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Meteora (album)
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| Studio album by Linkin Park | |||||
| Released | March 25, 2003 June 29, 2004 (Tour Edition) |
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| Recorded | April 2002 – December 2002 | ||||
| Genre | Nu metal, Rapcore, electronica | ||||
| Length | 36:43 | ||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | ||||
| Producer | Don Gilmore | ||||
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Meteora is the second studio album by California-based nu metal band Linkin Park, first released on March 25, 2003. Following the collaboration album Reanimation which featured remixes of their debut album Hybrid Theory. Linkin Park released singles from Meteora for over a year, including "Somewhere I Belong" and "Numb".
The music in Meteora represents significant changes since the release of Hybrid Theory. It is characterized by more relevant influences from rapcore ("Lying from You", "Hit the Floor", "Figure.09"), hip hop ("Nobody's Listening") and electronica ("Breaking the Habit"). Their instrumental song "Session" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2003.
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The album was named after the Meteora rock formation in Greece. After seeing these monasteries on a trip to Europe, the band was inspired by the way they were built, almost defying gravity. It was this feeling of greatness and awesome accomplishment that Linkin Park wished to convey with their music, thus the name.
Don Gilmore co-produced the album. Linkin Park comprehensively rehearsed the album recording more than 40 choruses for the first single "Somewhere I Belong". Like the band's first full-length Hybrid Theory, Meteora was recorded using Pro Tools software. In its 1st week it sold an estimated 810,000 units. To date, it has sold over 6 million copies in the U.S. alone, and selling nearly 20 million copies worldwide[1].
Also interesting to note is the almost complete synchronization of every song throughout the album. The precedent is immediately set with "Foreword," an intro to the album which finishes with a crashing sound (thought by many to be glass breaking, but it is in fact an external CD burner on a wooden table being smashed with an aluminum baseball bat). The sound effect smoothly transitions this cue into the album's first song "Don't Stay." Almost all the songs are likewise linked together, with some instrumental motif carrying over one song into the next. The album performs this trick between "Foreword", "Don't Stay" and "Somewhere I Belong", "Easier to Run" and "Faint", and "Figure.09", "Breaking the Habit", "From The Inside", "Nobody's Listening" and the instrumental song, "Session".
There is also a special edition of Meteora, which includes the "Making of Meteora" DVD documentary. They are packaged together in a blue tinted case with the blue Meteora cover.
- "Intro"
- "Summer 2001"
- "Early 2002"
- "The Wizard Song" – 0:40
- "June 2002"
- "July 2002"
- "August 2002"
- "Early October 2002"
- "Late October 2002"
- "October 29, 2002"
- "Early November 2002"
- "Late November 2002"
- "December 6, 2002"
- "December 12, 2002"
- "2003: Meteora"
The Tour Edition of Meteora is a 2 disc set. The second disc, which is a Video CD, has the music videos for "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", and "Breaking the Habit". This edition also comes in a standard plastic case, rather than their trademark Meteora case.
- "Foreword" – 0:13
- "Don't Stay" – 3:07
- "Somewhere I Belong" – 3:33
- "Lying from You" – 2:55
- "Hit the Floor" – 2:44
- "Easier to Run" – 3:24
- "Faint" – 2:42
- "Figure.09" – 3:17
- "Breaking the Habit" – 3:16
- "From the Inside" – 2:55
- "Nobody's Listening" – 2:58
- "Session" – 2:24
- "Numb" – 3:08
- "Lying from You" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 3:04
- "From the Inside" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 2:55
- "Easier to Run" (Live LPU Tour 2003) - 3:22
- "Somewhere I Belong" (music video)
- "Faint" (music video)
- "Numb" (music video)
- "Breaking the Habit" (music video)
| Year | Chart | Position | Certification | Shipments |
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| 2003 | Billboard 200 | #1 | 6x Platinum | 6,000,000+ |
| 2003 | UK Albums Chart | #1 | ||
| 2003 | Canadian Albums Chart | #2 | 4x Platinum | 400,000+ |
| 2003 | Italian Albums Chart | #1 | ||
| 2003 | Australian ARIA Albums Chart | #2 | 4x Platinum | 280,000+ |
| 2003 | Polish Albums Chart | #3 | Platinum | 50,000 |
| 2003 | New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart | #1 | 3x Platinum | 45,000+ |
| 2003 | Mexican Top 100 Albums Chart | Gold | 50,000+ |
Meteora has topped the album charts in both the UK and the U.S. since its release and has reached #2 in Canada and Australia. It was the best selling rock album of 2003.
Singles released from "Meteora" have faired exceptionally well on rock charts with four of Linkin Park's five singles released reaching the number 1 position on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart and with all of their singles released reaching the number 1 or number 2 spot on the Mainstream Rock Charts.
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | Mainstream Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | Modern Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | Billboard Hot 100 | #32 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | BBC Radio One Official Chart Show | #10 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | Canadian Singles Chart | #2 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | World Modern Rock | #1 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | Canada MuchMusic Chart | #1 |
| 2003 | Somewhere I Belong | World Internet Sales | #1 |
| 2003 | Faint | BBC Radio One Official Chart Show | #15 |
| 2003 | Faint | Billboard Modern Rock | #1 |
| 2003 | Faint | World Modern Rock | #1 |
| 2003 | Faint | Canada MuchMusic Chart | #1 |
| 2003 | Faint | Billboard Mainstream Rock | #2 |
| 2003 | Faint | Billboard Hot 100 | #48 |
| 2003 | Faint | Netherlands Top 40 | #40 |
| 2004 | Numb | Billboard Hot 100 | #11 |
| 2004 | Numb | BBC Radio One Official Chart Show | #14 |
| 2004 | Numb | Modern Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2004 | Numb | Mainstream Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2004 | Numb | World Modern Rock | #1 |
| 2004 | Numb | Canada MuchMusic Chart | #1 |
| 2003 | Breaking the Habit | Billboard Hot 100 | #20 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | BBC Radio One Official Chart Show | #39 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | Modern Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | Mainstream Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | Canada MuchMusic Chart | #1 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | Netherlands Top 40 | #5 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | China Top 20 | #1 |
| 2004 | Breaking the Habit | World Modern Rock | #8 |
| 2004 | Lying from You | World Modern Rock | #9 |
| 2004 | Lying from You | Modern Rock Tracks | #1 |
| 2004 | Lying from You | Mainstream Rock Tracks | #2 |
| 2004 | Lying from You | Billboard Hot 100 | #58 |
Despite the strong sales response from fans, Meteora received a mediocre response from critics. The overall Metacritic score was 62, indicating a mixed response among the sources used to compile the score, while with a higher user score of 8.3.[2]
- The album received excellent reviews from E! Online and Entertainment Weekly.
- E! Online rated it an A-, and expected it to "shoot straight for the stars". Best tracks: "Don't Stay", "Somewhere I Belong", "Numb".[3]
- Entertainment Weekly described it as "radio-friendly perfection".
- The album received good reviews from Dot Music, Billboard, and New Musical Express, .
- Dot Music described it as a "guaranteed source of ubiquitous radio hits". Best Tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Lying from you", "Nobody's Listening"; rating 8 out of 10.[4]
- Billboard Magazine described Meteora as "a ready-made crowdpleaser". Best Tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Breaking the Habit"[5]
- The New Musical Express said it had "massive commercial appeal" but left the reviewer "underwhelmed" Rating 7 Best track: "Breaking the Habit".[6]
- The band received average reviews from All Music Guide, Rolling Stone, Blender, Q Magazine, and ShakingThrough.net.
- Rolling Stone said the band "squeezed the last remaining life out of this nearly extinct formula" (nu-metal) Rating 3 stars Best tracks: "Breaking the Habit", "Lying from You", "Figure .09", "Numb"[7]
- Allmusic.com described it as "nothing more and nothing less than Hybrid Theory Part 2". Best tracks: "Somewhere I Belong", "Lying from You", "Breaking the Habit", "Hit the Floor".[8]
- Blender described it as "harder, denser, uglier" (#15, page 128) while Q Magazine described it as "less an artistic endeavour than an exercise in target marketing".
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- Brad Delson, the lead guitarist of the band, was the first person to purchase the album.
- The man on the cover of the album is Boris "Delta" Tellegen.
- This is the shortest Linkin Park studio album.
- ^ [1] Billboard News Report
- ^ http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/linkinpark/meteora/ Metacritic.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,2917,00.html Eonline.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/l_reviews_a/28815.html Uk.launch.yahoo.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/bb/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1844735 Billboard.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://www.nme.com/reviews/linkin-park/7056 Nme.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/265830/meteora Rollingstone.com Retrieved on 05-28-07
- ^ http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ypdgylo4xpeb~T0/ Allmusic.com Retrieved on 05-28-07