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|Released = March 25, 2003
|Released = March 25, 2003
|Recorded = April 2002 – December 2002
|Recorded = April 2002 – December 2002
|Genre = [[Nu Metal]]
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|Length = 36:43
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|Label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
|Label = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]

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Meteora is the second studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on March 25, 2003 through Warner Bros. Records, following Reanimation, a collaboration album which featured remixes of songs included on debut studio album Hybrid Theory. Linkin Park released singles from Meteora for over a year, including "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "From the Inside", the promotional single "Lying from You", and "Breaking the Habit". Meteora takes its title from the Greek Orthodox monasteries.

Meteora is the most successful album in the history of the Alternative Songs chart, a chart that specializes in radio play of alternative songs. "Numb" was the biggest song of the year on the chart. As of 2007, the album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, and is certified four times platinum by the RIAA. Meteora was also ranked number 36 on Billboards Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.[1][2] The song "Session" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, losing to Jeff Beck's "Plan B". Some songs from the album were remixed with some of Jay-Z's songs for the EP Collision Course.

Background and production

"Somewhere I Belong"
25-second sample of "Somewhere I Belong", the first single from Meteora.
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Meteora, which was co-produced Don Gilmore,[3] features a mixture of the band's previous nu metal and rap metal styles with newer innovative effects. "Nobody's Listening" features a sample from the band's track "High Voltage", which appears on the B-side for the single "One Step Closer" and the bonus disc of Hybrid Theory. The sample is a distorted version of Mike Shinoda's rapping line that is in the chorus of "High Voltage" where he states "Coming at you from every side". The track also includes the induction of a shakuhachi, a Japanese flute made of bamboo. "Breaking the Habit" features a strong electronica-influenced opening, live strings and guitar. This is an exception from their previous nu metal/rap rock performances, as no distorted guitar riffs, nor any rapping vocals from Mike Shinoda are included – a style they would further explore on later albums. Linkin Park comprehensively rehearsed the album, recording more than forty choruses for the first single "Somewhere I Belong".

Other editions

Special edition

There is 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 that can be found in some parts of Asia, United States, and more commonly in India. The India version contains an alternate DVD and alternative cover that is packaged in a slimline case with the disc in original packaging.

Tour edition

The "Tour Edition" of Meteora is packaged in a two disc set. The second disc, which is a Video CD, has the music videos for "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", and "Breaking the Habit". The tour edition is packaged in a standard Compact Disc case, rather than their trademark digipak case.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic62/100[4]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[5]
The A.V. Clubmixed[6]
Blender[7]
E! OnlineA[8]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[9]
NME7/10[10]
Q[11]
Rolling Stone[12]
Sputnikmusic2.5/5[13]
Yahoo! Music UK[14]

In its first week it sold an estimated 810,000 units. It sold 5,913,000 copies in the US alone[15] and over 11 million copies worldwide as of 2007.[1] The album was ranked number 36 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.[2] As of February 2012, Meteora has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.[16]

Meteora received favorable reviews, although critics noted that the album's musical style was similar to its predecessor, Hybrid Theory (2000). The overall Metacritic score is 62.[4] E! Online rated it an A, and expected it to "shoot straight for the stars".[17] Entertainment Weekly described it as "radio-friendly perfection". Dot Music described it as a "guaranteed source of ubiquitous radio hits".[14] Rolling Stone said the band "squeezed the last remaining life out of this nearly extinct formula".[12] Billboard Magazine described Meteora as "a ready-made crowdpleaser".[18] The New Musical Express said it had "massive commercial appeal" but left the reviewer "underwhelmed".[10] Allmusic described it as "nothing more and nothing less than Hybrid Theory Part 2".[5] Blender described it as "harder, denser, uglier",[19] while Q described it as "less an artistic endeavor than an exercise in target marketing."[20]

The song "Session" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2004.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Linkin Park

No.TitleLength
1."Foreword"0:13
2."Don't Stay"3:07
3."Somewhere I Belong"3:33
4."Lying from You"2:55
5."Hit the Floor"2:44
6."Easier to Run"3:24
7."Faint"2:42
8."Figure.09"3:17
9."Breaking the Habit"3:16
10."From the Inside"2:55
11."Nobody's Listening"2:58
12."Session"2:24
13."Numb"3:07
Total length:36:43
iTunes and Korean tour edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."Lying from You" (Live LP Underground Tour 2003)3:04
15."From the Inside" (Live LP Underground Tour 2003)2:55
16."Easier to Run" (Live LP Underground Tour 2003)3:22
Total length:45:53
2013 iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."Step Up" (Live)4:14
15."Somewhere I Belong" (Live at Milton Keynes)3:41
Tour Edition video disc track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Somewhere I Belong"3:44
2."Faint"2:56
3."Numb"3:06
4."Breaking The Habit"3:18

Multimedia Part

  • The Art of Meteora – 17:04
  • Website Toolkit
  • Exclusive Access To Web-based Media

Personnel

Charts and Certifications

Singles

Year Song Peak chart positions
U.S.

[62]

U.S.
Alt.
[62] 		U.S.
Main
[62] 		AUS
[63] 		NZ
[64] 		UK
[65] 		BEL
[66] 		FRA
[67] 		FRA
[67] 		GER
[68] 		ITA
[69] 		IRE
[70] 		NLD
[71] 		NOR
[72] 		SWE
[73] 		SWI
[74]
2003 "Somewhere I Belong" 32 1 1 13 1 10 33 14 32 12 13 4 14 12 19 15
"Faint" 48 1 2 25 — 15 44 — — 40 29 26 20 — 49 32
"Numb" (Platinum) 11 1 1 11 13 14 48 19 — 19 47 16 2 — 23 15
2004 "From the Inside" — — 15 37 50 — — — 35 35 — — — — 54 38
"Lying from You" 58 1 2 — — — — — — — — — — — — —
"Breaking the Habit" 20 1 1 23 27 39 — — 27 25 — 46 41 — — 56

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External links

Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
April 6, 2003 – April 19, 2003 		Succeeded by
Preceded by UK number one album
April 5, 2003 – April 11, 2003 		Succeeded by
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