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Meat Loaf will be performing his new single tonight The Giving Tree live on Jay Leno in the US.

LMAO so you choose to believe your OWN posters rather than an official company? Says it all really. For your interest I imagine the 2.8million etc. includes the amount shipped to the stores not the amount actually sold. You have NO proof the world music industry is booming. LMAO you are so full of self delusion and arrogance it's amazing, trying to argue with facts that are down in black and white and are irefutable. I don't think I will post here anymore as it's obvious you and your 'very own posters' are in a deluded world of your own. Farewell moron.

Actually I think you need to read what I said. I said Adele is an exception to what is happening the music industry as a whole. It was probably a bad example for me to use Adele and Lady Gaga as examples however as they are mainstream, young and trendy popular acts. Meat loaf has always been niche. You either love him or hate him. As for me not having the facts right don't make me laugh mate. Check the official BPI stats for sales. Lady Gaga has 3,500,000 career sales so far, FACT. The Fame is certified for 1,200,000, FACT. Bat Out Of Hell sold 2,100,000 certified, FACT. You CAN'T argue with facts from the official BPI. Also FACT for you, in 2003 the music industry in the UK was worth £1.22bn, FACT. Year on year since this has fallen until last year the value in this industry had fallen to £795.4m, FACT. It is true digital sales have risen every year for a long time and this is as I said because people are buying individual songs they like, not albums. But they still aren't selling enough to make up for the declining physical sales. I am in the record industry and it absolutely STAGGERS me that you would try to argue with me when the facts are behind me all the way. For you to deny these stats are true is like saying the War didn't happen or something truly ignorant like that.

That's why I said she was a phenomenom lol. I'm not comparing her to Meat overall. I'm saying she's an exception to the declining music sales overall.

I never inferred you weren't a fan, I just don't agree with your analysis. As I stated in my post above it is a fact that year on year I hear on the news that music sales have dipped. There will always be exceptions (whoever the latest popular person is e.g. Gaga or Adele) but on the whole it's dying. There's no getting away from the fact that the digital age and the internet on the whole has had a huge impact on this. More music is being bought digitally, but not necessarily full albums.

The evidence comes out every year mate. Just listen to the news. Every year they come out and say music sales are down. With the exception of phenomenoms (however you spell it) like Adele or Lady Gaga people sell very little. In the UK Lady Gaga only sold 1.2m copies of her album The Fame and yet she's considered one of the biggest stars of all time now. Meat Loafs Bat Out Of Hell sold 2.1m in the UK. Lady Gaga is arguably more mainstream and popular so surely she should have sold more if the music industry is the same now as it was then? People aren't buying as many full albums any more because they can just digitally purchase individual songs. Piracy seems to be a huge drain, youtube is a problem. If someone puts up a song on youtube it's very easy to rip the audio from it and then you've got yourself a pirated single. Singles do absolutely nothing anymore, so much so that people are starting to release singles for free and only digitally as it's not worth the money to make a physical CD anymore. Need I go on?

I don't agree with that at all. For one thing the music industry is dying a slow death anyway so I wouldn't expect there to be as many sales. I also believe a big factor will have been the staggered worldwide release. As it was available in Australia since October that must have had a large impact on sales everywhere. For one reason people would have bought an import copy which wouldn't have counted towards sales here. And for a second thing and probably more likely, piracy. People aren't going to wait 4-5 months for an album that was already released elsewhere. They're going to download it. And once they've got it then it's a question of how decent people are. Will they buy the release properly when it comes out over here? I think we can see these factors have had a huge impact and it would be naive to think otherwise.

So pleased that my favourite artist made No. 5 in the UK album chart. Shows he's still got a lot of fans out there, still popular.

So yesterday I met Meat Loaf at Londons big HMV and got him to sign my copy of his new album, Hell In A Handbasket. It was a great day out, met up with the fan club, waited around telling stories and such, and then got to meet the man himself. I surprised myself with how cool I was and how I wasn't nervous or anything. At the end of the day I realised he's just another guy whose work I greatly admire, so i've no reason to be any more nervous meeting him than he would be meeting me. And i'm good at meeting people anyway. So although it was brief we had a nice exchange of words and I got my album signed, a worthwhile experience. Early indications are that the album will go top 5 this week which is a good result for Meat.

Yeah it's not his best but like you say it's quite consistent.

Meat Loafs new album Hell In A Handbasket released today!

Hey guys, how are you all doing? What you up to? I'm off to an album signing session on the 28th for Meats new album in London!

Meat Loaf's Hell In A Handbasket is BBC Radio 2's album of the week for the next week! Tune in to Ken Bruce every day between 9.30am-12pm to hear it!

Meat Loaf is No. 1 on Play.com pre orders!!!!

Anyway, you can hear some samples from the new album at Amazon now they have it all up.