Linkin Park makes history by monopolizing the entire top 10 of Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated Nov. 30 with songs from the band’s comeback album, From Zero.
The set, released Nov. 15, concurrently launches atop four rock-based Billboard album charts, with 97,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 21, according to Luminate.
Linkin Park lands its sixth No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, which began in 2006, and first since One More Light, From Zero’s predecessor, led for two weeks in 2017.
From Zero also becomes the band’s ninth No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums, which began in 2007 – breaking Linkin Park out of a tie with Pearl Jam for the most in the chart’s history. The new album dethrones Linkin Park’s own 2024 greatest hits package Papercuts, which spent the preceding seven weeks on top and has reigned for 18 weeks total this year.
The new set additionally debuts at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums, where it’s Linkin Park’s seventh No. 1, and Top Alternative Albums, marking its fifth.
From Zero also bows at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200, becoming Linkin Park’s 12th top 10, as previously reported.
The set’s 11 songs infuse the top 10 of Hot Hard Rock Songs, marking the first time that an act has swept the region since the chart began in 2020. Previously, Linkin Park became the first act to take up the entire top five, on the Sept. 21 and 28 surveys on the strength of From Zero lead single “The Emptiness Machine” and tracks from the band’s catalog that resurged following its reunion and subsequent celebratory concert and tour and album announcement that month.
“The Emptiness Machine” leads the way on the Nov. 30 Hot Hard Rock Songs tally for an 11th total and consecutive week. In the week ending Nov. 21, it earned 6.1 million radio impressions and 5.6 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads. It concurrently ranks atop the Rock & Alternative Airplay and Hard Rock Streaming Songs charts.
The top Hot Hard Rock Songs debut of the group, “Cut the Bridge” (as Nos. 1-4 already logged chart history as they were released before the release of From Zero), arrives at No. 5 with 3 million streams.
Lead single “The Emptiness Machine” topped the Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay tallies for six weeks apiece. Follow-up “Heavy Is the Crown” jumps 21-13 on the latest Mainstream Rock Airplay survey and is bubbling under Alternative Airplay.
From Zero is Linkin Park’s first album with new co-lead singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain. Former co-vocalist Chester Bennington died in 2017, while longtime drummer Rob Bourdon left the band in between One More Light and From Zero.
