Linkin Park’s greatest hits album Papercuts makes a major comeback, re-entering four Billboard … [+]
Linkin Park regularly keeps multiple albums on the Billboard charts. Sometimes fans seem to flock to one early set or another, or whenever there’s a new full-length, that’s the one that’s typically preferred.
At the moment, Linkin Park’s greatest hits compilation Papercuts is the highly favored project. That set rebounds in a major way and manages to outperform even the group’s comeback set, which is just a few months old at this point.
Papercuts – officially titled Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000–2023) – breaks back onto four different Billboard charts this week. It’s already spent time on all of them —months, in fact — but last frame, it couldn’t be found. That it reappears is notable, as the compilation was present on just a single tally just days ago.
Linkin Park Returns to the Billboard 200
This week, Papercuts resettles at No. 144 on the Billboard 200. That’s Billboard’s ranking of the most-consumed projects of any style or language in the United States. Luminate reports that in the past tracking frame, Papercuts moved 9,800 units, and it likely took some of those copies from other projects as fans chose to buy and stream the compilation instead of early classic albums like Hybrid Theory.
Papercuts Breaks Back Onto Multiple Charts
Linkin Park’s 2024 release also blasts back in and settles at impressive positions on three genre-specific tallies this week. Papercuts comes in at No. 17 on the Top Alternative Albums chart, No. 22 on the Top Rock Albums ranking, and No. 28 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums list.
Linkin Park Soars on the Hard Rock List
Papercuts doesn’t need to return to the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, as it was still performing fairly well last time around. This week, it surges from No. 20 to No. 6, which shows not just an increase in consumption, but a large enough growth that it seems streaming activity was funneled toward this title and removed from another, which Billboard does on occasion based on various performance metrics.
Papercuts’ History on the Charts
Papercuts has previously hit No. 1 on only the Top Hard Rock Albums chart. It rose as high as the runner-up space on all three genre-focused tallies, and settled at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 when it was new.
Linkin Park on the Billboard Lists
This week, three of Linkin Park’s albums appear on at least one Billboard list apiece. Meteora can be found on five, just as Papercuts can, and the two appear on all of the same rosters. From Zero, which brought the group back together in 2024 for its first new release in more than half a decade, barely manages to hold on as it dips to absolute last place on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart.
