American rock band Linkin Park has recorded material for seven studio albums, the most recent being One More Light, in 2017. The band was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1996 by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon and Brad Delson.[1] The group later expanded to a six-piece when they added Joe Hahn, Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell and Mark Wakefield to the line-up. Mark Wakefield was later changed to lead vocalist Chester Bennington.[2][3] After facing numerous rejections from several major record labels, Linkin Park turned to Jeff Blue for additional help. After failing to catch Warner Bros. Records attention on three previous attempts, Jeff Blue, now the vice president of Warner Bros. Records, helped the band sign a deal with the company in 1999. The band released its breakthrough album, Hybrid Theory the following year.[2] The album produced four singles, 'One Step Closer', 'Crawling', 'Papercut' and 'In the End'.[4] The album included a total of twelve songs with two additional special edition tracks available in Japan. Later in 2002, the band released a Remix album, Reanimation which would include works from Hybrid Theory and non-album tracks.[5]Reanimation debuted on July 30, 2002, featuring the likes of Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis and many others.[6]Reanimation claimed the second spot on the Billboard 200 and sold nearly 270,000 copies during its debut week.[7] The remix album included twenty remixed songs, mainly hip-hop influenced.[4]
Following the success of the two releases, the band released Meteora, in early 2003. Meteora spawned five singles, 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Faint', 'Numb', 'From the Inside' and 'Breaking the Habit' which received significant radio attention.[8][9] The album included twelve songs which included some non-single hits like, 'Session' and 'Lying From You'. 'Lying From You' peaked on the Alternative Songs charts. 'Session', an instrumental track from the album, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2004. The band then released a mashup CD/DVD set, 'Collision Course' with rapper Jay-Z on November 30, 2004.[10] It reached number 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release.[11] The extended set contained six songs recorded overnight. The song, 'Dirt off Your Shoulder/Lying from You' being a non-single, charted in the UK-single charts. Linkin Park returned to the recording studios in 2006 to work on new material. To produce the album, the band chose producer Rick Rubin. Despite initially stating the album would debut sometime in 2006, the album was delayed until 2007.[12]Warner Bros. Records officially announced that the bands third studio album titled, Minutes to Midnight would be released on May 15, 2007 in the United States.[13] After spending fourteen months working on the album, the band members opted to further refine their album by removing five of the original seventeen tracks.[14]Minutes to Midnight sold over 625,000 copies in its first week, making it one of the most successful debut-week albums in recent years. The album also took the top spot on the Billboard Charts.[15] The album included singles, 'What I've Done', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Bleed It Out', 'Given Up' and 'Leave Out All the Rest'. The album contained politically-concerned and environmentally-concerned songs such as, 'Hands Held High', 'No More Sorrow' and 'What I've Done'.
In May 2009, Linkin Park announced they were working on a fourth studio album, which was planned to be released in 2010. Mike Shinoda told IGN that the new album would be 'genre-busting', while building off of elements in Minutes to Midnight.[16] He also mentioned that the album would be more experimental and 'hopefully more cutting-edge.'[17] Chester Bennington also addressed the media to confirm Rick Rubin would return to produce the new album. The band later revealed the album would be called, A Thousand Suns.[18] While working on the new album, Linkin Park worked with successful film composer, Hans Zimmer to produce the score for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.[19] The band released a single for the movie entitled, 'New Divide'. Joe Hahn created a music video for the song, featuring clips from the film.[20] On June 22, Linkin Park played a short set in Westwood Village after the premier of the movie.[21] After completing work for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the band returned to the studio to finalize their album.[22] The album featured four singles, 'The Catalyst', 'Waiting for the End', 'Burning in the Skies' and 'Iridescent'. For the next album, the band again started recording in 2011 and the album, Living Things was released in June 2012. The album sold over 220,000 copies during its debut week, ranking No. 1 on the US Album Charts.[23] Linkin Park's single, 'Castle of Glass' was nominated for 'Best Song in a Game' at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. The band also performed at the award ceremony on December 7, but lost the award to 'Cities' by Beck.[24] The album featured four singles, 'Burn It Down', 'Lost in the Echo', 'Powerless' and 'Castle of Glass'. On August 10, 2013, the band collaborated with American musician Steve Aoki to record the song, 'A Light That Never Comes' for Linkin Park's online puzzle-action game, LP Recharge (short for Linkin Park Recharge), which was launched on Facebook and the official LP Recharge website on September 12, 2013. On the day of the game's release, Linkin Park made a post on their Facebook explaining that the song used to promote the game would be included on a new remix album entitled, Recharged. The band also worked on the soundtrack for the film Mall, which was directed by Joe Hahn.[25]
In 2014, the band released an album, The Hunting Party which features a more raw and loud sound compared to their other albums. The album is the first one to have featuring artists like, 'Page Hamilton' of 'Helmet', 'Rakim', 'Daron Malakian' of 'System of a Down' and 'Tom Morello' of 'Rage Against the Machine'.[26] The album spawned five singles, 'Guilty All the Same', 'Until It's Gone', 'Wastelands', 'Rebellion' and 'Final Masquerade'.
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| 1997·1998·1999·2000·2001·2002·2003·2004·2006·2007·2008·2009·2010·2011·2012·2013·2014·2015·2016·2017 |
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| Indicates promotional single release |
| Year | Title | Album | Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Rhinestone | Xero (Sampler Tape) | Xero |
| Pictureboard [27][note 1] | |||
| Reading My Eyes | |||
| Fuse | |||
| Stick N' Move | |||
| 1998 | Closing | Rapology 12 | |
| Drop | Rapology 13 | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn | |
| Fiends | Rapology 14 | Xero | |
| 1999 | Carousel | Hybrid Theory (EP) | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon |
| Technique (short) | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn | ||
| Step Up | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson | ||
| And One | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon | ||
| High Voltage | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson | ||
| Part of Me[note 2] | Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon | ||
| Plaster | Hybrid Theory | ||
| Crawling (Demo) | |||
| Dust Brothers | |||
| Untitled | Hybrid Theory 8-track Demo[28][29] | ||
| SuperXero | |||
| Points and Authority (Demo) | |||
| Crawling (Demo, Edit) | |||
| She Couldn't | |||
| Carousel (Demo) | |||
| Part of Me (Demo) | |||
| And One | |||
| A Place for My Head (Esaul) | Hybrid Theory (2-track Demo) | ||
| By Myself | |||
| 2000 | Papercut | Hybrid Theory | Linkin Park |
| One Step Closer | |||
| With You | Linkin Park, The Dust Brothers | ||
| Points of Authority | Linkin Park | ||
| Crawling | |||
| Runaway | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield | ||
| By Myself | Linkin Park | ||
| In the End | |||
| A Place for My Head | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield, Dave Farrell | ||
| Forgotten | |||
| Cure for the Itch | Linkin Park | ||
| Pushing Me Away | |||
| My December [note 3] | Mike Shinoda | ||
| High Voltage [note 4] | Linkin Park | ||
| 2002 | Opening | Reanimation | Mike Shinoda |
| Pts.OF.Athrty | Linkin Park, Jay Gordon | ||
| Enth E ND | Linkin Park, KutMasta Kurt and Motion Man. | ||
| [Chali] | Linkin Park | ||
| FRGT/10 | Linkin Park, Alchemist and Chali 2na | ||
| P5hng Me A*wy | Mike Shinoda, Stephen Richards | ||
| Plc.4 Mie Hæd | Linkin Park, Amp Live and Zion I | ||
| X-Ecutioner Style | Linkin Park, Sean C, Roc Raida and Black Thought | ||
| H! Vltg3 | Linkin Park, Evidence, Pharoahe Monch and DJ Babu | ||
| [Riff Raff] | Linkin Park | ||
| Wth>You | Linkin Park, Aceyalone | ||
| NtrMssion | Linkin Park | ||
| Ppr:Kut | Linkin Park, DJ Cheapshot, Jubacca, Rasco and Planet Asia | ||
| Rnw@y | Linkin Park, Backyard Bangers and Phoenix Orion | ||
| My<Dsmbr | Linkin Park, Mickey P. and Kelli Ali | ||
| [Stef] | Linkin Park | ||
| By_Myslf | Linkin Park, Josh Abraham | ||
| Kyur4 Th Ich | Linkin Park | ||
| 1Stp Klosr | Linkin Park, The Humble Brothers and Jonathan Davis | ||
| Krwlng | Linkin Park, Aaron Lewis | ||
| A.06 | LP Underground 2.0 | Linkin Park | |
| Dedicated (Demo 1999) | Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Joe Hahn, Chester Bennington | ||
| 2003 | Foreword | Meteora | Linkin Park |
| Don't Stay | |||
| Somewhere I Belong | |||
| Lying from You | |||
| Hit the Floor | |||
| Easier to Run | |||
| Faint | |||
| Figure.09 | |||
| Breaking the Habit | |||
| From the Inside | |||
| Nobody's Listening | |||
| Session | |||
| Numb | |||
| 2004 | Sold My Soul to Yo Mama | LP Underground 4.0 | Joe Hahn, Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda |
| Standing in the Middle [note 5] | Mike Shinoda | ||
| Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying from You | Collision Course | Jay-Z and Linkin Park | |
| Big Pimpin'/Papercut | |||
| Jigga What/Faint | |||
| Numb/Encore | |||
| Izzo/In the End | |||
| Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer | |||
| 2006 | Announcement Service Public | LP Underground 6.0 | Linkin Park |
| QWERTY | |||
| 2007 | Wake | Minutes to Midnight | |
| Given Up | |||
| Leave Out All the Rest | |||
| Bleed It Out | |||
| Shadow of the Day | |||
| What I've Done | |||
| Hands Held High | |||
| No More Sorrow | |||
| Valentine's Day | |||
| In Between | |||
| In Pieces | |||
| The Little Things Give You Away | |||
| No Roads Left [note 6] | |||
| 2008 | You Ain't Gotsta Gotsta | mmm... Cookies: Sweet Hamster Like Jewels From America! (Underground 8.0) | Linkin Park |
| Bubbles | |||
| No Laundry | |||
| Da Bloos | |||
| PB n' Jellyfish | |||
| 26 Lettaz in da Alphabet | |||
| Lockjaw [note 7] | Non-album track | Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon | |
| 2009 | New Divide | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Linkin Park |
| A-Six (Original Long Version 2002) | LP Underground 9: Demos | ||
| Faint (Demo 2002) | |||
| Sad (By Myself Demo 1999) | |||
| Fear (Leave Out All the Rest Demo 2006) | |||
| Figure.09 (Demo 2002) | |||
| Stick and Move (Runaway Demo 1998) | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield | ||
| Across the Line (Unreleased Demo 2007) | Linkin Park | ||
| Drawing (Breaking the Habit Demo 2002) | |||
| Drum Song (Little Things Give You Away Demo 2006) | |||
| 2010 | Not Alone | Download to Donate for Haiti | |
| The Requiem | A Thousand Suns | ||
| The Radiance | |||
| Burning in the Skies | |||
| Empty Spaces | |||
| When They Come for Me | |||
| Robot Boy | |||
| Jornada del Muerto | |||
| Waiting for the End | |||
| Blackout | |||
| Wretches and Kings | Linkin Park, Mario Savio | ||
| Wisdom, Justice, and Love | Linkin Park, Martin Luther King Jr. | ||
| Iridescent | Linkin Park | ||
| Fallout | |||
| The Catalyst | |||
| The Messenger | |||
| A Thousand Suns: The Full Experience [note 8] | |||
| Blackbirds [note 9] | |||
| Unfortunate (Unreleased Demo 2002) | Underground X: Demos | ||
| What We Don't Know (Unreleased Demo 2007) | |||
| Oh No (Points of Authority Demo) | |||
| I Have Not Begun (Unreleased Demo 2009) | |||
| Pale (Unreleased Demo 2006) | |||
| Pretend to Be (Unreleased Demo 2008) | |||
| Divided (Unreleased Demo 2005) | |||
| What I've Done (M. Shinoda Remix) | |||
| Coal (Unreleased Demo 1997) | |||
| Halo (Unreleased Demo 2002) | |||
| 2011 | Issho Ni | Download to Donate: Tsunami Relief | |
| Pay Yo Respektz | Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell, Mike Shinoda | ||
| YO (MTM Demo) | Underground Eleven | Linkin Park | |
| Slip (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo) | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield | ||
| Soundtrack (Meteora Demo) | Linkin Park | ||
| In the End (Demo) | |||
| Program (Meteora Demo) | |||
| Bang Three (What I've Done Original Demo) | |||
| Robot Boy (Test Mix, Optional Vocal Take) | |||
| Broken Foot (Meteora Demo) | |||
| Esaul (A Place for My Head Demo) | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield | ||
| Blue (1998 Unreleased Hybrid Theory Demo) | Linkin Park | ||
| 2012 | Lost in the Echo | Living Things | |
| In My Remains | |||
| Burn It Down | |||
| Lies Greed Misery | |||
| I'll Be Gone | |||
| Castle of Glass | |||
| Victimized | |||
| Roads Untraveled | |||
| Skin to Bone | |||
| Until It Breaks | |||
| Tinfoil | |||
| Powerless | |||
| Homecoming (Minutes to Midnight Demo) | LP Underground 12.0 | ||
| Points of Authority (Demo) | |||
| Clarity (Minutes to Midnight Demo) | |||
| Asbestos (Minutes to Midnight Demo) | |||
| Bunker (Minutes to Midnight Demo) | |||
| So Far Away (Unreleased 1998) | |||
| Pepper (Meteora Demo) | |||
| Debris (Minutes to Midnight Demo) | |||
| Ominous (Meteora Demo) | |||
| Forgotten (Demo) | Linkin Park, Mark Wakefield | ||
| Bruiser | StageLight Demos EP | Linkin Park | |
| Space Station | |||
| Complimentary | |||
| Loop Jam 1 | |||
| Loop Jam 2 | |||
| 2013 | A Light That Never Comes | Recharged | Linkin Park, Steve Aoki |
| Castle of Glass (M. Shinoda Remix) | Linkin Park | ||
| Lost in the Echo (Killsonik Remix) | |||
| Victimized (M. Shinoda Remix) | |||
| I'll Be Gone (Vice Remix) (featuring Pusha T) | Linkin Park, Pusha T | ||
| Lies Greed Misery (Dirtyphonics Remix) | Linkin Park | ||
| Roads Untraveled (Rad Omen Remix) (featuring Bun B) | Linkin Park, Bun B | ||
| Powerless (Enferno Remix) | Linkin Park | ||
| Burn It Down (Tom Swoon Remix) | |||
| Until It Breaks (Datsik Remix) | |||
| Skin to Bone (Nick Catchdubs Remix) (featuring Cody B. Ware & Ryu) | Linkin Park, Cody B. Ware, Ryu | ||
| I'll Be Gone (Schoolboy Remix) | Linkin Park | ||
| Until It Breaks (Money Mark Headphone Remix) | |||
| A Light That Never Comes (Rick Rubin Reboot) | |||
| Burn It Down (Paul van Dyk Remix) [note 10] | |||
| 2013 | Basquiat (2007 Demo) | LP Underground XIII | Linkin Park |
| Holding Company (2011 Demo) | |||
| Primo (I'll Be Gone - Longform 2010 Demo) | |||
| Hemispheres (2011 Demo) | |||
| Cumulus (2002 Demo) | |||
| Pretty Birdy (Somewhere I Belong 2002 Demo) | |||
| Universe (2006 Demo) | |||
| Apaches (Until It Breaks Demo, No. 1) | |||
| Foot Patrol (Until It Breaks Demo, No. 2) | |||
| Three Band Terror (Until It Breaks Demo, No. 3) | |||
| Truth Inside a Lie (By Ryan Giles) [LPU Sessions 2013] | Ryan Giles | ||
| Change (By Beta State) [LPU Sessions 2013] | Matt McDonald, Ryan Hernandez, Justin Kastner, Adrian Robinson | ||
| 2014 | Keys to the Kingdom | The Hunting Party | Linkin Park |
| All for Nothing(featuring Page Hamilton) | |||
| Guilty All the Same(featuring Rakim) | Linkin Park, Rakim | ||
| The Summoning | Linkin Park | ||
| War | |||
| Wastelands | |||
| Until It's Gone | |||
| Rebellion(featuring Daron Malakian) | Linkin Park, Daron Malakian | ||
| Mark the Graves | Linkin Park | ||
| Drawbar (featuring Tom Morello) | |||
| Final Masquerade | |||
| A Line in the Sand | |||
| White Noise | Mall (soundtrack) | Chester Bennington, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn, Mike Shinoda | |
| Jeff Walks | |||
| Mall Blueprint | |||
| Jeff Makes Observations | |||
| Barry's Story | |||
| Mal RX7 | |||
| Changing Room Tease | |||
| Danny in Police Car - Mal Gears Up | |||
| Mal Gives Barry Second Chance - Mal Unloads | |||
| Mall Carnage - Mal Stalked | |||
| It Goes Through | |||
| Cops Arrive | |||
| Danny's Lucky Day | |||
| Jeff Philosophizes to Donna | |||
| Jeff and Donna Connect | |||
| Jeff Trips in the Mirror | |||
| Adele and Danny In the Backseat | |||
| Mal vs. Helicopter | |||
| Devil's Drop | |||
| TV Comes to Life - Mal and Jeff | |||
| The Last Line | |||
| Danny Goes Home | |||
| Dancer | |||
| Aubrey One (2009 Demo) | LP Underground XIV | Linkin Park | |
| Malathion+Tritonus (2008 Berlin Demo) | |||
| Berlin One, Version C(2009 Demo) | |||
| Blanka (2008 Demo) | |||
| Heartburn (2007 Demo) | |||
| Breaking the Habit Original Mike (2002 Demo) | |||
| Dave Sbeat feat. Joe | Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn | ||
| Froctagon (2009 Demo) | Linkin Park | ||
| Rhinoceros (2002 Demo) | |||
| After Canada (2005 Demo) | |||
| 2015 | Final Masquerade (acoustic) | ||
| Animals (2011 Demo) | LP Underground 15 | ||
| Basil (2008 Demo) | |||
| Pods 1 of 3 (1998 Demo) | |||
| Pods 2 of 3 (1998 Demo) | |||
| Pods 3 of 3 (1998 Demo) | |||
| Chance of Rain (2006 Demo) | |||
| TooLeGit (2010 Demo) | |||
| 2016 | Grudgematch (2009 Demo) | ||
| Hurry (1999 Demo) | |||
| Grr (1999 Demo) | |||
| Attached (2003 Demo) | |||
| Chair (1999 Demo) | |||
| The Catalyst (2010 Demo) | LP Underground Sixteen | ||
| Can't Hurt Me (2014 Demo) | |||
| Dark Crystal (2015 Demo) | |||
| Air Force One (2015 Demo) | |||
| Bleed It Out (2007 Demo) | |||
| Consequence A (2010 Demo) | |||
| Consequence B (2010 Demo) | |||
| Lies Greed Misery (2010 Demo) | |||
| Burberry (2015 Demo) | |||
| Symphonies of Light Reprise (2010 Demo) | |||
| 2017 | Nobody Can Save Me | One More Light | Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Jon Green |
| Good Goodbye(feat. Pusha T and Stormzy) | Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Jesse Shatkin, Stormzy, Pusha T | ||
| Talking to Myself | Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Ilsey Juber, J.R. Rotem | ||
| Battle Symphony | Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Jon Green | ||
| Invisible | Mike Shinoda, Justin Parker | ||
| Heavy(feat. Kiiara) | Chester Bennington, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Julia Michaels, Justin Tranter | ||
| Sorry for Now | Mike Shinoda | ||
| Halfway Right | Chester Bennington, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Ross Golan, Michael Keenan | ||
| One More Light | Mike Shinoda, Eg White | ||
| Sharp Edges | Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Ilsey Juber | ||
| Looking For An Answer[30] | Mike Shinoda |