Very few sophomore albums from a rock or metal band have ever been as highly-anticipated as Linkin Park’s Meteora was. It’s not a surprise to figure out why, either. It had the unenviable task of following up Hybrid Theory, the world’s best-selling album of 2001, and a complete game-changing watershed moment in popular music. By…
Only a handful of nu-metal songs have reached the 500 million spin milestone on Spotify. Shockingly, only a few nu-metal bands have achieved the milestone – Papa Roach, System Of A Down, and Linkin Park. The latter has by far the most on this list with 6, including “In The End”, “Numb/Encore”, “What I’ve Done”,…
Is it lucky #8 for Linkin Park? Probably. Buoyed by the surge of renewed interest in their sophomore album Meteora for its 20th anniversary, the album has surged to a staggering #8 on the Billboard 200, along with “Lost” reaching #1 on multiple rock charts around the world.
Linkin Park’s 20th anniversary edition of Meteora, which releases on April 7th, is a victory lap in musical form. It’s the story of a band who had to withstand the pressure of following up the biggest album of 2001 – in any genre. Yes, Hybrid Theory was that popular, emerging at basically the perfect time…
