Linkin Park‘s music saw a 730% spike in streaming on July 20th—the day of vocalist Chester Bennington‘s death, according to data recorded by Nielsen Music. Bennington of course sadly took his own life on that day at the age of 41.
According to Nielsen Music‘s data (via Billboard.com) the band’s material jumped to 12.6 million on-demand audio streams on July 20th compared to 1.5 million a day prior. The most popular streamed songs on July 20th included:
“In The End” 923,000 on-demand audio streams
“Numb” 740,000
“Heavy” (feat. Kiiara) 684,000
“One Step Closer” 480,000
“Crawling” 439,000
“What I’ve Done” 420,000
“Papercut” 412,000
“Somewhere I Belong” 394,000
“Numb/Encore” (feat. Jay-Z) 356,000
“Bleed It Out,” 350,000
Album sales also grew 5,332 percent on the same day, with songs and albums amassing 111,000 copies on July 20th alone.
