Linkin Park’s ‘In the End’ Music Video Surpasses 2 Billion Views on YouTube
It starts with one … then two, then three, and eventually 2 billion. Linkin Park‘s “In the End” music video has officially surpassed the 10-digit view-count milestone two times over, becoming the band’s second visual to do so.
Uploaded in October 2009, the “In the End” video finds the group’s iconic original lineup of Chester Bennington — who died in 2017 — Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Joe Hahn, Rob Bourdon and Phoenix Farrell performing the hit on top of an Egyptian-looking statue as CGI vines sprout from the desert grounds below. A whale-like creature also swims through the air as the band’s frontman belts the track’s iconic chorus, “I tried so hard, and got so far/ But in the end, it doesn’t even matter/ I had to fall to lose it all/ But in the end, it doesn’t even matter.”
The song was originally released in 2000 on Linkin Park’s debut album, Hybrid Theory. Reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, it remains the rock band’s highest-charting song to date.
Linkin Park previously reached 2 billion views on the visual for 2003 hit “Numb.” News of the group hitting the milestone a second time comes amid a major comeback period following a seven-year hiatus after Bennington’s death; in September, the surviving members (sans Bourdon) announced that the band would be returning with the additions of new lead vocalist Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, dropping new album From Zero that November. The group is now in the middle of its world tour supporting the LP, with dates set through this November.
Add your view to 2 billion others by watching Linkin Park’s “In the End” music video above.
Hannah Dailey
Billboard
