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Minutes to Midnight is het derde studioalbum van rockband Linkin Park. Het is geproduceerd door Rick Rubin en Mike Shinoda en werd in 2007 uitgebracht onder het Warner Bros.-label.

Het album kwam op verschillende data in de eerste helft van mei 2007 uit. Het is het eerste studioalbum van de band na een relatieve rustperiode van twee jaar. Het album debuteerde op de tweede plek in Nederland en op de zevende plek in Vlaanderen van de desbetreffende albumlijsten. Het bereikte in de Verenigde Staten de dubbele platina status, waar het op de eerste positie van de albumlijst debuteerde.

De band verlaat op het album het nu-metalgenre dat op de vorige albums prominent was. Daarnaast probeerde de band te experimenteren met andere muzikale vormen en stijlen. Rapper Mike Shinoda is minder op de voorgrond te horen door zijn betrokkenheid als producer. Van het album werden in een tijdsbestek van vijftien maanden vijf singles uitgebracht, waarvan de eerste, What I've Done, het best presteerde in de hitlijsten. Andere singles waren Bleed It Out, Shadow of the Day, Given Up en Leave Out All the Rest. Het album werd door critici gemengd ontvangen en was commercieel minder succesvol.

Minutes to Midnight is the third studio album by American rock band Linkin Park, released on May 14, 2007, through Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin; it is Linkin Park's first studio album produced without Don Gilmore, who had produced the band's two previous albums. Minutes to Midnight is the band's follow-up album to Meteora (2003), and features a shift in the group's musical direction. For the band, the album marked a beginning of deviation from their signature nu metal sound. Minutes to Midnight takes its title from the Doomsday Clock symbol. It is also the band's first full-length album to carry a Parental Advisory label.

Linkin Park started working on their third studio album in 2003, taking a break to tour in support of Meteora in 2004. In this time period, the band formed numerous side projects; Mike Shinoda formed his hip hop side project Fort Minor, while Chester Bennington formed Dead by Sunrise, both of which caused the album to be shelved temporarily. The band returned to work on the record afterward, taking on a different musical direction from the 2003 sessions while working with producer Rick Rubin. The album's completion was delayed several times for unknown reasons. Eventually, "What I've Done" was released in April 2, 2007 as the album's lead single, with the full album being released in North America on May 15, 2007.

The album debuted at number one in the US Billboard 200 and in 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom and Canada. In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 623,000 albums sold, going on to be certified five times platinum in the US. It has sold more than four million copies in the US. It was ranked number 154 on Billboard's Hot 200 Albums of the Decade. Despite its commercial success, Minutes to Midnight received mixed reviews from critics. Rolling Stone magazine, however, named it the twenty-fifth best album of 2007.