PIECE OF THE ACTION - THE BEST OF MEAT LOAF
 

53,237 sales since release this year - just thought I'd post a quick update!

so almost silver:up:
thanks

So just over 0.1% of Bat 1 sales ...

and?:?

thanks dude. :idea: its a random statistic, but it is nice to know how our special little record is doing. haven't met a single meat fan who don't like it.

and it's therefore a tiny, irrelevant number.

Unless of course you're the kinda guy who gets all moist at the thought of yet another crap compilation album.

Dave

take it this way: If you had that percentage of alcohol in your blood, you'd be drunk :hic:

holy mother of mercy :shock:

That's not too bad a sales figure for a compilation that's had little or no promotion. Shame Meat's unlikely to see any of the royalties from it.

no not at all, just it will be another sales award for meat
even if he has nothing to do with it? its almost 60,000 sales
some new albums came out this year and barely managed that?
plus it means theres people buying hes stuff, and i dont think its hardcore
fans as they would probably have all the songs 10 times over?
so some casual buyers maybe, and that is a good thing:up:
the only draw back is that meat gets nothing for it:(

Sorry to ask a silly question, but how can Meat not get a penny from the sales of that CD?
That's a shame, he's the artist who's singing and whose name induce people to buy the album.

Florence

Its not silly question. Meat don't get a penny because Meat has been signed under a variety of labels over the years. Labels can make compilation albums using songs Meat has recorded under their label. The record labels like to think they own the songs. Therefore they do as they please. Anything to make a extra buck.

I've only bought 2 ML compilations album over the years. Hits Out Of Hell DVD and Very Best Of. And that went to my Very Best Of ex girlfriends ;)

Hits Out Of Hell is being advertised on u.k tv at the moment.

Must be getting close to Christmas then :))

Still, all good publicity in the build up to the new album.

On a technicality they don't own the songs but depending on what deal the artist signed they may own the recordings, this is all down to who paid for the recording studio which is usually the label. It is unfair but it's only the label and songwriter that get any pennies from releases like this, does explain why Meat gets pissed off with them as well, as someone said earlier it's his name they're buying.

Not really, not if the public think that Meat (even though it has sod all to do with him) is peddling the same old shit over and over and over. Saturation of a variation of the same product can have an adverese effect ;)

hasn't harmed mr steinmans philosphy

Thanks RSG and Monstro for your explanations concerning labels and the way they can earn money on Meat's work without giving him anything back.

But even if there is a deal for the recording, that's nothing less than despoiling of somebody's talent to their sole interest. If I were Meat, I would be disgusted by such a process.

Florence

and im disgusted about henrys hand of God:( boo boo boo!!!!
back on topic then!!:D

Sorry to be French, 80% of the people here are ashamed by the way we were qualified :oops:

i know!! just had to say something;)
no hard feelings:up:

In what way?

maybe he means the way jim keeps re-releasing stuff? recycling the same song? etc etc,,

Like what exactly? You take the songs from a poorly sold Bad For Good album and an even less successful Pandora's Box one aside, what has Jim re-released?

True perhaps. But it's raised his profile in some peoples eyes. I've had discussions with a few people this last week which were prompted by the Hits Out Of Hell advert who didn't know Meat was still recording and were interested to find out that he was ... those conversations wouldn't have happened if there'd been no advert.

Quite funny as this past week a couple of people I chatted to didn't know Meat was still alive :shock:

I have no issue with the Hits Out Of Hell compilation as that was the first Meat Loaf one out there, although people now should really should invest in the Very Best Of... one instead. It's the plethora of other compilation albums out there that bug the cack out of me. Although they don't bug the cack out of me as much as the Bonnie Tyler ones, Jeeezus there's a zillion of them :roll:

Is he? :lmao:


At least VBO was issued with Meat's blessing, whereas Hits Out Of Hell was the first of many compilations released by derivatives of Sony/CBS in an attempt to cash in on Meat.

Dunno ... we never hear from him these days, unlike that Jim guy who is always posting and tweeting ... :lmao:

:twisted: If I remember rightly (which is a rarer and rarer occurance :oops: ) Meat loved Hits Out Of Hell so much, he wanted to buy your copy didn't he Andy? :lol:

Not quite, he bought mine for me to save me wasting my money on it...

:twisted: And you replied to that by buying him a Kajagoogoo album :nope: :doh:

Is that a Jamaican condom or something?

Close enough

I've got that from a few people too. They either think he died, retired, or has not recorded since Bat 2. Nobody I know casually has heard of CHSIBM or Bat 3 (which is probably a good thing). I think his appearance on "Monk" a few weeks back was the most publicity he's had in years, too bad he didn't have the new disc out when it aired.

I thought he had more publicity when he was on House :shrug:

Released on 2nd March 2009 this album has spent every week in the top 200 chart which I think is pretty fantastic for a cheap best off.
It remains in the charts this week with sales of 1,725 taking it total to 93,486 since release.

it has done really well, its gonna be another gold disc for meat:D

Maybe I'm alone in this category, but I really wished "Execution Day" and "Standing on the Outside" would be included in some compilation. Maybe even as a live version or a modern remix/edit to remove the 80s sound, but simply not including them in these collections is wrong in my opinion.

it has a new peak chart position this week of 77 on the uk album chart, it has spent 13 wks in top 100!! its sold 100,000 copies since release:shock:
thats gold in the uk. its done really well for something with no promo!!

its up from 77 to 74:D, 14wks in top 100

It really has been a fantastic album for Sony.
It's by far the best selling album from the Camden double issuse by a long way.

I didn't buy a copy. I'm not one for buying Best Of's unless they have some new tracks/remixes on them (Like VBO)

Sales info on Piece of the Action?
 

Anybody know how many cds have been sold so far?

That's a rather odd choice for a first post. :shrug:

Up to number 85 in the album charts with sales of 149,380! Amazing.
I'd love it to break into the top 40 one week!

Bat is 101 on the Album download chart with total download sales to date of 32,797 - bit pants really.

well i think its amazing its still selling Kev, 40+ million have it already.

Sales to date...starting from when?

40+ million copies might have been sold, doesn't mean 40+ million have it. A lot of people on here have several copies in several formats. Also not forgetting those who replaced their original vinyl for CD ;)

POTA is obviously selling so well cause masculine's on it :))

the same can be said for any old album, 55m dont have Thriller.

That's true, but I'm not in a pissing contest, you were specifically talking about Bat Out Of Hell not Thriller.

I think it was 5 years ago that downloaded albums counted towards the charts wasn't it? That works out at about 126 downloads per week. Not too back thinking about it.

ok, but its sold 43m, maybe 10m+ people have it 4 times? whats the point?

The point was to correct your original statement claiming 40+ million have it already. You've now changed your original statement, so all is good ;)

Does anybody know if this album has been certified gold or not? I know it's sold more than 100,000 copies but, as far as I know, it's up to the record company to certify it. Maybe I'm wrong on that one :-/

I doubt they will, they'll just be happy that the money keeps rolling in :)
Its crazy how many this has sold.

as I said its selling this much beacuse of ....................

:twisted: Sorry, you lost the bet, you're not allowed to mention that song for a month :nope:

which song?

:twisted: Masculine.

I wonder if his sig counts as mentioning the song? :bleh:

Anyway............

It's impressive how well this comilation has done.
Could this be the most successful compilation since Hits Out Of Hell? (not counting VBO :wink: )

just add it too the banned words list

just a thought:

this compilation contains ALL the tracks from Bat Out Of Hell, plus the majority of tracks from the other early albums. Hence it would look enticing to buyers.

3,620 copies sold this week which is more than all the other meaty loaf albums sales this week together :)

It's kind of depressing that such a release can be that successful.

also depressing is ~~~~~~~~ isnt even on the compilation :(

You are obsessed. :weirdo: