well javd, your right that the bat 3 sales are good! the way the music world has gone,, westlifes last album sold 300,000 copies less than bat 3 ww [ and look at the huge promotion they get ] mariah careys last album sold 2m ww, so it shows that meat can compete if he gets the right promotion! meat has a fan base ranging from 13 - 70+, he he its crazy but true! so i think that sometimes lets say the older fans that dont use the internet are not as aware of when a new album comes out! the fan base is solid and loyal and if the record company pushes an album just a little bit more than they have been [ meat can have a number one
] its all coming back to me charted fairly well in countries it got proper promotion and air play!
and thats why i say getting a song on the radio is so important! tv and music channels are also good promotion [ but radio is still number one ] going to and back from work people listen to the radio, and if people like a song [ they buy it or download it!! ] bat 3 was all set to do even better than it did,,
blind as a bat was perfect as a single [ he performed it at the royal variety in front of 13m viewers! it was due out in january [ a weak sales month ] it would of stormed the top 10, and then they pull it at the last minute! why?
this is just an example -- the pet shop boys are with parlaphone records for years now, the last 10 years or so mainly just the fan base has bought there records, so no really mainstream albums in that time! but they usually go top 10 with an album [ the big difference to meat is that there record company let them release 3 - 4 singles off an album? ] now meat would sell more albums these days than them [ but meat gets to release the first single and then has to wait 7 - 8 months for the second? ] a second single must come out 3 months or so after the album is released [ or its dead in the water ]
meat is well able to have a top 10 with the first single, then at least top 20 with the second, 3rd singles are always harder? and yes bat 3 sold what it did by its name, the promotion wasnt too bad at the start [ pretty good ]
but it stopped after 1 month, and then no second single when it was so badly needed! so i will shut up now and hope they get it right next time