Linkin Park Top The Charts • Page 2

This album is kind of all over the place. It's both bad, bit good, it's just kind of there for me.

But people really shouldn't be shocked this sold well. These guys still tour arenas and sell them out all over the world, especially here in the US. They have a huge established fanbase that's gonna buy whatever they put out.

 

This is reminding me of that new Suicide Silence record that came out earlier this year. Doing something radically different from before but doing it very poorly.

 

Oh give me a break, his comments were over the top but he didn't say what you're claiming

 

I usually hate posts like this but for some reason the first two lines in this made me laugh out loud

 

Their last album was the most hardcore one they've ever done. I had a feeling back then that they would do the opposite with this one. I don't really expect this to be their sound for the next couple of albums. I've only had a chance to listen once but I always thought a slower album with Chester doing a lot of singing (instead of screaming) would be a good idea.

 

That's the problem. It's a great idea if done correctly. If you had an album where it was similar to the slow songs they've already done, it would've been incredible! Instead, you have a jumbled album made up of what seemed to be unused demos from previous albums. Imagine if this album had songs like Leave Out All The Rest, Shadow of the Day, Waiting for the End, Pushing Me Away, Numb, etc? You have a great mix of different styles of pop and rock which a lot more people would've accepted. No pun intended but in the end, this will just be a small blip on their career and they'll still be one of the top rock bands in the world.

 

I have no problem with LP switching up styles because it's worked well for them in the past, but to me, this was just a very boring attempt at making a pop album.

 

It was a joke. Definitely exaggerated but still he's threatening people for calling the band a sell out......

 

Chester will find a way to be mad about this.

 

I have to assume this did ok on blind following more than people actually liking the album. Though it's 2017, so I don't know who buys an album blindly anymore outside of preorders (which are understandable).

 

New album is shallow garbage. Of course it hit no. 1, they're catering their sound to fit the mold of every other big name pop act selling well to teens. Heavy makes me want to stab myself in the face.

 

I liked it probably as much as anything they've done since Meteora. I like the songs Mike fronts on and the blackbear collab. Not surprised they took a drastic turn after the last album which didn't really hit the mainstream very well. These are mainstream designed songs for better or for worse.

 

Suicide Silence were only good with Mitch. I hate Eddie Hermida.

 

Eddie could have been cool had he stuck doing what he did with ASP except with SS. But NU metal is the cool thing in the scene now so that didn't happen plus he's so shitty in interviews he's literally digging the bands grave.

 

I kind of liked the first track. It was different (for Linkin Park, I mean—fit right in with Justin Beiber, which isn't an insult), but not bad. I thought, "Hey, maybe the people on Chorus are just overreacting because it isn't the more rock style of Linkin Park." The second track started ok with the rapping then went downhill with the rappers.

Then the album took a giant shit all over my ears through the next 8 tracks...what the hell was that?

 

their last album sold US: 274,00 units though. Huge drop

 

From Wikipedia (where I believe you got your facts from):

The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart behind Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence and Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour, with first-week sales of 110,000 copies in the United States.[63] Although it was the first week of 2014 where three albums sold more than 100,000 copies in the United States, it became Linkin Park's lowest first-week sales for a studio album since "Meteora", and also their lowest-peaking studio album. In its second week, the album dropped to number nine on the chart, selling 29,000 copies.[64] In its third week the album sold 16,000 more copies bringing its total album sales to 155,000 in the United States.[65] As of December 2014, the album has sold 274,000 copies in the United States and 900,000 copies worldwide.

In 6 months it sold 274k copies. Their first week it sold 110k. They didn't drop off at all.

 

oh im at work. thanks for filling in the pieces

 

Totally agree. Couldn't have said it more poetic myself. Maybe you should write their next big single?