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Link's fourth album was leaked by hackers before its official release, resulting in a loss of nearly ten million US Dollars.

After the news was reported by many American media outlets, it sparked heated discussions across the United States and even the world.

Before August, there had already been several incidents of hackers stealing bank customer data and hijacking celebrity accounts to post random messages, drawing the attention of nations worldwide.

Two of these hacking incidents were related to the music industry.

At the beginning of July, pop diva Beyonce's new album "4" was also leaked before its release.

At the end of July, Lady Gaga's fan website in Britain was hacked, and over one hundred thousand fan records were stolen.

This week, music superstar Link's new album was once again leaked by hackers, also causing millions in losses.

A series of major events combined to create panic and anger among the public.

If hacking groups steal bank customer data for profit, hijack politicians' social media accounts to vent their dissatisfaction, and hijack celebrity social media accounts to post messages for fun.

Then their theft of artists' albums and premature leaks to the internet, aside from creating turmoil, serve no purpose other than to dampen the artists' creative enthusiasm.

From the American President and Congressional members to ordinary citizens, everyone felt frustrated with the hacker community.

New York State Senator Julia Salazar said in a public event that day that the internet should not be a lawless space, proposed equating hacker groups with terrorist organizations, and demanded that legislative bodies create specific laws to restrain these individuals, to prevent them from continuing their reckless behavior.

The proposal garnered widespread support from netizens, and within three days, 125,000 people petitioned on the White House's official website, demanding that the Department of Justice severely punish hacker organizations like Swagsec.

In response, White House spokesperson Sally Sanders stated at that day's press conference:

After receiving a report from Link Music, the Manhattan police department has started to track down the Swagsec hacker organization. It is understood that this is a hacker group active in the Cambodia area, and the CIA has also started actions to conduct a cross-border investigation of the organization.

Link Music posted a tweet on their official account asking users who participated in downloading the free album to refrain from spreading the album's audio source after listening to the songs, to avoid causing greater losses to musicians, and the company would hold accountable those who profited from the free audio source.

The official iTunes Music Store account also posted a tweet supporting Link Music's decision and stated that they would cooperate with the relevant investigation.

Pop superstar Britney also retweeted, apologising to Link and Link's fans, promising to take better care of her personal account and wishing Link's new album great sales success.

In this chaotic situation, Link's fourth album "Love Is Gone" was simultaneously released in 48 countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Britain, Japan, Australia.

First-week sales in the United States were 1.537 million copies.

Number one on the Billboard album charts.

A bit less than the third album "The Woman I Love" with its first-week sales of 1.747 million copies, but still the first album this year in the United States to exceed 1.5 million copies in its first week, and since Nielsen began tracking US album sales in 1991, it's the 19th album to break one million sales in its first week.

It also surpassed Eminem's fourth album "The Eminem Show" from 2002, which sold 1.322 million copies, ranking seventh in the all-time weekly album sales chart.

Taylor's third album "Last Kiss" ranked sixth with 1.59 million copies, and Link's "The Woman I Love" ranked fourth.

All 20 songs from the album made it onto the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart in the first week.

What excited Link's fans even more was that nine of the top 10 songs on the Billboard singles chart came from this album.

"That Girl" remained the singles chart champion, followed closely by Link and Taylor Swift's collaboration "Say Something", "Love is gone", "Let her go", "Sorry", "Let Me Down Slowly", "Late night melancholy", "No promises", "Remember Me", and other songs followed in succession.

Link thus became the first artist in music history to have nine songs in the Billboard singles chart top 10 at the same time, breaking The Beatles' record of holding the top five in 1964, as Link took over the top eight spots.

The ninth-ranked song was the single "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Australian singer Gotye and New Zealand singer Kimbra.

Released on July 10, it was the singles chart champion for three consecutive weeks and sold 4.5 million copies in the United States in its first month, also a fantastic love song.

From the album "Love Is Gone," out of the remaining eleven songs, ten ranked within the top 50, with only one song written by Link himself ranking at 94, which he found quite embarrassing.

Internationally, "Love Is Gone" also topped the album sales charts in 23 countries, including Canada, Britain, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, with first-week overseas sales totaling 3.72 million copies.

Total first-week sales were 5.263 million copies.

Becoming the second album this year to exceed five million sales in its first week.

The first was Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," released in May, which sold an astounding 1.108 million physical and digital copies in the United States in its first week, with a global first-week sales of 5.72 million copies.

"Born This Way" achieved massive first-week sales because each digital album was priced at just 0.99 US Dollars, a crazy firesale.

As a result, Nielsen's official website had to change the rules, stating that albums priced below 3.99 US Dollars would not be included in the sales count.

The digital album "Love Is Gone" was priced at 19.9 US Dollars each, nearly twenty times that of "Born This Way," and the physical album at 29.9 US Dollars, also becoming the most expensive album globally this year.

Many media outlets once again complained that Link was really treating his albums as luxury goods.

In terms of international singles charts, his collaboration with Taylor, "Say Something," topped the charts in 12 countries and regions.