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At the end of 2004, Linkin Park collaborated with Jay-Z to release Collision Course. Included in the album are seven Linkin Park songs and six Jay-Z songs. The album debut at No. 1 on the charts, and the first single, "Numb/Encore," also hit No. 1. Linkin Park played at Live 8 and at Music for Relief in 2005. Linkin Park recently reached a new deal with their record label, Warner Brothers. At the 2006 Grammy Awards Ceremony, Chester Bennington hinted to Rolling Stone magazine that the upcoming Linkin Park release would be "dark and spooky, poppy and very melodramatic" and unlike other Linkin Park releases.

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Linkin Park's debut album Hybrid Theory was released in October 2000. In 2001, Linkin Park won a Grammy award for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Crawling," the second single off of Hybrid Theory. Shortly thereafter, Linkin Park joined Ozzfest for their first national tour. In 2002, Linkin Park embarked on their first headlining tour Projekt Revolution. July 2002 saw the release of the remix of Hybrid Theory entitled Reanimation. Over 50 different artists submitted remixes for the album and Mike Shinoda hand-picked them himself. Linkin Park headed back to the studio in 2002 to record their sophomore release, Meteora. Meteora was released in March 2003 and debuted at No. 1 after selling over 800,000 copies in the first week.

Linkin Park released a new live CD/DVD Live in Texas in 2003. The footage came from the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003 shows in Dallas and Houston. The beginning of 2004 saw Linkin Park on their "Meteora World Tour" with P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Story of the Year. Following that tour, Linkin Park set off on their third leg of the Projekt Revolution Tour. This time, the Project Revolution Tour features two stages and Revolution Village, all of which were very similar to the Warped Tour or Ozzfest. Revolution Village featured various types of entertainment such as video game kiosks and batting cages.

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Linkin Park hails from Los Angeles is and considered to be somewhat of a nu metal band. Often considered the most successful of the nu metal genre because the Linkin Park debut Hybrid Theory has sold 19 million copies. Linkin Park began in 1994. Singer Chester Bennington joined Grey Daze upon his gradation from Washington High School. After Grey Daze released two albums, Chester Bennington decided to leave the band. Two years later, guitarist Brad Delson and emcee Mike Shinoda were recent graduates of Agoura High School. They met with drummer Rob Bourdon and began playing together while the three were in college. Then the three of them joined forces with bassist Dave Farrell. A few years later, Brad Delson began in internship with Warner Brothers Records A&R representative Jeff Blue. It was Jeff Blue who brought in Chester Bennington. With the addition of Chester Bennington and bassist Kyle Christener, the band released their first self-titled EP as the band Hybrid Theory in mid-1999. Later that year, the band was forced to change its name, and Chester Bennington suggested Lincoln Park thanks to the park he drove by on his way to the recording studio. He felt as though it would be a good name for a band thanks to the fact there were Lincoln Parks all over the United States and therefore the band might be recognized as a local band no matter where they played. The spelling was changed to Linkin so the band could purchase the domain name Linkinpark.com.