FAN CAMPAIGN SINGLE: LIKE A ROSE
 

Last week Leeds United FC got a single into the UK top 10 by harnessing support on Facebook. We believe we have a real chance of getting the chosen single track "Like A Rose" to the top slot in week commencing 14th of June. The song should appeal to Jack Black fans as well, and to young people who might not associate such a ballsy song with someone they might see as an old rocker :)

This project is about smashing into the UK Singles chart. Given we pull it off we can go for other country's charts with another track, but right now we are asking people to download this track from UK sites. You may have the album, but what we're asking is for people to stand up for Meat against the label who fail to vigorously promote singles to gather momentum for the album, and who fail to vigorously promote him, and to support him by downloading a track for around 89p .. less than the cost of one drink on a Friday night.

We have launched a website meatchart.net, and all our promotional materials will be available through there:

http://www.meatchart.net

Meat has millions of loyal fans who love him and support him.

Stand up with us and together we can do this!!

Our plan follows. Nikox will keep you posted on our progress on this thread.

Our plan is in two phases:

GETTING THE WORD OUT runs from now up until Download Day on 14th June.

We need to spread the word as widely as possible using internet, press, news blogs, radio, TV, word of mouth. Meat has millions of fans around the world, and we want to harness the support of as many of them as possible, and here's where we need your help.

Internet.
We have a promotional video and text to accompany it. This needs to be on as many webpages around the world as we can get it to. We need you to host our video and message on your webpages, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, fansite, blog .. whatever you have. And we need you to give a link to meatchart.net to encourage more people to support us and do the same. This needs to spread around the internet like a pandemic, reaching out to the millions of fans who own and love his work.

Wherever you visit on the net we need to get this message out:


When people come to meatchart.net they will be able to get all our promotional materials, plus sign up their commitment to buying the track on 14June, in return getting a signed picture of Meat as a thank you.

Media Coverage
We have a Press Release which will be going to the media on Monday to get this in the news. More and more fans are becoming disillusioned with the way labels treat their cherished iconic performers these days, and are taking matters into their own hands. We intend to capitalise on this. Lorenzoduke is managing our national press campaign.

In addition we need people to volunteer to make contact by phone and email to local radio/TV/newspapers and post on news blogs, spreading the word, and putting the call out to Meat Loaf fans to go to meatchart.net and sign up their commitment to download and to continue spreading the word themselves. Radio stations can't play "Like A Rose" simply because the label hasn't released a second single .. and not one that's almost too hot for airplay :) But it's a story we could interest them in, and just telling listeners to go to meatchart.net would be hugely helpful.

So many people have a story of how Meat's music has touched their lives, often in an incredbly moving way. These human interest stories appeal to the media, and if it grabs their attention, it's another chance to get the word out.

We will have available mini Press Packs for download to help people focus their efforts in the best possible way, and have a team of Local Media Managers who will co-ordinate their efforts and support/advise. 100 calls to the same organisation just tends to piss them off .. we need to be focused, co-ordinated and successful.

The LMMs are:
CarylB
Nikox
Melon
Netty
Snider22
SuzieQ

Please PM them here to offer your support.

Poster Campaign
We have a range of posters to publicise the campaign, which can be downloaded from meatchart.net, and ask people to post them on workplace/recreational notice boards with permission, but not flypost them about in public where they could harm the reputation of the performer they want to support

Mailshots
Rainer has kindly agreed to mailshot the membership list, so please don't be aggravated when you get one which repeats some of this :)
There will also be a reminder on D Day which will give the direct link to the download page on meatchart.net

We're still working on other things, for example harnessing the support of media celebrities, and will update you as and when we have news.

Nikox will post updates on our progress on this thread

LAUNCH DAY 14th JUNE

We will have a new promotional video available from Friday 11 June, which will direct people to meatchart.net to download the single.

Our download page will go live at 12.01am UK time on 14th June. The download sites we will feature will be:
itunes
Amazon.uk
HMV.uk
Tesco

Fans from outside the UK currently cannot download from these sites unless they have a UK bank account or credit/debit card and a UK IP address, but we're working on this to try and find a solution.

We will ensure that all downloads from Amazon.uk are credited to MLUK. We will ask that sites link back to us for downloading to enable this. If anyone wishes people to download the track from their site directly, they will need the relevant urls to ensure this happens, and need to hold back from going live until on or after 00.01am BST.

A second mailshot will go out.

Publicity will continue, with your support, until 19 June at 21.00 BST when the tally of sales will be counted.

This is a time whe Meat's many loyal fans can send a message to the music business, and stand up and be counted in their support of him. Please offer whatever support you can by whatever means we have outlined above, come to http://www.meatchart.net and download as much promotional material as you can use to help make getting Like A Rose to #1 a reality.

Then on 14 June invest 89p in this performer we all follow.

WE CAN DO THIS!!!
LET'S TAKE MEAT TO THE TOP ON 14 JUNE!!!

TOTALLY! THIS WILL BE A SUCCESS.

Here is a complimentary wallpaper. hope you like it. :cool:

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...IKEAROSE-1.png

Wow, this is well beyond a Meat Loaf street team. Excellent job people!!!!!:D

Awesome picture man, I just added to the Facebook Group Page

Thanks

yeah, super!! thanks!! c,mon join up on facebook now!! MAKE MEAT NUMBER ONE:D , not 2 not 3 but number one!!!!!!!!:D

wheres the group page at?

gotta say I'm well impressed with the work gone into this

thank you, lots more to come we hope?

here ya go wario:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...17435914964680

Suzieq

Wario, AWESOME Thanks guys!! Facebook group here guys.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117435914964680

Lol good work Suzie

You too Mel. Virtual high 5.

Yeow!

Good work, I like this better than the video and the posters. :-)

Thanks :) Now we need people to join

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...17435914964680

Pass it on to their contacts and ask them to pass it on to ours

Caryl

I'm there, posted to my profile.

Am about to join the Facebook group - but I really, REALLY, suggest the use of Wario's promo poster, because that is EXACTLY the vibe that will help make this whole thing come off! Brilliant, man.

The facebook page is coming across as a bit too fan-made in the writing - can we work on that? Caryl? I've got a few hours this week if you want any input - mail me. In the mean time, this is what I've got:

The record company wouldn't release it. Radio refused to play it.
Now it's down to YOU.

(insert 'uncle sam' pointing type picture)

Sick of being force-fed factory made drum-looped psuedo-pop?
Feeling insulted by being forced to listen to the bland blathering techno-beats forced down your ears by The Man?
Got a real bad ache for some real, ball-busting, guitar injected super-rock?
Then step right up, 'cos we've got the perfect antidote to the bland, souless, robo-girl garbage flooding the airwaves and rotting our miiiiiiinds.

Remember that funky dude with the huge voice and the weight problem? Well now he's in the studio, with Meat Loaf, and man, it's sounding totally frickin' hot:

(insert sound clip link)

If you want music to surivive in the 21st century, help us to help you - to help them - by downloading the single on June 14th,
and let's rock the charts ... and take our music back again.

Time to stick it to the man, people.


Like A Rose - Meat Loaf/Jack Black.


Disclaimer:
If you're easily offended by the f*ck word, well, what the hell, go buy it anyway. Just don't play it in front of your grandparents.

It still needs a little work ... feel free to play.

Doode :cool:

Doode - I like it man, lets get that sh** posted up there

I agree...the fb group looks a little too....cliqueish. People should set their display pictures to something other than having Meat in them with them. Its probably intimidating to less-dedicated ppl joining the group.

ps we're gonna have a twitter and myspace page soon, im doing them. we need more of a badass writeup like that. Along with the design of the myspace page, which is pretty damn hot, it will really grab you by the balls and make you want to become involved.

I agree. Having looked at some of the profile pictures, they're flat out disturbing.

Hey guys, glad you liked the angle I was going for. It needs some re-wording, but it was a vibe that I wanted to get across that takes away from the whole 'fan-made' angle! However, Caryl has asked me not to post ideas direct to the board - which I may possibly-almost-maybe consider :twisted: - so for now I guess I'll keep it to email unless I feel there's something I need to post.

Feel free to play with the words if you think you can improve on them! I'm all for the collaboration.

Doode :cool:

I've joined the facebook page, and asked all friends on my facebook to do the same :-)

i'd just like to say that you guys are doing an amazing job with all of this. i expected a great effort, but this is truly great :)

All the best
Mike

Best song on the album...so I love it with a Passion!....feels like deja vu to CHSIB...I will take 10!

Love,
Mariella

Fantastic guys, this is going to happen!!!!!

Carole

Well done to everyone who is involved :D All of your hard work and energy is astounding!