LaunchDaily
12/21/2009
Linkin Park has been named the top-selling rock/alternative band of the
decade by SoundScan, which measures sales of albums nationwide in both physical
and digital retail outlets. The group has also been tagged as both the Number
One Hot Rock and Hot Alternative act of the past ten years by Billboard,
while also finishing at Number Five on that magazine's overall Artists of the
Decade chart. Starting with the release of their 2000 debut, Hybrid
Theory -- which moved more than 10 million copies on its own -- Linkin Park
has sold more than 50 million records worldwide, also earning two Grammys in the
process and producing a string of chart-topping singles.
Linkin Park is now working on its fourth album, and singer Chester
Bennington told us they're pushing their sound further than ever before: "I think that the kind of music that we're making, the sounds that we're
going for -- I mean, you know, we're playing instruments through pedals that are
being then sampled into keyboards and playing those through effects, and running
loops and, like, there's so much craziness happening in the studio right now.
Some of the beats are super-complicated, the programming is insane, and it's
fun."
The new Linkin Park album is expected out by mid-2010 and will follow up
2007's Minutes To Midnight.
The band is up for a Grammy Award this year for Best Hard Rock Performance,
for a live version of "What I've Done" taken from its concert CD/DVD, Road To
Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes.
Linkin Park's contribution to the soundtrack of 2009's Transformers:
Revenge Of The Fallen, titled "New Divide," has also made the shortlist for
an Oscar for Best Original Song, although the final five nominees have yet to be
determined.
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