Posted October 4Oct 4 After 3 weeks of voting for your favourite original version of the 12 covers that Steps released, we now have a winner!But who will it be? Stay tuned!But first, we must find out who finished in last place…
October 4Oct 4 Author 12th. VINCINT - Hard 2 Forget50.5 points (Average: 4.69)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @Mangø (8)Biggest BJ HATER: @Paddington James (1)Hard 2 Forget? More like Easy 2 Forget, as poor VINCINT exits the competition in last place. Potentially not a surprising first exit as this song is probably largely considered to be one of Steps’ least memorable / liked singles! Tacked onto their most recent #1 charting Greatest Hits album, alongside The Runner, it was Hard 2 Forget that was given the single treatment. I guess the biggest question is who thought this song was good enough to cover, nevermind release, in the first place?!
October 4Oct 4 No surprise! An ok but very forgetable track..And indeed, I want to know as well who thought this was a good idea? Even The Runner is better if you ask me..
October 4Oct 4 Author 11th. Mollie King - In The Dark (Beat Of My Heart)64 Points (Average: 5.82)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @Lee_J11 (8) Biggest BJ Hater: @Scene @Viper* (2)Just missing out on the top 10 is The Saturdays’ very own Miss Mollie King. After their split, Mollie got back in the studio to make her debut album. After releasing her first 2 singles to nigh-on zero success (poor cow), the project stalled and she quickly diverted careers to become on to become a BBC Radio 1 presenter, where she remains to this day!In The Dark (Beat Of My Heart), later to be known as To The Beat Of My Heart is an uplifting pop track written by Mollie herself alongside MNEK. The album as a whole never saw the light of day, until it was leaked jsut under 2 years ago. (And there’s some great tracks on it )
October 4Oct 4 5 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:11th. Mollie King - In The Dark (Beat Of My Heart)64 Points (Average: 5.82)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @Lee_J11 (8) Biggest BJ Hater: @Scene @Viper* (2)Just missing out on the top 10 is The Saturdays’ very own Miss Mollie King. After their split, Mollie got back in the studio to make her debut album. After releasing her first 2 singles to nigh-on zero success (poor cow), the project stalled and she quickly diverted careers to become on to become a BBC Radio 1 presenter, where she remains to this day!In The Dark (Beat Of My Heart), later to be known as To The Beat Of My Heart is an uplifting pop track written by Mollie herself alongside MNEK. The album as a whole never saw the light of day, until it was leaked jsut under 2 years ago. (And there’s some great tracks on it )Consider me SHOCKED that you’re the highest score for this dross.
October 4Oct 4 Author 10th. Worlds Apart - Here And Now70 Points (Average: 6.36)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @777666jason (10)Biggest BJ HATER: @Jessie Where (2)So the second of the 2 bonus entries falls and finishes in 10th place. The song ‘Here And Now’ features on the band’s album of the same name, and was released in 2000… not that long before Steps got their mitts on it! Apart from it being a fully male vocal, it is extremely similar sounding to the version we all know and love, which makes sense given the time it was recorded/released.Fun fact: you may recognise one of the members in the band as Nathan Moore, who went on to manage HRH LSL and who featured heavily in the life-affirming documentary Totally Scott-Lee!
October 4Oct 4 Author And so we move on to the last one for now…!9th. Delta Goodrem - Dancing With A Broken Heart70.5 Points (Average: 6.41)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @Viper*(8)Biggest BJ HATER: @Spiceboy @Padamic_Tension (5)Next up, beating Worlds Apart by 0.5 points, we have the current Strictly darling and 2026 Eurovision MOTHER, Delta Goodrem.Dancing With a Broken Heart was the second single from Delta’s 4th album, Child Of The Universe. The song charted at a moderately successful #15 in her native Australia.Apart from her first single (released before she became globally famous), this was actually her lowest charting single in Australia up to that point! So it again begs the question why the powers that be thought this should be the song for Steps to cover!
October 4Oct 4 45 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:12th. VINCINT - Hard 2 Forget50.5 points (Average: 4.69)UK Chart Run : N/ABiggest BJ FAN: @Mangø (8)Biggest BJ HATER: @Paddington James (1)Hard 2 Forget? More like Easy 2 Forget, as poor VINCINT exits the competition in last place.Potentially not a surprising first exit as this song is probably largely considered to be one of Steps’ least memorable / liked singles!Tacked onto their most recent #1 charting Greatest Hits album, alongside The Runner, it was Hard 2 Forget that was given the single treatment. I guess the biggest question is who thought this song was good enough to cover, nevermind release, in the first place?!@Mangø does love BJ(s). Oh and The Runner in it's original form too. 🤭
October 4Oct 4 4 minutes ago, Spiceboy said:@Mangø does love BJ(s). Oh and The Runner in it's original form too. 🤭You're not wrong. I do love The Runner
October 4Oct 4 Author 1 minute ago, Mangø said:You're not wrong. I do love The Runner Don’t let your wife hear you say that 😂😂
October 4Oct 4 2 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:Don’t let your wife hear you say that 😂😂Oh don't worry she knows
October 4Oct 4 I really like the Vincint version! Although I'm not quite sure they should've covered it.
October 4Oct 4 No big shocks again.I don’t mind Mollie, WA and Delta but those song are forgetable to me as well or became a bit dated. In this case Steps took their versions to a higher level.(is the Mollie album anywhere to be find online btw)
October 4Oct 4 Author 1 minute ago, JB said:(is the Mollie album anywhere to be find online btw)I can neither confirm nor deny that I have a copy of it on my laptop
October 4Oct 4 6 minutes ago, JB said:I know that you can’t help me, but could you help me with someone that can?
October 4Oct 4 Author 8th. Bee Gees - Tragedy72.5 Points (Average: 6.59)UK Chart Run: 7-2-{1}-1-3-6-11-31-47-62->10Biggest BJ FAN: @Scene (11)Bigger BJ HATER: @pippa (3)So there we have it, potentially the first ‘shock’ of the competition so far? The first song to appear that has charted in the UK! Not only that, it was a massive #1 for both the Bee Gees AND Steps however, it only finishes here in 8th place!This became the Bee Gees’ 4th UK number one single in 1979. It has since potentially been usurped by the enormous success of Steps’ version, just under 20 years later. Whilst this song is indeed regarded as a classic, I think it’s the immensely high pitched vocals that likely proved to be a turn-off for the members of BJ!
