Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 62/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | mixed |
| Blender | |
| E! Online | A |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Sputnikmusic | 2.5/5 |
| Yahoo! Music UK | |
In its first week it sold an estimated 810,000 units. It sold 5,913,000 copies in the US alone and over 11 million copies worldwide as of 2007. The album was ranked number 36 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade. As of February 2012, Meteora has sold over 16 million copies worldwide.
Meteora received favorable reviews, although critics noted that the album's musical style was similar to its predecessor, Hybrid Theory (2000). The overall Metacritic score is 62. E! Online rated it an A, and expected it to "shoot straight for the stars". Entertainment Weekly described it as "radio-friendly perfection". Dot Music described it as a "guaranteed source of ubiquitous radio hits". Rolling Stone said the band "squeezed the last remaining life out of this nearly extinct formula". Billboard Magazine described Meteora as "a ready-made crowdpleaser". The New Musical Express said it had "massive commercial appeal" but left the reviewer "underwhelmed". Allmusic described it as "nothing more and nothing less than Hybrid Theory Part 2". Blender described it as "harder, denser, uglier", while Q described it as "less an artistic endeavor than an exercise in target marketing."
The song, "Session" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2003.
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