“What I've Done” by Linkin Park

"What I've Done" led Linkin Park into their third album, Minutes to Midnight, in 2007: the first single from a record Rick Rubin produced alongside Mike Shinoda, with the whole band sharing the writing credit. Next to the band's busier early work it's lean and direct, a stomping mid-tempo march that lets Chester Bennington climb from a brooding verse into a full-throated roar. Hollywood grabbed it right away, and it rolls over the end credits of the 2007 film Transformers.

It turned into the band's best-selling single, certified six times platinum by the RIAA, and reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. A live take from Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes later drew a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance, and in 2025 it became the fourth Linkin Park song to pass a billion plays on Spotify.

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