably it'll go Gold within the next couple of years then. I would be surprised if it hasn't made it by the end of 2025.

 

 

Oh fab, not too long to wait then! Wonder how long it will take WTFH to go Gold and Part 2 to go Silver?

I wonder too but it's so hard to guess with those! I have faith those albums will go gold and silver sometime this decade but who knows when.

“Here and Now (across both its individual version and the double A-side with You'll Be Sorry) has racked up 143,600 chart units over the years”

 

Source: OCC mailer

 

Last sales we knew was 113,890 in June 2009, so it’s increased by nearly 30,000. Not much at all, but not really surprising.

Great that it's got an increase though.

 

I do wonder if the musical will have any impact on their streams/sales.

“Here and Now (across both its individual version and the double A-side with You'll Be Sorry) has racked up 143,600 chart units over the years”

 

Source: OCC mailer

 

Last sales we knew was 113,890 in June 2009, so it’s increased by nearly 30,000. Not much at all, but not really surprising.

 

 

30,000 copies is better than nothing ^_^

30k is probably higher than actual totals for some of their newer singles :o

Thanks for the update Jay! And indeed, it sold something in those years

New certification for Steps on 17th May 2024:

 

"Heartbeat/Tragedy" has been certified 2x Platinum for selling 1.2 million! :cheer:

Finally :cheeseblock: Thank you for sharing!

 

 

I'm still a bit confused about its sales. On 23rd August 2022, Official Charts gave these bits of info in a mailer and in an article.

 

The mailer said: Steps’ biggest song in the UK is also a million seller! Their fourth single - and first Number 1 - 1998’s Heartbeat/Tragedy has racked up 1.2 million chart units in the UK, including 1.15 million physical copies.

 

While the article said: In at the top spot, boasting an incredible 1,400,000 combined UK chart units to its name, is Steps' first-ever UK Number 1 single. A double a-side of Step One ballad Heartbeat and their iconic cover of the Bee Gees' Tragedy, previously unreleased at the time, the Platinum-certified single remains Steps' biggest to date.

 

 

So... regarding the 1.2m sales shared in the mailer, I guess it was a rounded up figure, and that it's taken 21 months to actually to reach the target? And that these sales are solely Heartbeat/Tragedy as a Double A Side with its original physical sales and perhaps only Heartbeat's downloads/streaming? Which might explain why it's taken such a long time to actually certify 2xPlatinum.

 

Whereas the 1.4m shared in the article also includes the separate downloads/streaming of Tragedy? But that's not certified Silver (200k) in its own right. So that 1.4m figure must have been rounded up too?

 

Unless Tragedy does go Silver some time, I'll continue to feel a bit confused about it all lol.

 

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By the way, back in September 2017, Official Charts stated that Heartbeat/Tragedy had total sales of 1,253,389 (with 1,212,288 being pure sales, and 41,101 being streaming). Which must have been a combined figure too, one that grew to the rounded up 1.4m figure in August 2022.

F-I-N-A-L-L-Y :cheer:

 

Thanks for the info Jay and indeed confusing

So confusing I’m guessing it must be something to do with heartbeat surely!?!?

Steps's 2022 greatest hits album, "Platinum Collection", is now certified Gold in the UK.

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Oooh happy to see that!

So it took 87 weeks for it to sell the 40,000 copies required to make the jump from silver to gold. That's an average of around 460 copies a week.