The YouTube channel of the band, LinkinParkTV, has scored over one billion hits. The channel features the 2009 single by the rock-band, “New Divide”. The song, which was the soundtrack of the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is scoring 131 million YouTube views on alone.
The next two rock bands with the highest number of views on YouTube are Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Green Day has 246 million views on their YouTube channel “greenday”, while Red Hot Chili Peppers has 328 million views on their YouTube channel “RHCPtv”.
Linkin Park, the band with 45 million fans of Facebook, released their latest album “Living Things” on June 25, 2012. Last month, they also took another revolutionary step by releasing an interactive music video for their song “Lost in the Echo”.
You can watch their most watched music video “New Divide” below.
The American rock band Linkin Park has released an interactive video for their song Lost in the Echo, which is the first song of their fifth studio album, Living Things.
The video premiered on the official website for the song lostintheecho.com on August 29, 2012. The song, Lost in the Echo, was written by the band and was produced by band’s co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, the co-president of Columbia Records. Initially, the band was planning to release the song on July 23, as a single. However, plans changed and the song was released on June 20, 2012 as the first song of their “Living Things” album.
Lost in the Echo interactive video uses a similar technology to the technology that has been used in the famous “Take This Lollipop” video. The Flash-based application (or the music video) can fetch your Facebook pictures, and place them into the storyline of the video, which as a result produces a personalized tale for each viewer.
Although the band has also released a static video for the song, according to Linkin Park’s rapper and multi-instrument musician, Mike Shinoda, this marks a turning point of the music video production industry. In one of the interviews, he stated that the whole idea of doing a static 3:30 movie or performance to sit underneath a song is starting to feel kind of boring.
However, when Shinoda himself connected his Facebook account to the video, it turned into an unexpected funny story. Since he didn’t have any personal pictures on his account, the video pulled out some of his “silly” pictures and integrated them with the video, transforming the powerful interactive video to a funny video clip. He said that there was this one moment of the video where they saw a character in the video breaking down in tears while looking at a picture of a ham sandwich.
The video was co-directed by Jason Nickel and Jason Zada, and was influenced by the Facebook app “Take This Lollipop”, which proclaims to be the fastest-growing Facebook app ever, with nearly 10 million Likes.
“The video is based on Flash, because it was the best way to make this idea work. It is Facebook connected, but don't worry: it will not steal or share anything you don't want it to.” – Mike Shinoda stated in one of his blog posts. Click Here to Get Lost in the Echo!
Billboard: Best Artists of the Decade chart - No. 19
MTV2: Greatest bands of the music video era - No. 6
Best of the new millennium - No. 3
Genres: Rap Rock
Alternative Rock
Alternative Metal
Nu Metal
Linkin Park (LP) is a famous rock band formed in 1996. The band is from Agoura Hills, California, USA. The debut album by Linkin Park was “Hybrid Theory”, which helped raise the band to international fame. The album can be seen as one of the most celebrated rock albums, which inspired an entire generation. It is still considered as one of the prime albums of the genre of rock music.
The second album by the band was named Meteora, and continued the success of the band. In 2003, the album topped Billboard 200 album chart, and was then followed by extensive touring all around the world.
Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends; Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda and Rob Bourdon. Soon after graduating from high school, they recruited Joe Hahn, Mark Wakefield and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and formed a band called “Xero”. Later, Mark Wakefield and Dave "Phoenix" Farrell left the band, and they replaced their vocalist, Wakefield, with Chester Bennington. Before Joining “Xero”, Chester performed as the vocalist of the post-grunge band, Grey Daze.
After Chester joined the band, they decided to change the name of the band to “Hybrid Theory”. After sometime the band decided to change its name once again. And this time they chose the name “Linkin Park” as a play on and homage to the Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, California. The band signed their first record deal with Warner Bros. Records in 1999. They released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, the following year.
Since year 2000 the band has released 5 Studio albums, 2 Remix albums and 10 EP albums.
Studio Albums
Hybrid Theory (2000)
Meteora (2003)
Minutes to Midnight (2007)
A Thousand Suns (2010)
Living Things (2012)
Remix Album
Reanimation (2002)
Collision Course (2004)
Linkin Park has won two Grammy Awards and has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.
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