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In the third week of the release of "Go Forward", Link and the publicity team continued to hold autograph sessions in various places, and also participated in some TV shows and music events, and were busy every day.

But the opponent Jay-Z invested more in publicity, led by Jay-Z and Kanye, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and others to promote everywhere.

He also took advantage of the concert tours of Madonna and Mariah Carey and others to promote the new album through various channels.

In the third week, "The Blueprint 3" sold 416,000 copies, with cumulative sales of 1.36 million copies, ranking first on the Billboard 200 album chart.

"Go Forward" has a total online and offline sales of 407,000 copies in the United States, with cumulative sales of 1.35 million copies, ranking second on the Billboard album chart.

"BLACKsummers'night" by neo-soul music Maxwell, in the first week of release, sold 85,000 copies this week, ranking third.

The Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D" is in its seventh week of release, with sales of 71,000 copies this week, ranking fourth.

On the Billboard singles chart, "Empire State of Mind" has won the championship for the second consecutive week, and "Believer" has ranked third for the second consecutive week.

However, nine singles from Link's second album entered the Hot 100.

The Blueprint 3 of the same period only had six, including "What We Talkin' About", "Run This Town", "Young Forever", etc.

The Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D" has five songs, including the first two champion singles and three relatively good hip-hop dance songs "Rock That Body", "Meet Me Halfway" and "Imma Be".

"BLACKsummers'night" has only three songs.

Judging from the album data, "The Blueprint 3" is slightly better this week.

But it was only 9,000 more than Link's. This number made Jay-Z and others feel uneasy. Originally, they planned to stop competing for the charts after the third week, when other singers released albums.

But Maxwell's new album had average sales and had no chance of reaching the top.

In this situation, not competing for the charts would be equivalent to giving up, and Link would be far ahead.

Of course, they were unwilling to accept this, so they had to invest a lot of time and money to continue competing with Link for the charts.

This also made Lil, Drake, and 50 Cent complain.

They were not the kind of people who could work eight hours a day, and they didn't like running around to do publicity, but the current situation forced them to continue running around, like a group of blue-collar workers.

Eminem, who did not participate in the publicity, often called to laugh at them, saying that they deserved it and that they had asked for trouble.

It was also in the fourth week that Link Music announced the official start of the gold medal giveaway event for the album "Go Forward".

Link randomly selected 15 albums with catalog numbers containing the number 13 from all the albums sold. 13 is Taylor's lucky number.

Fifteen sets of numbers were announced through Twitter and the media.

Winning fans only need to call and leave their contact addresses.

Link Music will mail the gold medals to fans or nearby record stores via FedEx.

This lottery event was also reported by many media, and the fourteen fans who were drawn also called one after another. The reason for the fourteen people was that one fan had two winning albums.

The fan lived in Arizona and was very excited after receiving the gold medal.

She told the media that she was a fan of Link and liked Link very much. After the release of "Go Forward", she immediately bought four copies and prepared to give them to classmates and friends.

Two of the copies had 13 on the number, which felt unlucky at first, but she didn't expect that both copies were drawn. She was so lucky that she felt she was the luckiest person in the world.

The female fan also said that she would give the other gold medal and album to her good friend as originally planned, and everyone would protect Link together.

The news that Link gave all the championship gold medals to fans was also widely reported by major media around the world.

This kind of thing has never been done before. Link did it for the first time, which made the news very interesting and worth reporting.

Similarly, Taylor and Lady Gaga's acquaintances also complained that he made it more difficult to be a singer.

In the past, when giving back to fans, they only gave cards, cups, tapestries, canvas bags, dolls, etc. in the deluxe edition of the album.

Now Link directly gave the championship gold medal, and no one can compare.

"Do you know how people in the music industry talk about you now? They say you are a catfish that swam from the boxing world, and you are cruel and aggressive by nature. Because of your arrival, the competition in the music industry has become more intense. Even billionaires like Jay-Z have to give up their rest time and hold concerts in 35° weather."

Taylor lay on a beach chair and flipped through a magazine and joked.

Link shook his head and did not accept this statement.

Compared with the music industry, the boxing industry is just a very niche industry. The total GDP created by a group of boxers last year was less than 20 billion, while the top singers in the music industry created tens of billions of economic income a year.

For example, Taylor will generate more than 12 billion US dollars in concert and peripheral income in the next year, which is more than the annual GDP of many countries. The GDP of the cities where she holds concerts has also soared. Because of her great influence on the economy, it is called "Swift Economics", and relevant courses and research topics are offered in prestigious universities such as Harvard University.

The music industry is larger in scale and has more practitioners, which directly leads to more intense competition, not because of herself.

In addition, in terms of pampering fans, Taylor has given fans houses and donated 3,000 US dollars to each fan in financial difficulties. Other singers have also given back to fans in various ways. Link does not think that his act of giving gold medals is special.

Link smiled and said, "Because of me, the atmosphere in the music industry has become more lively and enthusiastic, and it has also made you lazy sardines swim faster and more creative in music, so you should all thank me."

"Impossible, no one will thank someone who forces everyone to work during the holidays, take a look at this report.

Maxwell and the Grizzlies' management company said at the press conference that due to your and Jay-Z's competition for the charts, they had to spend more time on publicity, and the publicity budget exceeded the original 1/3."

Taylor pointed to a news item in the magazine, but before he could get close to read it, Taylor reached out and pushed him in the face, pointing to the script on the table,

"Read the script first, this is the revised script, what do you think? Don't say no, Emma said she wants to act with me."

Link shook his head, the new script just changed his role from a hurdler on the school team to a swimmer on the swimming team.

Taylor is still the high school girl who walks around with a big doll on Valentine's Day. His character is a little afraid of his girlfriend, and Taylor's character is a little silly.

The two characters are silly and dumb, with some funny moments but no highlights. There is no use in playing such roles except showing off their muscles and looks.

But since Taylor wanted to act, he had to take it.

Fortunately, the pay was not bad, he and Taylor each got 1 million US dollars.

"Okay, then act."

"Okay, I'll call Annie now."

Taylor kissed him on the cheek and ran back to make a call.

Link took off the towel on his body and jumped into the azure swimming pool to swim.