Linkin Park’s Early-Career Smash Reaches A Special Milestone
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- Hollywood & Entertainment Linkin Park’s Early-Career Smash Reaches A Special Milestone By Hugh Mc Intyre,
- Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.
- There are a handful of genre-specific tallies in the United Kingdom that look only at the top-selling tunes in hip-hop, dance and rock, and a handful of artists regularly appear with some of their most successful cuts.
Hollywood & Entertainment Linkin Park’s Early-Career Smash Reaches A Special Milestone By Hugh Mc Intyre,
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh Mc Intyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.Follow Author May 27, 2026, 10:00am EDT"Somewhere I Belong" becomes Linkin Park's seventh song to make it to 100 weeks as one of the top-selling rock tracks in the U.K. Joe Hahm, Chester Bennington, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell of Linkin Park (Photo by Brian Ach/WireImage)WireImageWhenever any artist, whether established or brand new, reaches any chart with a song, there's reason to celebrate. Even the most beloved acts in history can falter and see their time in the spotlight disappear. Scoring a hit is never guaranteed, and churning out a tune that lives on any ranking for months, if not years, is a statistical rarity.
There are a handful of genre-specific tallies in the United Kingdom that look only at the top-selling tunes in hip-hop, dance and rock, and a handful of artists regularly appear with some of their most successful cuts. Linkin Park can often be found on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, and more often than not, with four, five, six or even seven smashes simultaneously.