I half though you'll be sorry would be higher but as much as i like its a little too high at 22.

I love a bit of YBS. I'm not 100% sure where I'd place it, but 22nd sounds about right in my head.

21. Heartbreak in This City (with Michelle Visage) | 8.235 Highest Scores: 11: (Aaron), 10: (Liam.k), Lowest Scores: 5: (spiceboy)


Just outside the top 20 at #21 is Heartbreak in This City, a song that originally featured on their 6th studio album What The Future Holds. The single was remixed to feature singer and television personality Michelle Visage to feature on the follow up album What The Future Holds Pt 2 & released as the album's lead single in February 2021 & managed to peak at #15 on the UK Download chart, which was a higher peak than their previous 2 singles. The collaboration came about after the group did an Insta Live with Michelle as part of their promo. The idea came about after their manager Adam suggested that they get her to feature on this track & she said yes straight away & the rest was history.

The song in its original form was already excellent & was more than a worthy contender for a single release, but having Michelle's vocals on there really elevates it to another level as her vocals intertwines smoothy with the groups. Thankfully the single mix doesn't differ much from the original as the piano led dance anthem was already perfect, from the glorious strings, stunning vocals & thumping beats, the song is an instant Steps classic.

Now that we're at the half-point & before the top 20 countdown begins, here is a re-cap of the results so far from 21-40:

21. Heartbreak in This City (with Michelle Visage) - 8.235
22. You'll Be Sorry - 8.125
23. Story of a Heart - 8.117
24. Happy - 7.937
25. After The Love Has Gone - 7.906
26. Heartbeat - 7.794
27. Wasted Tears - 7.781
28. No More Tears on The Dancefloor - 7.593
29. Take Me for a Ride - 7.156
30. The Runner - 7.147
31. Just Like the First Time - 7.125
32. Hard 2 Forget - 7.117
33. Better The Devil You Know - 7.058
34. 5,6,7,8 - 6.97
35. A Hundred Years of Winter - 6.437
36. When I Said Goodbye - 6.343
37. Dancing with a Broken Heart - 6.156
38. I Know Him So Well - 6.125
39. Baby Don't Dance - 6.062
40. Words Are Not Enough - 6.031

Tune! I was so glad they released that, as my favourite non-single when I first heard the album.

So if we'd collectively decided the Platinum Collection track list, we'd have had all of these songs on CD2!

 

Heartbreak in This City is fabulous. I really like what Michelle adds to this song, as a collaboration it worked surprisingly well.

Heartbeat deserved a bit better. Cute song with a nice campy video! Happy to see quite a high score for After the love has gone. And I agree with you Jay concerning Heartbreak.

 

Really enjoying this countdown this far! My compliments to you Nina :heart:

Heartbeat deserved a bit better. Cute song with a nice campy video! Happy to see quite a high score for After the love has gone. And I agree with you Jay concerning Heartbreak.

 

Really enjoying this countdown this far! My compliments to you Nina :heart:

 

Thanks you so much :heart:

 

20. Love's Got A Hold on My Heart | 8.5 Highest Scores: 11: (Run For Cover), 10: (Nina West, Hazelnuts, gog lad84, Jay, Qween), Lowest Scores: 5: (spiceboy)


Kicking off the top 20 is Love's Got A Hold On My Heart, released in July 1999 as the lead single from the group's 2nd album Steptacular & features Faye & Claire on lead vocals. The single peaked at #2 on the UK singles chart, kept off the #1 spot by Ricky Martin's 'Livin' La Vida Loca' , but would go onto being a big seller by selling over 200,000 copies & earning a Silver disc, making this their 6th certified single in a row. The song would also be successful elsewhere by topping the charts in Scotland & hit top 10 peaks in Finland and Ireland as well as top 20 peaks in Belgium & New Zealand.

I'm actually surprised that this is ranked so relatively low, despite gaining several high scores, it just goes to show amazing their back catalogue is I suppose. This is one of my all-time favourite Steps singles as it's an infectious bop full of pure joy that exudes that summer feeling perfectly. This was a seamless transition from their first album & showed that they could continue the massive success from 'Step One' & set up the second chapter of their careers. Sure this track wasn't a risky choice by any means, it was a guaranteed smash hit with all the familiar ingredients, but with far more polished production & plus it helps that this song is catchy as hell.

Edited September 17, 20222 yr by Nina West

Another entry will drop later this evening, it will be a track from disc 2. There's 6 left from that disc, any guesses?

20! Astonished by that, it’s a great summer track. I guess 8.5 is an amazing average though, their catalogue is banger after banger.

 

Always found it interesting that this didn’t make a numbered Now album, one of the few heyday Steps singles not to. And certainly their biggest hit not to appear. I guess it was too late for Now 43 while Now 44 had the held back Tragedy.

Great track and also a bit underrated imo! Happy with it’s average though :heart:

I thought that it might achieve a low-ish position in this because it certainly has its vocal detractors, but I had hoped for higher than 20th! :( Still as gooddelta says, 8.5 is a great average for only being 20th!

 

For me it's one of their greatest hits. It's a very joyous song :wub: After the mega success of the first era, to me it felt like the big success of Love's Got a Hold on My Heart well and truly cemented them as one of the premier pop acts around!

 

I look back on summer 99 with fond memories - it was the summer between primary school ending and secondary school beginning - which was still a very innocent and happy time for me and this song was definitely one of the tracks I played the most over that period of time!

 

I've really enjoyed all the recent video content they've put out for it too. :heart:

 

On another note I find it fascinating that some people can hear the morse code sound effects (the beeping after "won't somebody out there hear my SOS") and some can't hear it at all. There was a discussion on Popjustice about that a while ago. I've always been able to hear it!

I hear the morse code too, always thought it was a nice touch.

 

You can tell it's a Pete Waterman track with that 'whoosh' sound effect at the start, see also Better Best Forgotten and Better The Devil You Know for similar starts.

 

He loves a good whoosh, even on that dreadful Eurovision entry of ours he was behind in 2010, That Sounds Good To Me :lol:

I can’t hear the morse code…

Loves got a hold on my heart is lower than I expected I thought 15th but personally that's fine with me as I rank it lower.

I need to listen out for this morse code, I've never consciously heard it but then never knew it was a thing until now!

19. Love U More | 8.656 Highest Scores: 10: (pippa, LMFan, Yobnedor, spiceboy), Lowest Scores: 6: (Herbs)


At #19 we have Love U More, an album track that originally featured on their debut album Step One. The song was originally sung by British Techno group Sunscreem back in 1992 where it found minor success by reaching #23 on the UK singles chart. Step's cover removes Some of the more sexually explicit lyrics of the original. The song was considered for a possible single release in summer 1999 but was scrapped in favour of new material instead. Despite not being a single it did receive a specially-shot video clip which featured on their 'Steps - The Video Collection' in 1998 & would receive an HD upgrade along with several of their other music videos earlier this year.

Having this on the 'Platinum Collection' was simply wonderful, it's like rediscovering a lost gem & its placement here gives the younger fans who may not be familiar with Step's older material a chance to love it, like the rest of us do. This is a fantastic little bop with an infectious electronic glockenspiel style hooks & simmering synth beats that builds to a stonking ethereal chorus that soars over the stunning production. Definitely the most mature number on their debut album & again could have made a worthy single, but the 'Step One' run of singles was already perfect as it was. Still a great track though & glad it's done so well on here.

I don’t mind Love U More, but as evidenced by me giving it the lowest score, I just think Steps have better songs

I though love u more would be higher but its done well to go top 20