Minutes to Midnight (album)
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| Studio album by Linkin Park | |||||
| Released | May 14, 2007 (See release history) |
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| Recorded | February 2006 – January 2007 at The Mansion | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 43:31 Tour Edition = 54:15 | ||||
| Label | Machine Shop/Warner Bros. | ||||
| Producer | Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda | ||||
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Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, and was released in May 2007. It is named in reference to the Doomsday Clock. The album has been certified 2× platinum in the United States[2] and shipped over 3.3 million copies worldwide in its first four weeks of release.[3] It is their first studio album with a Parental Advisory label.
The album debuted at number one in the United States[4] and in 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada, around the world.[5] In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold. The album reached number twenty-five on Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.[6] The album has sold 6,515,560 copies worldwide as of March 16, 2009.[citation needed]
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[edit] Production and Recording
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[edit] Release history
Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. First scheduled for Summer of 2006, then Fall of 2006, then early 2007, the album's release date was finally set for May 15, 2007. In an interview in September 2006, Shinoda explained: "When songs are pouring out you don't ever want to stop that. We already have over 100 roughs for songs. We've narrowed it down since but we're not ready to commit to those yet."
From the late stages of the demo sessions, the song "QWERTY", which was rumored to be on Minutes to Midnight, appeared on the Linkin Park Underground v6.0 CD on December 5, 2006 in both live and studio demo versions.
"This was a year-and-a-half long process of really hard work and experimentation in the studio that yielded about 150 rough songs," guitarist Brad Delson told Billboard.com. "Not only is this album incredibly diverse, but the depth of the material is really strong."[7]
The first single, "What I've Done", was released April 2, 2007, and debuted at number one on the United States Modern Rock chart.[8]
"Given Up", "What I've Done" and "No More Sorrow" made their live debut on April 28, 2007 in Berlin. Live performances of these three songs at the Sessions@AOL were released on AOL on May 5, 2007.[9]
On May 12, 2007, Linkin Park played "Bleed It Out" on Saturday Night Live, along with "What I've Done". Also, on May 18, 2007, Linkin Park appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and again performed "What I've Done" and "Bleed It Out".
On January 16, 2008, "Valentine's Day" finally made its live debut in Hannover, Germany.
| Country | Release Date |
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| Worldwide | May 14, 2007 |
| Canada | May 15, 2007 |
[edit] CD/DVD special editions
A CD/DVD Special Edition of Minutes to Midnight is available. It is designed to look like a book and contains a 24-page art book featuring the lyrics and conceptual art by artists who are friends with the band, along with pictures of the recording process. The cover of the North American version is grey, but in all other areas is black.
The bonus DVD contains the following:[10]
- Advanced Resolution PCM Stereo (48 kHz/24-bit) versions of all 12 tracks
- The Making of Minutes to Midnight Documentary
- The Making of "What I've Done"
- The "What I've Done" music video
The DVD-ROM features are:
- A PDF booklet with lyrics
- A flash widget and a toolkit.
- One Instant Messenger Buddy icon
- Exclusive DVD links to the official Linkin Park website, only accessible through the DVD
- Screensavers
- Wallpapers
The band also released a Super Fan Edition of the album which is only available on their online store. The only difference to the Special Edition was the book (being of 68 pages rather than 24). The DVD contains the same content.
There have been a number of problems with the DVD. Users have experienced problems accessing the DVD-ROM features, as certain computers may not be able to access the enhanced portion of this disc. In Canada, Warner Records recalled the CD/DVD edition due to the faulty DVD. The final release date for the repaired discs is yet to be known. As such orders are no longer available from the website BandMerch.com, nor is it available in stores. It is still available at some local Wal-Marts, yet the DVD is still faulty.
[edit] Clean edition
There were 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" were slightly edited, by the removal of most profanities but not all. In Malaysia, clean edition 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.
[edit] Anniversary covers
A year after the release of Minutes to Midnight, the band released a number of different covers that they had considered for the final cover, and made them available for fans to use as the album art on iTunes. There are 10 available.
[edit] Sound
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In an interview with Chester Bennington, he explained that the new album is a mix of punk, classic rock, and hip-hop standards. "Rick has brought more of a stripped down, classic-rock and hip-hop kind of feel."[11]
In another interview with Chester, he 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]
"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," said Mike Shinoda.[14]
This is their first album to contain guitar solos (particularly "The Little Things Give You Away" and especially "In Pieces"). Unlike the two previous studio albums, Minutes to Midnight contains profanity and politically-charged lyrics.[15]
Mike 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. All the songs that contain rap vocals also contain profanity, unlike their other records. Despite a decrease of Mike Shinoda as rapper, he has two solo lead songs on the record. He raps on "Hands Held High", which features background vocals from the entire band (the "men's choir" singing "Amen" is actually each member of the band) and he sings on "In Between". He also sings solo on the bonus track "No Roads Left" in a much more aggressive rock style than on "In Between" with no backing vocals from Bennington. "The Little Things Give You Away" and "Hands Held High" also feature singing vocals from Shinoda at the end.
All scratching elements by Joe Hahn that existed in the previous two studio albums are largely absent, 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, electronica, and other elements to many of the songs.
Guitarist Brad Delson experimented with an E-Bow 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" you can hear him jingling his keys while Mike Shinoda claps.[16]
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.
"Shadow of the Day" is one of two songs (the other being "No Roads Left") to have Chester playing an instrument. At concerts, Mike is generally playing the keyboard for this song.
[edit] Reception
The album has generally received a mixed response from critics. Rolling Stone magazine gave the album 4/5, and IGN referred to it as "definitely a step in the right direction and a stepping stone for things to come." Bill Lamb of About.com considered Minutes to Midnight "an impressive achievement" and went on to say: "Linkin Park handles their explorations of a direction forward with impressive grace here." A review for iTunes stated that the band appeared comfortable "when they deign to rock", citing "Given Up" and "Bleed It Out", as opposed to the "brooding" nature of "In Pieces" and some others. It also suggested that the change was Linkin Park "embracing inevitability".
However, in a two out of five stars review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described the album's sound as "passé" and summed the band's effort up as "opting to create a muddled, colorless murk."[17] In the UK, NME magazine's Dan Silver awarded it 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 in Iraq, as "far and away the funniest thing you will hear all year".[18]
The album received mixed reviews overall on Metacritic, with an average vote of 56/100, below the 62/100 score of their previous album, Meteora.[19]
[edit] Leak
The album was leaked onto the internet just under two weeks before the actual album release, which Mike Shinoda responded to:[20]
| “ | It couldn't be more exciting to give you all new music, especially after all the hard work we put into it. This album was almost a year and a half of experiments, mistakes, inspiration, and careful craftsmanship. We put everything we had into these songs, and want you to hear every second of it. I can't wait for you to absorb all the levels of meaning in the songs, and the layers of music, eventually forming your own ideas about what the songs mean to you.
At the same time, a leak leaves out some very important parts of this piece of work. We put months of creative energy into the ART of the record, in the booklet, special edition, and big book... Almost as long as it took to record Hybrid Theory. The album has amazing photos, lyrics, and notes about how the songs came together — it's the visual half of the record. On the other hand, the super-special-edition book is packed with exclusive images, stories of the making of the songs, gorgeous art, the CD and a DVD that tells the story, showing the actual moments of inspiration caught on camera. For me, it's almost hard to imagine anyone really experiencing this album without that part of it. Even the song sequence alone is very important. It's WAY different to hear the songs in a random order than to listen to this record from beginning to end. At the very least, if you've already downloaded the songs, do us a huge favor and listen to them in the right order... It'll be way more rewarding. |
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[edit] Track listing
All songs written and composed by Linkin Park.
| Minutes to Midnight | |||||||||
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| 1. | "Wake" | 1:40 | |||||||
| 2. | "Given Up" | 3:09 | |||||||
| 3. | "Leave Out All the Rest" | 3:29 | |||||||
| 4. | "Bleed It Out" | 2:44 | |||||||
| 5. | "Shadow of the Day" | 4:49 | |||||||
| 6. | "What I've Done" | 3:25 | |||||||
| 7. | "Hands Held High" | 3:53 | |||||||
| 8. | "No More Sorrow" | 3:41 | |||||||
| 9. | "Valentine's Day" | 3:16 | |||||||
| 10. | "In Between" | 3:16 | |||||||
| 11. | "In Pieces" | 3:38 | |||||||
| 12. | "The Little Things Give You Away" | 6:23 | |||||||
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| 13. | "No Roads Left" | 3:52 | |||||||
| 14. | "What I've Done" (Distorted Remix) | 3:50 | |||||||
| 15. | "Given Up" (Third Encore Session) | 3:09 | |||||||
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| 13. | "Faint" (Live in Japan) | 2:46 | |||||||
| 14. | "No Roads Left" | 3:52 | |||||||
| 15. | "What I've Done" (Distorted Remix) | 3:50 | |||||||
| 16. | "Given Up" (Third Encore Session) | 3:09 | |||||||
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| 13. | "What I've Done" (Live at AOL Sessions) | 3:29 | |||||||
| 14. | "No Roads Left" (Pre-order only) | 3:52 | |||||||
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| 13. | "Breaking the Habit" (Live at Soundcheck) | 4:25 | |||||||
| 14. | "What I've Done" (Live at Soundcheck) | 3:24 | |||||||
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| # | Title | Length | |||||||
| 13. | "What I've Done" (Live at AOL Sessions) | 3:29 | |||||||
| 14. | "No More Sorrow" (Live at AOL Sessions) | 3:45 | |||||||
[edit] Tour Edition live downloadable tracks
| Asian Tour Edition (live from Seoul, South Korea, 30th November 2007)[21] | |||||||||
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| 1. | "One Step Closer" | ||||||||
| 2. | "Lying from You" | ||||||||
| 3. | "Somewhere I Belong" | ||||||||
| 4. | "No More Sorrow" | ||||||||
| 5. | "Papercut" | ||||||||
| European Tour Edition (live from O2 Arena, London, 29th January 2008) | |||||||||
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| # | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "What I've Done" | 7:27 | |||||||
| 2. | "One Step Closer" | 4:10 | |||||||
| 3. | "Faint" | 4:07 | |||||||
- Remixes
- What I've Done (Distorted Remix) - appears on the "Bleed It Out" single.
- Leave Out All The Rest (M. Shinoda Remix) - appears on the "Leave Out All The Rest" single.
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Album
- Linkin Park
- Chester Bennington: Vocals, rhythm guitar
- Rob Bourdon: Drums, percussion
- Brad Delson: Lead guitar
- Joseph Hahn: Turntables, programming, sampling
- Dave "Phoenix" Farrell: Bass, backing vocals
- Mike Shinoda: Vocalist, keyboard, sampling, rhythm guitar, MC
- Additional musicians
- Violins: Charles Bisharat, Mario DeLeon, Armen Garabedian, Julian Hallmark, Gerry Hilera, Songa Lee-Kitto, Natalie Leggett, Josefina Vergara, Sara Parkins
- Violas: Matt Funes, Andrew Picken
- Celli: Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama
- Bass: Oscar Hidalgo
- Production
- Produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda
- Engineer: Andrew Scheps, Ethan Mates, and Dana Nielsen
- Assistant engineer: Phillip Broussard, Jr.
- Studio production coordinator: Stephanie Luby
- Album production coordinator: Lindsay Chase
- Recorded at The Mansion at Laurel Canyon
- Additional recording at NRG Studios
- Mixed by Neal Avron
- Assisted by George Gumbs and Nicholas Fournier
- Protools engineer: Erich Talaba
- Mixed at Paramount Studios
- Mastered by Dave Collins at Collins Audio
- Strings on "Shadow of the Day", "The Little Things Give You Away", "Hands Held High", "Leave Out All the Rest" and "No Roads Left" arranged by Dave Campbell, Mike Shinoda, and Brad Delson
- All strings conducted by Dave Campbell
- A&R: Tom Whalley
- A&R coordination: Liza Joseph & Trish Evangelista
- Track 14 (Tour Edition) remixed by Mike Shinoda
- Marketing director: Peter Standish
- Creative direction by Frank Maddocks, Ellen Wakayama, Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn
- Art direction: Frank Maddocks and Nikos Constant
- Design: Frank Maddocks
- Original artwork and photography by Frank Maddocks (pages 9–10, 13-16, 19-20, 23-26)
- Artwork by Ekundayo (pages 7–8), Phil Hale (pages 11–12) and Usugrow (pages 17–18), produced and curated by Nikos Constant for Span of Sunset, Inc.
- Original portraits by Joshua Petker; script writing by Usugrow; collage by Frank Maddocks (pages 21–22)
- "Tape Art" background by Keryn Thompson (pages 13–14)
- Title page photograph by James Minchin III
- Additional photography by James Minchin III (pages 1–2, 27-30)
- Studio photography by Joe Hahn (pages 3–4)
- Studio photoraphy by Mike Shinoda and Ethan Mates (pages 17–18, 31 and front and back endsheets)
- Additional recording photography by Edward Colver (front and back endsheets)
[edit] DVD
- Making of Minutes to Midnight:
- Produced by Films Di Bovino
- Directed by Mark Fiore
- Executive producer: Mark McDermott
- "What I've Done" music video:
- Produced by Bill Boyd for @radical.media
- Directed by Mr. Hahn
- Making of "What I've Done" music video:
- Produced by Almost Midnight Productions
- Directed by Michael Perlmutter
- Executive producer: Devin Sarno
- DVD producer: David May
- DVD associate producer: Raena Winscott
- Director of DVD authoring: Spencer Chrislu
- DVD album authoring: Craig Anderson, David Dieckmann and Mark Yannitell for Scribestorm
- DVD graphics: Sean Donnelly
- Worldwide representation: Rob McDermott for Mad Mac Entertainment
- Management team: Ryan DeMarti and Trish Evangelista
- Booking agent: Michael Arfin for Artist Group International
- Legal: Danny Hayes for Davis, Shapiro, Lewit & Hayes
- Business managers: Jonathan Schwartz and Michael Oppenheim for Gudvi, Sussman & Oppenheim
- Worldwide licensing and merchandising: BandMerch
[edit] Charts and sales
| Chart | Provider(s) | Peak position |
Certification | Sales/ shipments |
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| Argentinian Albums Chart[22] | CAPIF | 1 | ||
| Australian Albums Chart[23] | ARIA | 1 | 2× Platinum | 140,000 |
| Austrian Album Chart[24] | Media Control Europe | 1 | 2× Platinum | 40,000 |
| Belgium Flanders Album Chart[25] | Ultratop | 2 | Gold | 15,000 |
| Belgium Wallonian Album Chart[26] | Ultratop | 2 | Gold | 15,000 |
| Brazilian Album Chart | ABPD | — | Gold | 150,000+ |
| Canadian Album Chart[27] | Nielsen SoundScan | 1 | Platinum | 195,000+ [28] |
| Czech Album Chart[29] | IFPI | 1 | Gold | 5,000 |
| Danish Album Chart[30] | IFPI/Nielsen Music Control | 2 | ||
| Estonian Album Chart[31] | Pedrobeat | 1 | ||
| European Top 100 Albums Chart[32] | IFPI | 1 | ||
| Finnish Albums Chart[33] | GLF | 1 | Gold | 15,000 |
| French Album Chart[34] | SNEP/IFOP | 1 | Platinum | 40,000 |
| German Album Chart[35] | IFPI | 1 | 5× Gold | 500,000+ |
| Greek Album Chart[36] | IFPI | 1 | Gold | 16,000+ |
| Hungarian Top 40 Album Chart[37] | Mahasz | 1 | Gold | |
| Irish Album Chart[38] | IRMA | 1 | 2× Platinum | 30,000+ |
| Israeli Album Chart[39] | MusicaNeto | 5 | ||
| Italian Album Chart[40] | FIMI | 1 | 2× Platinum | 180,000 |
| Japan Album Chart[41] | Oricon | 1 | Platinum | 377,620 |
| Korean International Album Chart[42] | Hanteo | 1 | Gold | 21,000 |
| Mexico Top 100 Albums Chart[43] | AMPROFON | 2 | Gold[44] | 50,000 |
| Netherlands Albums Chart[45] | NVPI/Mega Charts | 2 | ||
| New Zealand Album Charts[46] | RIANZ | 1 | 2× Platinum | 30,000 |
| Norwegian Albums Chart[47] | VG Nett | 1 | ||
| Polish Album Chart[48] | ZPAV | 2 | Gold | 35,000 |
| Portuguese Album Chart[49] | AFP | 3 | Platinum[50] | 20,000 |
| Spain Album Chart[51] | Promusicae/Media Control | 2 | ||
| Swedish Album Chart[52] | Sverigetopplistan | 1 | Gold | 20,000 |
| Swiss Album Chart[53] | Media Control Europe | 1 | Platinum | 30,000 |
| Taiwan 5-Music Western Chart[54] | Five Music | 1 | Gold | 35,000 |
| Taiwan G-Music Western Chart[55] | G-Music | 1 | ||
| Taiwanese Album Chart[56] | G-Music/Five Music | 2 | ||
| UK Album Chart[57] | OCC | 1 | 1x Platinum | 500,000+ |
| U.S. Billboard 200[58] | Billboard | 1 | 2x Platinum | 2,836,000+[59] |
| U.S. Comprehensive Albums[58] | 1 | |||
| U.S. Top Digital Albums[58] | 1 | |||
| U.S. Top Internet Albums[58] | 1 | |||
| U.S. Top Rock Albums[58] | 1 |
[edit] Singles
Minutes to Midnight has yielded four successful singles as of March 2008. The album's debut single, "What I've Done", their second single "Bleed It Out", their third single "Shadow of the Day" and their fourth single "Given Up " have charted on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock charts at numbers 1, 2, 2 and 4 respectively. Other tracks from Minutes to Midnight have also been seen on the Billboard charts even though they were not released as singles such as "Given Up", "Leave Out All the Rest" (before their announcing as singles), "Hands Held High" and "No More Sorrow". Mike Shinoda confirmed "Leave Out All the Rest" is the final single from Minutes to Midnight. Shadow of the Day was also featured in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The music video of the song was nominated for Best Rock Video and Best Direction at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
The music video for Shadow of the Day won Best Rock Video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards.
| Year | Song | Chart | Peak position |
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| 2007 | "What I've Done" | Billboard Hot 100 | 7 |
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 | ||
| Modern Rock Tracks | 1 | ||
| Pop 100 | 8 | ||
| UK Singles Chart | 6 | ||
| "Bleed It Out" 1 | Billboard Hot 100 | 52 [60] | |
| Modern Rock Tracks | 2 | ||
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 3 | ||
| Billboard Pop 100 | 56 | ||
| Canadian Hot 100 | 22 | ||
| UK Singles Chart | 29 | ||
| "Leave Out All the Rest" | Pop 100 | 98 | |
| Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles | 17 | ||
| Shadow of the Day | Modern Rock Tracks | 2 | |
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 6 | ||
| Canadian Hot 100 | 12 | ||
| Pop 100 | 13 | ||
| Billboard Hot 100 | 15 | ||
| Australian ARIA Charts | 15 | ||
| UK Singles Chart | 46 | ||
| "Given Up" | Billboard Hot 100 | 99 | |
| Pop 100 | 78 | ||
| 2008 | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 5 | |
| Modern Rock Tracks | 4 | ||
| "Leave Out All the Rest" | Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 24 | |
| New Zealand RIANZ | 38 | ||
| UK Singles Chart | 90 | ||
| Modern Rock Tracks | 11 | ||
| Mainstream Rock Tracks | 33 | ||
| Billboard Hot 100 | 94 | ||
| Pop 100 | 69 |
Notes: 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 Billboard's Hot 100 and 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. "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.[61][62]
[edit] Songs in other media
- On December 20, 2007, "No More Sorrow" was released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, it is available in the Xbox Live Marketplace to buy for 500 Microsoft Points in a pack with two other songs.
- "What I've Done" is a playable song on the game Guitar Hero World Tour and is featured in the film Transformers.
- "Leave Out All the Rest" is featured in the film Twilight.
[edit] References
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- ^ RIAA Certification - RIAA Awards - RIAA News
- ^ UK Music
- ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do
- ^ ". /news/minutes-to-midnight-a-worldwide-success/ Minutes To Midnight A Worldwide Success". http://www.minutes2 . /news/minutes-to-midnight-a-worldwide-success/.
- ^ ROBERT CHRISTGAU, DAVID FRICKE, CHRISTIAN HOARD, ROB SHEFFIELD (December 17, 2007). "The Top 50 Albums of 2007" Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2007-12-20
- ^ Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight
- ^ "Timbaland Soars to No. 1 After Sales Explosion". Billboard. April 12, 2007. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003570968.
- ^ 'What I've Done' (AOL Sessions)' Video - Linkin Park - AOL Music
- ^ "Minutes to Midnight" Special Edition CD/DVD
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- ^ Folhateen Article. April 3, 2007.
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- ^ Mike Shinoda.. Minutes to Midnight (Special Edition). [Music Documentary]. http://www.amazon.com/Minutes-Midnight-CD-MVI-DVD/dp/B000OCZ0ZO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-9003673-7115813?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1180076011&sr=8-2.
- ^ http://www.coffee-bytes.com/node/554 Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight
- ^ Linkin Park / Band Biography
- ^ AllMusic Minutes to Midnight Review
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- ^ "Linkin Park: Minutes to Midnight". http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/linkinpark/minutestomidnight. Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
- ^ "Minutes to Midnight Leaked". http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/minutes_to_midnight_leaked.html. Retrieved on 2007-06-01.
- ^ http://www.hmv.com.hk/product/rockpop.asp?sku=91006 HMV
- ^ Argentinian Album Chart
- ^ Australian Top 50 ARIA Album Chart
- ^ Austrian Album Chart
- ^ Belgium Flanders Album Chart
- ^ Belgium Wallonian Album Chart
- ^ Canadian Album Chart
- ^ Nielsen Music 2007 - Music Industry Report
- ^ Czech Album Chart
- ^ Danish Album Chart
- ^ Estonian Album Chart
- ^ European Top 100 Albums Chart
- ^ Finnish Albums Chart
- ^ French Album Chart
- ^ German Album Chart
- ^ Greek Album Chart
- ^ Hungarian Album Chart
- ^ Irish Album Chart
- ^ Israeli Album Chart
- ^ Italian Album Chart
- ^ Japan Album Chart
- ^ Korean Album Chart
- ^ Mexico Top 100l Album Chart
- ^ Mexican Gold Certification
- ^ Netherlands Albums Chart
- ^ New Zealand Album Charts
- ^ Norwegian Albums Chart
- ^ Polish Album Chart
- ^ Portugal Album Chart
- ^ Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa - List of Platinum and Gold albums in 2008
- ^ Spain Album Chart
- ^ Swedish Album Chart
- ^ Swiss Album Chart
- ^ "5-Music Top 20".Taiwan 5-Music Chart..
- ^ Taiwan G-Music Western Chart
- ^ Taiwanese Album Chart
- ^ UK Album Chart
- ^ a b c d e "Billboard Album Charts". billboard.com. 2008-08-16. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/albums_index.jsp. Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
- ^ http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i607dcf03868690e2f36c8f0a3507f2d0
- ^ Billboard.com - Linkin Park artist chart history
- ^ Hands Held High: Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
- ^ No More Sorrow: Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
| Preceded by Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Bublé |
Billboard 200 number-one album May 27, 2007 – June 2, 2007 |
Succeeded by It Won't Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5 |
| Preceded by Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys |
UK number one album May 20, 2007 – May 27, 2007 |
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| Preceded by B-Side by Mr. Children |
Japanese Oricon Weekly number-one album May 28, 2007 |
Succeeded by Denim by Mariya Takeuchi |
| Preceded by Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Bublé |
Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album May 28, 2007 |
Succeeded by Dream Days at the Hotel Existence by Powderfinger |
| Preceded by Treasure by Hayley Westenra |
RIANZ number-one album May 21 – June 4, 2007 |
Succeeded by Long Player by Hollie Smith |
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