Step by Step (song)
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| Single by New Kids on the Block from the album Step by Step |
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| Released | June 30, 1990 | ||||
| Format | CD single |
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| Recorded | 1990 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 4:29 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer(s) | Maurice Starr | ||||
| Producer | Maurice Starr | ||||
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"Step by Step" is the biggest selling single of one of the biggest boy bands in music history, New Kids on the Block. The first single and title track from their third album, Step by Step was released in June 1990, it quickly raced to the top of the charts where it sat for three weeks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and was a platinum certified single. It peaked at #2 in the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #8 in the German charts, the highest of any New Kids on the Block singles in the German charts.
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[edit] Track Listings
Step By Step [Single]
- Step By Step 4:27
- Valentine Girl 3:57
Step By Step [Maxi-CD]
- Step By Step - Radio Edit 3:59
- Step By Step - LP Version 4:27
- Step By Step - 12" Club Remix 5:25
[edit] Achievements
"Step by Step" was voted #4 in a Smash Hits poll of "Best Boyband songs...Ever,".
"Step by Step" was voted #5 in NME's "Top 50 Boyband Records" chart in September 2005.
"Step by Step" made the list of the top 30 Guilty Pleasures on About.com's music site. [1]
"Step by Step" was voted #7 in a viewer poll of the greatest Boy band/Girl band songs on New Zealand show UChoose40. [2]
"Step by Step" was voted #1 in a viewer poll of the greatest Guilty Pleasures on the same show UChoose40. It beat such songs as the classic hit from Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" which finished fourth in the poll. [3]
In August 2007, it was confirmed that "Step by Step" would be part of a 30 song track-list in the new edition of the "Singstar" series titled "SingStar 90s", a karaoke style game on classic 90s songs. [4]
[edit] Trivia
"Step by Step" was sampled by 90s cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers and used the instrumental of the song as its end theme tune.
"Step by Step" was initially not meant to be recorded by the New Kids On The Block but was meant for one of Maurice Starr's other groups, but once the New Kids heard the song they insisted on making it a record for themselves, which it thus did and became their biggest selling single.
"Step by Step" in 2004 made Total Request Live's number one song of the day after a chain letter urged viewers to vote for the song to be made number one, much to Carson Daly's surprise.
"Step by Step" features in Episode 25 of the online dubbed cartoon series Teesside Tintin.
"Step by Step's" video features member Donnie Wahlberg's soon to be famous Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg in the video, he is seen shaking hands with Donnie for a brief few seconds.
[edit] Charts
| Chart (1990) | Peak Position |
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| Australian Singles Chart | 8 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 12 |
| German Singles Chart | 8 |
| French Singles Chart | 10 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 5 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 6 |
| Suiss Singles Chart | 12 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 11 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
[edit] External links
| Preceded by "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette |
ARC Weekly Top 40 number one single June 30, 1990 - July 7, 1990 |
Succeeded by "She Ain't Worth It" by Glenn Medeiros and Bobby Brown |
| Preceded by "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette |
Billboard Hot 100 number one single June 30, 1990 - July 14, 1990 |
Succeeded by "She Ain't Worth It" by Glenn Medeiros and Bobby Brown |
| New Kids on the Block |
| Jonathan Knight | Jordan Knight | Joey McIntyre | Donnie Wahlberg | Danny Wood |
| Production Crew |
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| Producer: Maurice Starr |
| Discography |
| Studio albums: New Kids on the Block | Hangin' Tough | Merry, Merry Christmas | Step by Step | No More Games/The Remix Album | Face the Music | Greatest Hits | Super Hits |
| Singles: 1986: Be My Girl, Stop It Girl | 1988: Please Don't Go Girl, You Got It (The Right Stuff) | 1989: I'll Be Loving You (Forever), Hangin' Tough, Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time), Cover Girl, This One's for the Children, Funky Funky Xmas | 1990: My Favorite Girl, Step by Step, Valentine Girl, Tonight, Let's Try It Again, Games | 1991: Call It What You Want | 1992: If You Go Away | 1993: Dirty Dawg | 1994: Never Let You Go | 2008: Summertime |
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| Categories: New Kids on the Block Songs |
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