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Meat Loaf Makes The Top Three In Capital Gold's All-Time Top 500 Albums Chart
Meat Loaf narrowly missed out on the top spot in Capital Gold's All-Time Top
500 Albums Chart as verified by the UK's official chart company.
Queen topped the chart with their 1981 album, 'Greatest Hits' with Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell' coming in second place. The chart, based on an album's chart positions and the numbers of week spent in the UK Top 75 album chart, was played out in full on the UK radio station on Easter Bank Holiday Monday April 17.
Along with 'Bat Out Of Hell', Meat Loaf scored another two entries in the chart. To see which of Meat Loaf's albums made it into the Top 500 and to see the full chart, go to http://www.capitalgold.com/top500albums (http://www.capitalgold.com/top500albums)
PanicLord
25 Apr 2006, 19:03
Cool! How great is that? Plus Bat 2 and Dead Ringer in there as well. Congratulations Meat, here's hoping Bat 3 appears in the next list, and helps Bat 1 sales too!
3 albums in an all time top 500..... Brilliant!!!
Way to go, Meat!
RadioMaster
25 Apr 2006, 19:36
Great, but nobody is better than Queen!
There is a list for Germany, too, but BOOH wasnīt in there! The only thing in was Bat2 on 91 or 92, i donīt know exactly.
Meat Loaf Makes The Top Three In Capital Gold's All-Time Top 500 Albums Chart
Meat Loaf narrowly missed out on the top spot in Capital Gold's All-Time Top
500 Albums Chart as verified by the UK's official chart company.
Queen topped the chart with their 1981 album, 'Greatest Hits' with Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell' coming in second place. The chart, based on an album's chart positions and the numbers of week spent in the UK Top 75 album chart, was played out in full on the UK radio station on Easter Bank Holiday Monday April 17.
Along with 'Bat Out Of Hell', Meat Loaf scored another two entries in the chart. To see which of Meat Loaf's albums made it into the Top 500 and to see the full chart, go to http://www.capitalgold.com/top500albums (http://www.capitalgold.com/top500albums)
Diane, what is this site? I've never heard of it. (States here) Is this only for England? Is BOOH still holding the best selling debut album of all times title?
Capitol Gold is a London based "oldies" station that broadcasts across London and some areas of the UK (in Radio terms in the UK anything released more than about 5 years ago is classed as an oldie these days).
Nice to see Meat in there 3 times, and BAT as the all time favourite "non bext of album" is an achievement worthy of the record!
Capital Gold is a UK radio station. The figures they have used are based on the official UK album charts.
I am not sure about the UK but in America BOOH is now joint 4th highest selling debut album.
1: Boston Boston - 17 million
2: Hootie & The Blowfish Cracked Rear View - 16 million
2: Alanis Morrisette Jagged little Pill - 16 Million
3: Guns n Roses Appetite For Destruction - 15 million
4: Meat loaf Bat out Of Hell - 14 million
4: Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys - 14 million
Capital Gold is a UK radio station. The figures they have used are based on the official UK album charts.
I am not sure about the UK but in America BOOH is now joint 4th highest selling debut album.
1: Boston Boston - 17 million
2: Hootie & The Blowfish Cracked Rear View - 16 million
2: Alanis Morrisette Jagged little Pill - 16 Million
3: Guns n Roses Appetite For Destruction - 15 million
4: Meat loaf Bat out Of Hell - 14 million
4: Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys - 14 million
If no 2 is tied, doesn't that make GnR number 4, with Meat and BB joint 5th?(next place no.7)
SuperLoafMan
26 Apr 2006, 10:51
Absolutely Brilliant News!!!
Pudding
26 Apr 2006, 11:19
If no 2 is tied, doesn't that make GnR number 4, with Meat and BB joint 5th?(next place no.7)
You are correct, well spotted.
So this list is based primarily on factual data like album sales and NOT some spotty kids opinion?
Pud :twisted:
rockfenris2005
26 Apr 2006, 11:36
I must say this is a cool consolation.. after reading a copy of "1000 albums you have to hear before you die" which didn't even mention anything Meat or Jim.
That, I'm sorry, is just blasphemous LOL
Pudding
26 Apr 2006, 12:59
What the hell are you talking about? Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell is listed and also Sisters of Mercy Floodland
You can go to http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm and look at the list online.
But for the most part (90% at least) that list is utter --->:shit: probably trumped up by some glue sniffing kids :retard:
Pud :twisted:
... getting this back on topic. This is about the Capital Gold Chart as verified by the UK's official chart company.
I'm excited that "BOOH" was only narrowly pipped to the top spot by Queen. Hopefully with the release of Meat's new album and the promo surrounding it, "BOOH" sales will once again be given a big enough boost to reverse the position at the top!
It's also interesting to note that Meat has an album in that chart from each decade since the release of BOOH up to the 90's. It's time for this decade's entry!
:mrgreen:
Diane
And with only an album of Queen that did beat him; he could have done worse...Considering the fact it is a UK chart and Queen is from the UK.
Absolutely right Ankie ... it's a wonderful feat. :cool:
Diane
Didn't Bat sell over 35 million copies or is this just in the states?
Didn't Bat sell over 35 million copies or is this just in the states?
That would be a wordwide figure.
And with only an album of Queen that did beat him; he could have done worse...Considering the fact it is a UK chart and Queen is from the UK.
Actually, that's what I was referring to...to me it was amazing that in UK by the statistics I know BOOH was the best selling debut album ever. Which means that it was ahead of Beatles...kind of mind boggling. I am not sure these statistics still stand but now I understand that place number 2 after Queen is certainly a great honor in these new statistics.
wenners
27 Apr 2006, 22:03
If you think about it Bat out of hell came first as the Queen album was a greatest hits and therfore not an original album??????
Who would have thought that when i was 15 in 79 all my friends thought i was wierd listening to Bat that it would be the greatest album????
If you think about it Bat out of hell came first as the Queen album was a greatest hits and therfore not an original album??????
Who would have thought that when i was 15 in 79 all my friends thought i was wierd listening to Bat that it would be the greatest album????
I guess they base it on sales and not on originality
Awesome News!!!
Congrats Meat. :))
J.
ChrisBelfast
04 May 2006, 01:25
Following on from this, one of Northern Irelands biggest radio stations did their own top 100 voted by listeners.....
click below to see the results
http://www.downtown.co.uk/Article.asp?id=22363
Excellent - of course that list didn't include "greatest hits" collections.
Following on from this, one of Northern Irelands biggest radio stations did their own top 100 voted by listeners.....
click below to see the results
http://www.downtown.co.uk/Article.asp?id=22363
Great!!! Thank you!!!
Hypnobabe
04 May 2006, 13:57
Following on from this, one of Northern Irelands biggest radio stations did their own top 100 voted by listeners.....
click below to see the results
http://www.downtown.co.uk/Article.asp?id=22363
:???: Hmmm.... did you spend a week on the phone to them, ChrisNI? :lol:
RadioMaster
04 May 2006, 18:13
Wow...BOOH#1! Great! People in Nothern Ireland got a real god taste of music!
But,... Where is Stairway to Heaven???
Wow...BOOH#1! Great! People in Nothern Ireland got a real god taste of music!
But,... Where is Stairway to Heaven???
It wasn't an album...
RadioMaster
05 May 2006, 15:21
Right,
I havenīt seen that the list is about albums, i just looked at it and saw BOOH and thought it was about songs. when i looked a second time i noticed it.
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