Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory climbs on five Billboard charts this week, outperforming every other … More
It was only a few weeks ago that Linkin Park re-released its most recent album, From Zero, adding several tunes to its tracklist and turning it into a highly-anticipated deluxe edition. Just a short time after that title surged on the Billboard charts, it has all but disappeared, but Linkin Park’s name has not gone with it.
Instead, fans of the hard rock outfit have refocused their listening on Hybrid Theory, the project that turned the group into superstars decades ago and which remains one of the most successful efforts in hard rock history.
Hybrid Theory Surges
Linkin Park sees four albums appear on Billboard’s rankings this frame, and Hybrid Theory is the top performer among them all. At the moment, it lives on five rosters, and it’s climbing on each and every one of them. It’s the only one of the group’s efforts to find space on that many tallies and to uniformly step up.
Hybrid Theory lives inside the top 10 only on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, where it settles at No. 6. It can also be found inside the top 20 once more on both the Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums lists, ascending to Nos. 13 and 19, respectively. The project also pushes half a dozen spots north on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums ranking, where it currently appears at No. 24.
Hybrid Theory Continues to Move Thousands of Copies Weekly
Consumption of Hybrid Theory grew by a little more than 5% in the past tracking period, as Luminate reports that it shifted a total of 11,300 equivalent units between sales and streaming activity. The figure is enough for the full-length to jump 10 spaces on the Billboard 200, launching from No. 130 to No. 120.
Other Linkin Park Titles are Still Charting
This week, Hybrid Theory outperforms its successor Meteora, but not by much. That sophomore release from Linkin Park lives on four rosters, including all the ones where Hybrid Theory can be found — except for the Top Rock Albums chart. That project rises by a few spots on three tallies, but holds steady on the Billboard 200.
Meanwhile, both Papercuts and From Zero can only be located at the moment on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart. The former, a compilation of many of Linkin Park’s most popular tunes, lifts several spots, while the group’s comeback effort declines to last place.
