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Living Things by Linkin Park
Living Things is an album by Linkin Park, released in 2012. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 30 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Burn It Down”, on 19 lists with a best position of #3.
Living Things, Linkin Park's fifth album, arrived in June 2012 on Warner Bros. and Machine Shop, with Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda back at the controls for the third straight time. It would be the band's last record with Rubin and the last made at NRG Recording Studios.
After the electronic layering of A Thousand Suns, Chester Bennington, Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn and Rob Bourdon went hunting through their own back catalog, folding pieces of all four earlier albums into something tighter: rap-rock bite, glitchy synths, choruses built for arenas. The band said it felt like home turf again, and named the album for how personal the songs had become. "Burn It Down" led the charge in April, followed by "Lost in the Echo", "Powerless" and "Castle of Glass". It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, moving 223,000 copies in its first American week.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Living Things on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burn It Down | 19 | #3 | – | 2012–2023 | |
| 2 | Lost In The Echo | 6 | #35 | – | 2012 | |
| 3 | I'll Be Gone | 2 | #18 | – | 2012–2013 | |
| 4 | Castle of Glass | 3 | #55 | – | 2013 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.