March 28, 2024

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Watch Linkin Park perform “One Step Closer” on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2001

On January 16th, 2001, Linkin Park performed on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. The band was 6 days removed from seeing their October 2000 debut album, Hybrid Theory, reach Platinum status – a huge deal for a band that had almost every record label passing on their potential. Except all those labels – minus Warner Bros. – missed out. Rather quickly, the band went from untested potential to releasing one of the top-selling albums of the new millennium, and even faster was the speed at which Linkin Park played bigger stages.

Selling a million records in less than 3 months will get you from clubs to theatres in rather short order, of course, and with each subsequent album, Linkin Park proved they were here to stay. This newly-released video from Linkin Park captures the band at a stage where their biggest growth (Hybrid Theory was THE best-selling album of 2001) was yet to come.

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