However, the music video is not entirely available on the DVD. The performance and most of the scenes can be found on the Collision Course DVD. It features a mix of Linkin Park and Jay-Z's performance of the song at The Roxy and behind the scenes footage, which was in black and white. The official music video was directed by Kimo Proudfoot. The former record has been beaten by Jason Mraz's ' I'm Yours', which spent 60 weeks in the top 100. It has since cleared 600,000 copies and been certified Platinum.

Despite only peaking at number 14 вЂ“ the same peak that 'Numb' had achieved 15 months earlier вЂ“ the song has managed to spend 45 weeks in the top 100, 13 of them in the top 20. In the United Kingdom, 'Numb/Encore' achieved the record for the longest stay in the top 20 without ever reaching the top 10. As of June 2014, the song has sold 2.078 million copies in the US. However, 'Numb/Encore' didn't manage to have much airplay on modern rock stations, barely hitting the chart at number 40.

In the United States, 'Numb/Encore' peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, where 'Numb' had charted higher at number 11. The released version also contained background vocals from Kanye West that were recorded for the original release. The song вЂ“ one of six collaborations on the album вЂ“ combined 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). 'Numb/Encore' was released as a single in November that year. The songs were performed at Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood in July 2004. Both Linkin Park and Jay-Z found the session so rewarding that they believed the international audience deserved to hear the results. Some of the musical elements were also altered to create an alternative sound. However, instead of simply reconfiguring the tracks, the two artists decided to enter the studio and re-record the raps on top of Shinoda's songs. Initially the idea was to create several mash-ups for a new show premiering on MTV called MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups in 2004. Shinoda and Jay-Z continued to correspond by email but eventually met in person to discuss plans. Shinoda produced three mash-ups based on Jay-Z's The Black Album before responding by email. Linkin Park's first two albums вЂ“ Hybrid Theory and Meteora вЂ“ had both been worldwide successes and Jay-Z felt he could work with the band. He contacted Shinoda's new band, Linkin Park, and suggested that they work on some material together. A couple of years later, Jay-Z had a similar idea after hearing similar mash-ups by Danger Mouse and Cheap Cologne. Before Mike Shinoda formed Linkin Park in 1996, he was an experimental musician who enjoyed combining songs by Jay-Z with tracks recorded by The Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails amongst others.

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