Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

After filming, Link drove to Jianghai Building in the Jiangpu New District. Along the way, he received calls from Ivanka and Mandy, and the three talked about some issues.

Firstly, "The Woman I Love" had dropped below 10,000 in sales in the United States this week, falling out of the top thirty on the album charts. Five months after its release, the current cumulative U.S. sales totaled 4.45 million copies, and it seemed to have exhausted its potential.

In terms of overseas sales, thanks to his tour and numerous scandalous reports, this month's overseas sales reached 2.24 million copies, with a global cumulative total of 18.72 million copies, making it highly likely to break through 20 million copies within the year.

Meanwhile, Taylor's "Last Kiss" fell to second place this week after five consecutive weeks at the top, with sales of 125,000 copies, bringing its cumulative U.S. total to 3.02 million copies. It temporarily ranked third on the annual album sales chart, with strong sales momentum.

Since Taylor's influence overseas was not as strong as his, the sales of that album were average, around 5.35 million copies.

Seeing these numbers, Link secretly thought it was a misstep; he should have compared global album sales with Taylor, not just U.S. sales.

This week also marked the second week since the release of Selena's second album "A Year Without Rain," which had an opening week sales of 247,000 copies, landing it second on the album chart.

When Selena released her new album last week, Link, adhering to the chubby-faced girl's request, posted a tweet encouraging everyone to support her new album.

As a result, fans teased him, saying he didn't want to see Taylor's album continue to sell well and was worried about being defeated by Taylor on the album chart, so he used Selena's new album to suppress Taylor.

Some even called for continued support of Taylor, to defeat this jerk and let justice triumph over evil.

Link refuted this statement.

He explained that all eighteen songs in his third album "The Woman I Love" contained the words 'I love you' and each represented the most sincere love.

In contrast, all fourteen songs in Taylor's third album "Last Kiss" were filled with resentment, with each singing 'I don't love you'.

This is a world full of love, so those who liked his songs would definitely outnumber Taylor's fans, and his own album's victory in sales would also represent the victory of 'love', with everyone who has love in their heart emerging as victors.

Fans scoffed that his words sounded nice but still couldn't hide the fact that he was a scumbag.

They pointed out the numerous scandals he was involved in during his concert tour in Huaxia, as the media exposed his alleged affairs with several Huaxia actresses, including Chris Liu, Jennifer Shu, Zhou Xun, Wang Fei, He Chaolian, Cai Yiling, Alice Lee, and Jun Ji-hyun.

Link countered by saying that those were false rumors, and if merely chatting with and discussing work with women was considered scandalous, he might soon lose even the right to speak to women. He hoped people would not believe or spread rumors, as rumors are stopped by the wise.

Taylor's fans said he had it coming for not cherishing Taylor when he had the chance.

In the end, Taylor herself stepped in to break the siege.

Taylor also retweeted Selena's announcement of her new album on Twitter.

Seeing both Link and Taylor supporting Selena, fans declared Selena the ultimate winner.

Selena promptly posted a cute smiling face on Twitter, saying, 'Love or no love doesn't matter, cuteness is what's most important'.

With the promotion from both of them, Selena's album "A Year Without Rain" secured the sales championship this week with a slight lead at 148,000 copies sold.

And the single "We Don't Talk Anymore," a duet between Link and Selena, which was also considered to be a song he wrote for Taylor after they broke up, topped the singles chart this week.

This single's rise to the top of the charts was also seen as a victory for all three individuals.

Of course, there were plenty of fans who continued to criticize him, calling it 'good songs by a bad guy,' 'deeply emotional scumbag,' and noted that he seemed to release multiple hits every time he got dumped, compared to a treasure trove, suggesting that Ivanka and his other rumored girlfriends should dump him too, so he could write more good songs.

Aside from Billboard's news, the nominees for the 27th MTV Video Music Awards were also announced last week.

This year's MTV Music Awards mainly selected music videos for songs released between July 2009 and July 2010.

Link earned 11 nominations in 16 categories with the music videos from his second and third albums as well as various singles, including Video of the Year, Best Male Video, Best Rock Video, Best Pop Video, Best Collaboration, Best Direction, and more.

However, the artist with the most nominations this year was Lady Gaga, leading the pack with 13 nominations.

Taylor's third album was released a bit late and didn't fall within the selection period, hence she only received one nomination for Best Female Video.

Selena gained two nominations from her debut album's MV, for Best Dance Video and Best Art Direction.

Within the four artists under Link Music.

Lana Del Rey earned two nominations, including Best New Artist and Best Direction.

Mars got three nominations: Best Male Video, Best Collaboration, and Best New Artist.

Wiz Khalifa received two nominations, for Best Hip-Hop Video and Best Collaboration.

Justin Bieber got one nomination for Best New Artist.

The rest of the nominees were mostly familiar faces, including Eminem, Beyonce, Pink, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Ke$ha, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Green Day Band, and others.

The Los Angeles Times, in its coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards, mentioned that there weren't many highlights this year except for the competition between Link and Lady Gaga, to see who would win the most awards and become the most influential artist in Western music this year.

The MTV Music Awards ceremony is scheduled for mid-September, and Link needs to make a trip back during his concert tour.

In addition, Ivanka mentioned that Ariana Grande had signed up with Link Music and asked if he had any arrangements for her?

After some thought, Link said to treat her the same as Charlie Puth at first, letting them learn songwriting in the recording studio with guidance from professionals like Graham, David Kahn, and Mars; they should be able to learn something, and then consider releasing an album in a year or two.

Ivanka suggested that they gain some experience on the American Idol show to accumulate fame and performance experience.

Link thought this was a good arrangement.

He also took the opportunity to inquire about the new albums from Lana Del Rey and Mars.

Both of them had released their last albums about a year ago and were preparing for their second ones. Link was busy with his concert tour and working on his fourth album and didn't have any new songs for them.

However, he could still help oversee the song production process, offer some suggestions for changes, and prevent them from taking any wrong turns.

After ending the call, he took two gifts for his Japanese teachers and headed to the apartment on the thirtieth floor of the Jianghai Building, pressing the doorbell twice.

In fact, he had the key to the apartment's smart lock, but out of politeness, he rang the doorbell first to give the people inside some time to prepare.

After waiting two minutes with no one answering the door, he was about to call and check when the door opened from the inside, revealing a face of refreshing beauty. Supporting the door, she nodded at him,

"Kokujikyowa, Mr. Baker, sorry to have kept you waiting."

"Kokujikyowa, teacher Yui!"

Link responded with a bow and walked in with the gifts.