LMAO! WOOP WOOP! haha but them being sold out has nocked their amazon chart number down 6 from 3 to 9 hopefully now with more in stock they can climb back up and fast!

i am not sure if that is factually correct, they were always on jive records. he was a songwriter/producer and was involved with the project that way.

i went to their tour in 2000. they were clearly miming most of the time. it doesn't matter how many times you dismiss this fact. it was well reported and most concert attendees know the truth.

He was the producer on most of their tracks...an excellent one in my view.

Most singers and bands mime on television because it is quicker from a sound engineer's point of view, and much easier.

Latest album mids:

1 Evanescence (14,766)
2 Steps (12,861)
3 Adele [21] (11,568)

Pete Waterman owns PWL / PWE, but I am not sure now whether they are part of a bigger conglomerate. I have a feeling that they might be part of SONY/BMG, but I may be wrong there.

You are right that Pete Waterman, along with Mark Topham and Karl Twigg fulfilled most of the writing / production duties for Steps.

Obviously it is better for singers to perform live, but virtually impossible for them to if they are required to perform vigorous dance routines, like Steps do. It isn't possible from a breathing point of view, for example.

Lets hope that with the episode of STEPS Reunion on tonight and the promo on friday they can catch up easily!

there are conflicting items written on wikipedia for example. there is an item that suggests that they were signed to ebul. however, there is no evidence to back it up. i was always under the impression they were signed to jive exclusively. that is how they ended up on britney`s us tour. they were label mates.

i am not having a go at steps for miming. most manufactured pop acts at the time were and it still happens today. what i did take exception to, were claims that they never mimed on tour. that is not true.

Jive and Ebul may come under the same parent company...not sure.

I have never seen Steps 'live', so I can't comment...however if I did, I would want them to sound like they do on their tracks.

i maybe wrong, it is easy to prove. someone just needs to look at one of their cds. if ebul was their label, it will be clear for everyone to see. i don't have any of their cds to hand.

I saw Steps live twice as a kid, and where I was too young to care, my Mum says that a fair chunk of the show was mimed. She seems to recall that the slower tracks were sung live though. I think their dancing was the issue, they were pretty non-stop.

It'll be interesting to see if they mime on this tour though. They sang live on This Morning and sounded great. Perhaps they'll mention it on one of remaining reunion shows.

I suspect they won't do quite so much dancing this time around...but if they do, it will be during the instrumental breaks perhaps and / or involve those who aren't singing.

where is steps in midweeks x

There were probably so many screams on tour you could barely hear the vocals anyway! haha

yay! my cd/dvd arrived today. Doesn't the world seem a bit of a brighter place with STEPS around again?

She's probably frightened of them taking away her crown of fastest selling album of the year lol

I do know that! I was speaking in relation to who Pete Waterman was! Please refer to my earlier posts in future when making a decision on what a follow up post was referring to in order to avoid any future confusion.

Check the albums..... The logo for EBUL is on all of them bar The Ultimate Collection.....

I attended at a London (Essex for the Steps Into Summer Tour) date on each tour and they were LIVE.....

You are right. The world does indeed look and sound brighter with the return of Steps. They provide perfect, positive pop. Love it!

Number 2 in the official chart midweek & number 1 on the Itunes chart.

Bought our copy of the GH today! Well, my Mum did. She bought it with her birthday money. It's been played non-stop since we got home. It's such cheese, but it's SO nice to have the music playing again (even if I've been playing it all over the last few months anyway, LOL.)

Gutted I wont be able to go and see the tour though.

Hopefully tonights episode and fridays promo will do just enough to clench the number 1

I hope so If it makes #1 it'll be 10 years to the week that Gold made #1 too

No need to be so blunt..other people read posts too..and you dont even listen when I say how steps were not always live
It isnt dissing them or anything..so i dont know what your problem is

I loved steps back in the day I have gold but I will get it for the dvd I also thought the top 3 albums would be
1/ jason deurlo
2/adele 21
3/ cliff solicious look how wrong I was