Link's new album "Love is gone" hit over a million US sales for the second week in a row, leaving countless singers in Europe and America shocked, envious, and resentful.
Since Nielsen began tracking album sales in 1991, only 19 albums have sold over a million copies in the US in a single week. For an American music industry that releases eight to nine hundred, even a thousand albums and EPs each year, weekly sales breaking a million is almost mythical.
And Link owns two of them.
What's more enviable is that his new album has hit sales of over a million for two consecutive weeks, a legend amongst legends.
What drives his peers nuts is,
He priced both of his consecutive albums at 29 US dollars, which is two to three times the price of other artists' albums.
At that price, the albums still managed to break a million sales for two consecutive weeks.