Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

Link thought the suggestion was great and asked him to sing a song to hear it.

Hoyle hesitated for a moment and said he wasn’t ready yet, but if he agreed, he would go back and practice singing.

Link didn’t object.

"Boss!"

Anna got out of the car and handed him back his phone.

"While you were training, President Ivanka, Mandy, Selena, Mr. Paul Walker, Miss Emma Stone, and sixteen others called. Your phone also received over fifty congratulatory messages."

As Anna was speaking, Link’s phone vibrated again. It was from Emma Watson, whom he hadn’t seen in a long time. She was messaging from London asking if he was done being busy and telling him that his album, released in Britain today, was being pursued by many.

"Someone You Loved" topped the British singles chart hot40 first, "Everything You Need," "The Woman I Love," and "Here With You" all made the top ten, with 12 songs making it into the hot40.

She also said that the entire British internet was discussing the songs from the album, saying his music had gone crazy and was sweeping the British music scene.

Although these songs had also been in the top ten in various countries’ charts, after his singing and some changes to many lyrics and even the music, they were quite different from the originals. Could they still be this popular after being altered?

He had just sent a ’really?’ when Emma Watson immediately called and excitedly told him that it was certainly true, and yesterday many people on the streets were playing songs by Amy Winehouse, Adele, and Justin’s "baby."

Today, as she was shopping in the mall, his songs were playing everywhere; if not "Everything You Need," then "Someone You Loved" or "Girls Like You." His songs seemed to have become hits overnight in the bars and dance halls.

Link felt her statement was still a bit exaggerated.

She probably heard these songs from his album, and after going out, hearing a few stores playing them, she felt like everyone was listening to them.

But this situation was still very good.

Regardless of how it was on the American side, at least the PR work for his third album in Britain had been done very well, showing Universal Records’ strong international distribution capabilities.

Link chatted with Emma for a while. Emma asked him when he was planning to tour Britain. After calculating the time, Link figured if all went well, it would be around July or August.

After hanging up with Emma’s call, Link received another message, this time from Adele.

Adele also said his album songs were hot in London and confessed that, like mainstream media before his album’s release, she hadn’t had high hopes for this album, feeling his voice was better suited for inspirational and rock music.

But after listening to this album, she changed her mind, saying Link’s voice was surprisingly soft and delicate, rich in emotion, and very powerful.

She even teased him by saying if he used this voice to sing love songs to girls, not many could resist.

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Link let out a big sigh of relief when he heard Adele also praising the album.

Before the album’s release, he worried about not performing well enough, that his voice wouldn’t be captivating enough, and had to re-record it right before and after New Year’s with Graham and others, including four additional songs.

Even so, he worried the third album might flop.

Later, being pressured by people like 50 Cent to compete on the charts and not being seen favorably by mainstream media, he experienced even greater pressure.

Now, hearing a legendary singer like Adele give such high praise for the album lightened his pressure by 50%.

Link asked Adele which song from the album she liked most.

Adele said she liked "Girls Like You," which has a very fresh style that makes her feel good and is great for dancing.

Link smiled, guessing that Adele’s mood might not have been too good recently, and said that next time he was in London, he’d invite her to dance.

Adele agreed but immediately followed up with a message saying she didn’t want to dance with him; else, they’d start rumors again.

After chatting with Adele, he browsed through his inbox and email; there were over sixty unread messages and 99+ unread emails.

Unread messages included ones from Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kesha, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, Eminem, and Snoopy Dogg, all congratulating him.

They mentioned how great the album was and that the songs were very appealing.

Even people with different tastes could find a song they liked in this album, which was quite rare.

Katy Perry even teased him for being unconventional, saying normally an album has only two or three main hits, but his had eighteen, leaving no room for others.

Seeing such high praise from these top-tier singers, Link felt 49% of the pressure lifted off him.

Link thanked a few of them and asked which songs from the album they liked best. The most mentioned were "Everything You Need," "Someone You Loved," "Girls Like You," "The Woman I Love," "Here With You," and "Stay With Me."

Link also had a good feeling that these songs might break into the top 100 singles chart.

He continued scrolling through his messages, seeing names like Paul Walker, Leonardo, James Franco, Joaquin Phoenix, Tobey Maguire, as well as Christine, Emma Roberts, Blake Lively, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Amanda Seyfried, Dustin Colquitt, and more.

Even directors Quentin, Stallone, and Jet Li sent messages congratulating him on his great album and its successful sales.

Link counted and figured that if each of these celebrities bought just one copy, it would already amount to a couple of hundred sales, not to mention acquaintances who bought the album but didn’t send congratulations.

He sat in his car, replying one by one, chatting more with those who were online and keeping it brief with those who weren’t.

By the time he finished responding, his phone was almost out of battery.

He opened his laptop, replied to some congratulatory emails, and checked Twitter.

His Twitter followers had exploded by over six million after the Super Bowl, currently standing at 21.25 million, making him the most followed star on the platform.

Under his last tweet, there were over 50,000 new comments, nearly all of them positive.

Comments like "amazingly good," "one album beats ten, full of sincerity," "every song is worth listening to ten times, no, over a hundred times," "definitely the best album of the year," and "with this album, there’s no need to buy any other love albums for the next decade."

The reviews were so plentiful and exaggerated they seemed as if he had paid an army to post positive comments.

Not only did he suspect this, but some skeptics, seeing the comments, asked where they could sign up for such a gig, wondering how much each positive comment paid as they also wanted to earn some cents to buy fries.

The most liked comment questioned why Link hadn’t updated his status on Twitter on the global release day of his third album. Was something wrong?

This tweet had 120,000 likes.

Link smiled lightly. Since launching on Link Music, Link Studio, and Link Fan Club on Twitter, he left work-related posts to these accounts while his own account was mostly for sharing personal statuses.

Seeing the concerns, he immediately tweeted that he was at the boxing gym training for an upcoming match and didn’t get the chance to tweet.

He then retweeted a post from Link Studio that the third album "The Woman I Love" had begun distribution and asked for everyone’s support.

The draw continued, offering two prizes, including the 2009 MTV Best Male Artist trophy and the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

He explained further: The two AMA trophies had already been given away and wouldn’t be in the draw, and the Grammy for Best Producer belonged to all the producers of "unstoppable" and was also not part of the draw.

The draw was set around May, with the same rules as the first time, and he urged interested fans to look out for updates from the studio account.

Fans, excited about another draw, although only two significant trophies were available, MTV’s Best Male Artist and a Grammy, felt lucky just to think about possibly winning one.

Less than ten minutes after updating his tweet, the likes surpassed 30,000, and the post was retweeted by thousands, including some celebrity acquaintances.

Many fans commented that his albums were selling out too quickly in physical stores and asked him to contact the distributor to stock more physical copies.

These comments received hundreds and thousands of likes as well.

Link was surprised; a million copies stocked for the first day, and there were already shortages?

He wondered, how many would the album sell in its first week?

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