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Simon Young

"The song is about escape." A seventh Linkin Park song has achieved over one billion streams on Spotify

Linkin Park during "The Matrix Reloaded" Premiere - Black Carpet at Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.

Linkin Park's Somewhere I Belong has been streamed one billion times on Spotify.

The 2003 single, which is taken from their second studio album Meteora, passed the 10-digit mark this week. It's the seventh song recorded by the Californian sextet to earn over a billion listens on the streaming platform. It joins In The End, Numb, Faint, What I've Done, One Step Closer, and their Jay-Z collaboration Numb/Encore.

Over 1000 songs on Spotify have passed the billion mark, with The Weeknd leading with 28 songs. Drake and Bad Bunny are second and third place, with 23 and 22 songs respectively.

Crawling and Bleeding Out look set to be the next two Linkin Park songs to join the elite Billions Club, with streams currently over the 900 million mark.

The video for Somewhere I Belong was directed by the band's turntablist Joe Hahn, and was awarded Best Rock Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2003.

In a post on the band's official website, guitarist Brad Delson updated fans with an explanation of the video's concept and the meaning behind the song.

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