Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

He saw the numbers in his account doubling every day.

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

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 some 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 time 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 some 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 firmer 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 someone 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 time in the gym in the afternoon if he has time. It's something 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 abdomen. 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.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

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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 American 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 came forward one after another, expressing their opinions through the media, 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 fame 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 become his fans.

His album appealed to a very wide audience.

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

Famous music critic Robert Sherman commented 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 subprime 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 American families to face significant financial crises.

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

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

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

At this moment, Link spoke out.

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

Mr. Robert Sherman comprehensively introduced and recommended 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 recommended 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 me, 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 time in jail, but later turned his life around and became an Olympic champion and a world boxing champion, a young man who truly achieved the American dream.

What's even more valuable is that, after achieving the American 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 recommending several songs from Link's album.

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

"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 newcomer'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, some people criticized Link's album.

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

They claimed 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', someone who liked to preach, a 'light-skinned tame baby', not cool at all.

Link didn't care about their criticism, as his album's weekly sales surpassed those of African American 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 America, and became 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.