Linkin Park’s Second Album Reaches Half A Decade As A Top Performer

Linkin Park's 'Meteora' has lived connected the Billboard 200 for a full of half a decade — 260 weeks — and it is the band's 2nd task to deed that milestone. The vocalist anf frontman of Linkin Park Chester Bennington successful performance for the iDays Festival 2017 astatine the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. Monza, Italy. 17th June 2017 (Photo by Francesco Castaldo/Archivio Francesco Castaldo/Mondadori via Getty Images)

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After promoting Hybrid Theory, the medium that introduced Linkin Park to the world much than a 4th period ago, the set recovered itself successful a position galore successful philharmonic acts person faced successful the past: How does 1 travel a generation-defining, world-shaking album?

It is difficult capable for immoderate enactment to people 1 blockbuster, and producing different while filming euphony videos, writing, signaling and touring is nary easy task. Linkin Park managed to do the astir intolerable pinch Meteora, the group’s highly-anticipated sophomore set. The successful merchandise proved that Linkin Park was present to stay, and besides that the nu metallic subgenre the set helped popularize astatine the move of the period was not done ruling the airwaves.

More than 2 decades aft Meteora conquered a number of Billboard charts, the medium continues to unrecorded connected respective of them and helps the Grammy-winning enactment return to a milestone it has reached only erstwhile before.

Linkin Park’s Meteora Reaches Five Years

Meteora celebrates 260 weeks connected the Billboard 200 this frame, which is precisely half a decade location connected the ranking of the most-consumed albums and EPs successful the United States. That tally accounts for astir a 4th of the project’s lifespan, arsenic Meteora was released successful 2003 and is much than 20 years aged astatine this point. The full-length only dips 1 abstraction this week, settling astatine No. 70.

Meteora Spent Two Weeks astatine No. 1

Meteora debuted astatine No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 successful April 2003 and spent 2 weeks moving the tally. It remains the only 1 of Linkin Park’s half-dozen leaders connected the roster to negociate much than a azygous framework astatine the summit.

Here are each of Linkin Park’s No. 1 albums connected the Billboard 200.

• A Thousand Suns
• Living Things
• Meteora
• Minutes to Midnight
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• One More Light

Only Two Linkin Park Albums Have Celebrated Five Years

Only 2 Linkin Park releases person spent astatine slightest 5 years connected the Billboard 200. Hybrid Theory is easy the group’s longest-charting title, pinch 428 frames location connected the roster – a fig that expands again this period.

While it has spent years longer connected the tally than Meteora, the band’s debut ne'er reached No. 1. Hybrid Theory peaked astatine No. 2, a position wherever respective consequent Linkin Park projects person besides stalled.

Linkin Park Charts Two Classics Together

Meteora and Hybrid Theory look connected the aforesaid 5 Billboard charts this week, and some titles diminution connected each roster. The 2 classics moreover beryllium side-by-side connected the Top Hard Rock Albums ranking, wherever Meteora dips to No. 4 and Hybrid Theory follows astatine No. 5. Linkin Park claims a 3rd abstraction connected that ranking, arsenic the band’s Papercuts top hits compilation reenters astatine No. 22. All 3 releases person taken turns astatine No. 1 connected the genre-specific roster.

Linkin Park Claims Three Hit Songs This Week

Linkin Park besides has 3 songs connected the Billboard charts this week, and 2 of them travel from Meteora. “Numb” appears connected the Billboard Global 200, the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart, while “Somewhere I Belong” tin only beryllium recovered connected the second tally. “In the End,” the breakout smash that helped move Hybrid Theory into a colossal success, besides appears connected some worldwide rankings and lands astatine No. 4 connected the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart.