Linkin Park carried out their single “The Vacancy Machine” from their newest album, From Zero, the band’s first with out late lead singer Chester Bennington, on the 2024 Billboard Music Awards.
Pretaped from their Nov. 15 present in São Paulo, Mike Shinoda and new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong shared an lively duet that closed out the awards ceremony. That is one in every of Linkin Park’s first awards present performances with Armstrong. The brand new iteration of the band beforehand carried out on the NRJ Music Awards in November.
The Billboard Music Awards ceremony additionally included performances from Coldplay, Fuerza Regida, Jelly Roll, Megan Moroney, Teddy Swims, Tyla, Seventeen, Shaboozey and Stray Youngsters.
Linkin Park was up for 5 Billboard awards and received high rock duo/group and high onerous rock artist.
The choice to proceed the group with out Bennington was introduced in early September by Shinoda. “It is a very special occasion for us,” Shinoda advised followers throughout a livestream. “Within the position of Chester Bennington, this afternoon is every of you.”
Changing Bennington, who died by suicide in 2017 following the discharge of Linkin Park’s album One Extra Mild, was met with criticism from Bennington’s son Jaime and a few followers, partly as a consequence of Armstrong’s ties to the Church of Scientology and her friendship with Danny Masterson, who was convicted of raping two ladies.
In an Instagram Story shared days after the information of Armstrong’s addition was introduced by the band, Jaime known as out Shinoda for what he stated was erasing his “father’s life and legacy in actual time” and hiring his “pal of a few years” to step in rather than the late musician “realizing Emily’s historical past within the church and her historical past as an ally” to Masterson.
Two days earlier than Jaime’s remark, Armstrong had launched an announcement on social media expressing her remorse over supporting Masterson. “A number of years in the past, I used to be requested to help somebody I thought-about a pal at a courtroom look and went to at least one early listening to as an observer,” she wrote. “Quickly after, I spotted that I shouldn’t have. I at all times attempt to see good in individuals, and I misjudged him. I’ve by no means spoken with him since. Unimaginable particulars emerged and he was later discovered responsible.”
Billboard Music Awards producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a three way partnership between Penske Media Company and Eldridge that additionally owns The Hollywood Reporter.
