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The band has sold over 75 million records worldwide, [1] including more than 26.5 million in certified album sales in the United States. [2] Green Day released their first two studio albums, 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (1991) (consisting of the original 39/Smooth as well as their first two EPs 1,000 Hours and Slappy) and Kerplunk (1991 ...
The song "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" is a Mel Tillis composition, popularised in 1969 by Kenny Rogers & covered by Cake on the album B-Sides and Rarities. The song " Strangers in the Night " is a Frank Sinatra cover from covers compilation Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack and later released on B-Sides and Rarities .
The album debuted at number 13 on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 58,000 copies in the United States. This became the second consecutive Green Day album, after ¡Dos!, not to sell 100,000 records in its first week after signing to a major record label. [31] [32] As of October 2016, the album had sold 155,000 copies. [33]
After years of dwindling sales and the 2001 release of their first greatest hits compilation, Green Day could have been fairly assumed to be a spent force, at least commercially.
Concert poster, dated March 16, 1990, at 924 Gilman Street for Lookout!-signed punk bands, including Green Day, Neurosis, Samiam, and the Mr. T Experience.. In 1987, friends and guitarists Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, 15 years old at the time, along with bassist Sean Hughes and drummer Raj Punjabi, a fellow student from Pinole Valley High School, formed band "Blood Rage", the name ...
“American Idiot” ushered in a new generation of loyal listeners — in some situations, the children of the initial fans who account for one of the over 10 million sales of their 1994 album ...
Timeline of the highest-selling album record Year record set Artist Album Record-setting sales (millions) Total sales (millions) Ref(s) 1945 Various Artists Oklahoma! (78 rpm album) 0.5 1.0 [217] [218] After 1946 Al Jolson: The Jolson Story: 1 [219] 1956 Various Artists Oklahoma! (LP album) 1.75 2.5 [220] 1956/1957 Various Artists My Fair Lady: 2 5
For Green Day, now 30 years past its breakthrough third album “Dookie,” the answer is clear. ... in 1994 and the latter a decade later, they performed with intensity and a pitch-perfect ...