Steps were a British dance-pop group consisting of Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Lisa Scott-Lee, Ian "H" Watkins and Lee Latchford-Evans. Steps formed in May 1997 and released four studio albums, three compilation albums and seventeen singles. Their music has a 1990s dance-pop, house, electropop and bubblegum dance sound. Their name was based on a marketing premise: that each of their music videos were to be choreographed, and the dance steps were included in the sleeve with most of their singles.