New Divide
Linkin Park | Artist Essentials
First released: 2009 (year verified)
Original 2009 studio recording
MusicAtlas editorial note: The repeated instrumental figure and long vocal lines give the chorus a particularly open shape.
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Release evidence and recording details
First released: 2009 (year verified)
The original band studio recording was publicly issued in 2009, including the original single release. Its associated album does not supply an assumed exact first-release day; later live, remix and alternate presentations are distinct.
Recording: Original 2009 studio recording
Credit: Linkin Park
Role in this collection: Primary artist
Original single: New Divide
Paramount Pictures - New Divide original film association
The May 2011 release issued by Paramount Pictures explicitly identifies New Divide as the song from the 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen film. Its discussion of a separate 2011 concert is not evidence for the selected original studio performance. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Linkin Park - public distributor recording metadata
Actually retrieved public JSON identifies original tracks and release years: What I've Done 2007, Waiting for the End 2010, Burn It Down 2012, Final Masquerade 2014 and New Divide 2009. The New Divide collection January 1 placeholder is not used; the track metadata and Paramount independently support 2009. This Minutes to Midnight edition marks Bleed It Out cleaned and is not used for that selected explicit version. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
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The retained note explicitly identifies the 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen song. Paramount and the original track metadata support that studio single; the separately discussed 2011 concert is not joined.
Paramount Pictures - New Divide original film association
The May 2011 release issued by Paramount Pictures explicitly identifies New Divide as the song from the 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen film. Its discussion of a separate 2011 concert is not evidence for the selected original studio performance. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Linkin Park - public distributor recording metadata
Actually retrieved public JSON identifies original tracks and release years: What I've Done 2007, Waiting for the End 2010, Burn It Down 2012, Final Masquerade 2014 and New Divide 2009. The New Divide collection January 1 placeholder is not used; the track metadata and Paramount independently support 2009. This Minutes to Midnight edition marks Bleed It Out cleaned and is not used for that selected explicit version. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About Linkin Park
Linkin Park developed under the earlier names Xero and Hybrid Theory before releasing the album Hybrid Theory in 2000. The lineup associated with that debut included Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington, whose performances helped establish songs such as One Step Closer, Crawling and In the End. Later projects ranged from Meteora to A Thousand Suns and One More Light. After Bennington's death in 2017 and an extended pause, the band returned with From Zero, introducing Emily Armstrong and Colin Brittain in a new recording phase.
Artist background sources
Linkin Park: official band biography
Supports early names, 2000 debut era, named catalog and historically dated From Zero return; lineup descriptions are scoped to eras and no current membership list is asserted. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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