Minutes to Midnight (album)

Minutes to Midnight
Studio album by Linkin Park
Released	May 14, 2007 (2007-05-14) (See release history)
Recorded	February 2006 – January 2007 at The Mansion and NRG Studios
Genre	Alternative rock, alternative metal
Length	43:31
Label	Warner Bros., Machine Shop
Producer	Rick Rubin, Mike Shinoda
Linkin Park studio album chronology
Meteora (2003) Minutes to Midnight (2007) A Thousand Suns (2010)
Singles from Minutes to Midnight
"What I've Done" Released: April 2, 2007 "Bleed It Out" Released: August 17, 2007 "Shadow of the Day" Released: October 16, 2007 "Given Up" Released: March 3, 2008 "Leave Out All the Rest" Released: July 14, 2008

Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. Released on May 14, 2007, through Warner Bros. Records, the album debuted at number one in the United States and in 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada.^[1][2][3] The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin. Minutes to Midnight features a shift in the group's musical direction. For the band, the album marks a beginning of deviation from their signature nu metal sound.

Linkin Park started work on their third studio album which begun in 2003. However, while touring to support Meteora in 2004 before the project was resumed later, they postponed work on it. Mike Shinoda formed Fort Minor, while Chester Bennington formed Dead by Sunrise. They returned to working on the record, as they have Rick Rubin produce it with Shinoda. They took on a different musical direction afterward. A few unrevealed-to-the-public mistakes occurred while recording the album, postponing it to several dates. Within mixing the album, some touches were added. After artwork and the rest of it was complete they decided to release "What I've Done" as its lead single by April 2007. It was finally released in North America on May 15, 2007.

In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold, going on to be certified double platinum in the United States, New Zealand, Italy, Ireland, and Australia and certified platinum in Canada, France, Switzerland and in the UK.^[4] Despite its commercial success, Minutes to Midnight received mixed reviews from critics.^[5] Rolling Stone magazine named it the twenty-fifth best album of 2007.^[6] It was ranked #154 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade.^[7]

Background

In an interview, lead singer Chester Bennington explained that the album is "a mix of punk, classic rock, and hip-hop standards" and that "Rick has brought more of a stripped down, classic-rock and hip-hop kind of feel."^[8]

In another interview, Bennington stated: "This time around, Mike Shinoda is singing a lot more. It may seem like he's not on the record, but he's doing a lot of the harmonies. He also sings a couple of songs alone. We're presenting ourselves in a different way."^[9][10]

Recording and composition

Guitarist Brad Delson experimented with an EBow when the band was piecing together "The Little Things Give You Away". The band decided not to use the effect for the solo in that song and instead ended up creating "No More Sorrow" out of the effect. In "Given Up", he jingles the keys that are heard while several clap sounds are overlayed in the intro of the song (as mentioned in the lyric book). Shinoda and Delson teamed up with David Campbell to add string elements to six songs; "Leave Out All the Rest", "Shadow of the Day", "Hands Held High", "The Little Things Give You Away", as well as the two b-sides "No Roads Left" and "Blackbirds" (which was instead later used in the iPhone game 8-Bit Rebellion!), respectively. All scratching elements by Joe Hahn that existed in the previous two studio albums are largely absent because of the low mixing, except on the songs "What I've Done", "Wake", "The Little Things Give You Away", "Valentine's Day" and "In Pieces". Hahn contributes more with programming, electronics, and other elements to many of the songs. The church organ and military drumbeat on "Hands Held High" were originally to be used as the backdrop to melodic vocals, but Rubin recommended that the band try the opposite approach according to the album booklet. In live performances, Brad Delson plays keyboard on this song (the only song on which he does not play guitar). "Shadow of the Day" is one of two songs (the other being "No Roads Left") to have Bennington playing the guitar. During live performances, Shinoda is generally playing the keyboard for "Shadow of the Day", while Bennington plays rhythm guitar. Shinoda stated in an interview: "We were looking back at the things that we had done in the past... and I think we just figured that we had exhausted that sound. It was easy for us to replicate, it was easy for other bands to replicate, and we just needed to move on."^[11]

Shinoda performs his rapping vocals on only two tracks, "Bleed It Out" and "Hands Held High". This is a significant decrease compared to the amount of rapping on previous albums. The rap vocals on "Hands Held High" are much closer styled to Mike Shinoda's side project Fort Minor than his traditional Linkin Park verses. All the songs that contain rap vocals also contain profanity, unlike their other records, particularly "fuck". Despite a decrease of Mike Shinoda as rapper, he has three solo lead songs on the record: "Hands Held High", "In Between" and the bonus track "No Roads Left". He also sings lead in "Bleed It Out" while "What I've Done", "Shadow of the Day", "No More Sorrow" and "The Little Things Give You Away" features backing vocals from Shinoda at the end. Minutes to Midnight is also Linkin Park's first album to feature guitar solos, particularly in the tracks "In Pieces" and "The Little Things Give You Away". Also, unlike the previous two studio albums, Minutes to Midnight contains profanity and thus the first Linkin Park studio album to contain a Parental Advisory (the first overall being their collaborative EP with Jay-Z, Collision Course) and politically-charged lyrics.^[12]

Release, promotion and reception

Commercial

Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. First scheduled to be released in the summer of 2006, it was later postponed to the fall of 2006, then again to early 2007. The album's release date was finally set for May 14, 2007. In Canada, the album was released on May 15, 2007. There are non-Parental Advisory releases of both the regular album and the special edition album. The songs "Given Up", "Bleed It Out", and "Hands Held High" are edited. In Malaysia, the edited version for the album is available in digipak cover while the explicit edition available for the Tour Edition which features white slipcase cardboard cover and a standard jewel case. In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold.^[13] In Canada, the album sold over 50,000 copies in its first week and debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart.^[2] Worldwide, the album shipped over 3.3 million copies in its first four weeks of release.^[14]

A year after the release of Minutes to Midnight, the band released ten different covers that were originally used as consideration for the final cover for the album prior to its release. The band made all ten of these covers available for fans to use as the album art on iTunes. Five singles were released from the album: "What I've Done", "Bleed It Out", "Shadow of the Day", "Given Up", and "Leave Out All the Rest". Although "Given Up" and "Leave Out All the Rest" had not been released as singles until early March 2008, "Given Up" had already charted on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Pop 100 charts at numbers 99 and 78 respectively in 2007, and "Leave Out All the Rest" had already charted on Billboard's Pop 100 chart at number 98 and Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at number 17 in 2007. The songs "Hands Held High" and "No More Sorrow" also charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at numbers 23 and 24, respectively, in 2007. The album worldwide has sold over 8 million copies.

Critical

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[15]
Allmusic	[16]
Entertainment Weekly	(C)[17]
Los Angeles Times	[18]
New York Times	(mixed)[19]
NME	(2/10)[20]
PopMatters	(6/10)[21]
Rolling Stone	[22]
USA Today	[23]
Village Voice	(favorable)[24]

Minutes to Midnight received generally mixed reviews, based on an aggregate score of 56/100 from Metacritic,^[5] with critics showing approval, disapproval and indifference in almost equal measure.

Rolling Stone gave Minutes to Midnight 4 out of 5 stars, stating that "most of Minutes is honed, metallic pop with a hip-hop stride and a wake-up kick",^[22] and it was placed at #25 in their list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007.^[6] IGN referred to it as "definitely a step in the right direction and a stepping stone for things to come".^[25] In his review, About.com's Bill Lamb considered the album "an impressive achievement", and went on to write that "Linkin Park handles their explorations of a direction forward with impressive grace here".^[15] Herald Sun writer Karen Tye gave it 3½ out of 4 stars and praised the band's new sound, "Who knew being a plain old rock band could suit Linkin Park so well?".^[26] Despite commending the band for their ambition, The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan gave the album 3 out of 5 stars and perceived "their decision to stay roughly within the shrieky boundaries of their genre" as a weakness, while writing that "the sound still pivots on the interplay of walloping guitar chords and self-flagellating lyrics".^[27]

Among those with a more negative view of the album was Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic, who described the album's sound as "passé" and summed the band's effort up as "opting to create a muddled, colorless murk", giving it 2 and a half out of 5 stars.^[16] NME magazine's Dan Silver gave it a rating of 2/10, calling it the "sound of a band trying and failing to forge a new identity", and referring to the song "Hands Held High", a song about terrorist attacks and war, as "far and away the funniest thing you will hear all year".^[20]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Linkin Park. 

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Wake"	1:41
2.	"Given Up"	3:09
3.	"Leave Out All the Rest"	3:29
4.	"Bleed It Out"	2:44
5.	"Shadow of the Day"	4:49
6.	"What I've Done"	3:25
7.	"Hands Held High"	3:53
8.	"No More Sorrow"	3:41
9.	"Valentine's Day"	3:25
10.	"In Between"	3:16
11.	"In Pieces"	3:38
12.	"The Little Things Give You Away"	6:23
Total length:		43:31

Tour edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"No Roads Left"	3:52
14.	"What I've Done" (Distorted Remix)	3:50
15.	"Given Up" (Third Encore Session)	3:09

iTunes edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"What I've Done" (Live at AOL Sessions)	3:29
14.	"No Roads Left" (pre-order only)	3:52

Wal-Mart edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Breaking the Habit" (Live at soundcheck)	4:25
14.	"What I've Done" (Live at soundcheck)	3:24

Best Buy edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"What I've Done" (Live at AOL Sessions)	3:29
14.	"No More Sorrow" (Live at AOL Sessions)	3:45

Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Faint" (Live in Japan)	2:46

Japanese tour edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Faint" (Live in Japan)	2:46
14.	"No Roads Left"	3:52
15.	"What I've Done" (Distorted Remix)	3:50
16.	"Given Up" (Third Encore Session)	3:09

Asian digital download tour edition track listing (Live from Seoul, South Korea, November 30, 2007)[28]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"One Step Closer"
2.	"Lying from You"
3.	"Somewhere I Belong"
4.	"No More Sorrow"
5.	"Papercut"

European digital download tour edition track listing (Live from O2 Arena, London, January 29, 2008)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"What I've Done"	7:27
2.	"One Step Closer"	4:10
3.	"Faint"	4:07

Limited/Deluxe Edition - Bonus DVD

1. Making Of Minutes To Midnight
2. "What I've Done" Video
3. Making Of "What I've Done" Video
4. Advanced Resolution PCM Stereo Of All 12 Tracks

Charts and certifications

Charts Chart Peak position Australia Albums Chart[29] 1 Austrian Albums Chart[29] 1 Belgian Albums Chart[29] 2 Belgian Albums Chart[29] 2 Canadian Albums Chart[30] 1 Czech Album Chart[31] 1 Danish Albums Chart[29] 2 European Top Albums Chart[32] 1 Finnish Albums Chart[29] 1 French Albums Chart[29] 1 German Albums Chart[33] 1 Hungarian Albums Chart[30] 1 Italian Albums Chart[29] 1 Japanese Albums Chart[34] 2 Mexican Albums Chart[29] 2 Netherlands Albums Chart[29] 2 New Zealand Albums Chart[29] 1 Norwegian Albums Chart[29] 1 Polish Albums Chart[35] 2 Portuguese Albums Chart[29] 3 Spanish Albums Chart[29] 2 Swedish Albums Chart[29] 1 Swiss Albums Chart[29] 1 UK Albums Chart[36] 1 US Billboard 200[37] 1 Year-end charts Chart (2007) Rank German Albums Chart [38] 3 Chart (2008) Rank German Albums Chart [39] 28

Certifications Country Certification (sales thresholds) Argentina Gold[40] Australia 2× Platinum[41] Austria 2× Platinum[42] Belgium Gold[43] Denmark Gold[44] Europe 2x Platinum[45] Finland Gold[46] France 2x Platinum[47] Germany 3x Platinum[48] Hungary[49] Gold[50] Japan Platinum[51] New Zealand 2× Platinum[52] Poland Gold[53] Portugal Platinum[54] Switzerland 2× Platinum[55] United Kingdom Platinum[56] United States 2x Platinum[57]

Singles

Year	Song	Peak chart positions
		U.S. [58]	U.S. Alt. [58]	U.S. Main [58]	AUS [59]	NZ [60]	UK [61]	BEL [62]	FIN [63]	FRA [63]	GER [64]	ITA [65]	IRE [66]	NLD [67]	NOR [68]	SWE [69]	SWI [70]
2007	"What I've Done" (2x Platinum)	7	1	1	13	9	6	26	—	—	4	3	15	28	12	6	6
	"Bleed It Out" (Platinum)	52	2	3	24	7	29	—	—	—	40	—	—	—	—	14	42
	"Shadow of the Day" (Platinum)	15	2	6	15	13	46	—	—	20	12	—	—	—	—	20	11
2008	"Given Up"	99	4	5	—	—	—	47	—	—	53	—	—	—	—	—	—
	"Leave Out All the Rest" (Gold)	94	11	33	24	38	90	—	19	—	15	—	—	—	—	42	36

Appearances in popular media

• On December 20, 2007, "No More Sorrow" was released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
• "What I've Done" is a playable song on the game Guitar Hero World Tour, is featured in the film Transformers, and is available in a Linkin Park DLC pack for Rock Band 3.
• "Leave Out All the Rest" is featured in the 2008 film Twilight and on the soundtrack album.
• "Given Up" was featured in the trailer for Crank: High Voltage, a film in which Bennington also makes a cameo appearance and is included as a master track in the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii versions of the music video game Rock Revolution.
• A CSI episode is titled "Leave Out All the Rest", and the song is used in the beginning and the ending of that episode.
• "Bleed It Out" is featured in the 2010 video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
• In 2010, Philadelphia Phillies closer Brad Lidge used "No More Sorrow" as his intro music.

Personnel

Linkin Park Chester Bennington – lead vocals, rhythm guitar on track 5 and the b-side "No Roads Left" Rob Bourdon – drums Brad Delson – lead guitar, programming on track 7 Dave "Phoenix" Farrell – bass guitar, backing vocals (The Little Things Give You Away) Joseph Hahn – turntables, synthesizer, programming Mike Shinoda – vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals Production Produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda Engineered by Dana Nielsen, Andrew Scheps and Ethan Mates Engineering assisted by Phillip Broussard, Jr. Mixed by Neil Avron Mixing assisted by Nicolas Fournier and George Gumbs Mastered by Dave Collins

Guest musicians David Campbell – string arrangements and conduction on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Mike Shinoda, and Brad Delson, string arrangements on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Armen Garabedian – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Charlie Bisharat – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Gerry Hilera – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Josefina Vergara – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Julian Hallmark – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Mario DeLeon – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Natalie Leggett – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Sara Parkins – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Songa Lee-Kitto – violin on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Andrew Picken – viola on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Matt Funes – viola on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Larry Corbett – cello on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12 Suzie Katayama – cello on tracks 3, 5, 7 and 12

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Preceded by Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Bublé	Billboard 200 number-one album May 27, 2007 – June 2, 2007	Succeeded by It Won't Be Soon Before Long by Maroon 5
Preceded by Favourite Worst Nightmare by Arctic Monkeys	UK number one album May 20, 2007 – May 27, 2007
Preceded by B-Side by Mr. Children	Japanese Oricon Weekly number-one album May 28, 2007	Succeeded by Denim by Mariya Takeuchi
Preceded by Call Me Irresponsible by Michael Bublé	Australian ARIA Albums Chart number-one album May 28, 2007	Succeeded by Dream Days at the Hotel Existence by Powderfinger
Preceded by Treasure by Hayley Westenra	RIANZ number-one album May 21 – June 4, 2007	Succeeded by Long Player by Hollie Smith