Digital Singles Sales
As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between one album and one digital single.
Bat Out of Hell (1977) – 336,000 equivalent albums
Bat Out of Hell – 530,000
You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) – 430,000
Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad – 520,000
Paradise by the Dashboard Light – 660,000
Remaining tracks – 100,000
Dead Ringer (1981) – 11,000 equivalent albums
Dead Ringer for Love – 60,000
Remaining tracks – 10,000
Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983) – 1,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 5,000
Bad Attitude (1984) – 1,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 5,000
Blind Before I Stop (1986) – 0 equivalent album
All tracks – irrelevant amount.
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993) – 150,000 equivalent albums
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) – 850,000
Remaining tracks – 150,000
Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995) – 15,000 equivalent albums
I’d Lie for You (And That’s the Truth) – 80,000
Remaining tracks – 20,000
Couldn’t Have Said It Better (2003) – 6,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 40,000
Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006) – 32,000 equivalent albums
It’s All Coming Back to Me Now – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 60,000
Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010) – 5,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 30,000
Hell in a Handbasket (2011) – 3,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 20,000
Braver Than We Are (2016) – 2,000 equivalent albums
All tracks – 10,000
Orphan – 24,000 equivalent albums
Hot Patootie – 150,000
Remaining tracks – 10,000
Overall, downloads of Meat Loaf are bad. The 4 popular tracks from Bat Out Of Hell sold around half a million each. Paradise by the Dashboard Light leads the way thanks to larger North American numbers.
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) disappointingly fails to break the million mark. The lack of love from key downloads markets like South Korea no doubt impact its results ngatively. It’s still the highest selling download of Meat Loaf.
RIP Meat! Here’s a look at some Spotify figures for his hits/albums. Meat Loaf’s discography hasn’t survived the streaming age well. His biggest album is obviously his debut smash “Bat Out of Hell”, but even that one has rather disappointing streaming figures. The raw figure for the BOOH album is 269.2M plays – far from the 500M mark to make it to the list of big streaming albums of 1977. A list led by “Rumours” with a whopping 3032.8M plays! Anyway, all told (incl. live vers. etc) here are the figures for the 7 tracks on his iconic debut: 2… Read more »
I was chatting with him privately, a few months ago, about something similar. My point was that the popularity of Don’t Stop Me Now, nowadays is not the same as it was back in the day (70s, 80s and 90s). It only became such a favourite and their 2nd most popular track, sometime in the 00s. I wouldn’t say it was a forgotten about track but so many of their other songs, were clearly and evidently more popular, more well known, more talked about, more played etc. IMO it gets a greater share of comps sales than it should, because… Read more »
Hi Thomas! These annual YouTube views give a quite clear reason of the share update: Dead Ringer For Love Sweden – 113k, #2 of the artist, 10% of his total views UK – 1.34m, #6 of the artist, 5% of his total views Brazil – 12.3k, #8 of the artist, 1.5% of his total views Basically, the track is way stronger on markets that had a head start on Spotify. As the platform got more global, it is going down to a more realistic position on his discography. These ‘shifts’ are always going to happen, but as streams and years… Read more »
Makes sense, thanks!
RIP
Now that you did Meatloaf how about doing Credence? C’mon guys everybody would love to see Credence!