Also, because this album was so hot, its sales were so high, and it created so many new records, Taylor, Adele, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and others complained over the phone that he was too formidable, pushing the records to an extremely high level, which they feared they would never be able to catch up with.
Link wasn't proud of their complaints; in fact, the first week sales of 3.05 million were far below his expectations.
At present, he was the world's most famous entertainment star with over a billion fans globally, and this album was released through all channels, with more than 30 million US Dollars invested in promotion and marketing, priced even lower than his fourth album, and it was his last one.
With all these factors combined, he thought he could sell over 3.5 million in the first week, but the result was only 3.05 million.
This inevitably made him think of Adele's next album "25," which had first-week sales of 3.37 million in the United States alone.