The single and video appeared in the iTunes Store shortly after midnight EST on April 2, 2007. So, in a way, it's us saying goodbye to how we used to be.The lyrics in the first verse are 'In this farewell, there's no blood, there's no alibi,' and right away, you'll notice that the band sounds different: The drums are much more raw, the guitars are more raw and the vocals aren't tripled. Joe came up to Mike and I and asked us to take the whole idea of Minutes to Midnight and apply that to how the band has changed. An instrumental version of the song is currently used by Sky UK as background music for their interactive services.Ĭhester Bennington described the track in a March 2007 interview with MTV: The song is also a B-side to the UK single of " Iridescent". In January 2011, it was released in a Linkin Park DLC pack for Rock Band 3. "What I've Done" was featured in the video game Guitar Hero World Tour. Being certified six times platinum by the RIAA, it is the band's most commercially successful single in terms of pure sales, and reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also serves as the main theme of the 2007 science fiction film Transformers and also appears on Transformers: The Album (2007). The live version of "What I've Done" from Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards, but did not win.
The song was released as a radio single on April 1, 2007, as a digital download on April 2, and as a CD single on April 30. It was released as the first single from their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight (2007), and is the sixth track. " What I've Done" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park.