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Linkin Park and the History of Meteora
Linkin Park released Meteora in 2003 after preparing songs during Ozzfest, selling 27 million copies worldwide.
Hybrid Theory earned the title of the best-selling album in the United States in the year following the year of its release. Linkin Park started preparing the songs for the album Meteora during Ozzfest in the summer of 2001. In August 2002, the band entered NRG Studios with producer Don Gilmore. When they entered the studio, the group had reduced the number of songs to 13 nearly completed demos. Meteora was released on March 25, 2003, and sold 27 million copies worldwide.
On the 2003 Summer Sanitarium tour, Linkin Park gave their first stadium concerts as a support act for Metallica alongside Limp Bizkit, Deftones, and Mudvayne. That same year, the instrumental track Session, prepared by Joe Hahn, was nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2006, Linkin Park and Jay-Z won a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration with their collaboration Numb/Encore.
The song Numb reached over one billion streams on Spotify, and it also reached over one billion streams on YouTube. In February 2023, Linkin Park released the unreleased song Lost from the Meteora recording period to listeners.
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