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| Single by Linkin Park from the album Meteora |
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| Released | October 14, 2003 | |||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||
| Recorded | 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana | |||||||||
| Genre | Nu metal Alternative rock |
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| Length | 3:07 | |||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Linkin Park | |||||||||
| Producer | Don Gilmore | |||||||||
| Certification | Gold (RIAA) | |||||||||
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"Numb" is the thirteenth and final song on the 2003 album Meteora by the rock band Linkin Park, and is also the album's third single. "Numb" topped the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 6 weeks in 2003 and 6 weeks in 2004, making it the only song in history to be the most successful song of the year on the chart for 2 years.
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Music video
Directed by Joe Hahn, the indoor scenes of the video are set in a church in Los Angeles, while the outdoor scenes are set in Prague, the Czech Republic. The school interiors, the classroom, the corridor and the outside playground are set in the Johannes Kepler's Gymnasium in Prague.
The music video follows the domestic and social problems faced during a day in the life of a young (portrayed by Briana Evigan), unpopular female student. The girl apparently spends much of her time drawing pictures, revealing that she probably has dreams of becoming an artist. She is largely ignored and ridiculed at school, considering that when she is told off by the teacher for drawing in class everybody laughs at her, when she trips on the stairs nobody stops to help her up, and that when she tries to join a group of girls at a lunch table they immediately get up and leave. Also, there is a scene where her mother is ridiculing her for not being the daughter she wanted. There are also self-inflicted cut marks on her arms, which actually say "NUMB" - the title of the song. She is shown near the end of the video rubbing the marks after a stressful day, and then deciding to work off her stress by throwing paint instead. At the end of the video, the girl runs into the church that the band was singing in, almost as if she heard them.
Throughout almost the whole video Chester Bennington has his eyes closed, they can just be seen open when he blinks as he sings the word: "Tightly" from the second verse starting: "Can't you see you're smothering me?"
MuchMusic's 100 Best Videos ranked it at #40.
Song Information
The track became one of Linkin Park's most critically-acclaimed songs, as well as one of their most commercially successful, peaking at #11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on February 24, 2004 and topping Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. It was also successful in Oceania, peaking at #10 in Australia and #13 in New Zealand.
Track listing
Numb Pt. 1
All songs written and composed by Linkin Park.
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Numb" | 3:06 |
| 2. | "From the Inside" (Live) | 3:57 |
| 3. | "Numb" (Video) | 3:06 |
Numb Pt. 2
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Numb" | 3:06 |
| 2. | "Easier to Run" (Live) | 3:22 |
| 3. | "Faint" (Video) | 2:56 |
Chart positions
| Chart (2004) | Peak position |
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| Australian ARIA Singles Chart | 10 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 2 |
| Belgian Singles Chart | 48 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 2 |
| Eurochart Hot 100 | 14 |
| France Singles Chart | 19 |
| German Singles Chart | 19 |
| Greek Singles Chart | 1 |
| Italian Singles Chart | 47 |
| Ireland Singles Chart | 16 |
| New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 13 |
| Portugal Top 20 | 5 |
| Sweden Singles Chart | 23 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 15 |
| U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 5 |
| U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 | 5 |
| U.S. Hot Modern Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 11 |
| Chart (2008) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 71 |
| U.S. Billboard Pop 100 | 24 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Top 40 | 13 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Digital Songs | 30 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 99 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 19 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 95 |
| Canadian Hot 100 | 30 |
| Preceded by "So Far Away" by Staind |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single November 22, 2003 |
Succeeded by "Hit That" by The Offspring |
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