Linkin Park Goes China

BEIJING, Sept. 16 -- U.S. rock band Linkin Park will arrive at the Shanghai stop of their world tour concert on Nov. 18.

The band will be performing in Shanghai's Hong Kou Football Stadium.

Linkin Park released their third music album "Minutes to Midnight" in May, and later kicked off their world tour concert, which has been staged in Europe and the United States.

It's the first time that the rock band has held a concert on the Chinese mainland.

Tickets for the concert will go on sale starting from Sept. 18. The band is reported to have set a relatively affordable ticket price for its Shanghai stop, with the average price set at around 500 yuan, or about 66 U.S. dollars, and the lowest at only 100 yuan, about 13 U.S. dollars.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)

Halo 3 And LP

LP On SpikeTV For Halo 3

9/24/07

Linkin Park will perform just after midnight on Tuesday, September 25th on SpikeTV as part of the channel's Halo 3 launch event special. The game, which sponsors LP's Projekt Revolution tour, will hit shelves midnight, and SpikeTV is live from Best Buy's flagship store in New York City to capture all of the excitement. The channel will be airing Goldeneye from 9:00PM EST to 12:30AM, checking in during breaks to talk about Halo 3. At 12:30, their "Halo 3: Launched!" program airs, which is presumably when the performance may be aired. It's unclear whether the Linkin Park performance was pre-taped or if it will be happening live in NYC or not. Regardless, you can tune in after midnight to watch the band perform, and perhaps even comment on the release of Halo 3; a game of which many of the band members are avid fans. Source: Variety

Chart Watch

Billboard Charts: September 20th, 2007

9/20/07

Billboard Top 200 Albums Minutes To Midnight - #11 (Last week - #10) Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Bleed It Out - #2 (Last week - #2) What I've Done - #10 (Last week - #9) Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Bleed It Out - #5 (Last week - #5) What I've Done - #15 (Last week - #15) Not much movement on this week's charts. With the debut of three major albums by Kanye West, 50 Cent, and Kenny Chesney on this weeks charts, Minutes To Midnight managed to only fall one spot to #11. Kanye and 50 Cent both managed to beat Linkin Park's record for highest opening week sales (623,000) in 2007, however. Everything else stayed the same as last week, with "Bleed It Out" hitting #2 and #5 on the Modern and Mainstream charts. "What I've Done" fell one spot to #10 on the Modern list, while it stayed at #15 on the Mainstream charts. The song also officially fell out of the top fifty on the Hot 100 charts.

About Linkin Park

Linkin Park is a rock band from Agoura Hills, California. They formed in 1996, and have since sold more than forty million albums and won two Grammys. They first achieved mainstream success in 2000 with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which has since been certified Diamond by RIAA. Their following studio album, Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200’s album charts in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

Linkin Park is recognized for adapting the nu metal genre into a radio-friendly style and creating many successful singles, such as In The End, Numb, and What I've Done.They are also known for their several collaborations, most notably with rapper Jay-Z in their mash-up album Collision Course, and a plethora of other artists on Reanimation. The band’s latest studio album, Minutes to Midnight, which was released in May 2007, has stemmed away from their previous nu metal sound venturing into various other genres. The album topped the Billboard Charts by selling nearly 625,000 copies in its debut week, making it the third best debut week of any album for the year.