Two weeks ago, Linkin Park fans had no clue if they would ever hear totally new music from the band again. This week, not only is the band back playing arena shows, but they also have a brand-new single — and it’s their highest-peaking Billboard Hot 100 hit in 15 years.

Linkin Park’s "The Emptiness Machine" immediately shoots to No. 1 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay chart after only a little more than one week of availability.

The song scores the biggest single-week streaming count for any hard rock song since 2018 and the largest for any newly released song in the genre.

It’s been a long road back for Linkin Park, one of the biggest bands of the 21st century. After lead singer Chester Bennington died by suicide in 2017, the alt-metal powerhouses that mixed hard rock with hip-hop went on an indefinite hiatus,

Linkin Park's “The Emptiness Machine” debuts at No. 1 on at least three charts in the U.K., bringing the band to the top spot on two of them for the first time.

At last night’s second stop on Linkin Park‘s limited world tour, the band changed just one of the 27 songs in the setlist. Linkin Park’s livestream concert on Sept. 5 debuted new singer Emily Armstrong as they played their first show since 2017’s tribute to the late Chester Bennington.