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A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park
A Thousand Suns is an album by Linkin Park, released in 2010. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 64 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Waiting For The End”, on 38 lists with a best position of #3.
A Thousand Suns, Linkin Park's fourth studio album, arrived through Warner Bros. in September 2010, and it's the moment the nu metal heavyweights tore up their own blueprint. Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin, the same pair that steered Minutes to Midnight, produced it at NRG Recording Studios in Hollywood, in sessions that stretched from 2008 into mid-2010.
It's a concept record about human fear, with nuclear war hanging over everything, and the title comes from the Bhagavad Gita by way of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who used the image to describe the atomic bomb. The big riffs give way to layered electronics and pulsing, cinematic dread, with Chester Bennington tying the songs to social issues and the collision of people and technology. "The Catalyst" and "Waiting for the End" carry the load, with "Burning in the Skies" and "Iridescent" following as singles. Critics mostly heard a natural progression; the fans split down the middle.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from A Thousand Suns on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waiting For The End | 38 | #3 | – | 2010–2020 | |
| 2 | The Catalyst | 26 | #3 | – | 2010–2020 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.