When was meteora released

Linkin Park's "Meteora" makes a crater-like impact on The Billboard , crashing onto the chart at No. The Warner Bros. In the interim, Linkin Park released a remix album, "[Reanimation]," which debuted at No. Its current single, "Where I Belong," has become a top-5 hit on Billboard's mainstream and modern rock airplay charts. Pulling in at No.

Despite being released in conjunction with the start of her much-hyped Las Vegas production, sales of "One Heart" fell short of the , copies "A New Day Has Come" sold in April of last year. The latter has tallied sales of 2. It also allowed Joe Hahn to further his burgeoning video directing career as he oversaw a majority of the clips for the album. On the footsteps of "Somewhere I Belong" came " Faint ," a track instantly recognizable by its opening sounds -- a string arrangement created by Mike Shinoda and go-to string arranger David Campbell.

Add in a pulse-pushing guitar and bass work from Delson and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and hard-hitting drums from Rob Bourdon and the band had another radio hit on their hands. The song also featured one of Chester Bennington's more recognizable screams.

In reflecting with ArtistDirect on the album, the vocalist stated, "We knew what we wanted, and we knew how to execute to a certain degree. However, we were also just going for it. We didn't really care about what anybody else was doing. We also didn't care whether or not the songs fit together stylistically as a whole or a collection of songs. It was more like, "This riff is sick! We were testing. We were students in college. After seeing these monasteries on a trip to Europe, the band was inspired by the way they were built, almost defying gravity.

It was this feeling of greatness and awesome accomplishment that Linkin Park wished to convey with their music, thus the name. Don Gilmore co-produced the album. Linkin Park comprehensively rehearsed the album recording more than forty choruses for the first single "Somewhere I Belong".

In its first week, it sold an estimated , units. To date, it has sold 7,, copies in the United States alone, and nearly 16,, copies worldwide [1]. We played with time signatures. Obviously, songs like "Breaking the Habit" and "Faint" are faster than any songs we've ever written and "Easier to Run" is much slower.

Chester LPU chat April : "I think the idea of blending songs came from Reanimation we really loved the way the album flowed together by blending interludes. We really want to make albums that flow from beginning to end so we wanted to introduce that to our records. It was limited to copies. From Linkinpedia. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. Linkin Park Songs Tours. Lists All Lists.

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