Location and Production
The music for the series was produced by Almighty Records. Because of the TV show, it was the Queer As Folk CD soundtrack, which went gold within one month of going on sale in March 1999 in the UK, that has become the most successful project the label has ever taken on. The release of this CD followed a request from the makers of the TV series, Red Productions, after another major record company turned down the opportunity due to poor rating of previous 'music-led' television shows on Channel 4.
Given a list of tracks, Almighty had 1 month to compile the music. However, some tracks could not be cleared in time for the release mainly due to time scales, including one by Steps who initially said that the show would be too 'low profile' for them to be associated with. It was the success of this album that prompted Channel 4 launch their own music division when the second series of Queer As Folk was made — an international franchise that is still around today.
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