"Steer" is the first single from

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' second album, ''

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''. The song was released in Australia on 14 April 2007 and became the most-added track that same week. Higgins stated that the song was "about steers" and that she wrote it after overlooking the

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from a bay in

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. The song has instrument backings of acoustic guitar and drums. The single reached the number-one spot on the

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in the first week of its release, dethroning

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's "

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" for a single week. It became Higgins' second number-one single, after 2004's "

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", from her first album ''

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''. At the end of 2007, the song appeared at number 60 on the Australian year-end chart, becoming the second lowest-selling number-one hit of the year (that didn't reach number one in 2006), behind " 2 Hearts" by

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. Despite this, it still received a Gold certification from

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for sales exceeding 35,000 copies. In March 2007, Higgins gave fans the exclusive opportunity to pre-order a personally signed copy of her single "Steer" via SMS.The Harbour Agency
Retrieved 24 May 2007.

Track listing

# "Steer" – 3:53 # "Dusty Road" – 3:14 # "The Battle" – 2:17 # "Leave a Note" (Demo) – 3:43

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Steer (Song) 2007 singles 2007 songs Eleven: A Music Company singles Missy Higgins songs Number-one singles in Australia Song recordings produced by Mitchell Froom Songs written by Missy Higgins