Linkin Park is an American
rock band from
Agoura Hills,
California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album,
Hybrid Theory, which was certified
Diamond by the
RIAA in 2005 and
multi-platinum in several other countries.
[1] Its following studio album,
Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the
Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.
[2] In 2003,
MTV2 named
Linkin Park the sixth greatest band of the music video era and the third best of the new millennium behind
Oasis and
Coldplay.
[3] Billboard ranked
Linkin Park #19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart.
[4]
Having adapted the
nu metal and
rap metal genres to a radio-friendly yet densely layered style in
Hybrid Theory and
Meteora,
[5][6][7] the band explored other genres in their next studio album,
Minutes to Midnight, which was released in 2007.
[8][9] The album topped the
Billboard charts and had the third best debut week of any album that year.
[10][11] The band has collaborated with several other artists, most notably with
rapper Jay-Z in their
mashup EP
Collision Course, and many others included on
Reanimation.
[6] The band's most recent work, the
concept album A Thousand Suns, was released on
September 8, 2010. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two
Grammy Awards.
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