Step by Step (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Step by Step
Type = Album
Artist = New Kids on the Block


Released = June 5, 1990
Recorded = 1990
Genre = Pop
Length = 47:44
Label = Columbia
Producer = Maurice Starr
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3hdsa9tgb23f link]
* Entertainment Weekly [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,317627,00.html link]
* Rolling Stone Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/97793/review/6210576?utm_source=Rhapsody&utm_medium=CDreview link]
Last album = "Merry, Merry Christmas"
(1989)
This album = Step by Step
(1990)
Next album = ""
(1991)

"Step by Step" is the third studio album from pop group New Kids on the Block. Released in June 1990, the group at this time was very popular and was being heavily merchandised, with everything from pillowcases, to marbles, to dolls, to a Saturday morning cartoon with their name and likeness. Released to overwhelming commercial reception, "Step by Step" debuted at number one on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and the UK Albums Chart, with the leadoff title track single topping the charts simultaneously and selling nearly three million copies, making it their highest selling single. Another top ten single, "Tonight", followed, as the group embarked on their most ambitious world tour to date.

After having earned success with "Hangin' Tough", the group took a more active role creatively on this album, co-writing and producing several of its tracks. They even started playing instruments on most of their songs. By the end of 1990, in spite of the album having gone multi-platinum, a public backlash against the group occurred, as evident with "Step by Step's" third and last single, "Let's Try It Again," which failed to crack the top fifty.

Track listing

#"Step by Step" (Maurice Starr)
#"Tonight" (Al Lancellotti/Starr)
#"Baby, I Believe in You" (Starr)
#"Call It What You Want" (Starr)
#"Let's Try It Again" (Starr)
#"Happy Birthday" (Starr/Michael Jonzun)
#"Games" (Donnie Wahlberg/Starr)
#"Time Is on Our Side" (Lancellotti/Starr)
#"Where Do I Go from Here?" (Starr)
#"Stay with Me Baby" (Starr)
#"Funny Feeling" (Starr)
#"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" (Danny Wood/T. Ra/Taharqa Aleem/Starr)

ingles

*"Step By Step" - released May 1990
*"Tonight" - released June 1990
*"Let's Try It Again"
*"Valentine Girl"

Chart positions