Gold: Greatest Hits (Steps album)
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| Greatest hits album by Steps | ||||
| Released | 15 October 2001 (EU) | |||
| Recorded | 1997-2001 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 75:08 | |||
| Label | Jive | |||
| Producer | Pete Waterman | |||
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| Singles from Gold: Greatest Hits | ||||
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Gold: Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album released by pop group Steps. It reached #1 in the UK charts. The lead single from the album was "Chain Reaction" a cover of Diana Ross's 1980's hit, the single reached #2 in the UK charts and was the group's highest selling single since "Say You'll Be Mine/Better The Devil You Know". The second single from the album, "Words Are Not Enough", a slow ballad was released with a cover of "I Know Him So Well" from Abbamania. The single was notably Steps' first single to have an accompanying video that was almost fully animated and did not feature a dance routine like their video for "Heartbeat". The single reached #5 in the UK charts and was their lowest selling single to date. A release for "Baby Don't Dance" was planned for 2002 but was scrapped due to the group's split although promotional copies surfaced before the release of The Last Dance.
Steps announced the release of their greatest hits album in May 2001, shortly after rumours started surfacing that the group would be splitting up after the release, these were continuously denied by the group during TV shows and interviews.
While discussing the rumours on an interview with whereitsat.tv Lisa stated "I've got to be honest when I was growing up and I had a lot of my favourite bands bring out greatest hits I thought that, that was the end and "That's their final album" and I'm sure a lot of kids think that and a lot of other people but it's not the case we've actually got lots more albums in the pipeline, we're actually song writing right now for the greatest hits and the fourth album after that, so you know we haven't actually discussed splitting up so I don't see why other people should".
Gold: Greatest hits was released on 15 October 2001 in UK and went on to reach the #1 spot two weeks later as well as selling over a million copies giving the album a certification of x4 Platinum.
The album consists of all the singles that the group released except for "You'll Be Sorry". It is notable that the single was not included on the compilation although "Here and Now" was included. Four new tracks including "Chain Reaction" were featured on the album. A song called "Only In My Dreams" was written by the five members of the group with long-time collaborator Frampton, and was the only song off the album not to be released or to be performed live.
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