{"id":2012,"date":"2012-08-23T16:53:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/23\/linkin-parks-hybrid-theory-reaches-10-million-in-us-sales\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T16:53:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:53:37","slug":"linkin-parks-hybrid-theory-reaches-10-million-in-us-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/08\/23\/linkin-parks-hybrid-theory-reaches-10-million-in-us-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkin Park&#8217;s &#8216;Hybrid Theory&#8217; Reaches 10 Million in U.S. Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/c9\/Linkin_park_hybrid_theory.jpg\/220px-Linkin_park_hybrid_theory.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"153\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>Linkin Park&#8217;s &#8220;Hybrid Theory&#8221; album becomes the latest release to join the 10 million-sellers club, as it crosses the mammoth threshold this week. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the band&#8217;s debut set &#8212; released in 2000 &#8212; sold another 3,000 this week, bringing its to-date total in the U.S. to just over 10 million.  <!--more-->  <br \/>It&#8217;s the 20th album to sell 10 million since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.Since 1991, the highest selling album &#8212; according to SoundScan &#8212; is Metallica&#8217;s self-titled 1991 release, which has moved 15.8 million. Hybrid Theory&#8221; debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200 chart dated Nov. 11, 2000 and eventually peaked at No. 2 on Jan. 12, 2002. &#8220;Hybrid Theory&#8221; also happens to be one of only four 10-million sellers that did not reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t cry for Linkin Park&#8217;s No. 2-plateau though: &#8220;Hybrid Theory&#8221; became the No. 1 selling album of 2001 in the U.S. with 4.8 million sold. Since then, Linkin Park has notched five No. 1 albums, including its most recent effort, this year&#8217;s &#8220;Living Things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Billboard<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linkin Park&#8217;s &#8220;Hybrid Theory&#8221; album becomes the latest release to join the 10 million-sellers club,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}