Do You Think I Will Get An A+ On This Project On Linkin Park?
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Linkin Park is an American rock band that formed in 1996. This band formed in Agoura Hills, California, U.S.A. They have won two Grammy Awards and have sold more than 50,000,000 (50 million) albums. They have succeeded all of these awards with their hit album “Hybird Theory.” “Hybird Theory” was loved by a trade group called the RIAA (or the Recording Industry Association of America). They have also continued their success with their following studio album, “Meteora”, and topping the Billboard 200’s album charts in the year 2003.
Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, and Rob Bourdon. Later on these three friends graduated from high school, the California natives started to take their music more seriously, and adding three new members to their band, Joe Hahn, Dave “Phoenix” Farrell, and Mark Wakefield (Mark was later on know as “Xero”). Soon tensions and frustration grew within the band after they failed to land their last record deal and due to the lack of success caused two members to leave the band, Wakefield the vocalist and Farrell.
After spending some times looking for a replacement vocalist, Xero enlisted a vocalist from Arizona, Chester Bennington. Later on Jeff Blue, the vice president of Zomba Music had directed Bennington to the band for help in March 1999. Bennington became a great standout because of his unique singing style. Therefore the band had changed their name from Xero to Hybird Theory. Later on the bands rebirth culminated with the change in the name; from Hybird Theory, the band had changed their name to the present day name – LINKIN PARK. However, despite these changes the band still struggled to sign a record deal. After facing lots of rejection from many of the biggest record labels, Linkin Park asked Jeff Blue for a little bit more help. Jeff was now the V.P. of Warner Bros. Records. He helped the band sign a deal with the company on the year 1999. The band released their new album Hybird Theory, in year 2000. Hybird Theory consists of these 14 songs, “Papercut”, “One Step Closer”, “With You”, “Points of Authority”, “Crawling”, “Runaway”, “By Myself”, “In the End”, “A Place for My Head”, “Forgotten”, “Cure for the Itch”, “Pushing my Away”, “My December”, and “High Voltage.”
Hybird Theory was released on 10/24/00 (October 24th, 2000). Hybrid Theory represented the 5 years of the band’s work was edited by music producer Don Gilmore. The Band sold more than 4,800,000(4.8 million) records during the current year the album was released. The band earned the status of the best-selling album of 2001. Hybird Theory was nominated for its third Grammy Award, including best new artist, best rock album, and best hard rock performance (for “Crawling”). MTV awarded the band their Best Rock Video and Best Direction awards for “In the End” (In the End is based on one person’s failure).
The band also formed their own tour, Projekt Revolution which featured artists like Cypress Hill, Adema, and Snoop Dogg. The average concerts performed by Linkin Park are 320 a year! The experiences and performances the band was documented in their first DVD, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival, which debuted in November 2001.
Now reunited with former bassist Dave Farrell, the band began work on a remix album, nicknamed Reanimation, which included the songs from Hybird Theory and Hybrid Theory EP (extra play).Reanimation debuted on July 30, 2002, featuring the likes of Black Thought, Jonathan Davis, Aaron Lewis, and many others. Reanimation claimed the second spot on the Billboard 200, and sold nearly 270 thousand (270,000) copies during its debut week.
A little time after the success and fame of the two hit albums, Hybird Theory and Reanimation, the band spend lots of time touring the United States of America. The band began working on new types of music. The band spent more than half of their free time in their tour bus’ radio. Sooner after that the band themselves announced the production of their new studio album in December 2002. Their new work was inspired by the region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks. Meteora was a mixture of the band’s previous “nu metal” and “rapcore” song styles. Meteora included newer effects like the shakuhachi, which is a Japanese flute made of bamboo, and other instruments. The band’s second album came out on March 25, 2003 and in a snap the whole world new about it. It was the #1 album recognized in the United States and United Kingdom and was the second most recognized album in Australia.
More than 800,000 copies of the new hit album Meteora were sold the first week it cam into stores! It was also ranked best-selling album on the Billboard charts at the time when it came out. By October 2003 Meteora was really noticed around the world, over 2,500,000 (2.5M) copies of the hit album Meteora was sold! The success of the hit album Meteora gave Linkin Park the opportunity to
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