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Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on May 14, 2007, through Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. Minutes to Midnight was the band's follow-up album to Meteora (2003) and features a shift in the group's musical direction. For the band, the album marks a beginning of deviation from their signature nu metal sound. Minutes to Midnight takes its title from the Doomsday Clock.^[1] It is also the first Linkin Park full-length album to carry a Parental Advisory label.

Linkin Park started work on their third studio album in 2003, taking a break to tour in support of Meteora in 2004. In this time period, the band formed numerous side projects; Mike Shinoda formed his hip hopside projectFort Minor, while Chester Bennington formed Dead by Sunrise, causing the album to be shelved temporarily. The band returned to work on the record afterward, taking on a different musical direction than the 2003 sessions while working with producer Rick Rubin. The album's completion was delayed several times for unknown reasons. Eventually, 'What I've Done' was chosen as the album's lead single in April 2007, with the album seeing release in North America on May 15, 2007.

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The album debuted at number one in the US Billboard 200^[2][3] and in 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada.^[4] In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 623,000^[5] albums sold, going on to be certified fourfold platinum in the United States. It was also certified double platinum in New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, and Australia and certified platinum in Canada, France, Switzerland and in the UK.^[6] Despite its commercial success, Minutes to Midnight received mixed reviews from critics.^[7]Rolling Stone magazine named it the twenty-fifth best album of 2007.^[8] It has sold more than four million copies in the US and 20 million copies worldwide.^[9] It was ranked number 154 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.^[10]

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• 5Minutes to Midnight – Live Around the World
• 7Charts

Background[edit]

In an interview, lead singer Chester Bennington explained that the album is 'a mix of punk, classic rock, and hip-hop standards' and that 'Rick has brought more of a stripped down, classic-rock and hip-hop kind of feel.'^[11]

In another interview, Bennington stated: 'This time around, Mike Shinoda is singing a lot more. It may seem like he's not on the record, but he's doing a lot of the harmonies. He also sings a couple of songs alone. We're presenting ourselves in a different way.'^[12][13]

Recording and composition[edit]

Guitarist Brad Delson experimented with an EBow when the band was piecing together 'The Little Things Give You Away'. The band decided not to use the effect for the solo in that song and instead ended up creating 'No More Sorrow' out of the effect. In 'Given Up', he jingles the keys that are heard while several clap sounds are overlaid in the intro of the song (as mentioned in the lyric book: Brad added the sounds on the intro song: multiple tracks of claps - and keys jingling.). Shinoda and Delson teamed up with David Campbell to add string elements to six songs; 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Hands Held High', 'The Little Things Give You Away', as well as the two b-sides 'No Roads Left' and 'Blackbirds' (which was instead later used in the iPhone game 8-Bit Rebellion! as well as being included as a bonus track for A Thousand Suns), respectively. All scratching elements by Joe Hahn that existed in the previous two studio albums are largely absent because of the low mixing, except on the songs 'What I've Done', 'Wake', 'The Little Things Give You Away', 'Valentine's Day' and 'In Pieces'. Hahn contributes more with programming, electronics, and other elements to many of the songs. The church organ and military drumbeat on 'Hands Held High' were originally to be used as the backdrop to melodic vocals, but Rubin recommended that the band try the opposite approach according to the album booklet. For the album, the band recorded fifty to sixty songs in August 2006.^[14] Their previous albums took only about three to six months to complete, while this one took 14 months.^[14] They spent over six months writing the songs.^[14] In previous albums, they composed an average of 40 songs, but they made over 100 this time.^[14] 'Shadow of the Day' is one of two songs (the other being 'No Roads Left') to have Bennington playing the guitar. During live performances, Shinoda is generally playing the keyboard for 'Shadow of the Day', while Bennington plays rhythm guitar. Shinoda stated in an interview: 'We were looking back at the things that we had done in the past.. and I think we just figured that we had exhausted that sound. It was easy for us to replicate, it was easy for other bands to replicate, and we just needed to move on.'^[15]

Shinoda performs his rapping vocals on only two tracks, 'Bleed It Out' and 'Hands Held High'. This is a significant decrease compared to the amount of rapping on previous albums. The rap vocals on 'Hands Held High' are much closer styled to Mike Shinoda's side project Fort Minor than his traditional Linkin Park verses, as he raps during most of the song. Despite a decrease of Mike Shinoda as rapper, he has three solo lead songs on the record: 'Hands Held High', 'In Between' and the bonus track 'No Roads Left'. He also raps on 'Bleed It Out' while 'What I've Done', 'Shadow of the Day', 'No More Sorrow' and 'The Little Things Give You Away' features backing vocals from Shinoda at the end. Minutes to Midnight is also Linkin Park's first album to feature guitar solos, particularly in the tracks 'What I've Done,' 'In Pieces' and 'The Little Things Give You Away'. Also, unlike the previous two studio albums, Minutes to Midnight contains profanity and thus the first Linkin Park studio album to contain a Parental Advisory (the first overall being their collaborative EP with Jay-Z, Collision Course) and politically charged lyrics.^[16] The songs that contain profanity are 'Given Up', 'Bleed It Out' and 'Hands Held High'.

Cover artwork[edit]

The front and back cover were recorded around the ruins of North Shore Beach and Yacht Club in North Shore, California.^[17]A year after the release of Minutes to Midnight, the band released ten different covers that were originally used as consideration for the final cover for the album prior to its release. The band made all ten of these covers available for fans to use as the album art on iTunes.

Critical reception[edit]

Minutes to Midnight received generally mixed reviews, based on an aggregate score of 56/100 from Metacritic,^[7] with critics showing approval, disapproval and indifference in almost equal measure.

Rolling Stone gave Minutes to Midnight 4 out of 5 stars, stating that 'most of Minutes is honed, metallic pop with a hip-hop stride and a wake-up kick',^[26] and it was placed at number 25 in their list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.^[8]IGN referred to it as 'definitely a step in the right direction and a stepping stone for things to come'.^[29]Herald Sun writer Karen Tye gave it 3½ out of 4 stars and praised the band's new sound, asking, 'Who knew being a plain old rock band could suit Linkin Park so well?'.^[30] Despite commending the band for their ambition, The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and perceived 'their decision to stay roughly within the shrieky boundaries of their genre' as a weakness, while writing that 'the sound still pivots on the interplay of walloping guitar chords and self-flagellating lyrics'.^[31]

Among those with a more negative view of the album was Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, who described the album's sound as 'passé' and summed the band's effort up as 'opting to create a muddled, colorless murk', giving it 2 and a half out of 5 stars.^[19] Johan Wippsson from Melodic acknowledged the band's progression but felt that the album is 'weak' and 'too shattered'.^[22]NME magazine's Dan Silver gave it a rating of 2/10, calling it the 'sound of a band trying and failing to forge a new identity', and referring to the song 'Hands Held High', a song about terrorist attacks and war, as 'far and away the funniest thing you will hear all year'.^[24]

Commercial performance[edit]

Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. First scheduled to be released in the summer of 2006, it was later postponed to the fall of 2006, then again to early 2007. The album's release date was finally set for May 14, 2007. In Canada, the album was released on May 15, 2007. There are non-Parental Advisory releases of both the regular album and the special edition album. The songs 'Given Up', 'Bleed It Out', and 'Hands Held High' are edited. In Malaysia, the edited version for the album is available in digipak cover while the explicit edition available for the Tour Edition which features white slipcase cardboard cover and a standard jewel case. In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold.^[32] In Canada, the album sold over 50,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart.^[3] Worldwide, the album shipped over 3.3 million copies in its first four weeks of release.^[33]

Five singles were released from the album: 'What I've Done', 'Bleed It Out', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Given Up', and 'Leave Out All the Rest'. Although 'Given Up' and 'Leave Out All the Rest' had not been released as singles until early March 2008, 'Given Up' had already charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Pop 100 charts at numbers 99 and 78 respectively in 2007, and 'Leave Out All the Rest' had already charted on Billboard's Pop 100 chart at number 98 and Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 17 in 2007. The songs 'Hands Held High' and 'No More Sorrow' also charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at numbers 23 and 24, respectively, in 2007. The album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide,^[9] with 3.3 million copies sold in the US alone.^[34].Although sales of the album were lower than their two first studio albums, the album was more successful in terms of single's charting performance, with all of the five singles released reaching the Billboard Hot 100, and two songs reaching the Bubbling under Hot 100.

Track listing[edit]

All lyrics written by Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda; all music composed by Linkin Park.

Minutes to Midnight – Live Around the World[edit]

Minutes to Midnight – Live Around the World is a live album which features live versions of songs from the third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. They were recorded in various cities around the world from 2007 to 2010.

Track listing[edit]

Personnel[edit]

• Chester Bennington – lead vocals; rhythm guitar on 'Shadow of the Day' and 'No Roads Left'
• Rob Bourdon – drums, percussion, backing vocals on 'Hands Held High'
• Brad Delson – lead guitar; string arrangements on 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Hands Held High', 'The Little Things Give You Away', and 'No Roads Left', keyboard and backing vocals on 'Hands Held High'
• Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell – bass guitar; backing vocals on 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'Hands Held High'
• Joe Hahn – turntables, sampling, programming, backing vocals on 'Hands Held High'
• Mike Shinoda – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboard, piano, production; string arrangements on 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Hands Held High', 'The Little Things Give You Away', and 'No Roads Left'; acoustic guitar on 'The Little Things Give You Away'

• Rick Rubin – production
• Dana Nielsen – engineering
• Andrew Scheps – engineering
• Ethan Mates – engineering
• Phillip Broussard, Jr. – engineer assisting
• Neal Avron – mixing
• Nicolas Fournier – mix assisting
• George Gumbs – mix assisting
• Dave Collins – mastering

Charts[edit]

Singles[edit]

Certifications[edit]

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About LINKIN PARK

Although rooted in alternative metal, Linkin Park became one of the most successful acts of the 2000s by welcoming elements of hip-hop, modern rock, and atmospheric electronica into their music. The band's rise was indebted to the aggressive rap-rock movement made popular by the likes of Korn and Limp Bizkit, a movement that paired grunge's alienation with a bold, buzzing soundtrack. Linkin Park added a unique spin to that formula, however, focusing as much on the vocal interplay between singer Chester Bennington and rapper Mike Shinoda as the band's muscled instrumentation, which layered DJ effects atop heavy, processed guitars. While the group's sales never eclipsed those of its tremendously successful debut, Hybrid Theory, few alt-metal bands rivaled Linkin Park during the band's heyday.
Drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, and MC/vocalist Mike Shinoda attended high school in Southern California, where they formed the rap-rock band Xero in 1996. Bassist Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell, singer Mark Wakefield, and DJ/art student Joseph Hahn joined soon after, and the band courted various labels while playing hometown shows in Los Angeles. Few companies expressed interest in Xero's self-titled demo tape, however, prompting Wakefield to leave the lineup (he would later resurface as the manager for Taproot). Hybrid Theory became the band's temporary moniker in 1998 as replacement singer Chester Bennington climbed aboard, and the revised band soon settled on a final name: Linkin Park, a misspelled reference to Lincoln Park in Santa Monica. With Bennington and Shinoda sharing vocal duties, the musicians now wielded enough power to distinguish themselves from the wave of nu-metal outfits that had appeared during the decade's latter half. Warner Bros. vice president Jeff Blue took note and signed Linkin Park in 1999, sending the band into the studio with Don Gilmore shortly thereafter.
Linkin Park titled their debut album Hybrid Theory, a tribute to the band's past, and released the record during the fall of 2000. 'Crawling' and 'In the End' were massive radio hits; the latter song even topped the U.S. Modern Rock chart while peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100, an example of the band's crossover appeal. Linkin Park joined the Family Values Tour and played shows with Cypress Hill, leading the group to log over 320 shows in 2001 alone. Come January 2002, Hybrid Theory had received three Grammy nominations and sold over seven million copies. (Sales later topped ten million, earning the album 'diamond status' and making Hybrid Theory one of the most successful debuts ever.) Despite their meteoric rise, however, Linkin Park spent the remainder of the year holed up in the recording studio, again working with producer Don Gilmore on a follow-up album. Meanwhile, the timely summer release of Reanimation helped appease the band's eager audience, offering remixed versions of Hybrid Theory's tracks.
A proper sophomore effort, Meteora, arrived in March 2003, featuring a heavier sound and stronger elements of rap-rock. Although the record spawned several modern rock hits, songs such as 'Numb,' 'Somewhere I Belong,' and 'Breaking the Habit' furthered the band's crossover appeal by simultaneously charting on the Hot 100. Linkin Park once again supported the album with ample touring, including performances with the second annual Projekt Revolution Tour (the band's own traveling festival, which originally launched in 2002) and additional shows with the likes of Metallica and Limp Bizkit. Live in Texas was released to document the band's strength as a touring act, and the bandmates tackled various personal projects before beginning work on a second remix project.
Released in 2004, Collision Course found the band collaborating with king-of-the-mountain rapper Jay-Z, resulting in a number of mashups that sampled from both artists' catalogs. Collision Course topped the charts upon its release, the first EP to do so since Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies, and Jay-Z furthered his association with the band by asking co-founder Mike Shinoda to explore the possibility of a solo hip-hop project. He did, dubbing the project Fort Minor and releasing The Rising Tied in 2005 with Jay-Z as executive producer. Linkin Park then reconvened in 2006 to begin work on a third studio album, which saw Shinoda sharing production credits with Rick Rubin. The resulting Minutes to Midnight, a more traditional rock affair that largely left behind their trademark electronics, arrived in 2007, debuting at number one in several countries and spawning the Top Ten single 'What I've Done.'
In 2010 the band teamed up with Rubin again to produce its fourth studio album, A Thousand Suns, changing tack again for a left-field, experimental project based largely in ambient electronica, which divided their fans. The following year, Chester Bennington stated the band's desire to focus more on putting out new material rather than maintaining an exhaustive touring schedule, with the band having a goal of releasing a new album every 18 months. Linkin Park made good on that promise in 2012 with their Rick Rubin-produced fifth album, Living Things, which saw something of a return to the hybrid sound of yore. Upon its June release, the album debuted at the top of the Billboard charts, selling over 223,000 copies in its first week; it would soon be certified gold.
As Linkin Park began work on their sixth studio album in the spring of 2013, Bennington announced that he was replacing Scott Weiland as the lead vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots; he was not leaving Linkin Park, but instead planned to be in both groups simultaneously. Bennington underscored his commitment to both bands in October of 2013 by releasing his debut EP with STP, High Rise, and appearing with Linkin Park on the remix album Recharged that same month. The album's lead single, 'A Light That Never Comes,' recorded in collaboration with superstar DJ Steve Aoki, was a worldwide club hit. In 2015, another Aoki collaboration, 'Darker Than Blood,' featured on the DJ's Neon Future II and entered the Top 50 in both Billboard dance and electronic charts.
Linkin Park unveiled The Hunting Party in June 2014. The album -- produced by the bandmembers themselves -- was inspired by the punk, metal, and hardcore they had listened to as teens. The resulting collection was loud, raw, and heavy, featuring guest appearances by Tom Morello, System of a Down's Daron Malakian, Helmet's Page Hamilton, and hip-hop legend Rakim. Although it was kept out of the top spot on the U.S. charts, it hit number one in half a dozen countries around the world, and became one of the year's biggest sellers in hard rock circles. When Linkin Park returned in 2017, they were accompanied by a drastic shift in their sound. 'Heavy,' a duet featuring singer Kiiara and production by pop songwriters Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter, appeared on the band's seventh effort, One More Light. It became their fifth number one album. Barely two months after its release, one week before beginning a major American tour, Bennington was found dead at his home in Southern California; he was 41. ~ Andrew Leahey

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