What I’ve Done
Vorlage:CurrentSingles Vorlage:Infobox Single "What I've Done" is the lead single from Linkin Park's third album Minutes to Midnight. It had its first radio play on April 1, 2007, and was digitally released on April 2, 2007. The CD Single was released on April 30 2007.
Background information
Chester Bennington described the track in a March 2007 interview with MTV:
The single and video appeared in the iTunes Store shortly after midnight EST on April 2, 2007.[1] It became available the day after on iTunes in the UK and Australia. On April 2nd, the song was featured streaming on the front page of their official website, with the video being added to the site shortly thereafter. This song differs from most of Linkin Park's previously released songs in that it features almost no lead vocals from vocalist Mike Shinoda (except Breaking the Habit), save for a brief refrain at the end and contributing harmonies throughout - in that respect, this is the first that fans have heard of Mike Shinoda singing on a Linkin Park recording. These facts runs in harmony with the fact that the band has changed much of their sound with the new album. The song begins as a transition from Shadow of the Day, signified by the first 2 seconds of it. This song in particular is not as harsh as in Chester's vocals, compared to their other work on previous albums. "What I've Done" is the last song that was written for Minutes to Midnight.[2] It can also be heard at the beginning of the newest trailer of Transformers. Not surprisingly, it has been featured on the official soundtrack.
Track listings
CD 1 Track Listing
- What I've Done - 3:29
- Faint (Live) - 2:45
CD 2 Track Listing
- What I've Done - 3:29
- Faint (Live) - 2:45
- From the Inside (Live) - 3:28
DVD Version Track Listing
- What I've Done (Video) - 3:29
- Faint (Live) (Video) - 2:45
All of the live tracks on this CD were recorded at the Chiba Marine stadium in Tokyo, Japan on August 13, 2006 at the Summer Sonic Festival.
Music video
DJ Joe Hahn of the band directed the video for the single, which was shot in the California desert.[3] The video premiered on April 2, 2007 on MTV and Fuse. It premiered on MTV-Asia, MTV-Germany, and Canada's MuchMusic on April 3, 2007. It features footage of the band performing in the desert, intersperced with stock footage reflecting on a variety of social and environmental issues including pollution, global warming, racism, Nazism, famine, terrorism, wars, deforestation, drug addiction, abortion, obesity, destruction, rising gasoline prices and other crimes committed by humanity. The video also features short views of important historical figures, such as Mother Teresa, Buddha, Abraham Lincoln, Robert Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Mahatma Gandhi. The video is available for public viewing via the band's YouTube Account.[4] The video clip was featured and won on MTV's Battle of the Videos against videos by Evanescence and Lil' Mama.[5] The video also marks the first appearance of a Linkin Park video in the #1 spot on MTV's TRL, hitting #1 six times so far. AOL currently has a live performance of "What I've Done" on their website.[6] It is interesting to note that when the band's logo is shown for the first time in the video (on the front of Rob's drum), it features a complete circle with the stylized letters "LP" within it. However, every time the logo is shown after this, the circle is not complete, being "separated" by two blank spaces above the "L" and below the "P". This is explained in "Making of What I've Done", where the band shows the original drums that were wrongly made, and that they had to use black tape to make the breaks in the circle.
Notable clips from the video
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- Adolf Hitler
- A Bald Eagle
- An Anorexic woman
- Agia Sofia
- Parthenon
- Buddha
- Fidel Castro
- Palestinian child
- Citizens of the world's least developed countries
- A civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama
- The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Auschwitz concentration camp
- Saddam Hussein
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Ku Klux Klan
- Lincoln Memorial
- Sultan Ahmed Mosque
- Benito Mussolini
- Victims being carried from the Oklahoma City Bombing
- Pollution and global warming clips
- The September 11 terror attacks
- Joseph Stalin
- Mother Teresa
- The Vitruvian Man
- Mao Zedong
- Poaching
- Stonehenge
- Trinity Test
- Various clips from the Second Gulf War
Chart performance
The song made big debuts on the US charts during the chart week of April 21, 2007. The song debuted in the top 10 of the US Hot 100, at #7. It is by far the band's highest debut to date on the chart (this title was previously held by "Somewhere I Belong" which opened at #47), earning "Hot Shot" debut of the week, and subsequently becoming the second highest position for a Linkin Park single to date on the Hot 100. It is also only the eleventh song since 2000 to debut at #7 or higher on the Hot 100, and only the third song to do so by an artist not from American Idol.[7] The song was partly fueled by digital sales, debuting at #4 on the digital chart. In addition the song became only the third song ever to open at #1 on the Modern Rock chart, also becoming the band's seventh number one on the chart. In the iTunes music store the song had reached number two. It was kept out of the top spot by "Give It To Me" by Timbaland. The music video is the first to reach the number 1 spot on TRL for Linkin Park video history. It has also become a moderate hit on the Adult Top 40, and Pop 100 Airplay charts, so far peaking at number 24 on both charts.
In the UK the song hit #6 once the physical format was released, making it Linkin Park's highest-charting UK single.
References
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| Chart | Peak position |
Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARIA Chart Singles | 13 | French Download Chart | 20 |
| Billboard Hot 100 | 7 | German Singles Chart | 4 |
| Billboard Pop 100 | 8 | German Download Chart | 4 |
| Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 1 (11) | Ireland | 17 |
| Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 1 (8) | Norwegian Singles Chart | 15 |
| Brazil | 4 | Polish Singles Chart Top 50 | 3 |
| Czech Republic | 80 | Chile Top 100 Singles | 70 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 40 | UK Singles Chart | 6 |
| Dutch Top 100 Singles | 96 | United World Chart | 7 |
| Latvian Airplay Top | 5 | New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart | 9 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 8 | Swiss Singles Chart | 6 |
| Israel | 3 | ||
| Italy | 1 | MuchMusic (Canada) Singles Chart | 3 |
- ↑ What I've Done on iTunes
- ↑ LP Times reports on "What I've Done".
- ↑ Clock Strikes 'Midnight' For New Linkin Park Album. Billboard, 6. März 2007.
- ↑ Official Music Video.
- ↑ "What I've Done" wins MTV Battle Of the Videos.
- ↑ "What I've Done" live on AOL.
- ↑ http://billboard.com/bbcom/chart_beat/bonus.jsp Billboard.com Retireved on 05-27-07