"Heartbeat" | ||||
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Single by Steps | ||||
from the album Step One | ||||
A-side | "Tragedy" | |||
Released | 9 November 1998 | |||
Recorded | 1998 | |||
Studio | PWL (Manchester, England) | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Length | 4:24 | |||
Label | ||||
Songwriter(s) | Jackie James | |||
Producer(s) |
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Steps singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Heartbeat" on YouTube |
"Heartbeat" is a song by British pop group Steps, from their debut studio album Step One (1998). Issued as a double A-side with their cover of the 1979 Bee Gees single "Tragedy", it was released on 9 November 1998 as the fourth single off the album. "Heartbeat" was solely written by Jackie James, and it was the first ballad released as a single by the group. While promoting the 2012 Hit Factory Live event, Pete Waterman revealed that the song had sat in a drawer for years before he gave it to the band to record.
"Heartbeat" / "Tragedy" reached number one in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. In the former country, it spent 30 weeks on the UK Singles Chart and sold more copies than all three previous Steps singles combined, with 1.21 million copies sold in the UK.[1] The music video for the song features the band trying to rescue member Ian "H" Watkins from the Ice Queen.