Mike Shinoda often gave advice to his fans who were thinking about signing onto labels through his blog. LP received a 15-million-dollar advance to work on Minutes to Midnight. The Rising Tied was released on Novemthough Machine Shop.Īt the end of 2005, Linkin Park signed a new record contract with Warner Bros. Summer 2005 was spent in silence from both parties, with Mike Shinoda spending more time online with fans than normal. And Linkin Park's third studio album was slated for release in spring 2006.Īfter the one initial statement and a public statement from Warner saying Linkin Parks statements were untrue, there was little else that was said publicly. Fort Minor's debut studio album The Rising Tied had finished recording, but it was not mixed yet and it did not have a release date yet. LP still owed four albums left on their contract. At the time, 10% of total Warner Music Group record sales were of Linkin Park albums 35 million albums sold over the course of five years. Linkin Park announced that they no longer held confidence in Warner Bros and that they were going to stop all production of music. A large amount of workers were laid off and marketing and promotion funds were cut. Warner Music Group had only alloted US$7 million dollars to go back toward the company, and none towards the artists.
In May 2005, Warner Music Group became a public company and offered its initial public offering that was projected to raise US$782 million in profits. Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson would join in to help manage it. In 2002, Mike Shinoda started an imprint label called Machine Shop. To prevent the individual from getting more attention for himself, Linkin Park members have not referred to their Hybrid Theory A&R by name. This quickly earned Linkin Park the reputation of being a manufactured boy band, which Linkin Park tried to fight by telling the press in detail how they were making the music.
This same individual went to the press after Hybrid Theory was released and told them that he wrote all of Linkin Park's songs. Joe Hahn was told to adopt a stage gimmick with wearing a lab coat and a cowboy hat. As told in Fort Minor's song " Get Me Gone," The A&R man tried to throw Mike Shinoda out of the band or prevent him from rapping on any of the songs. But despite that, Linkin Park's early relationship with the label was difficult. The label thought the band had a lot of "chutzpah" and went with it. "Fortunately for Linkin Park, the meeting went well.
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Then, imagine a young, unproven, newly-signed artist meets you in your conference room, to hand you a stack of papers telling you how to do your job. You've had some big hits, and you consider yourself to be good at what you do. "Imagine, for a moment, that you are a middle-aged record label employee with some experience in the 'record business'. We sat them down, exchanged pleasantries, and gave them some paperwork that outlined who we were, what we intended to do, and how we thought our music, marketing, and fan club should be treated." "We set a date, and took over their conference room. Mike Shinoda once recounted what they did. Upon being signed, Linkin Park put out a message that they wanted to meet their WBR staff. Linkin Park would first get a recording deal through Jeff Blue and Zomba before later finally securing a record contract with Warner Bros. One representative called the band the day after a performance just to tell Chester Bennington how horrible they were. Some said that Linkin Park's lyrics were too introverted in comparison to popular bands like Limp Bizkit who had party oriented rap rock. History with Linkin Park First Contract īefore getting a record deal, Linkin Park had been rejected over forty times by various record labels for various reasons.
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