Song · Linkin Park
“Runaway” by Linkin Park
From the album Hybrid Theory (2000)
“Runaway” by Linkin Park appears on 9 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2001 and 2020. It was first released in 2000 on the album Hybrid Theory. Its best result is #39 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #156 alternative song of 2001 and #4,455 alternative song of all time.
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"Runaway" sits sixth on Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park's 2000 debut, and it goes back further than most of the album. Mark Wakefield, the band's original lead singer, helped write it, and it grew out of an older demo, "Stick N Move", which first surfaced in 1996 on a sampler tape from Xero, and later as "Stick and Move" on Underground 9.0.
Don Gilmore produced and recorded it and Andy Wallace mixed, and it's the band's rap-metal formula at full tilt: Chester Bennington howling and Mike Shinoda rhyming, trading lines back and forth, Brad Delson's guitars crunching, Rob Bourdon's drums rolling with a funky bounce. The band later rebuilt it as "Rnw@y" for their remix album, Reanimation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 43 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 73 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 62 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2002 | 39 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 | 106 |
| 2002 | 83 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 | 103 |
| 2002 | 85 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2002 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 360 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2008 | 351 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) | 500 |
| 2020 | 382 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
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