All the figures are just guess work.
It's amazingly hard to know any figures as they are not all counted towards the chart/totals.
As of last week though, the official total for The Very Best Of for the UK was 612,283 since it's release in 98.
Every now and then another album pops in. Bat Out Of Hell had sold 1,995,940 as of last week, but that is only the CD release counting of the single CD version and the re-vamped version. The sales of the double pack with hits out of hell dvd and the Dead Ringer/Bat Out Of Hell don't count towards that total.
Also, Meat has a high number of albums that are thrown out by the record companies which usually sell well, or they wouldn't keep releasing them.
Should any other Meaty title enter the top 200 I'll be able to give the exact official figure for that release.
Dead Ringer was Meat's first UK number 1 album at a time when it wasn't exactly easy to gain that position. Bat never made it there and sales were much higher in the early 80s. Such a low figure for the total worldwide sales is an absolute joke. I don't believe for a sinlge second that it is 3m. The album also sold well during the release of Bat 2 when it (DR) was reissued on CD along with the first bat.
Everyone has their own set of figures but none of us really know.
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