Steps (Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Ian ‘H’ Watkins’, Lee Latchford-Evans and Lisa Scott-Lee) are the UK’s most successful mixed sex pop group of all time, with 14 top five singles, 4 number one albums, 22 million record sales, 500 million streams & 11 sold-out national arena tours under their belts. The band’s hits include #1 singles Tragedy/Heartbeat and Stomp, the gold certified One For Sorrow & Better Best Forgotten, the silver certified 5,6,7,8, Last Thing On My Mind, Love’s Got A Hold Of My Heart, Chain Reaction & many more.
In 2011, the band scored another #1 album with their The Ultimate Collection release, followed by a Sky 1 documentary series Steps Reunion – the highest rated original programme on Sky that year. In 2017, the band marked 20 Years of Steps and released their first single in over 6 years Scared Of The Dark which hit #1 on iTunes. They released their Tears On The Dancefloor album in April which is Gold certified, reached #1 on UK iTunes and spawned 3 A-List singles on BBC Radio 2. 2017 ended on a high for the band, as they embarked on their 22 date sold out Party On The Dancefloor Tour across arenas in the UK & Ireland selling over 300,000 tickets – making it one of the biggest pop tours of the year.
The band have since continued to release new music including two further iTunes #1 singles, the Sia-penned What The Future Holds in 2020 and the Michelle Visage duet Heartbreak In This City in 2021 and scored a further two #2 charting UK albums 2020’s What The Future Holds and 2021’s What The Future Holds Pt 2. Across both albums the band scored 7 A-List singles on BBC Radio 2. The led to the massive What The Future Holds UK arena tour in late 2021. In 2022 Steps celebrated their 25th anniversary with a headline summer tour and released the #1 album Platinum Collection which means they join ABBA, Rolling Stones and Stereophonics as the only groups in UK history to score #1 albums in four consecutive decades.