Linkin Park‘s latest single ‘The Emptiness Machine’ has just become their highest ever charting song in the UK.
Official Charts reports that the track has reached No.4 on the UK Top 40, this week’s highest new entry. It becomes the band’s sixth UK top 10 hit and their first since 2008. Their previous chart high was achieved with ‘What I’ve Done’ which hit No.6 upon its release back in 2007.
‘The Emptiness Machine’ is Linkin Park’s first single to feature new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain. It is taken from the upcoming new album ‘From Zero’ which is set for release on November 15.
Following a special livestream event announcing their comeback on September 05, the band played the first official show of this new era at LA’s Kia Forum venue on September 11. They will play further gigs in New York, Hamburg, London and Seoul later this month.
Have a look at their full list of dates below:
SEPTEMBER
11 – Kia Forum – Los Angeles, CA
16 – Barclays Center – New York, NY
22 – Barclays Arena – Hamburg, Germany
24 – The O2 – London, UK
28 – INSPIRE Arena – Seoul, South Korea
NOVEMBER
11 – Coliseo Medplus – Bogota, Colombia
Earlier this year, in his Rock Sound 25 Icon interview, Mike Shinoda reflected on the growth of the band’s audience and its continuing legacy:
“To be in 2023 seeing brand new, teenage artists and bands show up referencing and loving Linkin Park music is such a blessing. We would have never guessed that we could be in this position. It’s crazy to think that some of them will be in this position later, they’ll grow up to be a band that somebody else references. That chain of influence and inspiration goes on. That’s a beautiful lineage. Separate from that, on the more practical or logical side of things, there’s the end of the year when everybody gets a lot of their data back, besides your Spotify Wrapped and stuff like that, more deep dive wrap ups that you get from management or your label or your publisher and so on. For a band that is technically inactive, Linkin Park has been on an upswing in the last two years. That is unbelievable. We got on one report for one DSP platform that we had gained multiple tens of millions of new listeners. Wow. That’s mind blowing. These are people that have never listened to Linkin Park and found us this year. All I can do is be grateful. There’s almost nothing else I can say about that. It’s just shocking. What do I say? Thank you.”
You can read that full interview with Mike inside his cover issue of Rock Sound magazine, available now at SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV.
