Linkin Park’s Early-Career Smash Reaches A Special Milestone

BusinessHollywood & EntertainmentLinkin Park’s Early-Career Smash Reaches A Special MilestoneByHugh McIntyre,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.Follow AuthorMay 27, 2026, 10:00am EDT"Somewhere I Belong" becomes Linkin Park's seventh song to make it to 100 weeks as one of the top-selling rock tracks in the U.K. Joe Hahm, Chester Bennington, Brad Delson, Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell of Linkin Park (Photo by Brian Ach/WireImage)WireImageWhenever any artist, whether established or brand new, reaches any chart with a song, there's reason to celebrate. Even the most beloved acts in history can falter and see their time in the spotlight disappear. Scoring a hit is never guaranteed, and churning out a tune that lives on any ranking for months, if not years, is a statistical rarity. There are a handful of genre-specific tallies in the United Kingdom that look only at the top-selling tunes in hip-hop, dance and rock, and a handful of artists regularly appear with some of their most successful cuts. Linkin Park can often be found on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart, and more often than not, with four, five, six or even seven smashes simultaneously. That's the case again this frame, and as Linkin Park once again proves itself to be one of the top-selling rock bands of all time in the nation, one of the Grammy-winning outfit's most popular songs brings the troupe to a milestone – again, that is.Linkin Park’s “Somewhere I Belong” Hits 100 Weeks"Somewhere I Belong," one of Linkin Park's oldest promotional tunes, is one of the band's top performers on the Official Rock & Metal Singles chart at the moment. As the song holds on again within the upper half of the 40-space rundown, it celebrates 100 weeks as one of the most popular hard rock, rock or metal tracks in the U.K...