Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 627 - 460: What kind of woman do you want?

Link's new album "Love is gone" hit over a million US sales for the second week in a row, leaving countless singers in Europe and America shocked, envious, and resentful.

Since Nielsen began tracking album sales in 1991, only 19 albums have sold over a million copies in the US in a single week. For an American music industry that releases eight to nine hundred, even a thousand albums and EPs each year, weekly sales breaking a million is almost mythical.

And Link owns two of them.

What's more enviable is that his new album has hit sales of over a million for two consecutive weeks, a legend amongst legends.

What drives his peers nuts is,

He priced both of his consecutive albums at 29 US dollars, which is two to three times the price of other artists' albums.

At that price, the albums still managed to break a million sales for two consecutive weeks.

Even the "Los Angeles Times" couldn't help but poke fun at it, joking that Link's fans must all be tycoons. Other artists struggle to sell their albums for a few US dollars each, yet Link's albums, priced at 29 dollars a pop, racked up sales of 2.56 million in just two weeks—it's outrageous.

Reportedly, the deluxe edition of "Love is gone" was priced at 39.9 US dollars each and sold thirty thousand copies within two weeks. Additionally, a vinyl record priced at 65 US Dollars also sold over fifty thousand copies worldwide.

All of these figures unequivocally prove that Link's fans are indeed wealthy, and his albums truly belong to the category of luxury consumption.

The "Los Angeles Times" analyzed that there are mainly two reasons why Link's albums can command high prices yet continue to sell well.

Firstly, Link's fame is simply too vast, and he is adorned with too many honors: world boxing champion, world's youngest billionaire, Emperor Superstar of the music world, hotshot movie star, swimming legend, youth idol, Playboy, and so on.

Any one of these titles could turn an average person into a superstar overnight, let alone having them all.

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This has resulted in a massive number of worshippers around the globe who, out of adoration, are willing to spend money on his products. Not to mention that buying albums falls within the realm of art consumption, and spending a bit more feels meaningful.

The second reason, of course, is that the songs in his albums are all of very high quality.

For other albums, if one out of ten songs makes it into the top 100 on the Billboard singles chart, that's considered a decent album.

His last two albums had every song break into the top 100 on the Billboard singles chart. The new album even had nine songs in the top 10, competing against each other, queuing up to claim the singles chart's number one spot—the quality is just too outstanding to compare with other albums.

Even the New York distributor's general agent publicly told the media that the pricing of these two Link albums was the result of discussions between the publisher and various local distributors.

Although the prices are quite high, there's a reason for it.

If you were to price such quality albums as common ones for a few US dollars, that would be an insult to the albums and to the art of music, and good art is priceless.

"Bullshit!"

"Only fools would buy at such a price."

In the Black Metal Club, Lil Wayne couldn't help but bare his teeth and tongue, letting out an irritated curse while looking at the news on the newspaper.

"Huh? What are you talking about?"

50 Cent took off his headphones, looking at him with confusion.

At that moment, Link's new song "Let Me Down Slowly" was playing through his headphones,

If you wanna go then I'll be so lonely,

Your departure will plunge me into solitude,

If you're leaving baby let me down slowly,

Baby, if you must leave, could you not disappoint me so thoroughly?

Let me down, down,

I'm hopelessly addicted to you,

Let me down, down,

"Goddamnit! You're listening to Link's music? Even you bought his album?"

Lil Wayne exclaimed, glaring.

"Yeah, I bought it. The album is really good, 19 dollars for the digital album, it's quite worth it,"

50 Cent shrugged his shoulders.

"Shit! Listen to what you're saying, spending 19 dollars on Link's album and you think it's a good deal?"

Lil Wayne spoke discontentedly.

"It really is a good deal."

Usher chimed in, "I got Link's deluxe edition of the album, which includes Link's autograph, two posters, a set of Link-branded headphones, a little metal shield of Captain America, plus two additional songs not available in the standard album. I feel like I scored big time."

"What? You bought Link's deluxe edition? You paid 39 dollars for it?"

Lil Wayne looked at Usher in disbelief, his voice distorted with irritation.

"Lil, stop shouting. Haven't we spent a ton of money on Link's stuff over the past year?

Three boxing matches broadcasts, over two hundred US dollars, 'Bridesmaids,' 'Captain America' movie tickets, over fifty US dollars, as well as several horror films under Lionsgate, and albums from artists under the Link music label—those also cost us.

To be more specific, we've also consumed from the ads Link endorses. We've spent several hundred US dollars on Link in just a year, so what's a few more bucks?"

50 Cent said, kicking back with his legs crossed.

Lil Wayne paused, realizing that 50 Cent was right.

Despite disliking Link and not wanting to support him, he had unwittingly spent two to three hundred US dollars on Link's ventures, including boxing matches and "Captain America," mainly because his family wanted to watch, and he couldn't resist spending the money.

With this realization, Lil Wayne felt an unwilling resignation. Link's side businesses were just too numerous, and despite all precautions, he still ended up contributing some money to Link's coffers.

"Even so, we shouldn't actively go out and buy his album. Don't you guys know that Jay-Z and Kanye really dislike Link? We should be supporting them,"

Lil Wayne said.

"Don't even start. Kanye was the first to buy Link's new album once it came out, saying he wanted to see what Link's album was like. If it wasn't any good, he was ready to lambast him to death."