Kapitel 201: Chapter 187: Continue to Compete for the Ranking (Additional Chapter 8/10 for Alliance Leader)

While Link was popping the champagne in celebration, Roc Nation Records also held a cocktail party at the Hilton Hotel to celebrate "The Blueprint 3" topping the weekly album sales chart.

But at the party, Jay-Z wasn't happy.

Before the album's release, he had high hopes for it and, according to his and the company's projections, the first-week sales were supposed to be at least above 800,000 copies, with a great chance to break one million and set a new record in his career.

But it didn't, with first-week sales only at 458,000 copies.

For many first and second-tier singers, that number was something 'they wouldn't even dare to dream of.'

For him, a top figure in the music industry with the rank of a king, 458,000 copies seemed rather ordinary, even a failure.

The main reason for the failure was that Link's album had eaten into a portion of the market share. Without Link's album, "The Blueprint 3" had a great chance to sell over 600,000 copies in the United States.