Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

Chapter 275 Sold out of stock

  Iwillcatchyouifyoufall

 Even if you fall, I will catch you

 I\'mjustgonnaloveyoulikethewomanIlove

Link Music Company, President's Office, Ivaca stood in front of the panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows with her arms folded, quietly listening to Link's new song.

Qiong snorted softly and clicked the remote control with her slender fingers.

 The next song "GirlsLikeYou" started playing on the speaker.

The cheerful rhythm also made Ivaca's shoulders slowly relax. Following the rhythm of the music, she snapped her fingers and gently swayed her slender waist, and her plump **** also trembled under her tight-fitting skirt.

 Dong dong dong!

There was a knock on the door of the office. Ivaca stopped shaking, turned off the player with the remote control, sat down on the office chair again, and said please come in.

George Capal, executive director of Link Music Company, and Bob Harrison, head of publishing department, walked in from outside, stood in front of the desk and said hello to her.

"Is there a problem?"

Evaka looked at the two right-hand assistants and asked.

These two people were also the first to join the management of Link Music. They are both over forty years old and have more than ten years of experience in the industry. They were recruited by Evaka as elites to join Link Music.

Director George Kapal said.

In terms of publicity, Link and several of its singers can maintain their current popularity and exposure, which is also related to the continuous marketing and promotion of Link's publicity department.

 “Okay! President!”

 When the company started, it had nothing but a few million dollars, no recording studio, no distribution channels, no record production plant, and no stable promotion channels.

 “Only 200,000 spare records remain.”

It also saved tens of millions of publicity expenses for Link Music.

 Anna told her that Link was practicing boxing, which would end at about three in the afternoon, and asked her what was urgent.

In those months, Link's name was often on the front pages of major media, and the exposure of his second album also increased greatly.

Also because the director of the publicity department, George Kapal, did a good job, at the end of last year, Ivaca promoted him to the position of executive director to help manage link company operations.

 However, after the publicity started, it was found that the communication effect was very average.

Ivaca was a little surprised. The first batch of physical albums of "The Woman I Love" was produced. One million copies were distributed by distributors in various states after the listening session last week, with an average of 20,000 copies in each state.

Link asked what happened.

When the third album was released, although there were news bonuses such as the Grammy Awards, Super Bowl, and Oscar Awards, the publicity effect was worse than that of the second album. In order to make up for the gap, the publicity and distribution department needed to invest more funds and strengthen publicity efforts. .

 George Capal and Bob Harrison nodded and left the office together.

 She will give instructions if appropriate.

 Some states need to make up for 10,000 tickets, and some need to make up for 50,000 tickets. The total adds up to more than 600,000 tickets.

 Originally, they planned to continue promoting their third album according to the promotion model of their second album.

In addition, shortly after the release of the second album, Link released the hit song "See You Again", and also held two events to draw gold medals and gold belts, the MTV awards ceremony, the reconciliation between Link and Kanye, the London paparazzi incident, and a boxing match.

 According to this trend, the album may sell more than the expected 3 million copies.

 George Capal discussed publicity and promotion with Ivaca again.

 Ivaka pondered for a moment and asked the publicity department to re-draw a new marketing plan that would be more innovative.

 “Request replenishment today?”

Distribution chief Bob Harrison nodded.

This speed is far beyond the expectations of companies and distributors.

Ivaca said calmly.

“First distribute it to places that are in urgent need of replenishment, then contact the studio, and print another 500,000, no, one million copies of the second batch, urging them to speed up the printing and packaging.”

Their performance in the past two years has indeed been considered elite.

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In Los Angeles, Link came out of the Muscle Beach Boxing Arena. It was already four o'clock in the afternoon. He could have ended earlier, but De La Hoya came by and said he wanted to discuss something with him.

These two people are also hard-working people. After meeting, they didn't talk nonsense. They told Ivaca directly that it was only half a day before "The Woman I Love" went on sale. Distributors in 28 states successively called and asked for replenishment in advance.

 After the first batch is sold out, the products will be replenished separately based on the sales volume in each place.

But it’s only been half a day since “TheWomanILove” went on sale, and already distributors in 28 states called to ask for restocks.

Ivaca asked with suppressed excitement.

Iwaka said it was nothing, hung up the phone, and turned on the music player again. Link's singing sounded in her ears again.

 The second batch is also 1 million copies. Based on the sales speed of the second batch, the production quantity of the next batch will be determined.

The reason is that when the second album was released, Link was having conflicts with the East Coast rap gangs, blaming each other, and dragging the king of rap, Jay-Z, to compete for the album chart. There was a lot of talk, and many media took the initiative to report on Link's news.

 “How many reserves are there in the warehouse?”

Ivaca crossed her slender fingers and thought quietly for a while, then took out her mobile phone and called Link. The phone rang a few times before she was connected. It was Anna who spoke.

 After several management members were in place, Link Music’s distribution channel was quickly established. Currently, the distribution department is able to independently complete distribution work in the United States and Canada, without relying on the five major labels.

De La Hoya said that after listening to the new songs from his third album, an idea suddenly came to his mind. The match between the two is expected to be held at the end of November. De La Hoya proposed that before the boxing match, a concert could be held at the venue. Yes, he is willing to be a guest singer.

 “Propaganda?”

Link thought this was a good idea and asked him to sing a song to listen to it.

De La Hoya hesitated and said he was not ready yet. As long as he agreed, he would go back to practice singing.

Link didn’t object.

"boss!"

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

“While you were training, sixteen people including President Ivaca, Mandy, Selena, Mr. Paul Walker, Miss Emma Stone, etc. called, and your mobile phone also received more than fifty congratulatory text messages.”

While Anna was talking, Link's phone vibrated again. It was Emma Watson, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, sending a message from London, asking if he was done with his work. He also told him that his album had attracted a lot of attention after it was released in the UK today. sought after. "Someone You Loved" debuted at number one on the UK singles chart hot40. "Everything You Need", "The Woman I Love" and "Here With You" entered the top ten, with 12 songs entering the hot40.

He also said that the British Internet was all discussing the songs in this album, saying that his songs were crazy and swept the British music scene.

Link couldn’t believe it after hearing this.

Although these songs have all been in the top ten on the singles charts in various countries, many of the lyrics and even the soundtracks have been changed after being sung by yourself. They are very different from the original ones. Can they continue to be popular even after the changes?

He just sent "Is it true?" Emma Watson immediately called and told him excitedly that it was absolutely true. Yesterday, many people on the street were playing Amy Winehouse, Adele, and Justin "baby".

Today she went to the mall and his songs were played everywhere, either "Everything You Need", "Someone You Loved" or "Girls Like You". It was also in bars and dance halls. His songs seemed to become popular in one day.

Link felt that her statement was still a bit exaggerated.

 Perhaps she had listened to the songs in this album. After going out, she heard some stores playing them, and she felt like everyone was listening to them.

But this situation is also very good.

 Regardless of what is going on here in the United States, the promotion and distribution of the third album in the UK has at least been done well, which also shows that Universal Music has strong overseas distribution capabilities.

Link chatted with Emma for a while, and Emma asked him when he would go on tour in the UK. Link calculated the time, and it would probably be July or August if everything went well.

 Hang up Emma's phone and receive another message from Adele on her phone.

Adele also said that the songs on his album were very popular in London. She also said that before the release of his third album, she, like the mainstream media, was not optimistic about the album and felt that his voice was more suitable for singing inspirational and rock songs.

 But after listening to this album, she changed her previous thoughts, saying that Link’s voice was unexpectedly soft and delicate, full of emotion and very contagious.

He also teased him and said that if he used this voice to sing love songs to girls, not many people could resist him.

Link was relieved to hear that Adele was also praising the album.

Before the album was released, he was worried that his singing was not good and his voice was not infectious enough. He also re-recorded it with Graeme and others around the New Year and added four songs.

  Even so, he was worried that the third team would overturn.

 Later, I was forced to compete for the list by 50 Cent and others, and was not favored by the mainstream media, which put even more pressure on me.

Now that he hears the great singer Adele give this album a very high praise, 50% of the pressure on him has been relieved.

Link asked Adele which song on the album was her favorite.

 Adele said that she likes "Girls Like You". The song has a very novel style, makes you feel good when listening to it, and is very suitable for dancing.

Link smiled, guessing that Adele might be in a bad mood recently, and said that he would ask her to dance next time he went to London.

 Adele said yes, but immediately sent a message saying that she didn’t want to dance with him, otherwise she would spread scandals with him again.

 After chatting with Adele, he checked his inbox and mailbox. There were more than 60 unread text messages and 99+ unread emails in his mailbox.

 There are unread text messages from Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, Kesha, Carrie Underwood, Miley Cyrus, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and others, all congratulating him.

　　I said this album is great and the songs are all very nice.

 Even people with different tastes can find songs they like in this album, which is very rare.

Katy Perry also complained that he doesn’t follow the rules. Most people only have two or three lead singles in their albums, but his album has eighteen lead singles, which simply doesn’t give his peers a way to survive.

Seeing that these king-and-diva-level singers also gave excellent reviews, Link's pressure was relieved by 49% again.

Link also thanked several people and asked them which song in the album was their favorite. The six songs "EverythingYouNeed", "SomeoneYouLoved", "GirlsLikeYou", "TheWomanILove", "HereWithYou" and "StayWithMe" were mentioned the most.

Link also has some confidence and feels that these songs have a chance to break into the top 100 of the singles chart.

He flipped through the text messages again and saw Paul Walker, Leonardo, James Franco, Joaquin Phoenix, Tobey Maguire, Kristen, Emma Roberts, Blake Lively, Jesse Ca Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Amanda Severis, Doutzen Kroes and many more.

Even directors Quentin, Stallone, and Jett Lee sent congratulatory messages, praising his album’s great songs and congratulating him on the album’s success.

Link counted and found that if each of these people bought one, they could sell one or two hundred copies. There were also some acquaintances who bought the album, and there must be many who did not send congratulatory letters.

 He ​​sat in the car and wrote back to thank each other. If he was online, he would chat more. If he was not online, there was no need to be verbose.

By the time he finished replying to the message, his phone was almost out of battery.

 He turned on his computer, replied to some congratulatory messages in his mailbox, and checked Twitter.

His Twitter followers surged to more than 6 million followers after the Super Bowl, and currently have 21.25 million Followers, making him the star with the most followers on the Twitter platform.

 Under the last tweet, there were more than 50,000 new comments, almost all of which were positive.

What to say: 'It's so good to listen to', 'One of the ten albums, full of sincerity', 'Every song is worth listening to ten times, no, more than a hundred times', 'Definitely the best album of the year',' With this album, I won't have to buy any other love albums in the past ten years.'

There are too many positive reviews, and the comments are too exaggerated, as if he paid a special amount of money to hire a troll to boost the positive reviews.

He was not the only one who was so suspicious. After seeing these comments, some black people asked them where they got the business and how much each positive review cost. He also wanted to earn a few cents to buy French fries.

The comment with the most likes is, today is the day of the global release of the third album, why didn’t Link update his status on Twitter? Did something happen?

This tweet has 120,000 likes.

Link smiled lightly. After link music, link studio and link fan club launched Twitter, all work matters were posted by these three accounts. His account usually only shared life status.

Seeing everyone asking this, he immediately sent a tweet, saying that he was training in the boxing gym today to prepare for the upcoming boxing match and did not have time to send a tweet.

Immediately forwarded Link Studio’s tweet, saying that the third album "The Woman I Love" has been released, please support it.

In addition, the lottery continues, and there are two prizes, including the 2009 MTV Best Male Singer trophy and the Grammy Award for New Artist of the Year.

He also explained later that the two American Music Awards trophies have been given away and will not be part of the lottery. The Grammy Award for Best Production of the Year belongs to all the producers of "unstoppable" and will not be part of the lottery.

 The lottery will be held around May, and the rules are the same as the first time. Interested fans please pay attention to the updates released by the studio account.

Fans were excited when they saw that he was about to open the lottery again. Although there were only two trophies this time, they were both the MTV Male Vocalist of the Year and the Grammy Award. If you were lucky, you might be able to win one. Trophies, it’s pretty cool just thinking about it.

 After he updated his tweet, in less than ten minutes, the number of likes exceeded 30,000, and the tweet was retweeted by tens of thousands of people, including some famous celebrities he knew.

Many fans also left messages saying that his albums sold out too quickly in physical stores and were impossible to buy. They asked him to contact distributors and put more physical records on the shelves.

The likes of these messages are also in the hundreds and thousands.

 Link was a little surprised. The first batch of 1 million albums was sold out on the first day of release?

 How many sales will this album have in its first week?

 (End of this chapter)