Linkin Park Fans Will Never Be Done With The Band's Debut Album
Hybrid Theory finds space on five different Billboard rankings this week, which is relatively rare for a project released in 2000. The beloved effort returns to four of those tallies and makes an especially large leap on one more.
The collection reappears highest on the Top Alternative Albums list, where it blasts back onto the tally at No. 18. It's not too far behind on both the Top Rock Albums and Top Rock & Alternative Albums rosters, returning to those rankings at Nos. 22 and 28, respectively.
Hybrid Theory even manages to claw its way back onto the Billboard 200. On the all-genre ranking of the most-consumed albums in the U.S., the title finds a home at No. 130.
The only Billboard list Hybrid Theory doesn't have to reenter is the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, where it remains a mainstay. This time around, the blockbuster doesn't just hold steady, it jumps. The set lifts from No. 22 to No. 5, charging back into the uppermost tier.
Hybrid Theory lands just one rung behind Meteora, the band's sophomore project and longtime companion on these rankings. That effort dips slightly to No. 4, giving Linkin Park two titles inside the top five.
According to Luminate, Hybrid Theory shifted 10,700 equivalent units in the U.S. last week. That total includes streaming, sales, and other forms of consumption. Just under 1,500 copies of the album were sold as pure purchases — an impressive number for a full-length that many fans already own, either digitally or physically.
Hybrid Theory hasn't just shown up on Billboard's charts from time to time, it's been present on many of them for years. The project has racked up hundreds of weeks on each of the five tallies it currently appears on.
It's spent the most time on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, where it's now up to 420 frames and counting. On the Top Rock Albums ranking, it's logged 272 weeks. On the other three lists where it's present, the album has also earned somewhere in the 300-week range, though exact counts vary slightly.
Hybrid Theory is one of four Linkin Park albums that show up on at least one Billboard tally this week in the U.S. Its immediate successor Meteora joins it on all five of the same lists. Meanwhile, both Papercuts, the band's recently-released greatest hits compilation, and From Zero, the group's comeback effort, appear on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart only.
Hybrid Theory first arrived in October 2000 and introduced the world to hits like 'In the End' and 'Crawling.' Since then, the album has been certified Diamond by the RIAA and become one of the most important rock releases of the twenty-first century.
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