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“Leave Out All The Rest” by Linkin Park
From the album Minutes to Midnight (2007)
“Leave Out All The Rest” by Linkin Park appears on 11 radio countdowns from 10 stations between 2008 and 2009. It was first released in 2007 on the album Minutes to Midnight. Its best result is #4 on the Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #56 alternative song of 2008.
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"Leave Out All the Rest" is Linkin Park at their most unguarded, a power ballad from 2007's Minutes to Midnight that Rick Rubin produced with Mike Shinoda. It opens on sampled strings and electric piano, then synths, raw guitars and drums pile in behind Chester Bennington, and on the album it runs straight into "Bleed It Out".
Getting there took work: it went by "Fear" and "When My Time Comes" along the way, and the band churned through more than thirty sets of lyrics before settling. A demo with Shinoda singing lead surfaced on the Linkin Park Underground 9.0 CD. It finally became the album's fifth and last single in July 2008, the same year it rolled over the end credits of Twilight.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 40 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2008 | 106 |
| 2008 | 60 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2008 | 91 |
| 2008 | 16 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008 | 105 |
| 2008 | 40 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2008 | 103 |
| 2008 | 81 | 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO | 105.7 The Point Top 106 Songs of 2008 | 105 |
| 2008 | 75 | KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA | KSLG Top 94 of 2008 | 94 |
| 2008 | 86 | KWOD Sacramento, CA | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2008 | 106 |
| 2008 | 35 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2008 | 88 |
| 2008 | 80 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2008 | 99 |
| 2009 | 50 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2009 | 99 |
| 2009 | 4 | 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL | Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2009 | 103 |
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