I'd venture to say that single sales mean MORE now than they had in the past. Especially with digital downloads, artists can make the big chunk of change off one song ignoring the rest of the album. Works even better if you have multiple singles. The only artists that don't NEED to rely on singles are very established artists, and even they benefit from a hit song (Madonna, Mariah. I think with the sales of Bat 3 it proved that the public didn't find any of Meat's new sigles catchy and he's not as established as the record company thought he was. His name alone wasn't enough to sell the album, and the songs were not strong enough to sell the album.
I don't know how Bat 3 did overall, but it was an epic fail in America. I fear Meat's next album will do even worse. But, personally I like Bat 3, but understand why the public did not.
> Back in '95 when Welcome To The Neighbourhood was
> released, single sales still meant something. But that
> aside, my point was to point out that Bat1 single sales
> did shit, so for batoutofhell77 to use them as an example
> of success Meat and Jim had above and beyond Jims other
> successes with other artists is rather dopey...IMO
>
> > i dont think you can compare single sales from then and
> > now, lets face it now days you only need to sell 2 singles
> > to have a number 1,
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