MEAT LOAF’S BIGGEST TRACKS
The list is compiled in album equivalent sales generated by each song. Therefore, these figures are not merged units of singles formats. Instead, it includes weighted sales of the song’s physical single, download, ringtone and streaming as well as its share among sales of all albums on which it is featured.
1. 1993 – Meat Loaf ft. Lorraine Crosby – I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) [Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell] – 13,140,000
2. 1977 – Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light [Bat Out of Hell] – 11,600,000
3. 1977 – Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell [Bat Out of Hell] – 9,070,000
4. 1977 – Meat Loaf – Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad [Bat Out of Hell] – 6,630,000
5. 1977 – Meat Loaf – You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) [Bat Out of Hell] – 4,940,000
6. 1981 – Meat Loaf ft. Cher – Dead Ringer for Love [Dead Ringer] – 2,760,000
7. 1995 – Meat Loaf – I’d Lie for You (And That’s the Truth) [Welcome to the Neighbourhood] – 1,540,000
8. 1977 – Meat Loaf – Heaven Can Wait [Bat Out of Hell] – 1,410,000
9. 1977 – Meat Loaf – For Crying Out Loud [Bat Out of Hell] – 1,010,000
10. 1993 – Meat Loaf – Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through [Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell] – 910,000
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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!