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re: "Meat Loaf's Christmas Album"

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Conas 05:26 pm UTC 08/03/11
In reply to: re: "Meat Loaf's Christmas Album" - Vin 10:26 am UTC 08/03/11

Well you have to look at it like this. Meat has sold millions and millions of records he'll never have a problem getting a record deal and releasing albums until the day he retires. His name alone will get him a deal.

I do know that a compilation album of his did better in the UK charts than HCTB which dropped of sooooo fast from the charts it was scary.

> I've wondered about Meat's record deals also. After Bat
> III didn't exactly set the music world afire, I was a bit
> surprised that he was able to score Rob Cavallo and some
> big name guest stars for HCTB, since that suggested a
> large budget for the record, and I wondered what label
> would invest that kind of money in a new Meat record at
> this point. Unless everybody involved just worked cheap
> because they were Meat fans from back in the day....
>
> Anyway, a 3 record deal w/ Sony? Again, surprising. Was
> HCTB a profitable record, do you suppose? Was Bat III, for
> that matter? Anybody have sales figures? Here in the
> U.S., at least, I'd say Bat III was a blip on the
> perimeter of the radar, and HCTB sailed under it. How many
> units must a record sell these days to be profitable? I
> don't actually have any idea...
>



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