Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

"620,000 copies in two days?!"

Inside the entertainment agency SB Projects, Scooter’s muscle twitched at the corner of his eye as he looked at the sales data published on Link’s music Twitter account, and his face became extremely ugly.

He had assumed that given Justin’s current popularity, his album sales—even if not as good as Link’s—wouldn’t fall too far behind.

But reality had slapped him hard in the face.

Link’s new album sales over two days had exceeded Justin’s two-week total by a hundred thousand copies.

The numbers were too exaggerated, and he found them hard to accept.

Scooter squinted his eyes and looked at Alex, his assistant sitting in front of the desk, "How’s the investigation going, any evidence of Link’s music faking data?"

Alex shook his head.

"Boss, I just contacted a couple of insiders, and they said there’s no evidence of Link’s music faking statistics. They also said that the company has been particularly busy these past two days, especially the people in the distribution department, everyone is shouting loudly about distributors online calling for urgent supplies, some asking for 50,000 copies, some directly demanding a resupply of 100,000 copies.

Initially, Link’s music predicted 3 million in sales for this album; now it seems like 3 million won’t be enough. The marketing department people are also continuously calling the pressing factories, telling them to print another 2 million copies, and they’re urging the packaging and transport companies to expedite shipments.

When I was on the phone, I could also hear from the receiver how busy things were over at Link’s music, and both insiders said that starting from yesterday, they began working overtime, only resting for five or six hours a day, not even having time to make calls.

Given the current situation, Link’s music probably doesn’t need to fake it; the album is inherently a best seller. Faking data would just be overwhelming."

Scooter looked even more upset upon hearing this.

From Alex’s description, he could picture how busy Link’s music must be: phones ringing off the hook in the office area, operators shouting loudly, yelling for an additional 100,000 copies for New York, 100,000 for Los Angeles, 50,000 for Las Vegas, their voices hoarse from shouting.

Such a bustling scene.

It was what Scooter and all record company bosses dreamed of.

Unfortunately, such a scene did not occur at SB Projects.

Justin’s second album had just crossed the threshold of 900,000 copies sold, and there were still over a million unsold in storage at the packaging company, far from being sold out.

Additionally, with the release of Link’s new album, Justin’s second album took a big hit, dropping 12% compared to the day before yesterday, and nearly 30% from yesterday.

The significant drop wasn’t just due to market saturation but also because Link had released an album. Many people who had planned to buy Justin’s record took their money and bought the higher-quality "The Woman I Love."

This is the competition between peers. The size of the pop music pie is fixed; the more Link’s music eats, the less SB Projects and other record labels get. Those who can’t get a bite could go bankrupt.

Scooter did not want to go bankrupt, which meant he had to compete with Link’s music.

He had originally planned to deploy two insiders within Link’s music company to dig up dirt, and release it all at once in a couple of weeks.

But those two useless people were now busy working overtime at Link’s music.

Scooter snorted coldly and loosened his tie, asking, "Any new progress in investigating Link’s dark material?"

"None! Link has very regular habits, running and working out in the morning, work at noon, boxing training in the afternoon. He doesn’t go to clubs, nightclubs, nor has he been to casinos and strip clubs. The people investigating him have no chance to capture any scandalous material."

Alex said helplessly.

Scooter didn’t believe it. If he hadn’t seen that video, he would have thought Link was a fine and upstanding man too. After watching it, he felt certain that Link had issues in his private life, but was just too cautious for the paparazzi to find anything.

Scooter pondered secretly, "Go tell the paparazzi that there’s no need for an in-depth investigation, just take more pictures of Link with different women, the more the better. I have a big use for them later."

"Okay!"

Alex nodded, and seeing no further instructions, left with a folder in his arms.

Scooter continued to glare at the numbers on the screen with a dark face, 629,000 copies accumulated in two days. What would the first week sales be? Would it break the first-week sales records of stars like the super boy bands, Backstreet Boys, Eminem?

If it broke the record, Link’s influence in the music circle would climb another level, and then in the pop music world, he would be the one to dominate, while everyone else would only be able to follow behind, picking up the leftovers.

This was the last thing Scooter wanted to see. He thought it over seriously and decided he should get in touch with more colleagues to step on Link when necessary.

Ding-ling-ling!

His phone on the desk rang twice. Seeing it was a call from Little Kunas, Scooter’s spirits suddenly lifted as he answered. Read new chapters at

Little Kunas was asking when he planned to release that video?

Scooter told him that now was not the time, the best strategy would be to first create public opinion, to lift Link high in everyone’s eyes, to let everyone think he was a great guy. Then release the video, and crash him down hard.

The strong contrast would lead to disappointment in fans and the public, which would turn into anger and scolding.

Only by doing so could they fully leverage the value of that video and deal a greater blow to Link.

Little Kunas agreed with his suggestion and also told him that due to Link and Link Music’s great success, Atlantic Records was ready to strengthen their collaboration with Link Music, preferably with a joint promotion of works by several artists under Link.

If Atlantic Records fully cooperated with Link Music, Link’s market value would be higher, making it harder to acquire them later on.

Scott understood and said he would make arrangements promptly.

After hanging up the phone, he called the publicity department, instructing them to rush the establishment of Link’s "best boyfriend" public image, praising him as high as possible, so that the fall would make a louder noise when it came.

"Mr. Singh, where’s Link’s new album? I can’t seem to find it."

At the record store on 47th Street Broadway in New York, a girl with a long ponytail searched the best-selling area for Link’s new album but couldn’t find it, so she approached the counter to ask the store owner.

"Ellie, you’re too late; Link’s album sold out a while ago."

Mr. Singh, the owner, said as he lowered his glasses to look at her.

"Sold out? It’s only the second day since its release, how can it be sold out?"

The girl said with a pout.

"I got 300 copies from the distributor on Friday, thinking they would last a week, but Link’s album was so popular that we sold 215 copies yesterday, and the rest were gone by this morning. The next batch won’t arrive until tomorrow afternoon," explained Mr. Singh with a smile.

"Alright then, I’ll come back tomorrow. Mr. Singh, please remember to save one for me," said Ellie sweetly.

"Sure. Why don’t you listen to my copy for now? The songs on Link’s new album are indeed very good."

Mr. Singh took a CD out of the player, slipped it into a case, and handed it to Ellie.

"Mr. Singh, I’ll definitely return it to you tomorrow."

Ellie took the CD, hugging it to her chest with joy.

On the third day of "The Woman I Love" release, it sold 275,000 copies both online and offline, accumulating sales of 904,000 copies.

Link Music’s account, while posting the data, not only thanked fans for their support but also apologized to them.

The reason was that the popularity of the album had far exceeded the publisher’s expectations, resulting in insufficient preparation on their part, causing many locations to announce sold-out within three days and leaving many fans unable to purchase Link’s new album on time, for which Link Music expressed deep regret.

The company was actively arranging the second batch of albums, assuring that record stores everywhere would be restocked by tomorrow at the latest, and asked everyone to continue supporting Link.

After the tweet was sent, some marveled at how incredible Link was, selling over 900,000 copies in three days, becoming a true pop monarch.

Peers in the record industry felt that Link Music was showing off.

While others worried about not selling their records, Link Music was apologizing to fans for selling out.

It was damn enviable.

By the fourth day of "The Woman I Love" release, it sold 247,000 copies in the United States, reaching a total of 1.15 million copies.

Link’s album also became one of the fastest in the US album charts to break a million copies.

Ranked first was the super boy band’s third album "No Strings Attached" released in 2000, which took two days to break a million copies.

The second was also an album by the super boy band, their fourth release "Celebrity," which took three days.

Ranked third was Eminem’s third album "The Marshall Mathers LP," also taking four days, released in 2000.

With 1.15 million copies sold in four days, the album left mainstream media speechless; they had initially predicted that Link’s album sales in the United States would be around a million copies, but Link had exceeded that target in less than four days.

Mainstream media didn’t know what was embarrassing anymore and instead started to praise the album’s artistic quality, calling it "the highest quality love album of the past decade" and "one of the ten must-listen selected albums of 2010."

At the same time, numerous media also began to praise Link, saying he was a good man, not into drugs or alcohol, had no bad habits, could compose and box and sing, was the music industry’s most perfect man, the dream lover of countless women, a perfect dating and marriage prospect.

They also commended Link and Taylor’s stable relationship, noting that after dating for more than a year, everything had remained steady with no sign of conflict, branding them the music industry’s ’Golden Boy and Golden Girl,’ setting a good example for fans and restoring faith in love, and so on.

Link felt these articles were exaggerative, considering himself not as good as depicted in the newspapers.

But considering it might be the publicity department’s planning, he did not intervene.

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