Meteora, Linkin Park's groundbreaking second album, was released in March 2003 and included the global hit singles "Somewhere I Belong," "Faint," "Numb," "Breaking the Habit" and "From the Inside." It has sold over 8 million copies in the US and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in 15 countries.

Meteora was another globe-dominating smash that expanded their sonic boundaries and added a slew of hits to their repertoire, offering a matured, fully realized vision of the Linkin Park sound. That winning collision of alternative metal, electronic production, and old school hip-hop was expanded to epic scope, taking everything that worked on the first pass, amplifying it, and setting the stage for their various forays in the decade to come.