band profile
Linkin Park
- 2000–2026
- 936 shows
- 97.5% of songs played matched to MusicBrainz
- half of the songs have left the setlist after 265 shows (median survival)
What Linkin Park played at its concerts, night after night, from the setlists on setlist.fm; the discography comes from MusicBrainz.
What stands out
Linkin Park's setlist did not become steadier over time, and its early albums kept more songs in the set than most of its later ones.
Rotation, how much the songs change from one concert to the next, went from 0.18 (2000, 2001 and 2002) to 0.24 (2024, 2025 and 2026) in its first and last three years with enough shows. Hybrid Theory still had 58% of its songs after 935 shows and Meteora 50% after 759, while The Hunting Party lost 6 of 7 (median 80 shows) and One More Light 8 of 8 (median 41). Overall the median survival is 265 shows.
Caveats and limits
- Its last three years with enough shows follow a gap with no shows in the data between 2017 and 2024.
- From Zero has lost 0 of its 10 songs so far, but its curve covers only 108 shows, too short to say how long they will stay.
- Survival is counted in shows, not years, and years with fewer than 5 pairs of consecutive shows are left out of rotation (see Methodology).
How old the songs were: repertoire age
Years between a song's first release and the night it is played, averaged over all the songs played that year.
How to read: Each line is one band. Its height is how many years old the songs played that year were, on average. A rising line means the set leans on older songs; a falling line means newer songs took over.
Data table
| Year | Linkin Park |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2.2 |
| 2003 | 1.7 |
| 2004 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 3.5 |
| 2006 | 4.6 |
| 2007 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 4.3 |
| 2009 | 4.9 |
| 2010 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 4.7 |
| 2012 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 6.4 |
| 2015 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 7.0 |
| 2017 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 15.7 |
| 2025 | 13.6 |
| 2026 | 14.8 |
Median age by tour
Each bar is one tour in one year: a tour that spans several years appears once per year, because a median cannot be combined across years. The diamond marks the mean. Cells with fewer than 15 shows are left out.
How to read: Each bar is one tour in one year. A longer bar means older songs were typically played (the median age, in years); the diamond marks the average.
Data table
| Tour | Year | Shows | Median age | Mean age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back to School Tour | 2001 | 16 | 1 | 1.2 |
| Family Values Tour 2001 | 2001 | 22 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Ozzfest 2001 | 2001 | 25 | 1 | 1.2 |
| US-to-Europe Tour | 2001 | 18 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Projekt Revolution 2002 | 2002 | 18 | 2 | 2.2 |
| LP Underground | 2003 | 16 | 3 | 1.6 |
| Summer Sanitarium 2003 | 2003 | 19 | 3 | 1.8 |
| Meteora World Tour | 2004 | 34 | 4 | 2.6 |
| Projekt Revolution 2004 | 2004 | 31 | 2 | 2.6 |
| European Tour 2007 | 2007 | 16 | 4 | 3.8 |
| Projekt Revolution 2007 | 2007 | 29 | 4 | 3.4 |
| European Tour 2008 | 2008 | 23 | 5 | 4.4 |
| North American Tour 2008 | 2008 | 18 | 5 | 4.3 |
| Projekt Revolution 2008 | 2008 | 28 | 5 | 4.3 |
| A Thousand Suns | 2010 | 33 | 3 | 3.4 |
| A Thousand Suns | 2011 | 47 | 4 | 4.8 |
| 2012 Honda Civic Tour | 2012 | 21 | 5 | 5.6 |
| Living Things | 2013 | 17 | 6 | 6.9 |
| Carnivores Tour | 2014 | 25 | 5 | 6.3 |
| The Hunting Party | 2014 | 32 | 5 | 6.5 |
| The Hunting Party | 2015 | 29 | 8 | 8.1 |
| One More Light | 2017 | 22 | 8 | 8.4 |
| From Zero World Tour | 2025 | 61 | 15 | 13.6 |
| From Zero World Tour | 2026 | 28 | 16 | 14.8 |
How much shows change: rotation
How much the setlist changes from one show to the next within a tour, by year. 0 is the same setlist every night; 1 is no song in common.
How to read: Each line is one band. Height is how different one show is from the next on the same tour: 0 means the same songs every night, 1 means no song in common. A falling line means a more fixed show; a rising line, a more changeable one.
Data table
| Year | Linkin Park |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 0.26 |
| 2001 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 0.19 |
| 2012 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 0.28 |
| 2014 | 0.19 |
| 2015 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 0.14 |
| 2025 | 0.28 |
| 2026 | 0.31 |
How long songs last: survival
Share of the band's songs still in the setlist after t shows since their live debut, by studio album. A curve that stays high is an album whose songs became permanent; one that drops fast is an album that passed through.
How to read: Each line follows one album's songs from the night they were first played live. Height is the share still in the setlist (100% at the start): a high, flat line means the songs stayed, a steep drop means they left quickly. The axis counts shows, not years; the grey line marks half.
Data table
| Album | after 25 shows | after 50 shows | after 100 shows | after 200 shows | after 400 shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Thousand Suns (13 songs) | 100% | 100% | 62% | 54% | 23% |
| From Zero (10 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | – | – |
| Hybrid Theory (12 songs) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Living Things (8 songs) | 100% | 88% | 50% | 50% | – |
| Meteora (12 songs) | 100% | 83% | 83% | 67% | 50% |
| Minutes to Midnight (12 songs) | 92% | 83% | 83% | 67% | 50% |
| One More Light (8 songs) | 75% | – | – | – | – |
| The Hunting Party (7 songs) | 86% | 86% | 43% | – | – |
| non-album (16 songs) | 94% | 87% | 80% | 27% | 18% |
| All songs (98 songs) | 95% | 84% | 71% | 54% | 42% |
Albums
Eligible discography songs by reference album (the earliest studio album that contains the song). Median survival is in shows.
| Album | Songs | Abandoned | Censored (still played, or came back) | Median (shows) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All songs | 98 | 58 | 40 | 265 |
| A Thousand Suns | 13 | 10 | 3 | 212 |
| From Zero | 10 | 0 | 10 | not reached |
| Hybrid Theory | 12 | 5 | 7 | not reached |
| Living Things | 8 | 4 | 4 | not reached |
| Meteora | 12 | 6 | 6 | 337 |
| Minutes to Midnight | 12 | 8 | 4 | 318 |
| One More Light | 8 | 8 | 0 | 41 |
| The Hunting Party | 7 | 6 | 1 | 80 |
| non-album | 16 | 11 | 5 | 146 |