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A Thousand Suns

October 28, 2023

For other uses, see A Thousand Suns (disambiguation).

A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park. It was released on September 13, 2010,[1] by Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, who had also worked together to produce the band's previous studio album Minutes to Midnight (2007). Recording sessions for A Thousand Suns took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, California from 2008 until early 2010.

A Thousand Suns
Studio album by
Linkin Park
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2010 (2010-09-13)
RecordedNovember 2008 – August 2010
StudioNRG Recording Studios
(North Hollywood, California)
Genre
Length47:48
Label
Producer
Linkin Park studio album chronology
Minutes to Midnight
(2007) 		A Thousand Suns
(2010) 		Living Things
(2012)
Singles from A Thousand Suns
  1. "The Catalyst"
    Released: August 2, 2010
  2. "Waiting for the End"
    Released: October 1, 2010
  3. "Burning in the Skies"
    Released: March 21, 2011
  4. "Iridescent"
    Released: May 27, 2011

A Thousand Suns is a concept album dealing with human fears such as nuclear warfare. The band has said the album is a drastic departure from their previous work; they experimented on different and new sounds. Shinoda told MTV the album references numerous social issues and blends human ideas with technology. The title is a reference to the Bhagavad Gita, a line from which was popularized in 1945 by J. Robert Oppenheimer, who described the atomic bomb as being "as bright as a thousand suns". It also appears in a line from the first single of the album, "The Catalyst". A Thousand Suns is Linkin Park's longest studio album to date, clocking in at 47 minutes.

"The Catalyst" was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on August 2, 2010. "The Catalyst" peaked at No. 40 on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Rock Songs charts. Three more singles were released to promote the album: "Waiting for the End", "Burning in the Skies" and "Iridescent". "The Catalyst" and "Waiting for the End" were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Linkin Park promoted the album through the A Thousand Suns World Tour from October 2010 to September 2011.

The album polarized fans, but was mostly received positively by critics, some of whom found it to be a natural evolution for the band. The record debuted at number one on over ten charts, and was certified platinum by the RIAA in August 2017.

Writing and recording edit

 
 
Linkin Park co-vocalist Mike Shinoda (left) and Rick Rubin (right) served as producers for A Thousand Suns.

Recording for the album began in 2008, less than a year after the release of Minutes to Midnight (2007).[2] As with Minutes to Midnight, Shinoda and Rick Rubin produced the album.[3] Primary recording sessions for A Thousand Suns took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.[4] In November 2008, lead singer Chester Bennington said the new record was a concept album; he said it "sound[ed] a little daunting to me, so, I think my confidence level will drop, but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours, we liked the idea. It was an inspiring idea, and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to."[2]

In May 2009, Mike Shinoda revealed info on the album in a Billboard magazine story, saying: "I feel like we've been writing a lot. I'd say we've got about half the music done, though I shouldn't say halfway because who knows how long the next batch of songs will take. But all the material's just kind of coming together, and every week we meet up and assess the situation and for the rest of the week we just go and work on whatever we find exciting."[5] He also explained the experimentation that the band would be working with, saying, "It's not going to be Hybrid Theory. It's not going to be Minutes to Midnight. And if we do it right, it'll have a cutting edge sound that defines itself as an individual record separate from anything else that's out there."[5]

Bennington continued composing for the album while touring with Dead by Sunrise in support of their 2009 studio album Out of Ashes.[6] He said Linkin Park was still making a concept record, stating in another interview with MTV, "we might need to just make a record and still try to do a concept but figure out a way to do it without actually waiting another five or six years to put out a record, to try to pull off all the grandiose insanity we were thinking of doing. And we're doing that."[6] Bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell predicted the band's fans would be divided about A Thousand Suns, saying, "We've known [the album is] going to be different, and if fans were expecting Hybrid Theory or Meteora, they're going to be surprised. It's going to take people some time to figure it out and know what to do with it."[7]

When asked about the new project, drummer Rob Bourdon said, "We tend to be perfectionists and it's sort of how we work. We like being in the studio and when we get in there we write a ton of material."[8] Bourdon said the album was a challenge to complete; he said, "We've been making music for a long time so one of the challenges was to evolve and make something to keep us interested and also have a lot of fun in the process. We've been used to making a certain type of music and using sounds to accomplish that. So to break out of that and push ourselves to grow is definitely challenging."[8] Shinoda later said the album was not a concept record,[9] saying, "People asked us if it's a concept record, and in the middle of the process, we were contemplating whether or not that was what we wanted to do," although he said that eventually, A Thousand Suns at its completion has no narrative and is "more abstract" than many concept albums.[9]

Style and composition edit

In an interview with Rolling Stone in May 2009, Shinoda said the band was in the process of writing and recording material for the album.[10] The album was originally scheduled for an early 2010 release, but Shinoda was concerned with "the quality of the tunes" and said, "if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top, top quality by our standards, we will".[10] Shinoda also said that, in comparison to Minutes to Midnight, the new album would have a bigger "thread of consistency" and would be more experimental and "hopefully more cutting-edge".[11]

Christopher Weingarten of The Village Voice compared the album to Radiohead's third studio album, OK Computer, describing the record's composition as "uninhibited hooks, daffy left turns, piano-soaked bathos, explorations of the human relationship with technology, [and] a complete avoidance of metal".[12] Weingarten noted various elements and styles the band incorporated in A Thousand Suns, saying the band was "sink[ing] their distortion pedals into a tender oblivion, embracing the pulseless Vocoder syrup of Imogen Heap, the cuddly heavenward synths of Yeasayer, the post-apocalyptic stutter-hop of El-P, the head rush of Ibiza house".[12] Jordy Kasko of Review Rinse Repeat compared the style of A Thousand Suns to that of Pink Floyd's eighth studio album The Dark Side of the Moon and Radiohead's fourth studio album Kid A.[13]

James Montgomery of MTV compared the album to Kid A because of the lack of guitars, the style being completely different from the band's previous works, and the album's message. Montgomery said, "None of these problems, these terrors or these specters that haunt us in 2010 are particularly new. Quite the opposite, in fact. We've just chosen to ignore the warnings. And now it might be too late."[14] According to turntablist Joe Hahn, the album's title is a reference to a line in the Hindu Sanskrit scripture the Bhagavad Gita "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one," which was made famous by J. Robert Oppenheimer in reference to the atomic bomb.[15] The title also appears in the album's lead single "The Catalyst", which appears in the line "God save us everyone, will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns?".[16] The band said Oppenheimer's comments about the nuclear bomb influenced the apocalyptic themes of the album. The band wrote about these comments in the album's liner notes:

Oppenheimer's words resonate today not only for their historical significance, but for their emotional gravity. So, too, A Thousand Suns grapples with the personal cycle of pride, destruction, and regret. In life, like in dreams, this sequence is not always linear. And, sometimes, true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle. The hope, of course, springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments.[17]

 
 
 
Samples of notable speeches of J. Robert Oppenheimer (left), Mario Savio (center) and Martin Luther King Jr. (right) were used in A Thousand Suns.

The band has stated that the album's tenth track, "Wretches and Kings", pays homage to the hip-hop group Public Enemy.[18] Speaking to NME about the song's reference to Public Enemy, Shinoda said, "There is a homage to Chuck D on there. It's probably the most hip-hop song on the record and one of the most aggressive ... Public Enemy were very three-dimensional with their records because although they seemed political, there was a whole lot of other stuff going on in there too. It made me think how three-dimensional I wanted our record to be without imitating them of course, and show where we were at creatively."[18] Ian Winwood of Kerrang! noted that "Wretches and Kings" references the Public Enemy song "Fight the Power" and compared the album's content to Public Enemy's third studio album, Fear of a Black Planet.[19] Chuck D later provided vocals on a remix by HavocNdeeD.[20][21] The fifth track "When They Come for Me" references The Blueprint2: The Gift & The Curse, the seventh studio album by hip hop artist Jay-Z, with whom the band collaborated on the 2004 EP Collision Course.[22] The album includes samples of notable speeches by American political figures,[14] including Martin Luther King Jr., J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Mario Savio.[18]

Chester Bennington stated in an interview with MTV News, which referred to Linkin Park's new style as being less technical and more organic:

"When it came to doing things that felt very much like older Linkin Park, like mixing hip-hop with a rock chorus, [we] felt like, if we were going to do it, we need to really do it in a way that felt natural and felt original and felt like it was something we hadn't done in the past ... [While] there are hip-hop songs on the album—'Wretches and Kings', 'When They Come for Me'—they're like nothing the band have tried before: snarling, raw, dark and ... strangely organic."[23]

Critics and reporters labeled A Thousand Suns as electronic rock,[24][25] art rock,[26][27] industrial rock,[28] experimental rock,[12] progressive rock,[29] and nu metal.[30] They also noticed various traces of trip hop,[31] ambient,[31] alternative rock,[32] industrial,[33] and rap rock[34][35] across the album. Compared to their previous record, Minutes to Midnight (2007), Shinoda contributed many more vocals, while Brad Delson's guitar riffs are put further into the background, which Gary Graff of Billboard described as "on the back burner (and barely even in the oven)".[36] Shinoda raps on the tracks "When They Come for Me", "Wretches and Kings" and the album's second single "Waiting for the End". Derek Oswald of AltWire.net noted reggae-like influences on Shinoda's verses in "Waiting for the End".[37] He sings verses on "Burning in the Skies", "Robot Boy", "Blackout", "Iridescent" and "The Catalyst". Bennington and Shinoda sing together on "The Catalyst", "Jornada del Muerto" and "Robot Boy", while "Iridescent" features all band members singing together.[38]

Release and promotion edit

 
Linkin Park performing in Berlin, Germany to promote A Thousand Suns on October 20, 2010

The album was exhibited at a 3-D laser exhibition at Music Box Theater in Hollywood on September 7, 2010.[39] A Thousand Suns was officially released on September 10, 2010, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland;[40] and on September 13, 2010, in the US.[41] Linkin Park started worldwide promotion of the album with the A Thousand Suns World Tour, which started on October 7, 2010, in Buenos Aires, Argentina and ended on September 25, 2011, in Singapore. The band performed an entire setlist in the Puerta de Alcalá Gate in Madrid; their live performance of "Waiting for the End" was shown at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards.[42]

Linkin Park also promoted A Thousand Suns by featuring songs from the album in video games. Joe Hahn said "The Catalyst" would be included in the video game Medal of Honor.[43] Hahn also announced he would direct a trailer for the game; it was released on August 1, 2010—[44] one day before the single's release.[45] Dave "Phoenix" Farrell stated that the band's members believed the song's "dark undertones ... fits with the subject matter" of the game, which was the reason "The Catalyst" was chosen for Medal of Honor.[45]

During the Japanese release of the album on September 15, 2010, Warner Music Japan announced that "The Catalyst" would be the official theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs..[46] In addition, Warner Music Japan released a limited edition package bundle for the album, containing the CD, along with a 1/144 scale plastic model kit of the RX-78GP01Fb Gundam "Zephyranthes" Full Burnern from the anime OVA series Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, molded in colors and using color-correcting stickers evoking the imagery used on the cover of the album. It was further accompanied by artwork of the members of Linkin Park in Earth Federation military uniforms and pilot suits alongside the custom colored GP01Fb.[47]

"Blackout" was featured in the soccer video game by EA Sports, FIFA 11.[48] The band released a video game called Linkin Park Revenge—an edition of Tap Tap Revenge that features four tracks from the album and six songs from previous Linkin Park albums.[49] "Wretches and Kings" is featured in the trailer for the video game EA Sports MMA.[50]

"Blackout", "Burning in the Skies", "The Catalyst", "The Messenger", "Waiting for the End", and "Wretches and Kings" were available as downloadable content in the "Linkin Park Track Pack" for the rhythm video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock,[51] which was released on October 19, 2010, on the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live Marketplace, and Wii Shop Channel.[51] Customers who purchased Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock from Amazon.com between October 17 and October 23 received a copy of A Thousand Suns.[51] Three songs were remixed and released as downloadable content for the rhythm video game DJ Hero 2 in late 2010.[52] On January 11, 2011, a Linkin Park track pack was released for the rhythm video game Rock Band 3; it includes "Waiting for the End" and five songs from the band's previous albums.[53]

On March 5, 2011, Mike Shinoda announced the European release of A Thousand Suns +, a limited re-issue of the album that was released on March 28, 2011. The re-release includes a live DVD of the band's MTV Europe Music Awards concert at Puerta de Alcalá, Madrid on November 7, 2010, and an MP3 audio file of the show.[54] On June 19, 2012, a live version of the album, titled A Thousand Suns: Live Around the World was released on Spotify.[55] It features ten of the album's fifteen songs. The tracks were recorded in London, Hamburg, Paris, Berlin, and Las Vegas.[56]

Singles edit

 
"The Catalyst", the album's first single, was first performed live at the Griffith Observatory (pictured).

During the announcement of the album's release date, Linkin Park said the album's first single would be "The Catalyst", which was released on August 2, 2010.[57] From July 9, 2010, until July 25, 2010, the band held a contest titled "Linkin Park, Featuring You".[58] In the contest, fans could download stems from "The Catalyst", remix the stems and/or write their own parts for the song on any instrument.[58] The winner of this contest was Czeslaw "NoBraiN" Sakowski from Świdnica, Poland, whose remix is featured as an extra track on a version of the album made available from Best Buy and Napster.[59][60][61] The album's liner notes credit Sakowski with "supplemental programming" on "When They Come for Me".[17] The top 20 remixes that were selected by the band are being considered for future use as b-sides and online downloads.[59]

Two of the remixes by DIGITALOMAT and ill Audio have since been released via the band's webpage as free mp3 downloads,[62] while two by Cale Pellick and DJ Endorphin been released on an exclusive German release of "The Catalyst".[63] The music video for "The Catalyst", directed by Joe Hahn, premiered on August 26, 2010.[64] On August 31, 2010, it was announced that the band would give their first live performance of the single at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12, 2010,[65] at Griffith Observatory.[66] The venue was kept secret until the performance, although it was revealed to be a prominent landmark in Los Angeles.[67] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts,[68] and on the UK Rock Chart.[69] The single also peaked at number twenty-seven in the Billboard Hot 100 upon the release of A Thousand Suns, and spent five weeks on the chart.[70] "The Catalyst" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in July 2011.[71]

On September 2, 2010, Linkin Park released the promotional single "Wretches and Kings" to those who had pre-ordered the album.[72] On September 8, 2010, the band debuted "Waiting for the End" and "Blackout" on their Myspace page.[73] The band announced on its official website the "Full Experience Myspace Premiere", the streaming of the entire album on its Myspace page on September 10.[74] A remix of "Blackout" by Renholdër was included in the soundtrack of Underworld: Awakening.[75]

 
"Waiting for the End", the album's second single, was performed at the Puerta de Alcalá Gate (pictured).

"Waiting for the End" was released as the album's second single on October 1, 2010.[76] The music video for the song premiered on October 8, 2010, and was directed by Joe Hahn.[77] Linkin Park's performance of "Waiting for the End" at Puerta de Alcala in Madrid was broadcast as part of the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards.[42] "Waiting for the End" and "When They Come for Me" were performed live on Saturday Night Live on February 5, 2011.[78] "Waiting for the End" was featured in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation broadcast on CBS on October 14, 2010.[79] The single peaked at number one on the Alternative Songs chart; it was Linkin Park's tenth number-one song on the chart. It peaked at number two on the Rock Songs chart and at number forty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, spending nine weeks on the chart.[70] The single achieved success in other countries, peaking at number thirty-four in Austria,[80] number twenty in Belgium,[81] number 29 in Germany,[82] and number thirty-four in Japan.[83] "Waiting for the End" was certified gold by the RIAA in April 2011.[71]

 
The radio edit of "Iridescent", the album's fourth single, was performed live at Red Square (pictured) in Moscow.

On January 22, 2011, Linkin Park announced that its next international single would be "Burning in the Skies".[84][85][86] The music video, directed by Hahn, premiered on February 22 and the single was released on March 21. The single reached number thirty-five in Austria,[87] number 35 in Portugal,[87] number twenty-six in German airplay,[88] and number six in Mexico.[89]

On April 13, 2011, Shinoda confirmed that the album's third US, fourth international, and overall final single would be "Iridescent". He also said a slightly shorter version of the song would be included the soundtrack of the movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and that a music video directed by Hahn had been made to promote the single.[90] Linkin Park performed the single remix of "Iridescent" at the film's premiere at Red Square, Moscow, on June 23, 2011.[91] The single peaked at number eighty-one at the Billboard Hot 100, spending three weeks on the chart; it also peaked at number nineteen at the Alternative Songs chart and number twenty-nine at the Rock Songs chart.[70] Despite these low peaks, the single achieved moderate success in other countries, peaking at number thirty-nine in Australia,[92] number ten in Israel,[93] and number two in South Korea and one in the UK Rock Chart.[69][94]

Reception edit

Commercial edit

A Thousand Suns debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 241,000 copies in the United States,[95] exceeding sales of Trey Songz's Passion, Pain & Pleasure by 1,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[96] It became Linkin Park's fourth US number-one album,[97] although the first-week sales were significantly lower than those of their previous album Minutes to Midnight (2007), which opened at 623,000 copies.[95] The album entered Billboard's Rock Albums, Alternative Albums, Hard Rock Albums, and Digital Albums charts at number one.[98] In the second week, the album slid to number three, selling 70,000 copies;[99] in December 2010, two months after its release, its sales passed the half-million mark.[100] On January 11, 2011, A Thousand Suns was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500,000 copies sold in the US.[71] It spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200.[95][101] By June 2014, the album had sold 906,000 copies in the US according to SoundScan.[102]

In Canada, A Thousand Suns peaked at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart with 23,000 copies sold.[103] In February 2011, the album was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association for 80,000 units sold.[104] In the United Kingdom album chart, on which it spent seventeen weeks, the album debuted at number two with first-week sales of 46,711 copies, behind The Script's album Science & Faith.[105][106] On September 10, 2010, two days after the album's UK release, A Thousand Suns was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), marking shipments of 100,000 copies to retailers.[107] In Australia, it debuted at number one on the ARIA Top 50 Albums,[108] and retained the top position for four weeks.[109] The album remained in the chart's top 50 for 18 weeks.[109] By the end of 2010, A Thousand Suns had been certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA),[110] and the following year it was certified platinum.[111]

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic66/100[112]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [1]
Artistdirect     [113]
Consequence of Sound     [114]
Entertainment WeeklyB[115]
Kerrang!     [19]
Melodic     [116]
New York Daily News     [117]
Rolling Stone     [118]
Rock Sound7/10[119]
Spin6/10[120]

Upon its release, A Thousand Suns was generally well-received by critics, although some were less enthusiastic. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66 based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[112] It is the band's best reviewed album to date on the review aggregator.

Rick Florino of Artistdirect gave the album five stars out of five, saying, "after A Thousand Suns, all rock 'n' roll will revolve around Linkin Park"; he credited Linkin Park with creating their own genre.[113] Ian Winwood of Kerrang! gave it an "excellent" rating, saying it "can only be best described as a political album".[19] He praised the songwriting, saying, "These are songs that have been constructed as much as they've been written", and that its closest comparison was Public Enemy's 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet.[19] Dave de Sylvia of Sputnikmusic called it "an extremely well-crafted rock album," saying it was somewhat better than its predecessor Minutes to Midnight (2007), but does not live up to their debut, Hybrid Theory (2000).[121] David Buchanan of Consequence of Sound gave the album three-and-a-half out of five, saying, "Some might argue this new sound is posturing, complete mutation to the point of absurdity; in the band’s associated artwork and videos, evolution has been touted from day one. In essence, Linkin Park has been chasing this all along, and now it has become tangible, complete."[114] Johan Wippsson from Melodic said Linkin Park "have created a very cool and unique sound" and described "Blackout" and "When They Come for Me" as "really innovative".[116] Ian Winwood of BBC Music, in his review of the band's succeeding album Living Things, praised A Thousand Suns and described it as "a body of work startling enough that it gambled with the massive commercial success the group had achieved since their debut album, 2000's Hybrid Theory."[122]

James Montgomery of MTV called A Thousand Suns a "sprawling, discordant, ambitious and an all-out game changer" and compared it with Radiohead's 2000 album Kid A, but said A Thousand Suns is more optimistic than Kid A.[14] Jordy Kasko with Review Rinse Repeat gave A Thousand Suns a perfect rating, calling it an "epic quest".[13] He compared it to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Radiohead's Kid A, saying "A Thousand Suns is an ALBUM. It is not a collection of songs. It is not meant to be listened to as such. The band is going so far as to release an iTunes version that is one track, 47 minutes and 56 seconds long. This is no more an 'album' by conventional standards than Dark Side of the Moon or Kid A are. Sure, there are identifiable songs, but to understand or to appreciate any of them you must take them in the context of the entire album."[13] Christopher Weingarten of The Village Voice praised the album, calling it "2010's best avant-rock nuclear-anxiety concept record", as well as comparing it to Radiohead's OK Computer (1997).[12]

Mikael Wood of Spin gave the album six stars out of ten, saying it "contains plenty of aggressively arty material" and calling "The Messenger" the "most unexpected track on the boldly conceived A Thousand Suns".[120] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B rating and said "at times the band's odd mélange of industrial grind, hip-hop swagger, and teenage-wasteland angst feels jarring".[115] Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone gave it three stars out of five; he said Linkin Park were "feeling their way toward a new identity"; he called their skill for melody "obvious" and said they sounded like "a killer Linkin Park tribute band".[118] Australia's Music Network magazine gave the album a mixed review, calling it "a radical shift for the band, but it’s also a very uneven one ... while there's some commanding moments ('The Catalyst,' 'Wretches and Kings'), many of the tracks feel like experiments rather than fully-formed songs".[123]

Johnny Firecloud of Antiquiet condemned the album, called it a "melodramatic farce", and said it was a "mechanized mess of sentimentality ... the 15 track collection is entirely unconvincing as a call to action for uprising and activism".[124] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said the album was a "clear continuation" of its predecessor but said "the problem is, the subdued rhythms, riffs and raps of A Thousand Suns wind up monochromatic".[1] Jim Farber of The New York Daily News gave the album one star out of five, saying, "no fewer than 15 cuts crowd the tight 47-minute length of the CD, many of them fragments or, more accurately, sonic non sequiturs".[117] Jamie Primack of The Badger Herald wrote, "there are at least five filler tracks that contain nothing more than noise and sound bites ... the full-length songs aren’t particularly daring or interesting".[125]

Fans of the band were polarized by A Thousand Suns. Initial signs of the fans' division over the band's new material occurred when "The Catalyst" was released as a single. MTV conducted a poll asking fans how they received the song; most responses were positive but a large amount were dissatisfied with it.[126] Fans then therefore debated on what they thought of the new sound.[126][127] Sara Ferrer of Orange County Reloaded said the album split the views of fans and critics into "love-it versus hate-it groups".[128] Montgomery expressed similar sentiments, saying the album "alternately thrilled and thinned [Linkin Park's] substantial fanbase with its vast swaths of sonic sprawl (and overall lack of guitar solos)."[129] Mike Shinoda shared his thoughts on the divided reception of the fans; he thanked the people who accepted the album and defended it from the criticism of those who disliked it.[130] Commenting on fans' polarized response to the album, Chester Bennington said, "[A Thousand Suns] is definitely something that we knew people would need to digest and get over the fact that it's not what they thought we would do."[97]

Accolades edit

Kerrang! listed A Thousand Suns as the nineteenth-best album of 2010 on their list of the top 20 albums that year.[131] James Montgomery of MTV listed the album as twentieth best album of 2010, calling it "the year's most ambitious major-label rock album... there's no denying the dense, dark power it packs".[129]

The album received numerous awards and nominations. At the 2011 MTV Video Music Aid Japan, A Thousand Suns was nominated for Album of the Year, while "The Catalyst" was nominated for Best Group Video and Best Rock Video.[132] The album received two 2011 Billboard Music Award nominations; Best Rock Album and Top Alternative Album. "Waiting for the End" was nominated for Top Alternative Song.[133] The music video for "Waiting for the End" was nominated at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Special Effects.[134] Linkin Park won the Best International Rock/Alternative Group for A Thousand Suns at the 2011 ECHO Awards.[135] At the MTV Video Game Awards, "Blackout" won the Best Song in a Video Game award for its use in FIFA 11.[48] "Waiting for the End" was nominated at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Rock Song.[136]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Linkin Park except "Wisdom, Justice and Love" credited to Linkin Park and Martin Luther King Jr

No.TitleLength
1."The Requiem"2:01
2."The Radiance"0:57
3."Burning in the Skies"4:13
4."Empty Spaces"0:18
5."When They Come for Me"4:53
6."Robot Boy"4:29
7."Jornada del Muerto"1:34
8."Waiting for the End"3:51
9."Blackout"4:39
10."Wretches and Kings"4:10
11."Wisdom, Justice, and Love"1:39
12."Iridescent"4:56
13."Fallout"1:23
14."The Catalyst"5:39
15."The Messenger"3:01
Total length:47:48
Best Buy, Napster and HMV Limited edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
16."New Divide"4:29
17."Black Birds"3:22
18."The Catalyst" (NoBraiN remix)4:22
iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."A Thousand Suns: The Full Experience" (entire album in one track)47:56
17."The Catalyst" (music video)4:42
18."Blackbirds" (non-album track from the "8-Bit Rebellion!" app)3:21
Total length:63:44
2013 iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
16."Blackbirds"3:21
17."The Catalyst" (music video)4:43
18."Waiting for the End" (music video)3:54
Total length:59:54
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
16."New Divide" (live in Madrid)4:54
Total length:52:39
iTunes UK special edition bonus tracks[137]
No.TitleLength
16."New Divide" (live in Madrid)4:35
17."Waiting for the End" (live in Madrid)4:04
18."Breaking the Habit" (live in Madrid)4:00
19."The Catalyst" (live in Madrid)5:57
20."In the End" (live in Madrid)3:48
21."What I've Done" (live in Madrid)3:32
Total length:73:41
Special edition bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Meeting of A Thousand Suns" (making of the album documentary)29:46
Total length:29:46
A Thousand Suns + bonus DVD (Live from Madrid)[54]
No.TitleLength
1."The Requiem"1:38
2."Wretches and Kings"4:25
3."Papercut"3:18
4."New Divide"4:31
5."Faint"4:08
6."Empty Spaces/When They Come for Me"5:31
7."Waiting for the End"3:53
8."Iridescent"5:02
9."Numb"3:11
10."The Radiance" (piano version)1:50
11."Breaking the Habit"3:59
12."Shadow of the Day"5:15
13."Fallout"1:25
14."The Catalyst"6:10
15."The Messenger"3:41
16."In the End"3:29
17."What I've Done"3:32
18."Bleed It Out/A Place for My Head"5:06
Total length:70:04
A Thousand Suns – Live Around the World
No.TitleLength
1."The Requiem" (live from London, 2010)2:30
2."Burning in the Skies" (live from Hamburg, 2011)4:12
3."When They Come for Me" (live from Paris, 2010)5:06
4."Jornada Del Muerto" (live from Hamburg, 2011)1:50
5."Waiting for the End" (live from Berlin, 2010)3:56
6."Blackout" (live from Hamburg, 2010)4:34
7."Wretches and Kings" (live from Las Vegas, 2011)3:54
8."Iridescent" (live from Paris, 2010)4:58
9."The Catalyst" (live from Paris, 2010)5:54
10."The Messenger" (live from Las Vegas, 2011)3:53
iTunes deluxe edition bonus content[138]
No.TitleLength
1."The Requiem" (Note from the band) 
2."20 'In the Studio' exclusive photos" 
3."Meeting of A Thousand Suns (Making of the Album)"29:46
4."Linkin Park visualizers" 
5."Secret code puzzle" 
6."The Catalyst (music video)" 

Personnel edit

Source: AllMusic[139] and A Thousand Suns booklet.

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[203] Platinum 70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[204] Gold 10,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[205] Gold 20,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[206] Platinum 80,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[207] Gold 15,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat)[208] Gold 13,977[208]
France (SNEP)[209] Gold 50,000*
GCC (IFPI Middle East)[210] Gold 3,000*
Germany (BVMI)[211] 3× Gold 300,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[212] Gold 7,500^
Italy (FIMI)[213] Platinum 50,000‡
Japan (RIAJ)[214] Gold 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[215] Gold 7,500^
Poland (ZPAV)[216] Platinum 20,000*
Portugal (AFP)[217] Platinum 20,000^
Russia (NFPF)[160] Platinum 10,000*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[218] Gold 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[107] Platinum 300,000‡
United States (RIAA)[219] Platinum 1,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history edit

Region Date Format(s)
Australia[220] September 8, 2010 Digital download,
CD, LP, DVD
Austria[221]
Belgium[222]
Canada[223]
Denmark[224]
Finland[225]
France[226]
Germany[227]
Greece[228]
Ireland[229]
Italy[230]
Luxembourg[231]
Mexico[232]
Netherlands[233]
New Zealand[234]
Norway[235]
Portugal[236]
Spain[237]
Sweden[238]
Switzerland[239]
United Kingdom[240]
Hungary[241] September 9, 2010
Poland[242] September 13, 2010
Brazil[243] September 14, 2010
United States[244]
Japan[245][246][247] September 15, 2010
September 29, 2010
November 24, 2010 		Digital download,
CD, CD+DVD
Gunpla 30th Edition

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For other uses see A Thousand Suns disambiguation A Thousand Suns is the fourth studio album by American rock band Linkin Park It was released on September 13 2010 1 by Warner Bros Records The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin who had also worked together to produce the band s previous studio album Minutes to Midnight 2007 Recording sessions for A Thousand Suns took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood California from 2008 until early 2010 A Thousand SunsStudio album by Linkin ParkReleasedSeptember 13 2010 2010 09 13 RecordedNovember 2008 August 2010StudioNRG Recording Studios North Hollywood California GenreElectronic rock art rock industrial rock experimental rock progressive rockLength47 48LabelWarner Bros Machine ShopProducerRick Rubin Mike ShinodaLinkin Park studio album chronologyMinutes to Midnight 2007 A Thousand Suns 2010 Living Things 2012 Singles from A Thousand Suns The Catalyst Released August 2 2010 Waiting for the End Released October 1 2010 Burning in the Skies Released March 21 2011 Iridescent Released May 27 2011A Thousand Suns is a concept album dealing with human fears such as nuclear warfare The band has said the album is a drastic departure from their previous work they experimented on different and new sounds Shinoda told MTV the album references numerous social issues and blends human ideas with technology The title is a reference to the Bhagavad Gita a line from which was popularized in 1945 by J Robert Oppenheimer who described the atomic bomb as being as bright as a thousand suns It also appears in a line from the first single of the album The Catalyst A Thousand Suns is Linkin Park s longest studio album to date clocking in at 47 minutes The Catalyst was sent to radio and released to digital music retailers on August 2 2010 The Catalyst peaked at No 40 on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Rock Songs charts Three more singles were released to promote the album Waiting for the End Burning in the Skies and Iridescent The Catalyst and Waiting for the End were certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA Linkin Park promoted the album through the A Thousand Suns World Tour from October 2010 to September 2011 The album polarized fans but was mostly received positively by critics some of whom found it to be a natural evolution for the band The record debuted at number one on over ten charts and was certified platinum by the RIAA in August 2017 Contents 1 Writing and recording 2 Style and composition 3 Release and promotion 3 1 Singles 4 Reception 4 1 Commercial 4 2 Critical reception 4 2 1 Accolades 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Decade end charts 8 Certifications 9 Release history 10 ReferencesWriting and recording edit nbsp nbsp Linkin Park co vocalist Mike Shinoda left and Rick Rubin right served as producers for A Thousand Suns Recording for the album began in 2008 less than a year after the release of Minutes to Midnight 2007 2 As with Minutes to Midnight Shinoda and Rick Rubin produced the album 3 Primary recording sessions for A Thousand Suns took place at NRG Recording Studios in North Hollywood Los Angeles California 4 In November 2008 lead singer Chester Bennington said the new record was a concept album he said it sound ed a little daunting to me so I think my confidence level will drop but when it was presented to us by this friend of ours we liked the idea It was an inspiring idea and it was something we could relate a lot of the things we like to write about to 2 In May 2009 Mike Shinoda revealed info on the album in a Billboard magazine story saying I feel like we ve been writing a lot I d say we ve got about half the music done though I shouldn t say halfway because who knows how long the next batch of songs will take But all the material s just kind of coming together and every week we meet up and assess the situation and for the rest of the week we just go and work on whatever we find exciting 5 He also explained the experimentation that the band would be working with saying It s not going to be Hybrid Theory It s not going to be Minutes to Midnight And if we do it right it ll have a cutting edge sound that defines itself as an individual record separate from anything else that s out there 5 Bennington continued composing for the album while touring with Dead by Sunrise in support of their 2009 studio album Out of Ashes 6 He said Linkin Park was still making a concept record stating in another interview with MTV we might need to just make a record and still try to do a concept but figure out a way to do it without actually waiting another five or six years to put out a record to try to pull off all the grandiose insanity we were thinking of doing And we re doing that 6 Bassist Dave Phoenix Farrell predicted the band s fans would be divided about A Thousand Suns saying We ve known the album is going to be different and if fans were expecting Hybrid Theory or Meteora they re going to be surprised It s going to take people some time to figure it out and know what to do with it 7 When asked about the new project drummer Rob Bourdon said We tend to be perfectionists and it s sort of how we work We like being in the studio and when we get in there we write a ton of material 8 Bourdon said the album was a challenge to complete he said We ve been making music for a long time so one of the challenges was to evolve and make something to keep us interested and also have a lot of fun in the process We ve been used to making a certain type of music and using sounds to accomplish that So to break out of that and push ourselves to grow is definitely challenging 8 Shinoda later said the album was not a concept record 9 saying People asked us if it s a concept record and in the middle of the process we were contemplating whether or not that was what we wanted to do although he said that eventually A Thousand Suns at its completion has no narrative and is more abstract than many concept albums 9 Style and composition editIn an interview with Rolling Stone in May 2009 Shinoda said the band was in the process of writing and recording material for the album 10 The album was originally scheduled for an early 2010 release but Shinoda was concerned with the quality of the tunes and said if we need to take a step back and make sure everything is top top quality by our standards we will 10 Shinoda also said that in comparison to Minutes to Midnight the new album would have a bigger thread of consistency and would be more experimental and hopefully more cutting edge 11 Christopher Weingarten of The Village Voice compared the album to Radiohead s third studio album OK Computer describing the record s composition as uninhibited hooks daffy left turns piano soaked bathos explorations of the human relationship with technology and a complete avoidance of metal 12 Weingarten noted various elements and styles the band incorporated in A Thousand Suns saying the band was sink ing their distortion pedals into a tender oblivion embracing the pulseless Vocoder syrup of Imogen Heap the cuddly heavenward synths of Yeasayer the post apocalyptic stutter hop of El P the head rush of Ibiza house 12 Jordy Kasko of Review Rinse Repeat compared the style of A Thousand Suns to that of Pink Floyd s eighth studio album The Dark Side of the Moon and Radiohead s fourth studio album Kid A 13 James Montgomery of MTV compared the album to Kid A because of the lack of guitars the style being completely different from the band s previous works and the album s message Montgomery said None of these problems these terrors or these specters that haunt us in 2010 are particularly new Quite the opposite in fact We ve just chosen to ignore the warnings And now it might be too late 14 According to turntablist Joe Hahn the album s title is a reference to a line in the Hindu Sanskrit scripture the Bhagavad Gita If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the mighty one which was made famous by J Robert Oppenheimer in reference to the atomic bomb 15 The title also appears in the album s lead single The Catalyst which appears in the line God save us everyone will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns 16 The band said Oppenheimer s comments about the nuclear bomb influenced the apocalyptic themes of the album The band wrote about these comments in the album s liner notes Oppenheimer s words resonate today not only for their historical significance but for their emotional gravity So too A Thousand Suns grapples with the personal cycle of pride destruction and regret In life like in dreams this sequence is not always linear And sometimes true remorse penetrates the devastating cycle The hope of course springs from the notion that the possibility of change is born in our most harrowing moments 17 nbsp nbsp nbsp Samples of notable speeches of J Robert Oppenheimer left Mario Savio center and Martin Luther King Jr right were used in A Thousand Suns The band has stated that the album s tenth track Wretches and Kings pays homage to the hip hop group Public Enemy 18 Speaking to NME about the song s reference to Public Enemy Shinoda said There is a homage to Chuck D on there It s probably the most hip hop song on the record and one of the most aggressive Public Enemy were very three dimensional with their records because although they seemed political there was a whole lot of other stuff going on in there too It made me think how three dimensional I wanted our record to be without imitating them of course and show where we were at creatively 18 Ian Winwood of Kerrang noted that Wretches and Kings references the Public Enemy song Fight the Power and compared the album s content to Public Enemy s third studio album Fear of a Black Planet 19 Chuck D later provided vocals on a remix by HavocNdeeD 20 21 The fifth track When They Come for Me references The Blueprint2 The Gift amp The Curse the seventh studio album by hip hop artist Jay Z with whom the band collaborated on the 2004 EP Collision Course 22 The album includes samples of notable speeches by American political figures 14 including Martin Luther King Jr J Robert Oppenheimer and Mario Savio 18 Chester Bennington stated in an interview with MTV News which referred to Linkin Park s new style as being less technical and more organic When it came to doing things that felt very much like older Linkin Park like mixing hip hop with a rock chorus we felt like if we were going to do it we need to really do it in a way that felt natural and felt original and felt like it was something we hadn t done in the past While there are hip hop songs on the album Wretches and Kings When They Come for Me they re like nothing the band have tried before snarling raw dark and strangely organic 23 Critics and reporters labeled A Thousand Suns as electronic rock 24 25 art rock 26 27 industrial rock 28 experimental rock 12 progressive rock 29 and nu metal 30 They also noticed various traces of trip hop 31 ambient 31 alternative rock 32 industrial 33 and rap rock 34 35 across the album Compared to their previous record Minutes to Midnight 2007 Shinoda contributed many more vocals while Brad Delson s guitar riffs are put further into the background which Gary Graff of Billboard described as on the back burner and barely even in the oven 36 Shinoda raps on the tracks When They Come for Me Wretches and Kings and the album s second single Waiting for the End Derek Oswald of AltWire net noted reggae like influences on Shinoda s verses in Waiting for the End 37 He sings verses on Burning in the Skies Robot Boy Blackout Iridescent and The Catalyst Bennington and Shinoda sing together on The Catalyst Jornada del Muerto and Robot Boy while Iridescent features all band members singing together 38 Release and promotion edit nbsp Linkin Park performing in Berlin Germany to promote A Thousand Suns on October 20 2010The album was exhibited at a 3 D laser exhibition at Music Box Theater in Hollywood on September 7 2010 39 A Thousand Suns was officially released on September 10 2010 in Germany Austria and Switzerland 40 and on September 13 2010 in the US 41 Linkin Park started worldwide promotion of the album with the A Thousand Suns World Tour which started on October 7 2010 in Buenos Aires Argentina and ended on September 25 2011 in Singapore The band performed an entire setlist in the Puerta de Alcala Gate in Madrid their live performance of Waiting for the End was shown at the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards 42 Linkin Park also promoted A Thousand Suns by featuring songs from the album in video games Joe Hahn said The Catalyst would be included in the video game Medal of Honor 43 Hahn also announced he would direct a trailer for the game it was released on August 1 2010 44 one day before the single s release 45 Dave Phoenix Farrell stated that the band s members believed the song s dark undertones fits with the subject matter of the game which was the reason The Catalyst was chosen for Medal of Honor 45 During the Japanese release of the album on September 15 2010 Warner Music Japan announced that The Catalyst would be the official theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs 46 In addition Warner Music Japan released a limited edition package bundle for the album containing the CD along with a 1 144 scale plastic model kit of the RX 78GP01Fb Gundam Zephyranthes Full Burnern from the anime OVA series Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory molded in colors and using color correcting stickers evoking the imagery used on the cover of the album It was further accompanied by artwork of the members of Linkin Park in Earth Federation military uniforms and pilot suits alongside the custom colored GP01Fb 47 Blackout was featured in the soccer video game by EA Sports FIFA 11 48 The band released a video game called Linkin Park Revenge an edition of Tap Tap Revenge that features four tracks from the album and six songs from previous Linkin Park albums 49 Wretches and Kings is featured in the trailer for the video game EA Sports MMA 50 Blackout Burning in the Skies The Catalyst The Messenger Waiting for the End and Wretches and Kings were available as downloadable content in the Linkin Park Track Pack for the rhythm video game Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock 51 which was released on October 19 2010 on the PlayStation Store Xbox Live Marketplace and Wii Shop Channel 51 Customers who purchased Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock from Amazon com between October 17 and October 23 received a copy of A Thousand Suns 51 Three songs were remixed and released as downloadable content for the rhythm video game DJ Hero 2 in late 2010 52 On January 11 2011 a Linkin Park track pack was released for the rhythm video game Rock Band 3 it includes Waiting for the End and five songs from the band s previous albums 53 On March 5 2011 Mike Shinoda announced the European release of A Thousand Suns a limited re issue of the album that was released on March 28 2011 The re release includes a live DVD of the band s MTV Europe Music Awards concert at Puerta de Alcala Madrid on November 7 2010 and an MP3 audio file of the show 54 On June 19 2012 a live version of the album titled A Thousand Suns Live Around the World was released on Spotify 55 It features ten of the album s fifteen songs The tracks were recorded in London Hamburg Paris Berlin and Las Vegas 56 Singles edit nbsp The Catalyst the album s first single was first performed live at the Griffith Observatory pictured During the announcement of the album s release date Linkin Park said the album s first single would be The Catalyst which was released on August 2 2010 57 From July 9 2010 until July 25 2010 the band held a contest titled Linkin Park Featuring You 58 In the contest fans could download stems from The Catalyst remix the stems and or write their own parts for the song on any instrument 58 The winner of this contest was Czeslaw NoBraiN Sakowski from Swidnica Poland whose remix is featured as an extra track on a version of the album made available from Best Buy and Napster 59 60 61 The album s liner notes credit Sakowski with supplemental programming on When They Come for Me 17 The top 20 remixes that were selected by the band are being considered for future use as b sides and online downloads 59 Two of the remixes by DIGITALOMAT and ill Audio have since been released via the band s webpage as free mp3 downloads 62 while two by Cale Pellick and DJ Endorphin been released on an exclusive German release of The Catalyst 63 The music video for The Catalyst directed by Joe Hahn premiered on August 26 2010 64 On August 31 2010 it was announced that the band would give their first live performance of the single at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12 2010 65 at Griffith Observatory 66 The venue was kept secret until the performance although it was revealed to be a prominent landmark in Los Angeles 67 The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts 68 and on the UK Rock Chart 69 The single also peaked at number twenty seven in the Billboard Hot 100 upon the release of A Thousand Suns and spent five weeks on the chart 70 The Catalyst was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA in July 2011 71 On September 2 2010 Linkin Park released the promotional single Wretches and Kings to those who had pre ordered the album 72 On September 8 2010 the band debuted Waiting for the End and Blackout on their Myspace page 73 The band announced on its official website the Full Experience Myspace Premiere the streaming of the entire album on its Myspace page on September 10 74 A remix of Blackout by Renholder was included in the soundtrack of Underworld Awakening 75 nbsp Waiting for the End the album s second single was performed at the Puerta de Alcala Gate pictured Waiting for the End was released as the album s second single on October 1 2010 76 The music video for the song premiered on October 8 2010 and was directed by Joe Hahn 77 Linkin Park s performance of Waiting for the End at Puerta de Alcala in Madrid was broadcast as part of the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards 42 Waiting for the End and When They Come for Me were performed live on Saturday Night Live on February 5 2011 78 Waiting for the End was featured in an episode of CSI Crime Scene Investigation broadcast on CBS on October 14 2010 79 The single peaked at number one on the Alternative Songs chart it was Linkin Park s tenth number one song on the chart It peaked at number two on the Rock Songs chart and at number forty two on the Billboard Hot 100 spending nine weeks on the chart 70 The single achieved success in other countries peaking at number thirty four in Austria 80 number twenty in Belgium 81 number 29 in Germany 82 and number thirty four in Japan 83 Waiting for the End was certified gold by the RIAA in April 2011 71 nbsp The radio edit of Iridescent the album s fourth single was performed live at Red Square pictured in Moscow On January 22 2011 Linkin Park announced that its next international single would be Burning in the Skies 84 85 86 The music video directed by Hahn premiered on February 22 and the single was released on March 21 The single reached number thirty five in Austria 87 number 35 in Portugal 87 number twenty six in German airplay 88 and number six in Mexico 89 On April 13 2011 Shinoda confirmed that the album s third US fourth international and overall final single would be Iridescent He also said a slightly shorter version of the song would be included the soundtrack of the movie Transformers Dark of the Moon and that a music video directed by Hahn had been made to promote the single 90 Linkin Park performed the single remix of Iridescent at the film s premiere at Red Square Moscow on June 23 2011 91 The single peaked at number eighty one at the Billboard Hot 100 spending three weeks on the chart it also peaked at number nineteen at the Alternative Songs chart and number twenty nine at the Rock Songs chart 70 Despite these low peaks the single achieved moderate success in other countries peaking at number thirty nine in Australia 92 number ten in Israel 93 and number two in South Korea and one in the UK Rock Chart 69 94 Reception editCommercial edit A Thousand Suns debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 241 000 copies in the United States 95 exceeding sales of Trey Songz s Passion Pain amp Pleasure by 1 000 according to Nielsen SoundScan 96 It became Linkin Park s fourth US number one album 97 although the first week sales were significantly lower than those of their previous album Minutes to Midnight 2007 which opened at 623 000 copies 95 The album entered Billboard s Rock Albums Alternative Albums Hard Rock Albums and Digital Albums charts at number one 98 In the second week the album slid to number three selling 70 000 copies 99 in December 2010 two months after its release its sales passed the half million mark 100 On January 11 2011 A Thousand Suns was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of 500 000 copies sold in the US 71 It spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200 95 101 By June 2014 the album had sold 906 000 copies in the US according to SoundScan 102 In Canada A Thousand Suns peaked at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart with 23 000 copies sold 103 In February 2011 the album was certified platinum by the Canadian Recording Industry Association for 80 000 units sold 104 In the United Kingdom album chart on which it spent seventeen weeks the album debuted at number two with first week sales of 46 711 copies behind The Script s album Science amp Faith 105 106 On September 10 2010 two days after the album s UK release A Thousand Suns was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry BPI marking shipments of 100 000 copies to retailers 107 In Australia it debuted at number one on the ARIA Top 50 Albums 108 and retained the top position for four weeks 109 The album remained in the chart s top 50 for 18 weeks 109 By the end of 2010 A Thousand Suns had been certified gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA 110 and the following year it was certified platinum 111 Critical reception edit Professional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic66 100 112 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 1 Artistdirect nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 113 Consequence of Sound nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 114 Entertainment WeeklyB 115 Kerrang nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Melodic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 116 New York Daily News nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 117 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 118 Rock Sound7 10 119 Spin6 10 120 Upon its release A Thousand Suns was generally well received by critics although some were less enthusiastic At Metacritic which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album received an average score of 66 based on 10 reviews indicating generally favorable reviews 112 It is the band s best reviewed album to date on the review aggregator Rick Florino of Artistdirect gave the album five stars out of five saying after A Thousand Suns all rock n roll will revolve around Linkin Park he credited Linkin Park with creating their own genre 113 Ian Winwood of Kerrang gave it an excellent rating saying it can only be best described as a political album 19 He praised the songwriting saying These are songs that have been constructed as much as they ve been written and that its closest comparison was Public Enemy s 1990 album Fear of a Black Planet 19 Dave de Sylvia of Sputnikmusic called it an extremely well crafted rock album saying it was somewhat better than its predecessor Minutes to Midnight 2007 but does not live up to their debut Hybrid Theory 2000 121 David Buchanan of Consequence of Sound gave the album three and a half out of five saying Some might argue this new sound is posturing complete mutation to the point of absurdity in the band s associated artwork and videos evolution has been touted from day one In essence Linkin Park has been chasing this all along and now it has become tangible complete 114 Johan Wippsson from Melodic said Linkin Park have created a very cool and unique sound and described Blackout and When They Come for Me as really innovative 116 Ian Winwood of BBC Music in his review of the band s succeeding album Living Things praised A Thousand Suns and described it as a body of work startling enough that it gambled with the massive commercial success the group had achieved since their debut album 2000 s Hybrid Theory 122 James Montgomery of MTV called A Thousand Suns a sprawling discordant ambitious and an all out game changer and compared it with Radiohead s 2000 album Kid A but said A Thousand Suns is more optimistic than Kid A 14 Jordy Kasko with Review Rinse Repeat gave A Thousand Suns a perfect rating calling it an epic quest 13 He compared it to Pink Floyd s The Dark Side of the Moon 1973 and Radiohead s Kid A saying A Thousand Suns is an ALBUM It is not a collection of songs It is not meant to be listened to as such The band is going so far as to release an iTunes version that is one track 47 minutes and 56 seconds long This is no more an album by conventional standards than Dark Side of the Moon or Kid A are Sure there are identifiable songs but to understand or to appreciate any of them you must take them in the context of the entire album 13 Christopher Weingarten of The Village Voice praised the album calling it 2010 s best avant rock nuclear anxiety concept record as well as comparing it to Radiohead s OK Computer 1997 12 Mikael Wood of Spin gave the album six stars out of ten saying it contains plenty of aggressively arty material and calling The Messenger the most unexpected track on the boldly conceived A Thousand Suns 120 Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B rating and said at times the band s odd melange of industrial grind hip hop swagger and teenage wasteland angst feels jarring 115 Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone gave it three stars out of five he said Linkin Park were feeling their way toward a new identity he called their skill for melody obvious and said they sounded like a killer Linkin Park tribute band 118 Australia s Music Network magazine gave the album a mixed review calling it a radical shift for the band but it s also a very uneven one while there s some commanding moments The Catalyst Wretches and Kings many of the tracks feel like experiments rather than fully formed songs 123 Johnny Firecloud of Antiquiet condemned the album called it a melodramatic farce and said it was a mechanized mess of sentimentality the 15 track collection is entirely unconvincing as a call to action for uprising and activism 124 Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said the album was a clear continuation of its predecessor but said the problem is the subdued rhythms riffs and raps of A Thousand Suns wind up monochromatic 1 Jim Farber of The New York Daily News gave the album one star out of five saying no fewer than 15 cuts crowd the tight 47 minute length of the CD many of them fragments or more accurately sonic non sequiturs 117 Jamie Primack of The Badger Herald wrote there are at least five filler tracks that contain nothing more than noise and sound bites the full length songs aren t particularly daring or interesting 125 Fans of the band were polarized by A Thousand Suns Initial signs of the fans division over the band s new material occurred when The Catalyst was released as a single MTV conducted a poll asking fans how they received the song most responses were positive but a large amount were dissatisfied with it 126 Fans then therefore debated on what they thought of the new sound 126 127 Sara Ferrer of Orange County Reloaded said the album split the views of fans and critics into love it versus hate it groups 128 Montgomery expressed similar sentiments saying the album alternately thrilled and thinned Linkin Park s substantial fanbase with its vast swaths of sonic sprawl and overall lack of guitar solos 129 Mike Shinoda shared his thoughts on the divided reception of the fans he thanked the people who accepted the album and defended it from the criticism of those who disliked it 130 Commenting on fans polarized response to the album Chester Bennington said A Thousand Suns is definitely something that we knew people would need to digest and get over the fact that it s not what they thought we would do 97 Accolades edit Kerrang listed A Thousand Suns as the nineteenth best album of 2010 on their list of the top 20 albums that year 131 James Montgomery of MTV listed the album as twentieth best album of 2010 calling it the year s most ambitious major label rock album there s no denying the dense dark power it packs 129 The album received numerous awards and nominations At the 2011 MTV Video Music Aid Japan A Thousand Suns was nominated for Album of the Year while The Catalyst was nominated for Best Group Video and Best Rock Video 132 The album received two 2011 Billboard Music Award nominations Best Rock Album and Top Alternative Album Waiting for the End was nominated for Top Alternative Song 133 The music video for Waiting for the End was nominated at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Special Effects 134 Linkin Park won the Best International Rock Alternative Group for A Thousand Suns at the 2011 ECHO Awards 135 At the MTV Video Game Awards Blackout won the Best Song in a Video Game award for its use in FIFA 11 48 Waiting for the End was nominated at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards for Choice Rock Song 136 Track listing editAll tracks are written by Linkin Park except Wisdom Justice and Love credited to Linkin Park and Martin Luther King JrNo TitleLength1 The Requiem 2 012 The Radiance 0 573 Burning in the Skies 4 134 Empty Spaces 0 185 When They Come for Me 4 536 Robot Boy 4 297 Jornada del Muerto 1 348 Waiting for the End 3 519 Blackout 4 3910 Wretches and Kings 4 1011 Wisdom Justice and Love 1 3912 Iridescent 4 5613 Fallout 1 2314 The Catalyst 5 3915 The Messenger 3 01Total length 47 48 Best Buy Napster and HMV Limited edition bonus trackNo TitleLength16 New Divide 4 2917 Black Birds 3 2218 The Catalyst NoBraiN remix 4 22 iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracksNo TitleLength16 A Thousand Suns The Full Experience entire album in one track 47 5617 The Catalyst music video 4 4218 Blackbirds non album track from the 8 Bit Rebellion app 3 21Total length 63 44 2013 iTunes deluxe edition bonus tracksNo TitleLength16 Blackbirds 3 2117 The Catalyst music video 4 4318 Waiting for the End music video 3 54Total length 59 54 Japanese edition bonus trackNo TitleLength16 New Divide live in Madrid 4 54Total length 52 39 iTunes UK special edition bonus tracks 137 No TitleLength16 New Divide live in Madrid 4 3517 Waiting for the End live in Madrid 4 0418 Breaking the Habit live in Madrid 4 0019 The Catalyst live in Madrid 5 5720 In the End live in Madrid 3 4821 What I ve Done live in Madrid 3 32Total length 73 41 Special edition bonus DVDNo TitleLength1 Meeting of A Thousand Suns making of the album documentary 29 46Total length 29 46 A Thousand Suns bonus DVD Live from Madrid 54 No TitleLength1 The Requiem 1 382 Wretches and Kings 4 253 Papercut 3 184 New Divide 4 315 Faint 4 086 Empty Spaces When They Come for Me 5 317 Waiting for the End 3 538 Iridescent 5 029 Numb 3 1110 The Radiance piano version 1 5011 Breaking the Habit 3 5912 Shadow of the Day 5 1513 Fallout 1 2514 The Catalyst 6 1015 The Messenger 3 4116 In the End 3 2917 What I ve Done 3 3218 Bleed It Out A Place for My Head 5 06Total length 70 04 A Thousand Suns Live Around the WorldNo TitleLength1 The Requiem live from London 2010 2 302 Burning in the Skies live from Hamburg 2011 4 123 When They Come for Me live from Paris 2010 5 064 Jornada Del Muerto live from Hamburg 2011 1 505 Waiting for the End live from Berlin 2010 3 566 Blackout live from Hamburg 2010 4 347 Wretches and Kings live from Las Vegas 2011 3 548 Iridescent live from Paris 2010 4 589 The Catalyst live from Paris 2010 5 5410 The Messenger live from Las Vegas 2011 3 53 iTunes deluxe edition bonus content 138 No TitleLength1 The Requiem Note from the band 2 20 In the Studio exclusive photos 3 Meeting of A Thousand Suns Making of the Album 29 464 Linkin Park visualizers 5 Secret code puzzle 6 The Catalyst music video Personnel editSource AllMusic 139 and A Thousand Sunsbooklet Linkin ParkChester Bennington vocals percussion rhythm guitar 12 Mike Shinoda vocals guitar keyboards sampler piano synthesizer vocoder 1 13 producer engineer creative director Pro Tools Brad Delson sampler backing vocals keyboards percussion acoustic guitar 15 Pro Tools Dave Phoenix Farrell bass backing vocals keyboards 9 Joe Hahn turntables samples programming backing vocals creative director Rob Bourdon drums percussion backing vocalsSamplesMartin Luther King Jr speech speaker speaking part Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence speech 11 35 J Robert Oppenheimer interviewee 2 Mario Savio speech speaker speaking part Operation of the Machines speech 10 ProductionRick Rubin producer Neal Avron mixing Kymm Britton publicity Anton Brooks publicity Lindsay Chase production coordination Ryan DeMarti production coordination A amp R Nicolas Fournier assistant Jerry Johnson drum technician Liza Joseph A amp R Frank Maddocks art direction design creative director Ethan Mates engineer Pro Tools Vlado Meller mastering Josh Newell engineer Pro Tools Czeslaw NoBraiN Sakowski programming Mark Santangelo assistant Peter Standish marketing Josh Vanover artwork creative director Ellen Wakayama creative director Tom Whalley A amp RCharts editWeekly charts edit Chart 2010 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 109 1Austrian Albums O3 Austria 140 1Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 141 2Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 142 4Canadian Albums Billboard 143 1Czech Albums CNS IFPI 144 1Danish Albums Hitlisten 145 2Dutch Albums Album Top 100 146 7European Albums Billboard 98 1Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 147 6French Albums SNEP 148 4German Albums Offizielle Top 100 149 1Greek Albums IFPI 150 2Hungarian Albums MAHASZ 151 3Irish Albums IRMA 152 3Italian Albums FIMI 153 1Japanese Albums Oricon 154 2Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 155 28New Zealand Albums RMNZ 156 1Norwegian Albums VG lista 157 4Polish Albums ZPAV 158 2Portuguese Albums AFP 159 1Russian Albums 2M 160 3Scottish Albums OCC 161 4South Korean Albums Circle 162 4South Korean International Albums Circle 163 1Spanish Albums PROMUSICAE 164 3Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 165 5Swiss Albums Romandie 166 1Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 167 1UK Albums OCC 168 2UK Rock amp Metal Albums OCC 169 1US Billboard 200 170 1US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 171 1US Top Hard Rock Albums Billboard 172 1US Top Rock Albums Billboard 173 1Chart 2017 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 174 47 Year end charts edit Chart 2010 PositionAustralian Albums ARIA 175 33Austrian Albums O3 Austria 176 10Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 177 92Canadian Albums Billboard 178 40Danish Albums Hitlisten 179 86European Albums Billboard 180 22Finnish Albums Suomen viralinen lista 181 6French Albums SNEP 182 70German Albums Offizielle Top 100 183 11Italian Albums FIMI 184 63Japanese Albums Oricon 185 50New Zealand Albums RMNZ 186 34Polish Albums ZPAV 187 46Russian Albums 2M 160 26South Korean International Albums Circle 188 28Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 189 16UK Albums OCC 190 109US Billboard 200 191 53US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 192 5US Top Hard Rock Albums Billboard 193 2US Top Rock Albums Billboard 194 7Chart 2011 PositionGerman Albums Offizielle Top 100 195 87Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 196 86UK Albums OCC 197 184US Billboard 200 198 107US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 199 12US Top Hard Rock Albums Billboard 200 3US Top Rock Albums Billboard 201 15Decade end charts edit Chart 2010 2019 PositionUS Top Rock Albums Billboard 202 39Certifications editRegion Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 203 Platinum 70 000 Austria IFPI Austria 204 Gold 10 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 205 Gold 20 000 Canada Music Canada 206 Platinum 80 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 207 Gold 15 000 Finland Musiikkituottajat 208 Gold 13 977 208 France SNEP 209 Gold 50 000 GCC IFPI Middle East 210 Gold 3 000 Germany BVMI 211 3 Gold 300 000 Ireland IRMA 212 Gold 7 500 Italy FIMI 213 Platinum 50 000 Japan RIAJ 214 Gold 100 000 New Zealand RMNZ 215 Gold 7 500 Poland ZPAV 216 Platinum 20 000 Portugal AFP 217 Platinum 20 000 Russia NFPF 160 Platinum 10 000 Switzerland IFPI Switzerland 218 Gold 15 000 United Kingdom BPI 107 Platinum 300 000 United States RIAA 219 Platinum 1 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history editRegion Date Format s Australia 220 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