Listen to Linkin Park's top and latest Electro House, Dance, Big Room songs, watch videos and discover DJs similar to Linkin Park on EDM Hunters. As the best-selling band of the 21st century and one of the world's best-selling music artists overall, Linkin Park has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards. In 2014, the band was declared as the Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now by Kerrang!. In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium.
Their seventh album One More Light, a more electronic and pop-oriented record, was released on May 19, 2017. Their sixth album, The Hunting Party (2014), returned to a heavier rock sound. Their fifth album, Living Things (2012), combines musical elements from all of their previous records. The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types in their fourth album, A Thousand Suns (2010), layering their music with more electronic sounds. The album topped the Billboard charts and had the third-best debut week of any album that year. Having adapted nu metal and rap metal to a radio-friendly yet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Meteora, the band explored other genres on their next studio album, Minutes to Midnight (2007). Their 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. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000), which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005, and multi-Platinum in several other countries. Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. On November 1, 2007, Linkin Park received MTV European Music Award as the best band in Munich, Germany. Chester Bennington said in of the interviews that the band had been forced to follow the demands of its supporters and copied the Hybrid Theory sound, but the new style had come just to Linkin Park's satisfaction. The band's fans were not unanimous concerning the new record and expressed various feelings, from sheer admiration to pure disappointment. Critics compared such changes to the evolution of U2. The material contained much less rapping and many more melodic fragments. Minutes to Midnight released by Linkin Park May 15, 2007, became a step away from nu-metal closer to rock. Vocalist Chester masterfully utilized both extreme vocals, characteristic of many metal subgenres, and clean voice. Linkin Park created an awesome mixture of nu-metal, rap-rock together with touches of electronic and alternative music. This album followed the music style of its predecessor. However, contrary to the praising feedbacks of the experts, this record did not achieve the debutante's fame. Involving rapper Jay-Z, Linkin Park produced acclaimed remixes for Numb, Faint, One Step Closer, and Lying from You. The album earned a number of rewards: MTV reward for the best video (Somewhere I Belong) and Radio Music Awards for the best song (Numb). The videos for Somewhere I Belong, Breaking the Habit, and Numb occupied MTV and top positions of the charts. Meteora, Linkin Park's second album, was produced in 2003 to lead the Billboard chart as the most distributed record. In addition, Linkin Park recorded Reanimation, a collection of remixes. Overall, they gave 320 concerts for that year and released DVD Frat Party at the Pankake Festival. In 2001, Linkin Park toured the USA having many performances together with famous rappers, and also participated in Ozzfest. By today, more than 10 million copies of this record have been sold. This album has remained the most successful one in the band's discography. The record included such chart-toppers as Crawling, One Step Closer, and In the End the video for the latter, broadcasted by MTV, was proclaimed the video of the year. This album was a good seller with 4 million and 800,000 copies sold for the first year and earned then Grammy as the best rock album of the year. In a year, they released their debut album Hybrid Theory, featuring the material accumulated for many years.
In 1999, Linkin Park managed to get a contract with Warner Bros.
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