Three years after they staged the UK’s most successful comeback of the decade, pop legends Steps – Claire, Faye, H, Lee and Lisa – return with their new album, What The Future Holds, to be released on November 27 via BMG and the sure-to-be epic, What The Future Holds 2021 Tour, starting in Sheffield on November 2, 2021.

Kicking off a flurry of exciting news, the five-piece premiered their first single ‘What The Future Holds’ on Zoe Ball’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show. Steps will be joined on tour by the brilliant Sophie Ellis-Bextor as special guest.

Built around a typically Steps-esque bittersweet refrain of “one foot in the past and one foot in the future”, the album’s thundering, gloriously dramatic title track was penned by pop queen Sia and is the perfect statement for a band who have taken a wave of nostalgia and alchemised it into an album full of future anthems.

What The Future Holds is their sixth studio album and their most ambitious album to date that showcases the big melodic choruses of their top-tier bangers but also brings back the harmony-laden ballads and some atmospheric mid-tempos.

Speaking of the album and tour, Steps said, “We will never forget the past with Steps, it’s what made us, but we’ve got to look to the future too. We were so thrilled that the last album was a success and it gave us a new lease of life. Performing live has always been our favourite part of being in Steps – we had the most fun of our career on the last tour and we’re already planning for the next one to be our biggest spectacle yet. We’re also thrilled to have Sophie Ellis-Bextor as our special guest on the What The Future Holds 2021 Tour – her catalogue is full of floor-fillers and she knows how to get any party started. We are so excited for everyone to hear this new album and to come join us on tour.”