STEPS SNUB WESTLIFE October 2000 - Dotmusic
Ooh! One of my favourite bands slagging off my other fave band! Argh!
"Steps have snubbed Irish popsters Westlife accusing them of having an easy time finding fame. This is apparently because their manager is Boyzone front man Ronan Keating and because they release singles in slack weeks. The pop band have claimed that they have had superior album sales than the boy band, even though Westlife have gone straight to number one with every single they've ever released.
Steps' Claire Richards told entertainment magazine 'Heat': "They've done really well but we've sold more albums than them and you'll go into a room and everyone's paying attention to them. . . Westlife get a lot of credibility it is very hard sometimes when that happens." Her tirade continued: "I won't slag anyone off who does this job, but it's like we worked for a year before we got a number one and we worked hard. But all of a sudden, because they've got this manager who's really famous, it all seems to come easy."
Steps have only had one number one hit but have spent many weeks in the charts at number two. Richards has her own theory as to why this is. She said: "They always seem to release in a week where there's nothing else or there's really low sales so they've always just been really lucky.""