LINKIN PARK MINUTES TO NUMBER ONE DEBUT, CHALLENGES FANS
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Linkin Park’s fans have taken on the challenge of integrating Minutes To Midnight by making it Number One on the Billboard 200 album chart. |
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Linkin Park wanted to challenge themselves and the fans with the release of Minutes To Midnight last week, and the fans have responded making it the Number One debut on the Billboard 200 album chart. The band sold in excess of 625,000 copies, dwarving the Number Two album this week, the debut of Tank’s Sex, Love & Pain, by almost 500,000. |
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So far, it looks like the fans have responded to the challenge of a different style from the band, and vocalist/multi instrumentalist Mike Shinoda explained Minutes To Midnight was their cure for musical boredom. |
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“When we started writing the music, it just did not feel inspired. It felt boring. It felt like we were just rehashing old ideas, and we were not ready to do that. We closed the chapter on it and did something that we felt was not only challenging creatively, lyrically, musically, all those things but it’s also going to be a challenge for the fans to say, ‘What do you think about this?’ This is not only different for us, but it’s different for a lot of bands. It’s the kind of album I don’t hear very often because from song to song everything is very, very different.” |
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Minutes To Midnight was co-produced by Shinoda and producer extraordinaire Rick Rubin. |
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