Faint (song)

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Faint (song)

"Faint" is a nu metal

Nu metal

Nu metal is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music that emerged in the mid-1990s which combines grunge music, alternative rock, and alternative metal with hip hop music and various list of heavy metal genres, such as funk metal, rap metal, groove metal and thrash metal....
song written by Linkin Park

Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
from their second studio album Meteora
Meteora (album)

Meteora is the second studio album by nu metal band Linkin Park, first released on March 25, 2003. Following the collaboration album Reanimation which featured remixes of their debut album Hybrid Theory....
(2003).

The song was released as the album's second single

Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
in late-2003 (see 2003 in music

2003 in music

See also:* 2003 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2003...
) and entered the top thirty on the majority of the chart

Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
s it appeared on, including the Hot 100, in which it reached #48 on August 26, 2003. The song reached #1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks

Modern Rock Tracks

Hot Modern Rock Tracks is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the forty most-played songs on modern rock radios, most of which are alternative rock songs....
, becoming the band's third number-one hit on the chart.

song was released as two singles, "Faint 1" and "Faint 2", they differed in cover color and tracks ("Faint 1" is blue

Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
, and "Faint 2" is a brownish green).

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"Faint" is a nu metal

Nu metal

Linkin Park

Single (music)

2003 in music

See also:* 2003 in music * :Category:Record labels established in 2003...
) and entered the top thirty on the majority of the chart

Record chart

Modern Rock Tracks

Single

This song was released as two singles, "Faint 1" and "Faint 2", they differed in cover color and tracks ("Faint 1" is blue

Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
, and "Faint 2" is a brownish green). "Faint 1" was also released as a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
version that had the tracks, but did not include the music video

Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
. The cover of "Pt. 1" is shown on the right. On "Pt. 1", the track listing states the live version of "Lying from You" is 3:43 in length, however it is actually 3:04. This is most likely a mix up with the "Pt. 2" in which the live version of "One Step Closer" is 3:43 in length.

It was also used in a popular mashup

Mashup

Mashup may refer to:*Mashup , a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work....
with Paramore's

Paramore

Paramore is an American Rock music band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Taylor York , Jeremy Davis , and Zac Farro ....
"crushcrushcrush

Crushcrushcrush

"Crushcrushcrush" is the third single from Paramore's second album Riot!. The official music video premiered on Total Request Live on October 11, 2007....
" by UnforgettableSound titled "crushcrushfaint".

Track listing

Pt. 1

Pt. 2

Music video

The video, directed by Mark Romanek

Mark Romanek

Mark Romanek is an award-winning United States music video film director who has also moved into directing theatrical films....
and shot in downtown LA

Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, consists of the band performing in front of an audience and a floodlight

Floodlight

A floodlight is an artificial light providing even illumination across a wide area.* High-intensity discharge lamp, the class of lamp itself* Stage lighting instrument#Floodlights, the types associated with Stage productions...
. The audience consisted of members from the LPU. Almost the entire video is shot from behind the band, allowing the strong lighting to portray them in silhouette

Silhouette

A silhouette is a view of an object or scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black....
s. Therefore, the faces of the band are not shown throughout most of the video, except at the final chorus where the band is then shown from the front. They perform in front of a derelict building structure with graffiti, such as a monstrous version of the Hybrid Theory Soldier and some Linkin Park symbols.

A director's cut was made that features an extended ending where Mike Shinoda

Mike Shinoda

Michael Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist from Agoura Hills, California. His father is a Japanese American, while his mother is of European and Indigenous peoples of the Americas descent....
spray paints the words En Proceso (Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
for In Progress) on a garage door.

Charts

Chart performance

"Faint" was officially released to U.S. radio on July 1, 2003. The song reached the top twenty on the Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay, and the following week it debuted on the Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
, the official U.S. chart. "Faint" peaked at number forty-eight in its eighth week and remained on the chart until its fifteenth week. The song entered the top twenty on the majority of the Billboard charts on which it appeared. While "In the End" proved somewhat popular on Modern Rock Tracks

Modern Rock Tracks

Hot Modern Rock Tracks is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the forty most-played songs on modern rock radios, most of which are alternative rock songs....
radio, it peaked at forty-eight on the Hot 100 Airplay

Hot 100 Airplay

The Hot 100 Airplay is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100....
format and reached the top five on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks

Mainstream Rock Tracks

Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music but are not modern rock stations, which are counted in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart....
.

"Faint" reached the top thirty on the Canadian Singles Chart where it peaked at 21.

The song was released in Australia

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
and New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
on July 22 2003. "Somewhere I Belong" reached the UK top ten, while "Faint" reached the top twenty. "Faint" continued the trend of lower-charting singles when it debuted and peaked at number fifteen. "Faint" peaked at number twenty-five on the Australian Singles Chart and stayed at its peak for two weeks.

"Faint" reached 67 on the Japanese singles chart and 57 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles

Eurochart Hot 100 Singles

The European Hot 100 Singles has been compiled by Billboard and Music & Media magazine since March, 1984. The chart is based on national singles sales charts in fifteen European countries: Austria, Belgium , Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, a...
and it would also peak at forty in seven countries and it reach the top twenty in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
, it was a moderate top ten success on the LAUNCH Music Videos Top 100.

Chart Positions

Chart (2003)	Peak position	Ref.
Australia Singles Chart	25
Austria Singles Chart	27
Belgium Singles Chart	44
Germany Singles Chart	40
Ireland Singles Chart	26
Netherlands Singles Chart	40
Sweden Singles Chart	49
Switzerland Singles Chart	32
United Kingdom Singles Chart	15
Japanese Singles Chart	67
Eurochart Hot 100 Singles	57
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....	48
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks Modern Rock Tracks Hot Modern Rock Tracks is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the forty most-played songs on modern rock radios, most of which are alternative rock songs....	1
U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music but are not modern rock stations, which are counted in the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart....	2
U.S. Hot 100 Airplay Hot 100 Airplay The Hot 100 Airplay is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It measures radio airplay, and is one of the three component charts, along with the Hot 100 Singles Sales and the Hot Digital Songs charts, that determine the chart positions of singles on the Billboard Hot 100....	48
U.S. Hot 100 Recurrent Airplay	24
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....	15

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