A thread posing these questions was created a few weeks ago ( http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=247675 ) but we're now just one week away from release, so let's have some fresh predictions!

 

 

The album includes Heartbreak in This City (with Michelle Visage) and Take Me for a Ride, both of which received strong support from BBC Radio 2. Steps also previewed their cover of Five Star's The Slightest Touch.

 

There are multiple formats - a standard CD, a deluxe 2CD (with the official store and Amazon including signed inserts), an exclusive HMV "rainbow laminate" CD, 5 individual band member CDs that will all be signed and include exclusive remixes, and a vinyl and cassette which are both exclusive to the official store.

 

Upcoming promotion that we know of includes the airing of their recently recorded BBC Radio 2 concert, and HMV in store signings in 6 different locations - Manchester, Liverpool, Westfield, Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield. Presumably more TV appearances have yet to be announced.

 

Other albums released in the same week as Steps include: Manic Street Preachers, Kacey Musgraves, James Blake, Saint Etienne and The Vaccines. Note that Diana Ross' album has been pushed back to November.

 

Tears on the Dancefloor, their 2017 comeback album, sold 37,624 copies in the first week. The Tears on the Dancefloor Crying at the Disco deluxe reissue sold 11,136. Last year's What the Future Holds sold 37,394.

 

 

Soooo... predict how well you think Steps will do! Remember to reply to this thread with your guesses. Let's see which of us ends up being the closest to predicting correctly...

Edited September 3, 20213 yr by spiceboy

A lot of Steps fans are extra eager for this album to hit #1 because if it did, it would mean that Steps achieved #1 albums in the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s, which would be pretty remarkable. Will they pull it off?

 

I still have a #2 entry feeling about this. Steps are often unlucky in that respect and I think history will repeat itself yet again :cry: I would certainly love to be proved wrong! I think the sales will be somewhat lower than their previous album, due to this not being a Q4 release and not being too long since their previous album. Though I would like to think they'll exceed 20k... I'll predict 22k first week.

I think it’ll debut at #2 and sell 25,000 - 29,999. Maybe a little less.

I think Manic St Preachers will get the #1 sadly 😞 so I’m saying #2 and I’m guessing 20k. This is if it’s very clear it’s a new album in promotion though as I can see people thinking it’s another re-edition like the Tears on the Dancefloor one in which case it could do like 5-10k 🤷‍♂️🙈.

#2, I think they can push for about 26k though.

A hopeful number 1 close to 30k.

A hopeful number 1 close to 30k.

 

 

I'm praying your guess is right!

me too, initially i was number 1, then i thought Dianna Ross would block them and i was like number 2 but when the individual covers were announced it put my hopes for number 1 back up again.

me too, initially i was number 1, then i thought Dianna Ross would block them and i was like number 2 but when the individual covers were announced it put my hopes for number 1 back up again.

 

 

Diana Ross has moved her week, she is same week as Abba now. I think Manic Street Preachers will clinch it though, they have a lot of editions too and have had them up for pre-order longer.

I forgot about the manics, manics will prob beat them but il hope beyond hope they dont.

I predict #2 with 5,000-9,999 sales most likely!

I predict #2 with 5,000-9,999 sales most likely!

Eeeeek I would be shocked if this album sells only about a quarter of their previous album :o

 

I think anything lower than 20k would be very disappointing, but we'll see :o

I'd be totally shocked if it sold less than 20k.

#3, 20.325

 

Though I do hope it will be #1 somehow!

Like with their last 2 album its probably likely their sales will enough to have been number 1 on many other week, i think they would have safely got the number 1 just Friday gone for example.

This time next week we will be anxiously waiting for the mid week information to come through -_-

I believe history may repeat itself whereby the Manic Street Preachers may prevent Steps achieving a further Number 1.

That said, I don't think that outcome is a certainty either.

At an early stage of the chart week a good few voters have already wrongly predicted the sales.

I think I may be wrong aswell as I went with 30k.

I think my prediction is still alive so to speak.