Conquer America, Start with a Boxing Champion

"Hey, Link, can you win?"

Dino called from New York.

Link stood in the hallway of the Los Angeles Public Library, walking and talking on the phone, saying, "This is selling albums, not boxing matches. I can't be sure how many albums can be sold in the first week until the results come out. Do you want to bet?"

"Yes, I'm going to bet some pocket money."

"Okay, how was Mario's match?"

"Of course he won. The first opponent was a stepping stone I specially arranged for him. Mario knocked out the opponent in just three rounds."

Dino said.

Link thought of Mickey Ward in "The Fighter", who was also a stepping stone boxer at first.

"Mario has a problem with his mentality. He is prone to pride after winning. If you want to train him, find him some powerful opponents and hit him more. Maybe he will become more powerful."

"It seems like that. Okay, I'll find him a powerful opponent in the next game."

Dino smiled.

Link smiled lightly, handed the phone to Anna, and walked to the square in front of the library.

"Link!!"

Seeing him appear, thousands of fans in the square shouted loudly.

Today is the first day of the release of the second album. The California regional album distribution company held an album release conference here to expand publicity.

At the conference, Link sang "Keep On Movin'" and "Rainbow" from the second album on the stage, and also invited Joaquin Phoenix to the stage to sing the popular song "Believer" together.

Joaquin Phoenix once said that he liked this song very much, especially the phrase "Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer", so Link specially invited him to be the guest singer of the conference.

When Joaquin Phoenix sang, he held the microphone tightly with both hands, with a ferocious expression on his face, and was very involved, almost defeating him as the original singer.

The response of the fans in the audience was also extremely enthusiastic and thunderous applause.

After the concert, Link signed autographs for fans in the second-floor lobby of the library under the arrangement of the publisher.

On the first day, he signed 8,600 albums at the public library, which did not break the previous record. The main reason was that the concert took two hours and the employees of the distribution company had to get off work on time.

On the first day, the second album "Go Forward" sold 54,000 copies in record stores in various states in the United States, and 88,000 copies of online digital albums, with a total sales of 142,000 copies.

It was only 84,000 copies less than the album "BLACK summers'night" that topped the Billboard album sales chart last week. It started very well and had a great chance to win the album chart weekly championship.

But considering that Jay-Z's "The Blueprint 3" is about to be released to the public, he and the distribution team cannot slack off for the time being.

The next day, he participated in two signing sessions at the Los Angeles Central Subway Station and the City Concert Hall, and gave away 13,500 signed albums. There is no doubt that he was on the news again. The fast gunman Link is back.

In the following days, he held more than ten album signings in major cities in the United States, including New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas, Charleston, etc., and invited singers such as Taylor, Lana, Wiz, Mars, Little Bobby, Selena, Snoop Dogg, etc. to come to support.

When he returned to New York for the signing, Eminem took the initiative to call him, hoping to attend his signing.

After meeting, Eminem explained to him the last "Forever" incident. During that time, he was in seclusion in the music studio. After coming out, he learned that Lil Wayne released the single in advance. He himself was not interested in competing for the charts.

Link heard some rumors that Eminem and Lil Wayne had a quarrel once, and it was Jay-Z who intervened and the two sides did not fight.

For this matter, he would not blame Eminem, because the two sides were competing for the charts, and losing would not harm him.

At the signing event in New York, Link and Eminem sang "Lighters" together, and the response was very good.

The album sales results and chart data for the first week were also released.

"How much?"

In the Las Vegas hotel, Link and the publicity team members looked at Ms. Mandy who walked in slowly with the documents and asked.

Ms. Mandy had a stern face, and it was hard to tell whether she was unhappy or pretending to be unhappy to make everyone happy.

Ms. Mandy opened the folder and glanced at everyone, "The first week sales of "Keep On Movin'" in the United States were 427,000 copies."

"Yeah!!"

"Great!!"

The staff on the scene jumped up excitedly, and the sound of champagne was also popping, and the wine was sprayed everywhere.

Link also smiled lightly. Although this result is a little worse than Taylor's second album in the first week, it is much more than the 97,000 copies of the first album, and it is more than 200,000 copies more than the champion of the Billboard 200 last week. The first week champion should be stable.

But Ms. Mandy still had a stern face and didn't speak. He had a bad premonition and took two glasses of champagne and handed them to Ms. Mandy.

"We didn't win the championship?"

"Yes, the champion is "The Blueprint 3", which sold 458,000 copies this week."

"31,000 more than us? You are worthy of being a veteran singer."

Link exclaimed.

In fact, he also had a hunch. Jay-Z is a big name in the music industry and one of the richest people in the current music industry. He has a deep network of people in the music industry. After the release of "The Blueprint 3", many superstars, movie stars, and famous hosts directly or indirectly helped to promote it.

In addition, "The Blueprint 3" is the third part of the "The Blueprint" series. The first two albums have accumulated many fans. Jay-Z's record company said during the promotion that this is the last one. Fans who like this series of songs will naturally not miss it.

The second album "Go Forward" was able to sell more than 400,000 copies in the face of such a strong opponent, far exceeding the predicted 300,000 copies, which also shows that his promotional strategy of competing with Jay-Z worked.

"Mandy, how is the singles chart?"

Link asked again while drinking champagne.

"The Black Eyed Peas' I Gotta Feeling is still No. 1 on the singles chart, Jay-Z's Empire State of Mind is No. 2, Maxwell's Pretty Wings is No. 3, and our Believer is temporarily No. 4."

Ms. Mandy said.

"The Black Eyed Peas are really amazing."

The Black Eyed Peas released their latest album The E.N.D. at the end of May. The first official promotional song Boom Boom Pow won the singles chart for ten consecutive weeks, but was later ended by Jay-Z's D.O.A. and Link's Give me reason.

The second single I Gotta Feeling was released and won the singles chart for seven consecutive weeks. This week, it strongly suppressed Empire State of Mind and Believer. It is really amazing.

"But there is good news."

Ms. Mandy smiled with dimples similar to Selena's, "'Believer' failed to become the No. 1 single in the first week, but eight songs entered the Hot 100, including This Is Me, Trouble I'm In, and Keep On Movin', and entered the top 20. The number of songs on the list is two more than that of 'The Blueprint 3', which shows that the quality of our album is very high."

"This is indeed good news, cheers!"

Link clinked champagne with Ms. Mandy.