Linkin Park’s Iconic Debut Scores Another Billboard Run

Four of Linkin Park’s albums appear on the Billboard charts this week. Two of them stand out as the most successful of the bunch, and both of those special titles manage to find space on multiple tallies at once. Interestingly, those current wins are not the group’s most recent projects, but rather those that helped the act reach superstardom decades ago.

Hybrid Theory is once again included among Linkin Park’s wins on the Billboard rankings. The group’s debut full-length lives on five different charts this frame. Last week, it was present on just one of them, and it reappears on a quartet of lists as Americans continue to buy and stream the set in large numbers.

The hard rockers’ Hybrid Theory is back on the Billboard 200 this week, landing at No. 157. The set shifted 9,400 copies, according to Luminate–and those are equivalent units, combining sales and streaming activity.

The same early project also blasts back onto the Top Alternative Albums (No. 20), Top Rock Albums (No. 24), and Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 31) charts. It doesn’t usually stay away from those genre-specific lists for very long, and even when it does vanish, it is usually pushed back into impressive placements by ongoing consumption.

Last week, Hybrid Theory lived at No. 20 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart. This frame, as interest in the project increases, it jumps to No. 7, returning to the top 10 for yet another stay.

In the past, Hybrid Theory has only managed to conquer the Top Hard Rock Albums chart. It peaked in the runner-up space on the Billboard 200, Top Rock Albums, and Top Rock & Alternative Albums lists. Among the five tallies it currently lives on, Hybrid Theory stalled lowest on the Top Alternative Albums roster, where it climbed as high as No. 3.

Seeing as it only managed to dominate the Top Hard Rock Albums ranking, it makes sense, then, that Hybrid Theory has spent the most time on that list. As of this frame, Linkin Park’s first proper full-length has racked up 415 weeks on that list. The same set has passed 300 frames on all of the other rankings, except the Top Rock Albums chart, where it’s now up to 271 turns.

Meteora, Linkin Park’s sophomore release, also lives on five Billboard charts this week. Unlike Hybrid Theory, however, it declines on all of them, though it sits one space ahead of its predecessor on the Top Hard Rock Albums ranking.

Linkin Park released two collections in 2024, first Papercuts, a career-spanning compilation, and then From Zero, the band’s first proper studio full-length of new material in more than half a decade. Those two titles can only be found on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, where they appear next to one another at Nos. 19 and 20, respectively.