

Formed
in 1996,Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. 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. 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. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the
sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new
millennium. Billboard ranked Linkin Park No. 19 on the Best Artists of the
Decade chart. The band was recently voted as the greatest artist of '00s in a
Bracket Madness poll on VH1.Linkin Park reached No.8 in Billboard Social 50, a
chart of the most active artists on the world's leading social networking
sites. In other Billboard Year-End charts, the band reached No.92 in the "Top
Artists" chart, as well as A Thousand Suns reaching No.53 in the Year-End
chart of the Billboard Top 200 albums and No.7 in the 2010 Year-End Rock
Albums, and "The Catalyst" reaching No.40 in the Year-End Rock Songs
chart. On April 13, 2011, Shinoda confirmed that the album's fourth single will
be "Iridescent". He also confirmed that there will be a new, slightly
shorter version of the song, which will be part of the soundtrack of the
upcoming film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, continuing the streak of Linkin
Park songs being the theme songs of the Transformers films (after "What
I've Done" and "New Divide"), as well as the fact that a music
video will be shot for the single. The video was directed by Joe Hahn, who
directed the videos for both of the previous songs.The band was nominated for
six Billboard Awards in 2011 for Top Duo or Group, Best Rock Album for A
Thousand Suns, Top Rock Artist, Top Alternative Artist, Top Alternative Song
for "Waiting for the End" and Top Alternative Album for A Thousand
Suns, but did not win any award.
The band charted in numerous Billboard
Year-End charts in 2011. The band was No.39 in the Top Artists Chart, No.84 in
the Billboard 200 Artists chart, No.11 in the Social 50 Chart, No.6 in the Top
Rock Artists Chart, No.9 in the Rock Songs Artists Chart, No.16 in the Rock
Albums Chart, No.4 in the Hard Rock Albums Chart, and No.7 in the Alternative
Songs Chart. On April 15, 2012, Shinoda announced via his website that Living
Things would be the title of Linkin Park's fifth album, with the pre-release
sale to start on the April 16. Mike Shinoda stated that they chose the title
Living Things because the album is more about people, personal interactions,
and it's far more personal than their previous albums. The band will promote the
album on the 2012 edition of the Honda Civic Tour, with co headliners Incubus.
The band performed "Burn It Down" at 2012 Billboard Music Awards. On
May 24, the band released the music video for "Burn It Down" and
debuted "Lies Greed Misery", another song from Living Things, on BBC
Radio 1. "Powerless", the twelfth and closing track of the album, is
featured in the closing credits of the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Most
of the material from the album will have a live debut on the Honda Civic Tour in
the Summer of 2012.
In
July 2012, it was confirmed by Big Concerts and Warner Bros. Records that
Linkin Park would perform two dates in South Africa for their Living Things
Tour. The band performed at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards on December 7, 2012
where "Castle of Glass" was nominated for the "Best Song in a
Game" award, however the song "Cities" by Beck won the award.
Early
in 2012 it was also confirmed that Linkin Park would tour Australia performing
as part of the Soundwave music festival, in most capital cities alongside
artists such as Metallica, Paramore, Slayer and Sum 41. As well as headlining
at Soundwave they have also been confirmed to be performing a few Sidewave
concerts in Sydney and Melbourne with artists Stone Sour as the opening act.
Linkin Park has sold over 50 million albums worldwide and has won two Grammy
Awards.