Linkin Park’s Earl-Career Smash Reaches A Decade As A Bestseller

BusinessHollywood & EntertainmentLinkin Park’s Earl-Career Smash Reaches A Decade As A BestsellerByHugh McIntyre,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.Follow AuthorMay 08, 2026, 10:00am EDT"What I've Done" becomes Linkin Park's second song to spend 520 weeks, a full decade, on the U.K.'s Official Rock and Metal Singles chart following "Numb." Linkin Park backstage at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, held at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center in New York City, 9/6/01. Photo by Evan Agostini/ImageDirect.Getty ImagesIn the United Kingdom, there are a handful of charts that are focused on the bestselling songs in sometimes one genre and in other cases multiple related styles. It’s not unusual for the same singles to hold on those lists for months, if not years, at a time, and some of the biggest tracks in hip-hop or rock can continue to perform well enough to appear for incredible lengths of time. Linkin Park is often one of the most successful acts on the Official Rock and Metal Singles chart. The nu metal and hard rock group usually claims several slots at once, and a handful of tunes by the Grammy winners have racked up hundreds of stays on those lists. This time around, one of Linkin Park’s biggest smashes reaches a very rarely-seen milestone – one which the band has only reached once before.Linkin Park’s “What I’ve Done” Hits a Decade as a Bestseller“What I’ve Done” declines slightly on the Official Rock and Metal Singles chart this week, slipping from No. 21 to No. 23. As it holds on, the cut reaches 520 frames, or exactly a decade, as one of the 40 bestselling rock, hard rock, or metal tracks throughout the U.K.“Numb” Remains the Band’s Longest-Running HitFor most acts, keeping any song on any list for a decade would be a once-in-a-lifetime showing, but Linkin Park has managed the feat before. “Numb” r...