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Regardless of album sales, Heavy is at least the biggest single since 2012 with BID and arguably since 2011 with WFTE.

Show is sold out a second time now. Wow. 30k+ people.

Here it is opening the show.

Invisible is the second single from the album. Confirmed again with LP mgmt.

Probably same one. Festival, headline, headline, festival. The question is if the Brazil show will open with Catalyst or Talking To Myself.

Thanks, I'll add those to the show page. I like the new WID intro. The South American crowds are really great.

The live performances are getting interesting for me to watch when it comes to the drums. Buenos Aires and Santiago are what I'm talking about. First, you'll see so much of the new songs is sampled from backing vocals all over to a lot of the drums. I can't tell if Rob's kit is actually ON (like in the PA mix) on some of the new tracks. Not talking about Heavy. Check out Good Goodbye. The sampled drums on BTH are incredibly loud in the mix now compared to past years. The sampled stuff you hear in Drawing. I don't know if I can even hear Rob at all on that song now.

Like: Talking To Myself, One More Light Dislike: Heavy, Battle Symphony, Good Goodbye, Invisible

Linkin Park has just released Invisible to Spotify, iTunes and more. They have also debuted a new lyric video for the song. Lyrics: [Verse 1] I've got an aching head Echoes and buzzing noises I know the words we said But wish I could've turned our voices down This is not black and white Only organize confusion I'm just trying to get it right And in spite of all I should've done [Pre-Hook] I was not mad at you I was not trying to tear you down The words that I could've used I was too scared to say out loud If I cannot break your fall I'll pick you up right off the ground If you felt invisible, I won't let you feel that now [Hook] Invisible Invisible Invisible Invisible [Verse 2] You didn't get your way And it's an empty feeling You've got a lot to say And you just want to know you're being heard But this is not black and white There are no clear solutions I'm just trying to get it right And in spite of all I should've done [Pre-Hook] I was not mad at you I was not trying to tear you down The words that I could've used I was too scared to say out loud If I cannot break your fall I'll pick you up right off the ground If you felt invisible, I won't let you feel that now [Hook] Invisible Invisible Invisible Invisible [bridge] This is not black and white There are no clear solutions I'm just trying to get it right And in spite of all I should've done [Pre-Hook] I was not mad at you I was not trying to tear you down The words that I could've used I was too scared to say out loud If I cannot break your fall I'll pick you up right off the ground If you felt invisible, I won't let you feel that now [Hook] Invisible What do you think about the song? How does it compare to the rest of One More Light so far for you?

Linkin Park takes the third show out of four on the current South American Tour north to Lima, Peru for their first show ever in the country. After headlining Maximus Festival in Buenos Aires on May 6th and Santiago's Movistar Arena on the 9th, another headlining show on the western side of South America is scheduled as the band breaks new ground on the continent. In Lima, Linkin Park will perform at Estadio Nacional, a large stadium. Over 30,000 people are expected at the show. Their return to Lima has been highly anticipated... Linkin Park sold over 20,000 tickets in the FIRST DAY of ticket sales for this show. The entire show sold out in less than a week, so promoters had to scramble to release more tickets. In mid-March, they found a solution by opening up other parts of the venue. This is likely a city the band could perform two nights in, similar to Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, London, Sydney, and Melbourne, but there unfortunately wasn't enough time on the tour to add another show in. By visiting Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, Linkin Park will perform in four South American countries on this tour - the most they've ever visited in one tour on the continent. Hopefully the large crowds will get the band to return in the near future. So to recap the (short) tour so far, there have been two different shows. The first was a festival setlist of 90 minutes in Buenos Aires which featured a Fallout (w/ Roads Untraveled) > Catalyst opener along with public full band debuts of Talking To Myself, Good Goodbye, and Battle Symphony. Even with the instrumental of the show intro being Fallout, it's interesting to note that this is another occasion of a Living Things song (Roads Untraveled), partial or not, opening a show, as we've seen Tinfoil, Lost In The Echo, and Burn It Down all in the starting spots. In Santiago, Linkin Park revealed their full headlining setlist and as expected, added a few songs to the setlist. The set is now 25 songs long and has songs from every album included. The two biggest surprises of the show were the live debuts for Invisible and One More Light. Thanks to technology, you can watch the entire show from Chile below: Now we know you're going to say, oh but LPLive they already played Invisible and One More Light before this show. Yes, you're right. Invisible received its true live debut at The Late Late Show with James Corden back in February. Less than 10 LPU members were in attendance and phones were not allowed out, so a recording never became available. We will see if Linkin Park ends up releasing the footage of that song sometime soon. And on March 6th, Brad, Chester, and Mike performed "stripped down" at Warner Bros. HQ in Burbank, CA with Talking To Myself, One More Light, and Heavy. A few short clips of those songs got out to fans online, but the South American performances of Talking To Myself, Invisible, and One More Light were truly their public live debuts in front of concert crowds. Along with the headlining setlist, the band changed the start of the show and elected to open with Fallout, Talking To Myself, and Burn It Down. This is the first time a song from One More Light has opened a show. It's unknown whether the festival setlist (90 mins) will continue to keep The Catalyst and Wastelands at the start or if this was truly a change for both the festival and headlining sets. The three additions to the set were the two new songs Invisible and One More Light, but also Waiting For The End from A Thousand Suns. Since Mike's "solo" spot in the setlist that he had in 2014 and 2015 is gone, he has introduced a brand new intro to Waiting For The End. The intro features Remember The Name starting acapella, then continuing through Remember The Name's strings sample, with the Waiting For The End beat being thrown over it. Not bad. This also marks the fifth and sixth songs from the new album to be performed live. After promoting Living Things and The Hunting Party as both being albums that were "meant to be played live", the band ended up only adding half of the album (or less) into the setlists for those world tours. And sometimes it took quite a few tours to get new songs debuted...... like A Line In The Sand. Right now, they have already added in six songs from the new album (Heavy, Battle Symphony, Good Goodbye, Talking To Myself, Invisible, and One More Light). Maybe more are on the way once the touring gets going? Six is the most from one album at once by the band to start the touring cycle since the A Thousand Suns era in 2010. After the Lima performance, the band will head to São Paulo, Brazil where they will close the short four date South American Tour by headlining Maximus Festival Brazil. They won't stop there as the promotion for the album kicks off shortly after and includes appearances at Jimmy Kimmel Live on May 18th as well as at an intimate show in Las Vegas on May 19th. The full 2017 tour schedule can be found here. UPDATE: The promoter has posted that the show is now sold out for the second time! Along with the announcement, the promoter also confirms that Linkin Park will be donating $1 from every ticket sold to Save The Children Peru, specifically for Piura's flooding victims. There aren't many shows in the band's career where they've brought 30,000~ fans to one individual show. LPLive hasn't kept up with attendance numbers over the years as they are so hard to verify and take a lot of research...hours that we'd rather spend on other areas of the site. For a while, there weren't many to count but as the band has started headlining stadiums later into their career there are quite a few! Obvious ones include Cape Town and Johannesburg 2012...the latter reporting over 65,000 fans. Insane. But those are outliers...let's look at more reasonable numbers around 30k. The Hunting Party World Tour is described by the band as their "biggest" world tour and since they obviously aren't talking about the number of shows, they must be talking about attendance numbers or money. Remember we're talking about non-festival shows. The soccer stadium show in Berlin in 2015 brought 40,000~ fans. Just before that, the China Stadium Tour brought crazy numbers... 66,000~ in Beijing, 58,000~ in Chongqing, and 57,000~ in Nanjing for example. To start the touring cycle in 2014, Poland stepped up with a massive 41,000~ in Wrocław. Before that world tour, we had standout shows like Taipei 2007 (40,000~) and Stuttgart 2009 (30,000~). Looking at South America, everyone knows about Chimera 2004's festival but in 2012, Linkin Park brought 27,000~ to a headlining outdoor show in São Paulo. This show in Lima could go down as the largest Linkin Park headlining show in South America in their career. That isn't a huge sample size since this is only the band's fourteenth show in their career on the continent. But as many people argue that Linkin Park's popularity is dwindling, they are actually selling more tickets at this point in their career than ever before. We saw incredible attendance records on consecutive world tours for Living Things and The Hunting Party, and things are starting off with a bang on this world tour with Lima. On the upcoming European Tour, LP elected to play mostly festivals and arenas and excluded headlining stadiums on their own outside of the festival circuit (likely because the festival payouts are larger monetary guarantees...just our guess). There are two shows we'll keep an eye out for in July and August. The Citi Field and Hersheypark Stadium shows on the North American Tour have the potential to bring the largest headlining U.S. crowds in the band's career. We all remember Carson 2012, of which Billboard says, "The concert on September 8 at the Los Angeles-area venue grossed $1.7 million from a sellout crowd of 24,936. The tour wrapped two days later in San Diego with final overall counts topping $11.2 million in ticket sales from 16 performances." We could see the attendance number easily topped since one of the shows is in New York, but the gross $1.7 million might also be topped. We will see!

Yesterday, presales launched for Linkin Park's first North American Tour in three years. The band did something different than usual, by partnering with Ticketmaster for a "#VerifiedFan" presale. Announcing the tour, they said, "Get ready for the summer 2017 #OneMoreLight North American Tour (announcing soon). We want tickets to get in the hands of real fans, not scalpers or bots, so register for our #VerifiedFan pre-sale powered by Ticketmaster and stay tuned for a full announcement. All fans, including LPU members, need to register in order to get access to pre-sale tickets. If you are an LPU member, you will receive another email with more details." Everyone, including LPU members, were to sign up for the presale. To gain a better spot in line, fans were to purchase as many copies of the new album as possible and were to socially engage the tour by blasting tweets and Facebook posts about it on their social media accounts. Not only that, but they were to buy copies of One More Light. As you would expect, fans ran out to buy a lot of copies of the album... to "get a better spot in line" to buy tickets before other fans. However, problems started occurring the day before the show. 1. Changing par with previous tours, the LP Underground was not given priority as assumed in the presales. At first, LPU members were indeed set to go in the first two presale groups. Ticketmaster started changing what "spot" in line people were (meaning which group they were in) the day before the show, with some LPU members today reporting to us that they were in groups 3 and 4 instead of groups 1 and 2 - set to gain access to tickets hours after non-fanclub members. 2. However, the entire "grouping" scenario was thrown out the window as soon as the presales began. In an essential "free for all", any fan who had signed up for the presales at any time was given access to the tickets starting at 1:00pm when group 1 was supposed to go. This resulted in mass numbers of fans attempting to buy tickets at once and of course pit tickets, etc for some shows were gone almost instantly. Were there "drops" of tickets continually each hour throughout the presale? No one is sure. Some fans even had their accounts bumped from their spot in line all the way to the end, and the company responsible was not available for assistance. This was done by Ticketmaster/Strobe to try to weed out potential scalpers or fake accounts. The problem? It ended up weeding out fans who had done a lot of social engagement and friend/family referrals to get a better spot in line. Or worse, people who had purchased the album many times. 3. Ticket limits (4) were suddenly changed to 2 tickets per person per show as soon as the presale began, with no explanation. 4. Presale codes meant to used for "one city only" on the tour were available to use for any show on the tour and could be shared amongst friends. In summary, the presale was poorly managed (and advertised) by Ticketmaster. In the past, the LPU has been given access to tickets first via a code usually redeemed on Ticketmaster. However, problems of course can result from that as codes can be shared. Do we have a solution? No - but that was obviously a more effective system than an essential "free for all" that resulted on Ticketmaster yesterday. The band itself is not to blame here as they don't run their own presales and usually have a third party handle them, but Linkin Park is going to have to work to find ways to improve the presale experience for fans. The system yesterday did not prioritize fanclub members, falsely promoted a "grouping" scenario, and falsely promoted a "ticket limit" and "one city only" code limit. Hopefully future Linkin Park presales stay away from Ticketmaster as Ticketmaster has been and continues to be part of the problem.

You can share the M&G pass, they verify the members in attendance. Full show:

I like OML a lot.

They'll probably drop it as soon as it debuts on radio. 9am PST.

I am surprised that they didn't debut another THP song. Mike said "maybe next touring cycle" when they were touring for THP and fans asked about more new songs being performed live from the album. The comment reminded me of Robot Boy when he brought it out during THP cycle. Now Roads Untraveled makes an appearance to open the show, LOL

For once I agree with you. I don't think I've ever disliked an opener before in any era but alas, we're here.

Coming any minute.

Invisible live debut. Now Remember The Name > WFTE. Wow.

Ahead of its release on May 10th, Linkin Park has debuted 'Invisible' in Santiago, Chile followed by 'One More Light' later in the set. This is the public live debut of 'Invisible'. In February, the band performed it at the James Corden TV filming but only a few LPU members were in attendance. Already, these are the fifth and sixth live songs to be played from One More Light following Heavy, Battle Symphony, Good Goodbye, and Talking To Myself. Before 'One More Light', Mike introduced the song as, "this is a song that moved everyone in the band." Thoughts?

Catalyst is a more iconic opener to me than a 3 min poppy song. I think it takes away from the whole Fallout > Catalyst thing. Lmao the thing I liked the most about Buenos Aires was the show opener.

Oh wow.

Very strange. It's just over half as amphitheatres. If it was over half as arenas then we'd be seeing some canceled shows

I agree.

Mike sings Invisible. There's nothing confusing about it. There are two singles from the album. Just because Good Goodbye had a video doesn't mean it's a single, or that it got a huge radio push. Sure, some radio stations played it because it was the next "drop" before the album.

Good Goodbye has a 99% chance of being a single later on for the album. We have confirmed with LP mgmt that Good Goodbye is not a single from the album right now and Invisible is the second single. Good Goodbye was not sent to radio at all, whatsoever. Invisible will be getting a radio push like Heavy.