By today, more than 10 million copies of this record have been sold. This album has remained the most successful one in the band's discography. The record included such chart-toppers as Crawling, One Step Closer, and In the End the video for the latter, broadcasted by MTV, was proclaimed the video of the year. This album was a good seller with 4 million and 800,000 copies sold for the first year and earned then Grammy as the best rock album of the year. In a year, they released their debut album Hybrid Theory, featuring the material accumulated for many years.
In 1999, Linkin Park managed to get a contract with Warner Bros. Thus, they called themselves Linkin Park. The young men went into troubles with the other band under the same name charging them with a copyright infringement. As he had agreed to join the band, it was called Hybrid Theory. His unique voice made a deep impression on the other members. It took the group a while to find a new vocalist. After multiple refusals of labels to cooperate, the original singer Mark Wakefield made up his mind to seek his fortune in another band. In spite of the limited finances, the band started recording several songs in Shinoda's bedroom, their first studio. The group was founded in 1996 by classmates Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson. Linkin Park is a rock band from Los Angeles playing alternative rock.
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