Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 630 - 461 Making Money to Pay Off Debt

A month after the album release, Link held twenty-six signing events in over ten countries and regions around the world.

The schedule was so packed he practically circled the globe three times, with workdays often exceeding eight hours.

Fortunately, his hard work was not in vain.

The album "Love is gone" officially broke through the 10 million sales mark globally on the 13th day and 10th hour of its release, becoming the fastest-selling record to break the 10 million mark in the last decade, six days ahead of Lady Gaga's "Born this way" released in May.

In the third week, "Love is gone" sold 627,000 units in the United States, with a cumulative total of 3.192 million, setting a new record for the fastest album to break through three million sales, beating the record set by "The Woman I Love" last year by 19 days and 15 hours.

However, Link knew this record wouldn't last a few years, with Adele's next album "25" launching with first-week U.S. sales of 3.37 million, sweeping all records in the Euro-American music scene.

Taylor's subsequent albums also set several records, each breaking a million sales in the first week, with Billboard's top 10 being all her songs.

They were blessed by fortune.

Link felt that even with many good songs of his own, in another three to four years, he probably wouldn't be able to compete with Adele and Taylor.

A graceful retirement could also leave a legend of being undefeated.

However, during the album promotion, the distributor did not market the record as his last work.

The reason was that over the past two years, he had released many hot singles that were not included in the albums.

For instance, "See you again," "Legends never die," "Sugar," "We don't talk anymore," "Blinding Lights," "Lighters," "Good Time," "Listen," "Just the way you are," and so on.

Some of these songs were performed by others, some were not yet, along with good songs excluded from production in the previous two albums, enough to form a compilation album that wouldn't be inferior in quality to the previous ones.

Upon hearing this, Link did not object.

Releasing such an album required no new songwriting, not even stepping into the recording studio again, production and distribution wouldn't interfere with his time, and he would earn an extra profit—there was no reason to refuse.

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After wrapping up the album promotion, Link returned to the Bay Mansion to rest.

During this period, just as Ivanka said, he flew back and forth every day with hardly any time to rest.

Now that the first round of album promotions had ended, there was a week left until the IBF Light Heavyweight challenge match at the end of September.

He could also take a few days to rest while training.

But just as he had arrived back in America, bad news came from Nashville.

In July, the legal team filed a lawsuit with the Nashville district court, hoping to gain custody of Alexander and Cynthia.

After over a month of proceedings, the Nashville court dismissed his request, citing the lack of a marital relationship with Taylor and no legal kinship with the two children.

However, considering he was the biological father of the children, and as Taylor's side gave leeway, he was granted the right to visit the children regularly.

When Link received this news, the media also got wind of it.

Mainstream media outlets promptly reported that Link had failed to win the child custody battle with Taylor.

To everyone's surprise, after the report went out, neither traditional nor new media showed much interest in the story.

The topic didn't see much discussion online either, with its highest ranking on Twitter's trending list being ninth.

Because of the lack of heat for this news, an article from the "Hollywood Reporter" questioning the low level of interest actually surged to the top of the trending list.

The "Hollywood Reporter" official account's headline read, 'Link and Taylor's reputations have collapsed.'

The article noted that with Link and Taylor's popularity, any news related to either of them typically attracted a lot of interest, doubling when both were mentioned together.

Now, the news of their legal battle for the children's custody was getting little traction.

Thus, the paper speculated that due to the events of July and August, Link and Taylor's reputations online had collapsed.

Netizens and fans were no longer idolizing them, which was a major reason for the decline in news heat concerning the two.

After the news was published, it received 12,000 shares, 68,000 comments, and 320,000 likes in less than half a day.

In the comments section, netizens joked that the "Hollywood Reporter" really knew how to leverage buzz, linking Link Taylor to 'collapse' to create a stark contrast, and rode that wave to the number one trend spot in one breath.

Regarding the "Hollywood Reporter" questioning whether Link and Taylor's reputations had collapsed,

one user humorously posted, saying while it's uncertain how Taylor's reputation stood without new work, it couldn't be predicted, but Link's was certainly not in ruins.

His new album had been at the top of the sales charts for four straight weeks, his new movie "Captain America" was nearing 500 million US dollars in global box office, and his boxing matches in September and October were among the most-followed sporting events.

If that was considered a collapse, then all celebrities in the world were amid a collapse.

Other commentators mentioned the lack of interest in the custody news between Link and Taylor mainly because they both had too many stories online in the past few months, so many that they were headache-inducing.

First came the June revelation of Taylor hiding her children, which set the internet ablaze, boiling public opinion, and topping trending searches for two weeks in a row.

In July, Link transformed into a deadbeat dad by boldly seeking to snatch the children's custody, stirring public opinion once more as both took turns on the top three trending searches.

Then, at the end of July, news of Link winning gold medals at the World Championships remained on trending searches daily, from the first to the seventh medal, the swimming god.

And with "Captain America" releasing on the 22nd, Link and Captain America alternated on the trending searches.

Even in August, with Link releasing new songs and albums, the continuous trend was unbroken and also included hot searches for the Captain America box office.