Numb / Encore

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"Numb/Encore"
Single by Jay-Z & Linkin Park
from the album Collision Course
Released	November 2004
Format	CD
Recorded	2004
Genre	Hip hop/Nu-metal
Length	3:25
Label	Warner Bros. Records / Roc-a-Fella Records
Producer(s)	Mike Shinoda
Chart positions
#3 (Australia) #1 (4 weeks) (Ireland) #14 (UK) #20 (US)
Jay-Z & Linkin Park singles chronology
"Big Chips" (Jay-Z) (2004) "Breaking the Habit" (Linkin Park) (2004)	"Numb/Encore" (2004)	"Déjà Vu" (Beyonce feat. Jay-Z) (2006) "N/A" (Linkin Park) (2006)

"Numb/Encore" is a Grammy Award-winning song by nu metal band Linkin Park and rapper Jay-Z from their 2004 mash-up album Collision Course.

It was also released as a single that year, combining the Jay-Z song "Encore" (taken from his 2003 album The Black Album) and the Linkin Park song "Numb" (taken from their 2003 album Meteora). It was the only single from Collision Course to become widespread.

In the UK Singles Chart, the single broke the record by staying the longest in the top 20 without ever reaching the top 10. The video for the mash-up was nominated for the MTV VMA Viewer's Choice award in late July 2005. "Numb/Encore" won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the Grammy Awards of 2006. The show featured a performance of the song, during which Paul McCartney made a surprise appearance and came onto the stage to perform a duet with Chester Bennington of The Beatles' song "Yesterday," which McCartney wrote. "Yesterday" replaced "Numb" after the first rap verse of the mash-up.

• Note: The vinyl record contains a "Parental Advisory" sticker.
• Note: The CD Single does not officially contain a "Parental Advisory" sticker, but in Europe it might contain the European equivalent "Warning" sticker, and some European imports to the U.S. contain a "Parental Advisory" sticker.

Contents 1 Tracklisting 1.1 CD 1.2 Vinyl 1.3 iTunes Release 2 Trivia

[edit] Tracklisting

[edit] CD

1. "Numb/Encore" (Explicit)
2. "Numb/Encore" (Instrumental)

[edit] Vinyl

Side A

1. "Numb/Encore" (Explicit)
2. "Numb/Encore" (Radio Edit)
3. "Numb/Encore" (Instrumental)

Side B

1. "Numb/Encore" (A Capella Explicit)
2. "Numb/Encore" (A Capella Radio Edit)
3. "Bonus Beat"

[edit] iTunes Release

1. "Numb/Encore" (Explicit)
2. "Numb/Encore" (Radio Edit)
3. "Numb/Encore" (Instrumental)
4. "Numb/Encore" (A Capella Explicit)
5. "Numb/Encore" (A Capella Radio Edit)
6. "Bonus Beat"

[edit] Trivia

• "Numb/Encore" is the walk-up song for New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jim Edmonds, and St. Louis Cardinals right fielder Juan Encarnación.
• A popular underground remix of Numb/Encore was released by Dr. Dre, featuring fellow artists Eminem and 50 Cent on his Look Out For Detox and Dretox Mixtapes.

Linkin Park
Chester Bennington - Rob Bourdon - Brad Delson - Dave Farrell - Joe Hahn - Mike Shinoda
Scott Belsha (stand-in) - Mark Wakefield - Kyle Christener (stand-in) - Scott Koziol (stand-in)
Discography
Albums and extended play: Hybrid Theory EP - Hybrid Theory - In The End: Live & Rare - Reanimation - Meteora - Live in Texas - Collision Course EP - T------ and T------
Singles: "One Step Closer" - "Crawling" - "Papercut" - "In the End" - "It's Goin' Down" - "Pts.of.Athrty" - "Frgt/10" - "Somewhere I Belong" - "Faint" - "Numb" - "From the Inside" - "Lying From You" - "Breaking the Habit" - "Numb / Encore"
Videography
DVDs: Frat Party at the Pankake Festival - Live in Texas - Breaking the Habit
Related articles
Bands/Groups: Relative Degree - Xero - Tasty Snax - Grey Daze - Fort Minor - Snow White Tan - The X-Ecutioners
Other: Linkin Park Underground - Machine Shop Recordings - Morning After