CSPC: Linkin Park Popularity Analysis

Digital Singles Sales – Part 1

As a reminder, the weighting is done with a 10 to 1,5 ratio between albums and digital singles.

Hybrid Theory (2000) – 2,190,000 equivalent albums

One Step Closer – 1,550,000
Crawling – 1,550,000
Papercut – 1,650,000
In The End – 5,750,000
Points Of Authority – 800,000
Remaining Tracks – 3,300,000

Meteora (2003) – 1,823,000 equivalent albums

Somewhere I Belong – 1,250,000
Faint – 1,750,000
Numb – 4,600,000
From The Inside – 700,000
Breaking The Habit – 1,450,000
Remaining Tracks – 2,400,000

Minutes To Midnight (2007) – 2,655,000 equivalent albums

What I’ve Done – 6,800,000
Bleed It Out – 3,200,000
Shadow Of The Day – 3,150,000
Given Up – 900,000
Leave Out All The Rest – 1,650,000
Remaining Tracks – 2,000,000

Although Linkin Park never truly had a big digital hit, the catalog appeal of their early tracks, plus Minutes To Midnight’s singles, generated a healthy tally of 44 million digital singles sold.

What I’ve Done, which is the only track that had both advantages – favorable market context upon release and strong catalog appeal – ends up as their best selling hit at 6,8 million, followed by various cult tracks including In The End, Numb and Numb / Encore remix, which will come in the Orphan category.