In the United States, the album had the biggest first week sales of 2007 at the time, with 625,000 albums sold. In Malaysia, the edited version for the album is available in digipak cover while the explicit edition available for the Tour Edition which features white slipcase cardboard cover and a standard jewel case. The songs 'Given Up', 'Bleed It Out', and 'Hands Held High' are edited. There are non-Parental Advisory releases of both the regular album and the special edition album.
In Canada, the album was released on May 15, 2007. The album's release date was finally set for May 14, 2007. First scheduled to be released in the summer of 2006, it was later postponed to the fall of 2006, then again to early 2007. Minutes to Midnight was delayed several times before its release. The songs that contain profanity are 'Given Up', 'Bleed It Out' and 'Hands Held High'. Hero by enrique iglesias with george bush. Also, unlike the previous two studio albums, Minutes to Midnight contains profanity and thus the first Linkin Park studio album to contain a Parental Advisory (the first overall being their collaborative EP with Jay-Z, Collision Course) and politically charged lyrics. Minutes to Midnight is also Linkin Park's first album to feature guitar solos, particularly in the tracks 'What I've Done,' 'In Pieces' and 'The Little Things Give You Away'. He also raps on 'Bleed It Out' while 'What I've Done', 'Shadow of the Day', 'No More Sorrow' and 'The Little Things Give You Away' features backing vocals from Shinoda at the end.
Despite a decrease of Mike Shinoda as rapper, he has three solo lead songs on the record: 'Hands Held High', 'In Between' and the bonus track 'No Roads Left'. The rap vocals on 'Hands Held High' are much closer styled to Mike Shinoda's side project Fort Minor than his traditional Linkin Park verses, as he raps during most of the song. This is a significant decrease compared to the amount of rapping on previous albums. Shinoda performs his rapping vocals on only two tracks, 'Bleed It Out' and 'Hands Held High'. It was easy for us to replicate, it was easy for other bands to replicate, and we just needed to move on.' and I think we just figured that we had exhausted that sound. Shinoda stated in an interview: 'We were looking back at the things that we had done in the past. During live performances, Shinoda is generally playing the keyboard for 'Shadow of the Day', while Bennington plays rhythm guitar. 'Shadow of the Day' is one of two songs (the other being 'No Roads Left') to have Bennington playing the guitar. In previous albums, they composed an average of 40 songs, but they made over 100 this time. They spent over six months writing the songs. Their previous albums took only about three to six months to complete, while this one took 14 months. For the album, the band recorded fifty to sixty songs in August 2006. The church organ and military drumbeat on 'Hands Held High' were originally to be used as the backdrop to melodic vocals, but Rubin recommended that the band try the opposite approach according to the album booklet. Hahn contributes more with programming, electronics, and other elements to many of the songs. All scratching elements by Joe Hahn that existed in the previous two studio albums are largely absent because of the low mixing, except on the songs 'What I've Done', 'Wake', 'The Little Things Give You Away', 'Valentine's Day' and 'In Pieces'.
Shinoda and Delson teamed up with David Campbell to add string elements to six songs 'Leave Out All the Rest', 'Shadow of the Day', 'Hands Held High', 'The Little Things Give You Away', as well as the two b-sides 'No Roads Left' and 'Blackbirds' (which was instead later used in the iPhone game 8-Bit Rebellion! as well as being included as a bonus track for A Thousand Suns), respectively. In 'Given Up', he jingles the keys that are heard while several clap sounds are overlaid in the intro of the song (as mentioned in the lyric book: Brad added the sounds on the intro song: multiple tracks of claps - and keys jingling.). The band decided not to use the effect for the solo in that song and instead ended up creating 'No More Sorrow' out of the effect. Guitarist Brad Delson experimented with an EBow when the band was piecing together 'The Little Things Give You Away'.
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