Linkin Park

On August 4, eleven songs spanning  LINKIN PARK 's entire catalog received  new platinum certifications  from the  Recording Industry Association of America  ( RIAA ). "One Step Closer" ,  "Waiting For The End"  and  "Leave Out All The Rest"  earned their first platinum records, while  "What I've Done" ,  "Bleed It Out" ,  "Shadow Of The Day" ,  "New Divide" ,  "In The End" ,  "Numb" ,  "Burn It Down"  and the  Jay-Z  collaboration  "Numb/Encore"  added multi-platinum certifications. Notably,  "What I've Done" , which was the first single from  LINKIN PARK 's third studio album, 2007's  "Minutes To Midnight" , got a five-times-platinum nod, making it the band's most commercially successful — though not necessarily most well-known — song. After singer  Chester Bennington 's death on July 20,  LINKIN PARK  album and single...

CHESTER BENNINGTON Chester Charles Bennington  (March 20, 1976 – July 20, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter best known as the frontman for the rock band Linkin Park. He was also the lead singer for Dead by Sunrise and fronted Stone Temple Pilots from 2013 to 2015. Bennington first gained prominence as a vocalist following the release of Linkin Park's debut album,  Hybrid Theory , in 2000, which became a commercial success. The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2005, making it the best-selling debut album of the decade, as well as one of the few albums ever to hit that many sales. Linkin Park's following studio albums, from  Meteora  (2003) to  One More Light  (2017), continued the band's success. Bennington formed his own band, Dead by Sunrise, as a side project in 2005. The band's debut album,  Out of Ashes , was released on October 13, 2009. He worked on new ...

As the world continues to mourn the death of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, some of the singer’s closest friends have unveiled their final moments with him. In a piece by Rolling Stone, musicians and longtime friends of Bennington’s shared all. Shortly before his death, Chester was planning a reunion tour with his pre-fame band Grey Daze. The gigs were supposed to happen in September and Grey Daze drummer Sean Dowdell recalls how excited Chester was for the run. “He was on top of the world,” says Dowdell, who spoke with Bennington just two days before his death. Also in contact with Chester a few days before his suicide was Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo. Bennington’s former STP bandmate said Chester’s messages were “loving, positive, looking-forward-to-the-future, growing-old kinds of things.” The day before Chester’s passing, he had even emailed former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum about performing with all-star cover band Kings of Chaos again. Ryan...