Living Things Songwriting Credits by Linkin Park

Living Things is the fifth studio album by Linkin Park, released in June 2012 on Warner Bros./Machine Shop Records and produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, a partial retreat from the experimental territory of A Thousand Suns toward the more accessible rock-electronic synthesis of the first two albums, and the album that most successfully balanced the band's dual commercial and artistic aspirations. Bennington and Shinoda co-wrote all material; 'Burn It Down,' 'Lost in the Echo,' and 'Castle of Glass' were the principal singles, all reflecting a more melodically direct approach than A Thousand Suns while maintaining more production ambition than Minutes to Midnight. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 with 163,000 first-week sales and has been certified platinum in the United States; 'Burn It Down' spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. Living Things is generally regarded as the best balance of the band's competing commercial and experimental impulses from their post-Meteora period, though it did not recapture the commercial dominance of the first two albums.