Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion Chapter 128 The Album Sells Well

He saw the numbers in his account doubling every day.

Link hesitated whether to give up boxing and switch to singing full ti.

With his current earning rate, making twenty to thirty million a year was no issue, and with a bit more effort, he could possibly earn even more.

However, boxing might not necessarily bring in those figures.

After giving it so thought, he decided not to give up.

Constant training and improving physical fitness, as well as tapping into his potential, were his great assets and foundation.

Since they were his foundation, they mustn't be shaken.

Therefore, whenever he was out of town for autograph signings or concerts, he made sure to find ti for a few hours of exercise. Although the effect of working out in a gym was not as good as training in a boxing ring, it still had so benefit.

"How can he still be training after a busy day? Isn't he tired?"

In the Thomp Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Ivanka had heard about Link's concert and autograph session in Las Vegas and had specially flown in from New York to check on him.

Upon arriving at the hotel, she saw Link shirtless in the gym, lifting a 200-pound barbell. He was gritting his teeth, lifting it repeatedly, his body drenched in sweat, his muscles slowly filling with blood, becoming firr and more robust.

Ivanka watched him through the glass window.

Today, this guy had already held a concert in the hotel plaza and signed 11,000 albums on the scene.

With such a level of activity, even soone in excellent physical condition would be exhausted at the end of the day and might not be able to get up the next day.

Yet, after finishing all these tasks, Link still had the strength to lift barbells in the gym, truly a self-disciplined and hardworking fellow. Your next chapter awaits on empire

Miss Mandy said, "Link exercises every day, going for a morning run, and spends ti in the gym in the afternoon if he has ti. It's sothing he does every day; he seems never to know tiredness."

Ivanka blinked, watching his sexy physique in the gym, feeling a warm current swirling in her lower abdon. She covered her pounding chest, turned around calmly and said, "Mandy, let him continue to exercise. We'll discuss the work."

"Okay!"

Miss Mandy nodded her head.

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With the joint efforts of Link's music and distributors everywhere, "The fighter" didn't just maintain its sales in the third week but broke through 350,000 copies, successfully topping Kanye West's "808's & Heartbreak" and reaching the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.

Three weeks after its release, the album had sold a total of 780,000 copies, nearly breaking 800,000, causing quite a stir in the Arican music scene.

A boxer crossing over to sing, and his first album sold so many copies, stronger than many top-tier singers; that was astonishing.

Music industry professionals ca forward one after another, expressing their opinions through the dia, both good and bad.

Positive reviews highlighted the high quality of "The fighter," especially the seven songs personally composed by Link. Both the lyrics and the tunes, as well as the production quality, were top-notch, forming the basis of the album's great success.

The second reason was Link's fa as an Olympic champion, an inspirational idol with a great image, very talented, a positive and perfect role model. People ranging from ninety-nine to toddlers who had just started walking could beco his fans.

His album appealed to a very wide audience.

"There's one more thing everyone shouldn't forget,"

Famous music critic Robert Sherman comnted in Rolling Stone that the social reasons behind the explosion of "The Fighter" definitely cannot be ignored.

Starting from the end of 2007, a financial crisis triggered by the real estate subpri mortgage swept across the United States and the world, causing the US stock market to evaporate $7.3 trillion, hundreds of banks to go bankrupt, countless enterprises to close down, and many Arican families to face significant financial crises.

Both public opinion and the mindset of ordinary people beca relatively negative.

"During this ti, we needed a voice to loudly tell everyone that the disaster was over and we were about to welco the light.

This role should have been played by the Federal Reserve or the governnt, but the chairman of the Federal Reserve and our new president were also filled with pessimistic emotions and dared not speak up.

At this mont, Link spoke out.

He used an album to tell everyone that we should bravely face the disaster, fight with the disaster, and successfully overco the disaster to welco the light together; this album is amazing, so tily, it's more than just an album, it's a call to action."

Mr. Robert Sherman comprehensively introduced and recomnded the songs in Link's album in the article, and gave the album a 4.5-star rating.

The music critic Mr. Fred Kirschner from The Sun also highly recomnded Link's new album in the newspaper.

"I'm not a fan of boxing, and I didn't know who Link was before, but after listening to the songs on this album, his voice amazed , I wondered, what kind of person could produce such powerful, such uplifting sound?

I searched for his information with intense curiosity, only to find out that he grew up poor, made mistakes when he was young, served ti in jail, but later turned his life around and beca an Olympic champion and a world boxing champion, a young man who truly achieved the Arican dream.

What's even more valuable is that, after achieving the Arican dream, he didn't lie around in mansions counting money like many nouveau riche.

He took the initiative to sing and create, conveying his successful experience and insights through his songs... I think everyone should listen to his singing because in his voice, you can find the strength to keep pressing forward."

Mr. Fred Kirschner used more than 8,000 words in the latest edition of the arts section of The Sun, elaborately explaining and highly recomnding several songs from Link's album.

In addition to these two gentlen, dozens of pop music critics also made fairly positive reviews in the dia.

"The Fighter" received a professional rating of 3.8 out of 5 in Rolling Stone.

A 3.8 might not seem high, but Rolling Stone is famously strict about music, and for a newcor's debut album to score a 3.8 is a very high rating.

On Amazon's digital music store and iTunes, the album scored 4.2 and 4.1 respectively, with over 20,000 people rating it.

However, so people criticized Link's album.

Most of the criticism ca from rap and gangsta rap musicians within the African Arican music community, such as Kanye West, 50 Cent, and Lil Wayne.

They claid the album was a product catering to the market, with songs that were trashy, cliched, too formulaic, like a motivational speaker selling his success story, continuously spoon-feeding people with motivational talks that were actually useless.

They called Link 'the priest's son', soone who liked to preach, a 'light-skinned ta baby', not cool at all.

Link didn't care about their criticism, as his album's weekly sales surpassed those of African Arican musicians like Kanye West, and it was normal to be envied and criticized by others.

"The Fighter" reached sales of 1 million copies on its 27th day of release in the United States, was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Arica, and beca the second album released in 2009 in the US to break the 1 million sales mark.

The first was Kanye West, who reached 1 million sales in just ten days.

Link couldn't match those numbers yet.