Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion

This achievement is too dazzling.

It makes countless musicians envy and hate.

But the shock that Link Music gave to the music industry was far from over.

Starting in October of last year, they successively launched Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa, three different types of singers.

Actually, when Link Music initially introduced these three, no one really cared about them.

The reason was simple.

Lana Del Rey was a musician with a failed debut.

Her first album sold less than a thousand copies, she released many songs online, tried to become an internet celebrity without success, which showed her music had no market in the industry.

The odds of such a singer succeeding with an album were not great.

First dropped by Motown Records, then traded by Atlantic Records, he lacked looks and physique, was neither black nor white, and aside from a distinctive voice and some creative ability, he lacked other qualities.

There are many musicians like him under the big record companies; whether they can become popular or not is entirely a matter of luck.

Then there was Wiz Khalifa, who was originally signed to Warner Records. The sales of his first album were mediocre, and Warner cut the second one, clearly not a capable singer.

But

In November last year, Lana Del Rey released her first album "Young and Beautiful," with hit singles "Young and Beautiful" and "Video Games" successively breaking into the top ten of the singles chart, selling over a million copies worldwide, achieving platinum sales.

In December, Bruno Mars released his first album "It’s Better If You Don’t Understand," with hit singles "Nothin’ on You," "Lighters," and "I’m the one," successively breaking into the top ten. "Nothin’ on You" became number one on the singles chart by the end of December.

The album sold 787,000 copies in the United States within eight weeks, achieving global platinum sales.

Wiz Khalifa had not released his new album yet but had become a top rapper in the industry last year with "see you again" and "I’m the one."

And his new single "Black and Yellow" also broke into the top ten of the singles chart this week.

One can foresee that the sales of his new album will not be bad.

Thus three failures, after signing with Link Music, each began to rise to fame.

This situation also made countless musicians marvel.

Even Rolling Stone magazine commented at the beginning of the year that Link Music had a knack for shaping artists, calling Link Music the Midas touch of the music industry, with the ability to turn the rotten into the miraculous and the most anticipated label in the music industry for the next decade.

Link Music’s fame in the industry skyrocketed.

As a result, many talented musicians who were waiting to be discovered were wanting to try their luck at Link Music.

If this situation continues, Link Music will only grow stronger, become an unrivaled giant in the music industry, and Link will earn more and more U.S. dollars through this company.

This is a result neither Scooter nor Jay-Z, nor Kunas wanted to see.

After Kunas’s plan to invest in Link Music failed, he contacted Scooter to initiate a poaching scheme.

The first step was to poach the three contracting artists from Link Music, Lana Del Rey, Bruno Mars, and Wiz Khalifa.

Scooter arranged for his agents to have secret talks with the three artists, willing to sign them with big contracts and promising to arrange for multiple top producers to tailor new albums for them after they signed with the new record companies and even agreed to pay their breach of contract penalties.

Their terms were sincere, and the three contracts were highly valued, but Lana Del Rey and the others showed no intention of negotiating, as if they didn’t care much about money.

This left Scooter quite helpless; he then swung his hoe at producers like Graham and David Kahn.

Over a month, he did manage to poach seven or eight songwriters, production assistants, sound engineers, etc., but none of the core members were poached.

Because they had all come from big record companies, they knew what the production departments of big record companies were like, with an abundance of talent, serious office politics, and extremely fierce internal competition, fighting for resources even to the point of severe conflict, not to mention the huge work pressure.

Now that Link Music was on the rise, staying here would not only earn them a lot of money but also fame. Only a fool would switch jobs at a time when they could double up on wealth and fame.

"It’s far from ideal!"

Scooter sighed softly, sharing the progress of the poaching work.

Kunas took a drag on a slender cigarette, squinted his eyes at the TV as Link was leaving the stage, and asked in a low voice,

"How’s the battle for the charts going? Is there a chance of beating Link in the music market, dethroning his record sales?"

"We have the confidence, but Link is no ordinary singer, he will be more difficult to deal with,"

Scooter shrugged his shoulders, discussing the arrangement for the battle for the charts in March and April.

Currently, they had prepared three plays.

The first play was Justin Bieber. His second album would be released at the beginning of March.

Justin’s first album sold over seven hundred thousand copies in North America.

The main single from his second album, "baby," was a big hit in North America, with the second album projected to sell over a million copies and potentially reaching two or even three million.

Justin and Link are both pop artists.

If Justin’s album enters the pop music market first, draining the fans’ wallets, Link’s album sales will inevitably be impacted.

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The second play was Usher’s sixth album "Raymond Vs. Raymond."

Usher is a top artist in rap and R&B.

In 2004, Usher released his fourth album "Confessions," which sold 1.1 million copies in its first week in the United States, breaking the record for R&B male artist album sales in a single week, holding the number one spot on the Billboard album chart for nine consecutive weeks, and his single "Yeah!" remained at the top of the Billboard singles chart for 12 weeks.

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