Steppes top chart

In celebration of world pop group Steppes hitting no.1 in the UK album chart, we've decided to go on a pilgrimage to their origin in Kazakhstan: the great steppe. In their early days Steppes played gigs supporting Genghis Khan and were later signed to bigger labels such as the Tsars and the USSR - the latter of which was a period where the band produced the hit single Better Best Forgotten, written about the gulag, Chain Reaction, which is about the nuclear test sites, and Tragedy which is about the ecological disaster in the Aral Sea area.

World pop group, Steppes. Big, arid, and tragic.

When the USSR record label broke up the band followed the trend at the time and signed up to an independent label in 1991. They released the single It's The Way You Make Me Feel to explain why they left the USSR label [citation needed]. The band threatened to break up but have stayed together over the years.