“Numb/Encore” by Linkin Park/Jay-Z

Jay-Z and Linkin Park crashed their worlds together on "Numb/Encore," the one and only single from their 2004 EP Collision Course, out that December. It's a mash-up in the truest sense, stitching the words of Linkin Park's "Numb" and Jay-Z's "Encore," both 2003 releases, into a single track, with Mike Shinoda producing and rock and hip-hop meeting in an unlikely, sweaty handshake.

It climbed to 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 and landed at 93 on the year-end chart for 2005, went top five in France and the Netherlands, and held number one in Ireland for three weeks. It has had a long shelf life, too: it turned up on the Papercuts singles collection in 2024, and that June it passed a billion streams on Spotify.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.