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On November 25, the 40th American Music Awards ceremony was held at the Nokia Center in Los Angeles.

Prior to this, the Nielsen SoundScan statistics system also announced the sales of the US record market in 2012.

Link's fourth album "Love is gone" was released in mid-August last year. By the time the American Music Awards began in November last year, the sales in the United States were 5.22 million copies.

This year, "Love is gone" sold 6.12 million copies in the United States. The current cumulative sales in the United States are 11.49 million copies. It is also the best-selling album selected by the Nielsen SoundScan statistics system this year.

This album is also the second album to top the record sales chart for two consecutive years after MJ's "Thriller" released in 1980. In more than a year since its release, its ranking on the album sales chart has never fallen out of the top 20.

"Love is gone" is also the 22nd diamond record since the Nielsen SoundScan system began to count the sales data of US albums in 1991.

The 21st diamond album is Link's third album "The Woman I Love".

The runner-up in the album sales ranking is Adele's "21".

This album was released in April last year, and by December 31, 2011, the total sales in the United States were 5.82 million copies.

The sales from the beginning of the year to now are 4.41 million copies.

The total sales have just exceeded 10 million copies.

"21" is also the 23rd diamond album ranked by the Nielsen SoundScan statistical system.

Ranked third is Taylor Swift's fifth album "Red" released in March, with a total sales of 3.87 million copies.

This is also her fourth time to get the top three in the annual album sales ranking.

Her children's album "Fairy" released at the end of last year sold 1.25 million copies this year, ranking eighth on the album chart.

The albums ranked fourth to tenth are: One Direction's "Up All Night" 1.62 million copies.

Mumford \u0026 Sons rock band's "Babel" sold 1.46 million copies, Lana Del Rey's third album "Paradise" sold 1.42 million copies.

Justin Bieber's "Believe" sold 1.34 million copies, Taylor's "Fairy", Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" sold 1.2 million copies, and Bruno Mars' "Unorthodox Jukebox" sold 1.18 million copies.

Wiz Khalifa's "Rolling Papers" released at the end of last year sold 1.02 million copies this year, ranking 14th.

This year, a total of 14 albums on the Nielsen SoundScan album sales chart sold 1 million copies.

Among these 14 albums, five are from Link Music, among which One Direction, ranked fourth, is from the UK. The group's distribution in the United States is handled by Link Music.

Including One Direction's "Up All Night", six albums were released by Link Music, nearly half of the total.

This also allows Link Music's influence in the music scene to continue to grow.

Currently, Link Music has maintained a market value of 1.8 billion. According to the Wall Street Journal, after Link's fifth album is released, Link Music's market value has the opportunity to exceed 2 billion US dollars.

If Link Music is willing to go public, it has a great chance to exceed 5 billion or even 6 billion.

Because the American Music Awards are linked to album sales.

Also because Link announced last year that he would not participate in the award selection, Adele won five awards at the American Music Awards last year.

The biggest winner of the American Music Awards this year is Taylor, who leads her peers with three awards: Artist of the Year, Most Popular Country Female Singer, and Most Popular Country Album.

Justin Bieber won the Most Popular Pop Male Singer and Most Popular Pop Album.

In addition, Beyonce, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj, Shakira, etc. all won one or two trophies.

Later, the media reported that Link did not win the award in order to help Link's contracted artists win awards.

If he had not announced his withdrawal from all award selections, he would have been the biggest winner of the American Music Awards for three consecutive years.

It is difficult for Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars and others to win music awards.

Even Adele, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and others find it difficult to win awards.

Although this evaluation is exaggerated, with the sales performance of Link's two albums, he does have the strength to crush his peers.

Including Adele and Taylor, the daughter of luck, they are temporarily inferior to him in album sales, and are much worse than him in popularity and influence in the music world.

Since the Olympics in July and August, the addition of multiple identities has made him a unique superstar, and no one can match him.

"Huh, I think it's a cowardly act for you not to participate in the awards. You are worried about losing to us."

In the moving nanny car, Taylor said while looking at the three pyramid trophies placed on the seat.

"Are you kidding? For singers, album sales are the most important, and everything else is icing on the cake. I crush everyone on the album sales chart, so why would I worry about not getting an award?

The reason I didn't participate in the selection is that I don't want to bully you. You dare to show off in front of me after winning the award?"

Link shook his head.

Taylor wrinkled his nose and kicked him with the tip of his high heels.

"Don't talk so nicely, or you can announce your participation in the selection from next year and see who will get more awards next year?"

"No need, how can I take back what I have said, and the fifth album is my last album. I will be in a semi-retired state in the music industry in the future. It doesn't make sense to announce my participation in the selection again."

"Last time you told me that you would continue to write songs, are you lying to me?"

Taylor said dissatisfiedly.

"I didn't lie to you. I will release singles when I have inspiration in the future, but I won't release albums."

Link said.

Taylor looked at him with dissatisfaction, "You used to write so many good songs every year, but now you are getting lazier and lazier, and you can't write a few good songs a year. I think those comments are right.

Money and fame have made you lose the motivation to create music, and become lazy and vulgar. You should give up all your wealth and concentrate on creation."

Link shook his head, "I said at the beginning that the reason I became a singer was mainly because of you. Only with you can I like music and have the inspiration to create. Later, you kicked me out without hesitation. I lost the soil of music and was no longer interested in music. It was difficult to write good songs if I continued to create, so it was sooner or later to quit the music scene. Don't force it too much."

"Are you blaming me?"

Taylor pursed his lips and stared at him.

"I'm not blaming you. I'm just stating a fact. You are my muse in music. Because of you, I could write those songs in the past. Without you, what would I write songs with? Now Eva is my muse in business, so I will pay more attention to the development of several companies under my command."

"But we are still together now, and I am not away from you."

Taylor retorted.

"It's different now. You loved me before, and we were lovers. Now you don't love me as much as before. You only regard me as Alexander and Cynthia's father. This is also a kind of alienation."

"Hmph, you conceited guy."

Taylor snorted, hugged his arms and looked at the neon lights outside the car window.

"Okay, don't be angry. I just said that I won't release an album, and I didn't say that I would give up music. Music creation is a lifelong work. I have created too much in the past few years, and lack of accumulation has led to a decline in my creative ability. Taking a break for a few years is also for better creation. I believe you will be the same in the future."

Link sat next to her, holding her waist and said.

Taylor stared at the street scene outside the car window without saying a word. The neon lights reflected on her fair and delicate cheeks through the glass. Her blue eyes and long eyelashes looked even more charming under the dim light.

Link took her into his arms, his palms against her smooth and delicate cheeks, cold earlobes, and earrings.

"What are you doing?"

Taylor looked at him dissatisfiedly.

Link lowered his head and kissed her thin lips. Taylor whimpered a few times and hit him a few times with her white fists, but he kissed her more passionately and deeply.

Taylor's white palms were against his chest, and gradually moved up to hug his neck.

When he was about to throw Taylor on the seat, Taylor sat on his legs.

The business car drove slowly on Hollywood Boulevard.

The neon lights reflected Taylor's smooth and white back, reflecting blurred colors.

Her golden hair was also loosely draped over her shoulders, gradually wet by sweat.

The car window glass was also shrouded in fog and gradually became hazy.

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After the American Music Awards, Link's new album "As It Was" was released as scheduled.

This album contains more than eight old songs such as "We don't talk anymore", "Blinding Lights", "Good Time", "Listen" and "sugar".

There are also ten future champion singles such as "Something Just Like This", "What Lovers Do", "As It Was", "Remember Me", "What are words", and "What A Beautiful Name".

Unlike in the past, in order to cater to the market, the standard version of this album has been reduced from the original 29.5 US dollars to 19.5 US dollars, an average of one dollar per song.

This album will be jointly promoted and released by Link Music and Universal Music, and from promotional resources to distribution channels, it is more and wider than the previous album.

Due to various factors, "As It Was" sold 3.05 million copies in the United States in the first week.

It broke the record of '2.41 million copies' created by the 2000 album "No Strings Attached" by the Super Boys.

It raised the first week sales to a new height that ordinary singers can hardly reach.

The evaluation of this kind of album is also relatively positive. Although the style is not as unified as the third and fourth albums, the quality of the songs in this album is no less than that of the fourth album, and it is also suitable for fans of all tastes.

In the first week of its release, the top 12 songs on the Billboard singles chart were all from this album, and all 18 songs entered the top 30 of the singles chart, breaking several Billboard records in one fell swoop.

On the iTunes Music Store, Amazon Music Mall and Spotify platform, the number of paid user playbacks of the songs in this album exceeded 1 billion times in the first week, setting a new record again.

Overseas, the album "As It Was" topped the album sales charts in 22 countries including Canada, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Japan, and South Korea, and ranked in the top three in sales in 45 countries and regions.

The cumulative sales in the first week were 11.8 million copies, and it was a diamond album in the first week, which also set many new records in the world music scene.

The songs of the new album also topped the singles charts in many countries.

Because this album was so popular, fans all over the world were listening to the songs of the new album in December, and the songs of this album were also played in the streets and alleys all over the world.

This has almost become a cultural trend and popular phenomenon sweeping the world.