Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California.
They started making music in 1996, the band became very famous with
their first album, Hybrid Theory, which was labeled with the Diamond
Award of more than 10 million copies by the RIAA and multi-platinum in
several other countries.
Their second album, Meteora, continued the band's popularity, reaching
number one at the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003. It was promoted
with concerts and giving for charities around the world. In 2003, MTV2
called Linkin Park the sixth greatest band of the music video time and
the third best band of the new millennium, only beaten by Oasis and
Coldplay.
Billboard ranked Linkin Park #19 on the Best Artists of the Decade
(Past 10 Years) chart.