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] 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 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.[3] Billboard
ranked Linkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart.[4] The band
was recently voted as the greatest artist of '00s in a Bracket Madness poll on
VH1.[5]
Having adapted nu metal and rap metal to a
radio-friendly yet densely layered style in Hybrid Theory and Meteora,[6][7][8] the band
explored other genres in their next studio album Minutes to Midnight (2007).[9][10] The album
topped the Billboard charts and had the
third-best debut week of any album that year.[11][12] 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 and
beats. Their most recent work Living Things (2012) combines
musical elements from all of their previous records. The band has collaborated
with several other artists, most notably with rapper Jay-Z in their mashup EP Collision Course, and many others on Reanimation.[7] Linkin Park
has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.
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