Chapter 190： hand out gold medals

Chapter 190 Distributing Gold Medals

In the third week since the release of "Go Forward", Link and the promotion team continued to hold book signings in various places, and also participated in some TV shows and music events. They were so busy every day that they couldn't even put their feet down.

But rival Jay-Z has invested more in publicity, led by Jay-Z and Kanye, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and others to promote everywhere.

Also joined the tour concerts of Madonna and Mariah Carey to promote the new album through various channels.

  "The Blueprint 3" sold 416,000 copies in the third week, with cumulative sales of 1.36 million copies, ranking first on the Billboard 200 album chart.

"Go Forward" has sold a total of 407,000 copies online and offline in the United States, with cumulative sales of 1.35 million copies, ranking second on the Billboard album chart.

Neo-soul Maxwell's "BLACKsummers\'night", in its first week of release, sold 85,000 copies of the album this week, ranking third.

The Black Eyed Peas' "TheE.N.D" is in its seventh week of release. It sold 71,000 copies this week, ranking fourth.

On the Billboard singles chart, "Empire State of Mind" remains at No. 1 for the second consecutive week, and "Believer" ranks at No. 3 for the second consecutive week.

However, nine singles from Link's second album entered the Hot 100 singles chart.

 There are only six songs in "TheBlueprint3" of the same period, including "What We Talkin\'About", "Run This Town", "Young Forever", etc.

The Black Eyed Peas' "TheE.N.D" has five songs, including the first two championship singles and three relatively good hip-hop dance songs "RockThatBody", "MeetMeHalfway" and "ImmaBe".

There are only three songs in "BLACKsummers\'night".

From the album data point of view, "TheBlueprint3" is slightly better this week.

But it is only 09,000 more than Link's. This number puts Jay-Z and others like a thorn in their backs. Originally, they planned to stop competing for the list after the third week, after other singers release albums.

But Maxwell’s new album has mediocre sales and has no chance of reaching the top spot.

In this situation, not competing for the rankings means giving up, and Link will be far ahead.

Of course they were not willing to give in, so they had to invest a lot of time and money to continue competing with Link for the ranking.

This also made Lille, Drake, and 50 Cents complain.

They are not the kind of people who can work eight hours a day, and they don’t like to run around doing publicity, but the current situation forces them to keep running, like a group of blue-collar workers.

 Eminem, who did not participate in publicity, often called and laughed at them, saying they deserved it and were asking for trouble.

Also in the fourth week, Link Music Company announced the official start of the gold medal giveaway event for the "Go Forward" album.

 Link randomly selected fifteen albums whose catalog number contained the number 13 from all the albums sold. 13 was Taylor's lucky number.

And announced fifteen sets of numbers through Twitter and the media.

The winning fans only need to call and leave their contact address.

Link Music Company will deliver the gold medal to fans or nearby record stores via FedEx.

This lottery event was also reported and reprinted by many media. Fourteen fans who were drawn also called one after another. The reason why there were fourteen people was because one fan had two winning albums.

The fan lives in Arizona and was very excited after receiving the gold medal.

She told reporters that she is a fan of Link and likes Link very much. After the release of "Go Forward", she immediately bought four copies and planned to give them to classmates and friends.

Two of them were numbered 13. She felt unlucky at first, but she didn’t expect that both of them were drawn. She was so lucky. She felt like the luckiest person in the world.

The female fan also said that she would give another gold medal and album to her good friends as originally planned, so that everyone can protect Link together. The news that Link gave away all championship gold medals to his fans was widely reported by major media around the world.

This kind of thing has never been done before, and Link did it for the first time, making the news very interesting and worth reporting.

Similarly, several acquaintances of Taylor and Lady Gaga also complained that he made it more difficult to be a singer.

In the past, when giving back to fans, I only used cards, water glasses, tapestries, canvas bags, dolls, etc. as gifts in the deluxe version of the album.

Now Link directly sends the championship gold medal, and no one can compare with him.

"Do you know what people in the music industry are talking about you now? They say you are a catfish that came from the boxing world, with a ferocious and aggressive nature. Because of your arrival, the competition in the music industry has become more intense, even for billionaires like Jay-Z. The millionaire also had to give up his rest time and hold a concert in 35° weather.”

Taylor was lying on the beach chair, flipping through the magazine and jokingly said.

Link shook his head and did not accept this statement.

Compared with the music industry, the boxing industry is only a small niche industry. The total GDP created by a group of boxers last year was less than 20 billion, while the top singers in the music industry created economic income of tens of billions a year.

For example, Taylor will generate more than 12 billion U.S. dollars in concert and peripheral income in the next year, which is more than the annual GDP income of many countries. The GDP of the cities where she holds concerts has also skyrocketed. Because of her great impact on the economy, she has been It's called 'Swift Economics', and relevant courses and research projects are offered at prestigious schools such as Harvard University.

The music industry is larger and has more people working in it, which directly leads to more intense competition, not because of itself.

In addition to fandom, Taylor has given away houses to fans and donated 3,000 US dollars to fans in financial difficulties. There are other singers who have also given back to their fans in various ways. Link does not think that his behavior of giving away gold medals is special.

Link smiled and said: "Because of me, the atmosphere in the music scene has become more lively and enthusiastic, and it has also made you lazy sardines swim faster and become more creative in music, so you should all thank me."

“No way, no one is going to thank someone who makes everyone have to work during the holidays, look at this report.

The management company of Maxwell and Grizzly Bear said at the press conference that due to your and Jay-Z's competition for charts, they had to spend more time on publicity, and their publicity funds exceeded 1/3 of the original. "

Taylor pointed to a news item in the magazine, but before he could move over to read it, Taylor reached out and pushed him in the face, pointing to the script on the table.

“Let’s read the script first. This is the revised script. What do you think? Don’t say no, Emma said she wants to act with me.”

Link shook his head. The new script only changed his role from a hurdler on the school team to a swimmer on the swim team.

Taylor is still the high school girl who walked around holding a big doll on Valentine's Day. His character is a little afraid of his girlfriend, and Taylor's character is a little silly.

The two characters are silly and dumbfounded, with some humor but no highlights. Playing this kind of role has no use other than showing off your muscles and appearance.

But if Taylor wanted to act, he had no choice but to take it.

Fortunately, the pay was pretty good, he and Taylor each received $1 million.

“Okay, let’s act.”

“Okay, I’ll call Annie right now.”

Tyler kissed him on the cheek and ran back to make a phone call.

Link took off his towel, jumped into the blue swimming pool and started swimming.

(End of this chapter)