Jive Records UK have confirmed the release date for the forthcoming Greatest Hits album, as posted on their official site. It says:

“After taking a well deserved break from work, after the success of ‘Here & Now / You’ll Be Sorry’ Steps are back to promote their brand new single ‘Chain Reaction’. This new single is taken from the forthcoming album ‘Gold – The greatest hits’ due for release on 15th October. Following the single and album the fab 5-some will embark on a nation-wide UK tour. They’ll be coming to a town near you…”
This was reported by Channel 4 Text:

“Steps babe Lisa was stopped in her tracks the other day as she left swish London store Harvey Nicks – setting off the alarm – but don’t fret, she’d paid for her goodies, the security tags had just been left on!”

Just a note here – Jive US’s major act NSYNC suffered a huge chart upset this week in the US – their new album Celebrity suffered a huge drop of sales – 1.5m – and only sold around 450,000 easily being outsold by Now 7 by 200,000 copies – now if only Jive helped Steps more and focused less on NSYNC we would have Steps in the Top 100 in the US!

It’s time to vote again, well not vote exactly – but sign a petition – now I know how you like voting like for GenSTEPS at the Dotmusic Awards & Steps on US radio :o) But here is another US petition. Our friends over at the United Steps of America have a petition up to release the single Stomp in the US! If you agree with them then pop over to here and sign the petition!