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. Thus, they called themselves Linkin Park. The young men went into troubles with the other band under the same name charging them with a copyright infringement. As he had agreed to join the band, it was called Hybrid Theory. His unique voice made a deep impression on the other members. It took the group a while to find a new vocalist. After multiple refusals of labels to cooperate, the original singer Mark Wakefield made up his mind to seek his fortune in another band. In spite of the limited finances, the band started recording several songs in Shinoda's bedroom, their first studio. The group was founded in 1996 by classmates Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson. Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards.Linkin Park is a rock band from Los Angeles playing alternative rock. 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. Their most recent work Living Things 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, layering their music with more electronic sounds and beats. 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 in their next studio album Minutes to Midnight. The band was recently voted as the greatest artist of '00s 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 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. 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. Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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