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| Single by New Kids on the Block from the album Step by Step |
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| Released | May 1990 | ||||
| Format | CD single |
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| Recorded | 1990 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 4:29 | ||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||
| Writer | Maurice Starr | ||||
| Producer | Maurice Starr | ||||
| New Kids on the Block singles chronology | |||||
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"Step by Step" was the biggest selling single of one of the biggest boy band's 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 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.
Achievements
"Step by Step" was voted #2 in a Smash Hits poll of "Best Boyband songs...Ever," beaten to the #1 spot by Backstreet Boys 1999 hit "I Want It That Way" "Step by Step" made the list of the top 30 Guilty Pleasures on About.com's Top 40 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]
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 |
| Norwegian Singles Chart | 6 |
| Suiss Singles Chart | 17 |
| Swedish Singles Chart | 13 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 1 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
External links
| 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 | Joe McIntyre | Danny Wood | Donnie Wahlberg |
| 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 |
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| Categories: New Kids on the Block Songs |
