"In The End" is voted the best song from Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory

The song beat all of Hybrid Theory's companions

The album Hybrid Theory launched Linkin Park . Their debut album remains their best-selling record, having sold approximately 30 million copies to date.

The album turned 18 on October 24, 2018. Therefore, we asked Wikimetal readers which was their favorite song from the album. The big winner was the anthem “In The End”, with 34% of the votes. The Grammy winner, “Crawling”, came in second with 19%. The band's first single, “One Step Closer”, came in third with 11%.

Many consider Linkin Park to be the band that solidified nu metal as a genre. Even Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit said this to vocalist Chester Bennington . None of this would have happened if it weren't for the resounding success of Hybrid Theory .

This is the most successful debut album of the 21st century. It even earned Linkin Park a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock Performance" category for "Crawling" in 2002. They were also nominated in the "Best Rock Album" and "Best New Artist" categories.

At the time, Rolling Stone described the album as "twelve songs of packed fire, mixing alternative metal, hip hop and turntable art, that cannot be separated." Hybrid Theory is on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 200 Definitive Albums . It also spent 200 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 .

The success was so great that, years later, with the change in Linkin Park's style, many fans asked for a return to the Hybrid Theory . But the band took more experimental paths that flirted more with pop, except for the hit The Hunting Party from 2014. Even so, Linkin Park still had 5 of their albums reach number one on the best-selling releases charts in the United States.

With the death of Chester Bennington in 2017, the band went on to achieve 11 more platinum singles, closing the cycle of success that began with Hybrid Theory in 2000.

Watch the music video for “In The End” below: