At Its Peak at the End of 1999

2001 single by Linkin Park

“In the Finish”
Single past Linkin Park
from the album Hybrid Theory
B-side	“Pace Up” “In the End” (alive BBC Radio 1) “Points of Authority” (live at Docklands Arena, London) “A Place for My Caput” (alive at Docklands Arena) “Pushing Me Away”
Released	October 9, 2001[1] [2] [3]
Recorded	1999-2000
Genre	Nu metal[4] [five] rap stone[6] culling rock[7] difficult rock[8]
Length	iii:36
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(due south)	Brad Delson Chester Bennington Joe Hahn Mike Shinoda Rob Bourdon
Producer(south)	Don Gilmore
Linkin Park singles chronology
“Papercut” (2001) “In the End” (2001) “Pts.OF.Athrty” (2002)
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“In the Finish” on YouTube

“In the Terminate” is a vocal by American stone band Linkin Park. Information technology is the eighth track on their debut album,
Hybrid Theory
(2000), and was released as the anthology’s fourth and final single.

“In the End” received positive reviews by music critics, with most reviewers complimenting the song’s signature piano riff, as well as noting rapper Mike Shinoda’s vocal prominence in the song. “In the Finish” besides achieved mainstream popularity, and was a commercial success upon release. The song reached the top ten on numerous worldwide music charts and reached number two on the The states
Billboard
Hot 100, the band’southward highest peak on the chart, as well as their get-go song that peaked within the top 40 in early on 2002, making it a sleeper hit. It also reached number one on the Z100 top 100 songs of 2002 countdown. It ranked at number 121 in
Blender
magazine’s
The 500 Greatest Songs Since You lot Were Born.^[9]
In June 2021, it became the first nu metal song to surpass one billion streams on Spotify.^[5]

“In The End” has become one of Linkin Park’south well-nigh recognizable and signature songs. Chester Bennington, the band’s lead singer, initially disliked the vocal and did not want it to exist included on
Hybrid Theory.
^[10]
It was remixed on
Downtime
as “Enth E ND”. The music video of the song, directed by Nathan Cox and the band’s turntablist Joe Hahn, featured the band in a fantasy setting.

Ahead of the release for the 20th anniversary reissue for
Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park released a demo version of “In the Terminate” every bit the second single from the re-release of
Hybrid Theory
on October one, 2020.^[11]

Release

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“In the End” was released as a single on Oct 9, 2001.^[12]
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The single CD was released as a “Part ane” single and a “Function 2” single. They differed in tracks and cover colour: the “Part i” cover is yellowish and the “Role ii” encompass is red. A DVD version of “In the End” was likewise released which includes an audio version of “In the Finish”, “Crawling” music video and iv 30 seconds interviews.

On March 27, 2002, the single was released in Nippon as a 7-track CD called
In the Finish: Live & Rare. It contains live tracks of “Papercut”, “Points of Authorization” and “A Place for My Head”, “Step Up” (originally by the early Linkin Park forerunner
Hybrid Theory
that appeared on
Hybrid Theory EP), “My Dec” and “High Voltage”.

Music video

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The music video for “In the End” was shot at various stops forth the 2001 Ozzfest tour and was directed by Nathan Cox and the band’s DJ Joe Hahn, who would go along to directly many of Linkin Park’s future videos (the 2 also directed the music video for “Papercut”).^{[fourteen]
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Although the background for the “In the End” video was filmed in a California desert, the band itself performed on a studio stage in Los Angeles, with prominent CGI effects and compositing beingness used to create the finished version. Performing on a studio phase allowed Hahn and Cox to set up off water pipes higher up the stage near the end and drench the band.^[15]

The music video takes place in a fantasy setting and uses massive CGI blitheness. The band performs atop a behemothic statue that looks to be Egyptian, which has a ‘winged soldier’ on top of it, which is similar-looking to the ‘winged soldier’ on the cover artwork of Linkin Park’south
Hybrid Theory
album.

The portions where Mike Shinoda raps take place first in a wasteland with thorny vines sprouting out of the footing, surrounding him and shattering into dust, (first poesy) and and so grass and plants sprouting up effectually him (2nd verse). During the time Mike raps his verses, Chester stands atop a platform with gargoyles on the edges. This platform is in front end of a door in the shape of a trapezoid. Near the end of the video, the skies plough dark and it begins to rain, and the band performs in the downpour until the stop of the song, where the pelting stops and the photographic camera pans away from the belfry, showing the wasteland where Shinoda had rapped in is now a lush Greenland. During the rain the statues on the tower begin to move. Mike Shinoda has mentioned that
Princess Mononoke
inspired the music video.^[16]

The video was co-directed by Nathan “Karma” Cox and LP’due south turntablist Joe Hahn (who have besides directed the videos for “Pts.OF.Athrty”, “Papercut”, “What I’ve Done”, “Bleed Information technology Out”, “Shadow of the Day”, and “Leave Out All the Residuum”).^[xiv]
The production design was by Patrick Tatopoulos who helped design and oversee the production of the not-CGI set. Information technology won the “All-time Rock Video” and was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.^[17]

The video premiered on MTV and MuchMusic United states of america the week catastrophe October 6, 2001.^[xviii]

The video has over one.4 billion views on YouTube every bit of August 2022; this is their 2nd music video that reached a billion views next to “Numb”. The video was uploaded twice by Linkin Park’s YouTube aqueduct. The video was kickoff uploaded on March four, 2007, in 240p format. The video was later re-uploaded on October 26, 2009, in 360p format. Information technology was also reuploaded on the same day by the Warner Bros. Records YouTube channel in 480p format.^{[19]
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The video was shot in 16:9 aspect ratio, and copies available on Linkin Park’s (only first upload) and Warner Records YouTube channels are in four:3 letterboxed format. Second reupload on Linkin Park’s YouTube channel is in native sixteen:9 attribute ratio. Upon the release of the 20th Anniversary Box set up for Hybrid Theory, the video was then upgraded to Hard disk drive quality.

Critical reception

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“In the End” received positive reviews by contemporary rock music critics. VH1 ranked it number 84 on its list of the 100 Greatest Songs of the ’00s.^[22]
The vocal was as well ranked number 2 past
Loudwire
on its list of “Top 21st century Hard Rock songs”.^[viii]
At
Stylus
magazine, information technology was highlighted as a “nu metallic archetype”.^[23]
At
Kerrang!, it was included as part of “The Ultimate Nu Metal Mixtape”.^[24]
NME, however, was more critical of the song, calling it “…another slab of gormless MTV rap rock from the bottom of the food chain.”^[25]

Accolades

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In 2015, the song was named every bit the best rock song in
Kerrang!
‘s Rock 100 list followed past the ring’s 2014 unmarried “Terminal Masquerade”.^[26]
In the wake of Bennington’south passing in 2017,
Billboard
named “In the Stop” as the all-time Linkin Park song and labelled it as i of the best pop songs of the 21st century.^[27]
In the same year, information technology was listed as the 133rd best alternative rock hit of all-time by
Consequence.^[seven]

Nautical chart operation

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“In the End” is Linkin Park’s highest-charting unmarried in the US, debuting at number 78 and peaking at number two on the US
Billboard
Hot 100 chart in March 2002 and beingness kept off the top spot by “Ain’t Information technology Funny” by Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule. Information technology stayed on the chart a total of 38 weeks. It reached number one on the Modernistic Rock Tracks chart for five weeks, starting in Dec 2001, becoming their starting time hitting on this chart. It has spent 44 weeks there, condign their longest running on that chart and it also hit number 3 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart spending 40 weeks on the nautical chart, their second longest after “1 Footstep Closer” at 42 weeks. It likewise reached number one on the Pop Songs chart for v weeks also and it stayed on the chart for 27 weeks. “In the End” was the seventh best performing single on the
Billboard
Hot 100 during 2002, and was the 2d best performing rock song and alternative song of the decade on the Culling Songs nautical chart and the Rock Songs chart only backside Trapt’s “Headstrong” and Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” respectively. As of June 2014, the single has sold 2,555,000 copies in the United States.^[28]

“In the End” reached the top five on the Canadian BDS Airplay chart and remained in the top v for another calendar month. “In the Cease” debuted higher on the Canadian Hot 100 than information technology did in the United states of america and peaked at number 1 three weeks later for two weeks. It peaked college in Canada than “Papercut”.

The vocal was released in Australia, Europe and New Zealand on December 22, 2001. “1 Step Closer”, “Papercut” and “Crawling” reached the Uk top twenty, while “In the End” reached the top 10. “In the Terminate” continued the tendency of higher-charting singles when it debuted and peaked at number eight. It remained in the top 100 of the nautical chart for 20 non-consecutive weeks.

“In the End” debuted at number 44 on December two, 2001, on the ARIA Charts. It steadily rose to peak at number 4 on Feb x, 2002. It is currently the second most successful song for the band in Australia, tied with “1 Step Closer” and behind “New Split up”. In the calendar week starting July 30, 2017, the single re-entered the charts, at number x, more 15 years since the song last appeared in the top 50, following the death of lead singer Chester Bennington.

“In the Finish” reached the top 30 in Switzerland and the summit xx in the netherlands, Ireland, Federal republic of germany, Belgium and New Zealand. It is likewise their first single to chart in France, peaking initially at number 40 and remaining in the nautical chart for 17 weeks. But after the suicide of Chester Bennington in July 2017, the song charted at number 23 for 1 week. Similarly, information technology likewise re-entered the UK chart at number 14 on week starting July xxx, 2017.

Remixes

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A remix of “In the End”, titled “Enth E ND”, is included on their remix album
Reanimation. The vocal features hip hop artists Motion Man and KutMasta Kurt. Opposed from the song being a remix, the song also differs with altered lyrics. The song was released as a promotional single with “FRGT/10”.

The music video was directed by Jason Goldwatch. It starts off in blackness and white with someone picking upward headphones, interrupted by an image – Mike Shinoda in a car, a flashing image with the messages “LP” written on it, and a Telly screen. KutMasta Kurt is shown DJing, then Motion Man is seen in a car, rapping. The photographic camera goes to Mike Shinoda and the video is at present in colour. The video zooms out to a small screen, then the video becomes black and white again. Mike Shinoda is seen driving a machine with KurtMasta Kurt and Motility Human being. The video shows the screen over again and Mike is seen in colour, then becomes blackness and white again. Mike Shinoda and Motion Man are seen billowy their heads on screen, and so seen driving over again. Images flash and Motility Man is seen rapping one time once more. Random clips are played and Mike Shinoda is once again seen driving, holding a pocket-sized wired camera.

The Memphis rap group Three Six Mafia sampled this song on their 2001 song “Smoke Dat Weed” and it is featured on Juicy J’southward 2002 anthology Chronicles of the Juice Man.

In 2017, producer Markus Schulz fabricated a trance remix of “In the End” as a tribute to Chester Bennington after the latter’s decease, which he debuted at Tomorrowland.^[29]

Covers

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In 2018, Tommee Profitt produced a cover of “In the Cease” sung by Fleurie and Jung Youth. It was used in the first flavour’south fifth episode of Legacies.^[xxx]

Track listing

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Personnel

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Linkin Park

• Chester Bennington – vocals
• Mike Shinoda – rapping, piano
• Brad Delson – lead guitar, bass
• Joe Hahn – sampler, turntables
• Rob Bourdon – drums

Production

• Produced by Don Gilmore
• Executive producer: Jeff Blue
• Mixed at Soundtrack, NYC

Charts

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Certifications

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Release history

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Region	Engagement	Format	Ref.
United States	September eleven, 2001	Rock radio active rock radio alternative radio	[98]
United Kingdom	Oct 8, 2001	CD DVD	[99]

References

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