BBC RADIO 2 PLAYLIST

LUTW has been playlisted by BBC Radio 2.

It's only the C List but hopefully it will get the single heard by a wider audience and be the start of some more promo to come! 

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

Today steps were holding their attempt at breaking a world record! Heres a snap from the event

TV AD & BEHIND THE SCENES

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Behind The Scenes

PERSONALISED LUTW ALBUM & MORE NEWS SNIPPETS

You can now preorder the LUTW album and personalise it with your own picture and text all for £9.99!
http://www.mixpixie.com/steps/

Check out the back cover of the album

As you can see from the back cover the rest of the album (apart from the single which was produced by Topham & Twigg) is produced by Steve Lipson who has produced tracks for Cher, Will Young (Leave Right Now), Ronan, SClub7, Jordin Sparks and Natalie Imbriglia (Shiver).
Also Lee confirmed that the album's opener History Is Made At Night is indeed the song from the TV show Smash. 
Steps didn't appear on Xtra Factor last night so keep your eyes peeled as they may pop up on tonights show. 
*update* Light Up The World single charted at number 82.

XTRA FACTOR

Rumour has it the band are appearing on tonight's xtra factor on itv2, no word as to what they're doing yet!

LUTW TV AD

Lisa's confirmed that the band filmed a tv ad yesterday for the album

PROMO

An update from H about today's antics!

MID WEEK CHART

Unfortunately it's bad news as Light Up The World isn't currently in the midweek Top 40, and the song is slowly slipping down both the Itunes and amazon charts so it doesn't look likely that it will enter the Top 40 come Sunday. Let's hope the album fares better and you never know the single might pick up once the promo picks up! 

TUESDAY'S CHART UPDATE

As expected LUTW is slowly slipping down the Itunes chart. The gang have been tweeting and promoting the single however H has tweeted saying that they have lots of promo lined up for the album and the single was only ever meant to be a taster for the album.

TWITTER ROUND UP!

So far we've tweeted over a hundred celebs and shows and had retweets from the likes of Lisa Riley and Claire Sweeney! Aswell as some love from Claire & H, join in on the twitter fun by following us @Steptasticblog and also tweeting this to as many people/shows/magazines etc as you can think of


Steps new single - out now! Please RT. 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755 #lightuptheworld

SINGLE INFO

So today the single has been up to No. 23 on Itunes and is now slowly slipping back down so if you've not downloaded it - do so either at Itunes
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755
OR
Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Light-Up-The-World/dp/B009SUGYKS/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1350935125&sr=8-10

Also please Retweet this and send to as many Celebs/People as possible to try and get them to retweet it and get some viral promo going and raise the awareness of the fact that Steps actually have a single out.
"Steps new single - out now! Please RT. 
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world/id571749751?i=571749755"
And please bombard radio stations and anyone else you can think of to get them to play the song! So far no promo is planned although Alan Tichmarsh did say the band were on this week but no further news as to what day or if it's still happening! 

DOWNLOAD

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/light-up-the-world-single/id571749751
Get Downloading the single now!

BARGAIN ALBUM PRICE

Sainsbury's have the bands new album available to preorder at a bargain price of 6.99! So if you've not preordered yet - what's stopping you!?
Sainsburys
Don't forget to get downloading the single tomorrow!! 

NEWS ROUNDUP

The single is now out in Ireland and here's the official cover

And a picture from yesterdays perfume launch

• Single is released in the UK Monday (22nd October) and today in ROI.
• Currently just a one track release
• There is currently no news on the physical release
• There are currently no plans for a video, but there may be a montage of clips released to support the release
• Fragrance will be released November 5th
• Songs performed at the fragrance launch - Light Up The World, Tragedy & Deeper Shade Of Blue

GUILTY PLEASURE

Check out the first picture of steps with their fragrance! They're performing LUTW for the first time today aswell! Don't forget the singles out on Monday!
*update* another picture of the fragrance

BEHIND THE SCENES

Check out this behind the scenes footage from the Light Up The World Photoshoot.

WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT

British pop sensation Steps are on a mission to make dance-a-thon history this half term by setting a Guinness World Record title for the largest number of people dancing to 90’s hit Tragedy – 180,000 in fact!

Steps fans and dance floor divas young and old are being urged to hot shoe shuffle down to South East London on Wednesday 31st October to join the band in making world record history.

The attempt, being hosted at Sainsbury’s, Stadium Way, Crayford at 3.30pm, marks the eagerly awaited Blu-Ray and DVD release of STEPS: The Ultimate Tour Live which is available to buy from 29th October.

Their sell-out 22-date 2012 arena tour across the UK saw Steps rounding up 179,850 fans to join in the iconic moves.  And now the band is on the hunt for willing participants to hit the magic number of 180,000. Steps fans and first timers, shoppers and store staff are all being urged to take part.

Claire – who will be joined as usual by H, Lee, Lisa and Faye for the record attempt – says: “Thousands of fans have already danced their socks off to Tragedy in support of our world record attempt, and this dance-a-thon finale is our chance to step into the record books – but we need wiling participants to come out in force!”

World record advisor, Thomasina Gibson, who will be at the event, says; “This is a fantastic and fun opportunity for people of all ages to perform one of the world’s most popular pop classics and share a unique moment in time.

“Although this is a brand new record attempt, Steps have set the bar high as they wanted as many fans as possible to be a part of record breaking history. But I’m confident this final Tragedy show down will have them stepping up to the mark.”

For those participants whose dancing skills are ‘better best forgotten’, Gareth Walker, the Ultimate Tour’s show director and choreographer, will be teaching the infections moves, and STEPS will be dancing to the hit live on stage inside the supermarket.

Sainsbury’s Store Manager, Robert Johnson, says: “We are really excited to be welcoming Steps centre stage at our store for this tragedy-spectacular to mark their tour DVD release. It’s not often we see shoppers dancing down the aisles so this will be something else!”

To take part, people should e-mail stepsrecord@consolidatedpr.com.  Full details will be sent to anyone who registers. The first 50 people who sign up and attend will receive a Steps goodie bag, and one participant on the day will bag a trolley full of their favourite items to the value of £250.  Steps will also be meeting fans and signing copies of their new DVD in store after the record attempt has taken place.

Notice:

All under 16’s will need to be accompanied by an adult (over 18) who will also be required to take part.  You must be over 16 to register. Those who turn up who have not registered will not be permitted to participate in the Guinness World Record attempt.

HIT FACTORY

Hit Factory live has been rescheduled for December 21st tickets go on sale 9am 19th October

LUTW LYRIC VIDEO & REVIEW

Check out the official lyric video to the new single. And also check out what digitalspy.co.uk had to say about the comeback single
Steps: 'Light Up The World' (out November 12)
Following their chart-topping greatest hits last year, Steps will return this Christmas with their first proper album in almost 12 years, called Light Up The World. If the title track is anything to go by, they've not lost their knack for a warm and fuzzy yuletide anthem.
So apart from the release date being wrong not too bad for a first review. 

LUTW Link

Have a listen to LUTW. And remember to buy the single on Oct 22nd and check out the pic of the gang at Radio 2 earlier on.

LUTW TRACKLISTING

Check out the albums tracklisting.

Update:
The singles out Oct 22nd
Perfume is out the first week of Nov!

LIGHT UP THE WORLD & OTHER NEWS

Don't forget to tune into Graham Norton on Radio2 tomorrow at around 12 to catch the band chatting with Graham and playing their first new single in 11 years!!! 
Also Claire has tweeted that there won't be any dancers on the Christmas tour, just the 5 of them! 
Also please spread the word about the blog wherever you can!

THURSDAY'S NEWS

A few bits and bobs from today.

• Check out the trailer for the Ultimate Tour DVD - released on Oct 29th
• LUTW album is currently number 34 on hmv preorders!  
• The gang are going to switching on the Yale Shopping Centre Xmas Lights - more infor at www.yaleshoppingcentre.co.uk

TODAY'S NEWS

More news on the radio premiere - the gang will be live with graham from 12 on Saturday for a chat and to play the new single!
It's also been confirmed that the bands first fragrance will indeed be called "guilty pleasure" and there's a perfume launch on the 18th October to which you can win tickets via the bands official Facebook page!
And more news on the single - 'It's a real winter warmer' we've been told... 

LUTW PROMO

So it seems that the band are kicking off their promo for LUTW tomorrow, rumour has it they've got an interview with Capital Fm tomorrow. H and Claire have also tweeted about the exciting/exhausting promo tour they're about to embark on. 

GUILTY PLEASURE

It's been alleged that Steps first fragrance is entitled "Guilty Pleasure" we're not entirely sure how we feel about the whole idea at the moment.

LUTW TRACKLISTING

More news from the official steps camp that the tracklisitng for the album will be revealed this week...

SUNDAYS NEWS

A quick search on ASCAP (the American society of composers authors and publishers) shows an entry for LUTW by Graham Stack / Paul Barry / Stephen Allen Davis. The said team were behind Chain Reaction, Turn Around and H&Claires debut Dj. Only 6 days until we get to hear the song! Excited!?!
Also rumours are circulating about more Christmas light switch on's...

MORE LUTW NEWS

More news about the upcoming single! Seems that the new single has been wrote by the same people behind the bands back catalogue - does that mean pwl? Topham & twigg? Let's hope so and not the same team behind dancing queen!

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH ON

The gang are confirmed to be switching on stockports crimbo lights on Wednesday 14th November!

LUTW FIRST PLAY

H has just revealed that the first play of the bands new single will be on the graham norton show on Saturday 13th between 10am and 1!

Preorder for £9!

Light Up The World is now down to the bargain price of £9 on amazon!

So if you haven't preordered already - click on the link below

Amazon Pre order

LATEST TWEETS

Lisa has just tweeted that the gang are filming tomorrow for the new album. 

TWITTER ROUND UP

All the latest news from the bands tweets:

- Light Up The World is the only new track on the album
- Light Up The World is completely new - not the tweenies or the glee song. 
- The album contains 10 tracks "part xmas, part lovely covers"
- The band are currently working on arranging album signings. 
- The tour is all but sold out.

And you can now also preorder the album at amazon, click on the link to preorder now!

Amazon Pre Order