"Meteora" Officially Double Platinum.

The Recording Industry Academy of America, also known as the RIAA, has now officially designated Linkin Park's sophmore album, "Meteora", double-platinum. This news comes just 2 months after the release of "Meteora" to the US on March 25th, 2003. The platinum certifications show that over 2,000,000 copies of "Meteora" have been sold in the past 2 months, although album sales are dipping after "Somewhere I Belong", the first single, has started to cool off rotation-wise on music stations.

"Meteora" dropped 2 spots this week to spot #13 on the Billboard 200 Charts for the week of May 21st -27th. Sales should pick up with the help of the band's newly released single for "Faint". "Faint" is now at spot #28 on the Billboard Modern Rock Charts, while "Somewhere I Belong" sticks at #3 for another week after 13 weeks on the charts. "Somewhere I Belong" is also at position #4 on the Mainstream Rock Charts after slipping two spots from last week.

In other Linkin Park related news, the band is set to start their European Festival tour in Germany on June 7th, and ends in Portugal on June 23rd. Turtablist Joseph Hahn said that the band isn't going to let the possibility of terrorism in western Europe stop them from traveling to Europe for the festivals. "Oh not at all," said Mr. Hahn, after being asked whether he was worried about terrorism or not. "We look forward to it, you know? The problem has been in existence since the beginning of time. If it's not one thing, it's another."

Dates for the festival tour are as follows:

June 7th - Nurburg, Germany
June 8th - Nuremberg, Germany
June 9th - Landgraaf, Netherlands
June 11th - Copenhagen, Denmark
June 12th - Hultsfred, Sweden
June 13th - Oslo, Norway
June 15th - Berlin, Germany
June 16th - Prague, Czech Republic
June 18th - Paris, France
June 21st - Barcelona, Spain
June 22nd - Madrid, Spain
June 23rd - Lisbon, Portugal

 

thanks!

Visual: it's always hard to find out how many copies have been sold worldwide, mainly because europe and asia don't have their own versions of Neilsen Soundscan like the US does. they need to though.

 

8 in the US, and there's varied reports of 14-17 worldwide (including US)

 

lol, it's not that easy. the official site rarely has chats with them, and the LPU more frequently.